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The duration and value of a grant are not likely to alter the research strategies of recipients in the United States. Credit: DigitalVision/Getty

Offering professors more money or time isn’t likely to dramatically change how they do their research, a survey of US-based academics has found.

The survey, described in a preprint article posted on arXiv in December 1 , was completed by 4,175 professors across several disciplines, including the natural sciences, social sciences, engineering, mathematics and humanities.

The study’s authors, Kyle Myers and Wei Yang Tham, both economists at Harvard Business School in Boston, Massachusetts, say the aim was to investigate whether senior scientists would conduct their research differently if they had more money but less time, or vice versa.

The research comes amid interest from some funders in tweaking the amount of time and money awarded to scientists to incentivize them to do more socially valuable work. For instance, in 2017, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland, announced that it had extended its grants from five to seven years, arguing that the extra time would allow researchers to “take more risk and achieve more transformative advances”.

Acknowledging that the most reliable way to test how grant characteristics might affect researchers’ work is to award them actual grants — which was not feasible — Myers and Tham instead presented them with hypothetical scenarios.

The survey respondents were asked what research strategies they would pursue if they were offered a certain sum of grant money for a fixed time period. Both the value and duration were randomly assigned. The hypothetical grants were worth US$100,000 to $2 million and ran between two and ten years.

To capture the changes in strategy, the survey provided the participants with five options that they could take if they successfully obtained the hypothetical grant. These included pursuing riskier projects — for example, those with only a small chance of success – or ones that were unrelated to their current work and increasing the speed or size of their ongoing projects.

The survey revealed that longer grants increased the researchers’ willingness to pursue riskier projects — but this held true only for tenured professors, who can afford to take a gamble because they tend to have long-term job security, an established reputation and access to more resources. The authors note, however, that any change in research strategy that resulted from receiving a longer grant was not substantial.

Non-tenured professors were not swayed towards risk-taking when they received longer grants. This finding suggests that longer grant designs don’t take into account the pressures that come with shorter employment contracts, says Myers. “If you’re a professor who’s on a 1- or 2-year contract, where you have to get renewed every year, then the difference between a 5-year or 10-year grant is not as important as performing in the next year or two,” he says.

Both tenured and non-tenured professors said longer, larger grants would slow down how fast they worked, “which suggests a significant amount of racing in science is in pursuit of resources”, the authors say, adding that this effect was also minor.

Myers and Tham report that the professors were “very unwilling” to reduce the amount of grant funding in exchange for a longer duration. “Money is much more valuable than time,” they conclude. They found that the professors valued a 1% increase in grant money nearly four times more than a 1% increase in grant duration. The study concludes that the researchers didn’t seem a to view the length of a single grant as “an important constraint on their research pursuits given their preferences, incentives and expected access to future funding sources”.

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Carl Bergstrom, a biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle who has studied science-funding models, says it’s interesting that substantial changes in grant structure generally yielded little to no change in the researchers’ hypothetical behaviour. “I just don’t know what to make of that,” he says, noting that it’s unclear whether this finding is a result of the study design, or is saying something about scientists’ attitude towards change. “One consistent explanation of all of this would be that fairly reasonable changes in the structure of one particular individual grant don’t do enough to change the overall incentive structure that scientists face for them to alter their behaviour.”

Bergstrom adds that modifying grant structures can still be a valuable exercise that could result in different kinds of candidate applying for and securing funding, which in turn might affect the kind of research that is produced. Myers and Tham didn’t examine whether modifying grant structures would affect the diversity of the pool of candidates, but they have investigated the nuances of risk-taking in research in another study, also posted as a preprint in December 2 . Researchers were surveyed about their appetite for risky science and how it affected their approach to grants. The survey found a strong link between the perceived risk of research and the amount of time spent applying for grants .

To get a clearer understanding of whether the findings of the surveys would hold in the real world, funders would need to modify actual grants, says Myers. He acknowledges that this would be a big commitment and a risk, but doing so could have significant benefits for science.

There is growing interest in finding more efficient and effective grant structures. In November, the national funder UK Research and Innovation launched a new Metascience Unit , which is dedicated to finding more sophisticated and efficient ways to make funding and policy decisions. The following month, the US National Science Foundation announced that it would be conducting a series of social and economic experiments to determine how its funding processes can be improved.

