Israel Science Foundation

The Israel Science Foundation (ISF) is Israel's predominant source of competitive grants funding basic research. Its roughly $60 million annual budget funds more than 1,300 grants a year, providing 2/3 of all such funds. Every year, more than 10,000 expert reviewers from Israel but most from abroad are involved in peer-reviewing the scientific merit of the submitted proposals. The ISF awards grants in all fields of:

· Exact Sciences and Technology

· Life Sciences and Medicine

· Humanities and Social Sciences

to Israeli researchers at Israeli universities, other institutions of higher education, research and medical centers. Most funds (96%) are provided by the Government of Israel via the Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC) of the Israel Council for Higher Education.

Title of the programme:

-       Individual grants

-       Equipment grants: Basic institutional and New faculty

-       Research workshops

 Legacy heritage biomedical science – Morasha Biomedical Research:

     -   Research grants:  support for medical research in the field of neurodegenerative diseases and genetic disorders

     -   Centers of excellence grants

     -   Workshops grants

Type of the programme: non-thematic and thematic call for proposals

Recurrence of the programme: yearly