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Binational Agricultural FoundationsThe Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA), Texas-Israel Exchange Fund (TIE), and the Bi-national Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD) created a grant program to promote mission oriented, strategic and applied, collaborative agricultural research and development activities conducted jointly by scientists in Texas and Israel. Funded projects are expected to yield applicable results within 3-5 years. Benefits would result through developing solutions to mutual agricultural problems that will in turn foster the development of trade, mutual assistance, and business relations between Texas and Israel. The TIE and BARD Boards may award a total amount of up to $1.5 million cooperatively. The fund is focusing on the following topics:
Each project is limited to a maximum award of $50,000 ($25,000 from TIE and $25,000 from BARD) per year, not to exceed a duration of three years and a maximum amount of $150,000 ($75,000 from TIE and $75,000 from BARD) for the three-year period. In November 2003, the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI) and the US-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development fund (BARD) established a framework for conducting collaborative aquaculture research between UMBI and Israeli scientists – the UMBI/BARD Program. Maryland and Israel each contributed $250,000 to fund the program. The objective of the program is to promote and competitively support mission-oriented collaborative aquaculture research and development activities, conducted jointly by UMBI and Israeli scientists, that will be of mutual benefit by providing solutions to mutual aquaculture problems and open new horizon to advancing aquaculture in both Maryland and Israel. This fund will provide grants of 1-3 years with a maximum total budget (to all parties) of $75,000 to $100,000/year, to be equally divided between the UMBI and Israeli scientists. Research will focus on:
Cornell University-BARD Program Cornell University and the U.S.-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development fund (BARD) have established a framework for collaborative agricultural research between Cornell and Israeli scientists - the Cornell University/BARD Program (Cornell/BARD fund). The objective of the program is to promote and competitively support mission-oriented collaborative agricultural research and development activities, conducted jointly by scientists in Cornell and Israel that will be of mutual benefit by providing solutions to mutual agricultural problems. This is a unique program between Cornell and Israeli scientists that allows Israeli scientists to have access to a new source of funds when they work with Cornell scientists. The total available funding for the current year (2003-2004) is $500,000 and the maximum amount that will be awarded to a single project is $300,000. To implement this program, Cornell was required to have matching funds but, because of the university's budget situation, new matching funds were not available. Therefore, Cornell agreed to use faculty salaries as a match. The result is that Cornell faculty will not have access to any new funds in this program. Only state-supported Cornell scientists are eligible for this program and they can use their full state salaries as a match (no other matching funds are allowed). It is Cornell's hope that Israeli scientists who are funded will enhance our mutual research programs through visiting scientists, graduate students and other personnel. The traditional BARD program, in which Cornell faculty have been very successful, will continue to provide new funds to both US (Cornell) and Israeli scientists. The program will focus on three general topics:
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