As for the survey, Myers hopes the findings can provide insights to inform such initiatives. “As long as we’ve reduced uncertainty about what is the best way forward, that is very valuable,” he says. “We hope that our hypothetical experiments are motivation for more real-world experiments in the future.”

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-00929-5

Myers, K. & Tham, W. Y. Preprint at arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.06479 (2023).

Myers, K. R. et al. Preprint at arXiv https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2312.01442 (2023).

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Over the last three months, CGIAR regional and country teams around the globe have devoted important efforts to prepare, carry out, and analyze the outcomes of what we call Listening Sessions with our stakeholders in almost 30 countries.

In Latin America and the Caribbean, the first round of sessions has taken place in Peru, Colombia and Mexico, co-organized and co-convened by CGIAR’s regional office and Centers including CIP, the Alliance of Bioversity International-CIAT, and CIMMYT.

In those sessions, we heard from our partners what, in their opinion, is needed to build sustainable, inclusive, and equitable food systems across the region, how the region can contribute to global solutions, and how we can strengthen our collaboration to achieve higher impact.

It has indeed been—and continues to be—a fascinating exercise. Their inputs will be invaluable in shaping the next phase of CGIAR’s research and innovation portfolio that will be implemented from 2025. Furthermore, they will help us to steer our stakeholder engagement and partnerships strategy in the longer term.

Session with researchers. Nutrition Research Institute HQ, Lima, Peru. ©CIAT

Genuine partnerships have been one of CGIAR’s most outstanding features since its foundation more than half a century ago. But in an increasingly interconnected world that is facing increasingly complex issues, it was timely to launch a formal and systematized dialogue and exchange exercise. It is an experience that may be expanded in the near future to keep the conversations flowing.

Therefore, these sessions aim not only to feed into our vision of focused, precise, and tailored research programs and solutions to the challenge of feeding a growing population in the context of climate change, but also to explore in depth the priorities of critical stakeholders who recognize the unique value of CGIAR.

Session with public and private research and academic institutions. Bogota, Colombia. ©CIAT

As one of the participants in the Colombia session said, “the question regarding priority areas in our country is particularly significant. It is crucial to comprehend these priorities from the demand’s perspective rather than from the supply’s.”

Another participant in Mexico hit the nail on the head, saying, “the goal is to foster understanding of each other’s work, encourage collaboration, avoid duplicating efforts, replicate successful practices and technologies, and generate impactful projects.”

Session with federal, state, and legislative authorities. CIMMYT HQ, Texcoco, Mexico. ©CIMMYT

Of course, the perspectives of our different stakeholders vary. One producer from Peru pointed out that “it is crucial to have the support of researchers to generate evidence demonstrating the impacts of our practices and providing necessary support for our advocacy actions with governments.”

One of the objectives of these Listening Sessions has been to extract from those different perspectives common directions that can guide our research activities.

In the case of the Latin America and the Caribbean region, that objective has not only regional significance but also global implications. As emphasized over the last few months, Latin America has an incredible potential not only to feed its own population, but also to contribute significantly to global food security.

Session with civil society and producers’ organizations. CIP HQ, Lima, Peru. ©CIP

The initial sessions held in the region, which I was privileged to attend and co-host in person, have been truly inspiring events, thanks to the time and in-depth exchanges with representatives of national research institutions and academia, governments, private sector, small farmers, civil society, and international organizations.

We are currently reviewing and systematizing the rich outcomes of the intense dialogues. This will help us to continue building the increasingly integrated regional agricultural research and innovation agenda.

A big thank you to my colleagues Simon Heck, Juan Lucas Restrepo, Bram Govaerts, and their amazing teams at the CGAIR Centers they respectively lead—CIP, the Alliance, and CIMMMYT—particularly Stef de Haan, Javier Ochoa, Joe Tohme, Natalia Ortiz, Deissy Martinez Barón, Luz Adriana Muñoz, Jelle Van Loon, Daniela Vega, Edith Robledo and Alberto Iturria who, together with Temina Lalani-Shariff, Aymé Muzo, Ismael Erriest and Lilia Salinas, made this exercise such a great success.

