Key Focus Areas
CRDF Global believes that the spirit of international science and technology cooperation provides critical benefits to the global community. CRDF Global supports foreign scientists and their U.S. counterparts in exceptional merit-reviewed research projects. These collaborations advance science and technical agendas of both American and foreign science. They also offer foreign scientists and engineers alternatives to emigration; help prevent the dissolution of their scientific and technological infrastructure; and advance the transition of weapons scientists to civilian work. CRDF Global also helps to move applied research to the marketplace by teaming U.S. companies with foreign scientists, and helps to strengthen research and education in universities abroad.
- Capacity Building - Nurturing indigenous education and research capacity and creating linkages among sustaining communities. Learn More
- Innovation - Fostering economic growth, competitiveness, and science & technology-based entrepreneurship and invention. Learn More
- Nonproliferation - Advancing global security through non-military research and safe technology development. Learn More
- Research Partnerships - Enabling cross-border collaboration, strengthening the quality of foreign research and providing opportunities for junior researchers and female scientists. Learn More
- Science Diplomacy - Promoting shared science, technology and innovation to build bridges between nations. Learn More
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