
"RFBR Information Bulletin N 12" includes the lists of the enterprising scientific and publishing projects, the information, computer and telecommunication resources creation and development projects and the regional competitions results, which were supported according to the 2004 contests.

Applications for RFBR Contests were accepted from April 21 to September 8 of 2003.

All the applications and as well as the reports on the completed and continuous projects were undergone the multistage independent expert examination according to RFBR rules

2004.03.17 RFBR Committee heard and discussed the advisory panels presidents reports devoted to the competition results in different branches of science. The Committee approved the grants for the enterprising scientific and publishing projects, the information, computer and telecommunication resources creation and development projects and the grants to the regional competitions winners.

The main 2004 competitions results are set in the table
Branch of science |
Enterprising scientific projects |
Publishing projects |
Applications |
Grants |
Continuos projects |
Applications |
Grants |
Mathematics, mechanics, informatics |
911 |
326 |
786 |
124 |
63 |
Physics and astronomy |
1677 |
586 |
1144 |
56 |
28 |
Chemistry |
1189 |
370 |
750 |
27 |
12 |
Biology and medicine |
1845 |
553 |
1219 |
68 |
31 |
Earth sciences |
1324 |
412 |
876 |
76 |
44 |
Humanities and social sciences |
460 |
149 |
262 |
76 |
29 |
Information,computer and telecommunication resources |
433 |
147 |
243 |
8 |
7 |
Total |
7839 |
2543 |
5280 |
435 |
214 |

So, in 2004 RFBR will sponsor 7433 enterprising scientific projects, 390 information, computer and telecommunication resources development projects, 214 publishing projects.
573 regional projects are supported too.
Heads, names, projects codes and organizations, which fulfill the projects are indicated in the Bulletin lists. The whole index of the organizations abbreviations, full names and their postal addresses are put up at the end of the Bulletin.