Session with local governments, academia, and international organizations. Alliance Bioversity-CIAT Campus, Palmira, Colombia ©CIAT.

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Research grants: Evaluating new policy solutions

Research grants can support evaluations of the efficacy of new policy solutions, increasing the likelihood that solutions are implemented at scale. 

Recent findings indicate that research grants supporting the evaluation of the effectiveness of new interventions can increase the likelihood that successful interventions are adopted into policy and practice at scale. For example, programs supported by the US Agency for International Development’s Development Innovation Ventures unit were five times more likely to be adopted at scale by governments, large NGOs, or firms if they were backed by rigorous research evidence ( Kremer et al 2021 ). Likewise, development projects supported by the World Bank were 50% more likely to be implemented on schedule if they were subjected to rigorous impact evaluation ( Legovini et al 2015 ).

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For the first time Rosatom Fuel Division supplied fresh nuclear fuel to the world’s only floating nuclear cogeneration plant in the Arctic

The fuel was supplied to the northernmost town of Russia along the Northern Sea Route.

The first in the history of the power plant refueling, that is, the replacement of spent nuclear fuel with fresh one, is planned to begin before 2024. The manufacturer of nuclear fuel for all Russian nuclear icebreakers, as well as the Akademik Lomonosov FNPP, is Machinery Manufacturing Plant, Joint-Stock Company (MSZ JSC), a company of Rosatom Fuel Company TVEL that is based in Elektrostal, Moscow Region.

The FNPP includes two KLT-40S reactors of the icebreaking type. Unlike convenient ground-based large reactors (that require partial replacement of fuel rods once every 12-18 months), in the case of these reactors, the refueling takes place once every few years and includes unloading of the entire reactor core and loading of fresh fuel into the reactor.

The cores of KLT-40 reactors of the Akademik Lomonosov floating power unit have a number of advantages compared to the reference ones: a cassette core was used for the first time in the history of the unit, which made it possible to increase the fuel energy resource to 3-3.5 years between refuelings, and also reduce the fuel component of the electricity cost by one and a half times. The FNPP operating experience formed the basis for the designs of reactors for nuclear icebreakers of the newest series 22220. Three such icebreakers have been launched by now.

For the first time the power units of the Akademik Lomonosov floating nuclear power plant were connected to the grid in December 2019, and put into commercial operation in May 2020. The supply of nuclear fuel from Elektrostal to Pevek and its loading into the second reactor is planned for 2024. The total power of the Akademik Lomonosov FNPP, supplied to the coastal grid of Pevek without thermal energy consumption on shore, is about 76 MW, being about 44 MW in the maximum thermal power supply mode. The FNPP generated 194 million kWh according to the results of 2023. The population of Pevek is just a little more than 4 thousand, while the FNPP has a potential for supplying electricity to a city with a population of up to 100 thousand people. After the FNPP commissioning two goals were achieved. These include first of all the replacement of the retiring capacities of the Bilibino NPP, which has been operating since 1974, as well as the Chaunskaya TPP, which has already been operating for more than 70 years. Secondly, energy is supplied to the main mining companies in western Chukotka in the Chaun-Bilibino energy hub a large ore and metal cluster, including gold mining companies and projects related to the development of the Baimsk ore zone. In September 2023, a 110 kilovolt power transmission line with a length of 490 kilometers was put into operation, connecting the towns of Pevek and Bilibino. The line increased the reliability of energy supply from the FNPP to both Bilibino consumers and mining companies, the largest of which is the Baimsky GOK. The comprehensive development of the Russian Arctic is a national strategic priority. To increase the NSR traffic is of paramount importance for accomplishment of the tasks set in the field of cargo shipping. This logistics corridor is being developed due regular freight voyages, construction of new nuclear-powered icebreakers and modernization of the relevant infrastructure. Rosatom companies are actively involved in this work. Rosatom Fuel Company TVEL (Rosatom Fuel Division) includes companies fabricating nuclear fuel, converting and enriching uranium, manufacturing gas centrifuges, conducting researches and producing designs. As the only nuclear fuel supplier to Russian NPPs, TVEL supplies fuel for a total of 75 power reactors in 15 countries, for research reactors in nine countries, as well as for propulsion reactors of the Russian nuclear fleet. Every sixth power reactor in the world runs on TVEL fuel. Rosatom Fuel Division is the world’s largest producer of enriched uranium and the leader on the global stable isotope market. The Fuel Division is actively developing new businesses in chemistry, metallurgy, energy storage technologies, 3D printing, digital products, and decommissioning of nuclear facilities. TVEL also includes Rosatom integrators for additive technologies and electricity storage systems. Rosenergoatom, Joint-Stock Company is part of Rosatom Electric Power Division and one of the largest companies in the industry acting as an operator of nuclear power plants. It includes, as its branches, 11 operating NPPs, including the FNPP, the Scientific and Technical Center for Emergency Operations at NPPs, Design and Engineering as well as Technological companies. In total, 37 power units with a total installed capacity of over 29.5 GW are in operation at 11 nuclear power plants in Russia. Machinery Manufacturing Plant, Joint-Stock Company (MSZ JSC, Elektrostal) is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of fuel for nuclear power plants. The company produces fuel assemblies for VVER-440, VVER-1000, RBMK-1000, BN-600,800, VK-50, EGP-6; powders and fuel pellets intended for supply to foreign customers. It also produces nuclear fuel for research reactors. The plant belongs to the TVEL Fuel Company of Rosatom.

