[Grad-postdoc-assn] FW: [IFLA-L] New grant programs Elsevier

Scott Briggs sbriggs at ucar.edu
Mon Jul 9 15:54:37 MDT 2007


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All,

Please share this info with your institutions.  It may also be
interesting to consider for future NPA conferences.


This is the text from the link below:

*Elsevier Foundation Calls For Grant Proposals*
*New Scholars program will focus on balancing career and family*
*The Elsevier Foundation has announced a call for grant proposals
under its New Scholars Program, which will give priority to the
efforts of the academic and research community to address the
fundamental challenge of balancing childcare and family
responsibilities with the demanding careers in science and
technology.   The program is focused on doctoral candidates and
scientists in the first five years of their post-doctoral careers. *
*Grant proposals are welcome for programs that enable scientists to
attend conferences, meetings, workshops and symposia that are critical
to the development of a career in science, with a particular emphasis
on programs that help with childcare and other family responsibilities
when attending scientific gatherings.   *
*Proposals must be submitted by_ Oct 1, 2007_, and will be awarded at
the end of the 2007 calendar year.*




The Elsevier Foundation strives to enrich and improve the quality of
life for people worldwide by supporting the advancement of, and access
to, scientific, technical and medical knowledge.  The Foundation makes
grants to institutions around the world, with a focus on support for
the world's libraries and for scholars in the early stages of their
careers.  Through gift-matching, the Foundation also supports the
efforts of Elsevier employees to play a positive role in their local
and global communities. The Elsevier Foundation is funded by Elsevier,
the leading global publisher of scientific, technical and medical
information.

The Board of The Elsevier Foundation has approved two new grant
programs that may be of interest to the academic and library
communities:

The/ Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries program/ will make
grants to improve the capacity of developing world libraries through
training, infrastructure, technology, digitization and preservation of
STM information. The Foundation will focus in particular on supporting
partnerships in these areas between libraries in the developing
countries and institutions in the developed countries.

The/ New Scholars program/ is designed to encourage the participation
of women in academic science and technology through programs that
address the challenges associated with managing career and family
responsibilities.  We are focusing in particular on supporting the
efforts of academic institutions and scholarly societies to help
scientists with family responsibilities attend conferences and
meetings that are important to establishing a career in science.

For further information: visit the Elsevier booth at the IFLA Library
and Information Congress in Durban (August 2007) or go to
www.elsevierfoundation.org <http://www.elsevierfoundation.org/>



-- 
Scott Briggs
Administrative Assistant
Advanced Study Program
National Center for Atmospheric Research
P.O. Box 3000
Boulder, CO 80307-3000
303-497-1607


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