Organizations like RG allowed international researchers to make contact in ways that wasn't imaginable just a few years ago. Since collaborative research is very fruitful and can cover many fields, and since, the required collaborators might not exist in your own institution, looking outside to cover the missing expertise is a natural way to complete your research team. This clearly includes international connections.
However, research requires funding for students, equipment, and more. Especially the capital-intensive fields, such as, medical, make research funding tricky. Are there any organizations that fund international research ? Say, in areas requiring the collaboration of medical and engineering fields?
There certainly are some opportunities. In the EU there are some kinds of projects enabling the researchers from different EU countries to collaborate, and probably some new opportunities of this kind will be avaliable in the forthcoming Horizon 2020 EU program.
As for the US, some of such opportunities can be found at the NSF or NIH web sites, see e.g. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12819 http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13627
If you are interested in collaborating with people from a specific country, it would probably be a good idea to look at the web sites of the grant agencies in this country to find out whether there are some bilateral funding opportunities for the country you are in.
There certainly are some opportunities. In the EU there are some kinds of projects enabling the researchers from different EU countries to collaborate, and probably some new opportunities of this kind will be avaliable in the forthcoming Horizon 2020 EU program.
As for the US, some of such opportunities can be found at the NSF or NIH web sites, see e.g. http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=12819 http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=13627
If you are interested in collaborating with people from a specific country, it would probably be a good idea to look at the web sites of the grant agencies in this country to find out whether there are some bilateral funding opportunities for the country you are in.
Dear Tolga,
Visit the sites of UNESCO, WHO, VISION 2020 of EU, ..... you will get many opportunities to apply for funding.
Thank you Artur and Afaq, I have a few opportunities that popped up for international collaboration, and I am starting to investigate the nature of collaboration. Funding is one the first issues that came up, although, there are other interesting questions, such as, rules and regulations that apply to medical research ...
I appreciate your answers .
Have a look at the US National Library of Medicine Grant Info:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/grant_info.html
Then, maybe explore other library guides, e.g. at LibGuides by entering a search ''medical funding" or "interdisciplinary funding". There are plenty of good guides and pages - http://libguides.com/community.php?m=i&ref=libguides.com
You can narrow your query to Special Libraries and browse the guides of the medical ones.
Also, I would definitely check the library sections of the US or other intl prestigious medical schools. They should contain some information on projects and funding abroad to encourage their staff to do research elsewhere.
Associations for medical education, history of medicine, medical writing and editing maintain databases of resources. Some might be useful (e.g. http://www.amee.org/links-and-resources).
I guess it would be easier if you consider specific niches in the field of medicine, countries and/or regions, then look for possibilities. Otherwise, there would be too many options.
Here is an article incl. info on UK health prospects, courses (respectively research) and health organizations:
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/options_biomedical_sciences.htm
and here is a list of international medical physics and technology associations -
http://www.scholarly-societies.org/medphystechnol_soc.html
@Tolga, it seems to me that International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research includes both engineering and medical research, and many other disciplines.
http://igfagcr.org/index.php/about-igfa
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