US Scholar Opportunities

Partnerships in Collaborative Research Program (PCR)

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Partnerships in Collaborative Research (PCR) Travel Grants is pilot program designed to support collaborative projects involving US scholars and their international colleagues. The program provides American scholars with the necessary funds to bring a foreign scholar to the United States for an academic purpose

Funding from PCR will cover round-trip international airfare, administrative costs for acquiring a B-visa, and Conference fees for the foreign scholar to co-present on a panel (if applicable). 

ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES OF RESEARCH FOCUS

Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

APPLICATION MATERIALS

The deadline to apply for 2009 PCR is June, 1, 2009. Application information for PCR as well as the rest of the US scholar opportunities is available on the Application Information page. 

For questions regarding the PCR program, please email pcr@irex.org