Rosatom obtained a license for the first land-based SMR in Russia

On April 21, Rosenergoatom obtained a license issued by Rostekhnadzor to construct the Yakutsk land-based SMR in the Ust-Yansky District of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

ROSATOM and FEDC agree to cooperate in the construction of Russia's first onshore SNPP

ROSATOM and FEDC have signed a cooperation agreement to build Russia's first onshore SNPP in Yakutia.

Rosatom develops nuclear fuel for modernized floating power units

Rosatom has completed the development of nuclear fuel for the RITM-200S small modular reactor designed for the upgraded floating power units.

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Funding grants now subject to independent board approval

Posted: 22 March 2024 | Last updated: 22 March 2024

Funding grants for academic research will now be subject to approval from an independent board after legislation was passed yesterday in federal parliament to reform the Australian research council. Before the review, some grants were subject to ministerial discretion. This legislation aims to reduce political interference.

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The National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)/Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme (JRS) aims to promote collaboration between researchers/research teams in Hong Kong and the Mainland on the basis of complementing the existing strengths of both sides.

The NSFC/RGC JRS supports research proposals jointly submitted by the Mainland and the Hong Kong researchers. It also offers up to two conference grants to sponsor conferences held in Hong Kong. The six focus areas under the scheme include Information Technology, Life Science, New Materials Science, Marine and Environmental Science, Medicine, and Management Science.

A. Research Proposals The research grant aims to support research projects with duration of four years. For Hong Kong applicants, the grant amount requested should not exceed HK$1.25 million (exclusive of on-costs).

B. Conference Proposals The conference grant aims to encourage young researchers of similar fields from Hong Kong and the Mainland to foster collaboration through the dissemination of their recent and unpublished research works. Two conferences, one in science disciplines (viz. Biology & Medicine, Engineering and Physical Sciences disciplines) and one in non-science disciplines (viz Humanities, Social Sciences and Business Studies disciplines) to be held in Hong Kong, will be selected for funding. The RGC provides applicants with funding for a two or three-day conference in Hong Kong. The conference/workshop should take place within a period specified by the RGC (normally from 1 July to 30 June of the following year). The maximum amount of RGC grant per conference is HK$250,000.

The eligibility requirements for NSFC/RGC JRS are as follows:

A. Research Proposals The Hong Kong Principal Investigators (PIs) should meet fully the requirements for applying for the RGC General Research Fund . Moreover, Hong Kong applicants should refer to the relevant requirements of the NSFC and ensure that their eligibility as a Hong Kong PI will be accepted by the NSFC. Mainland applicants should check with the NSFC for their eligibility requirements. Researchers outside of Hong Kong and the Mainland may participate as members of the Hong Kong or the Mainland research teams.

B. Conference Proposals Either the Hong Kong PI or a Co-investigator in the Hong Kong team should meet fully the requirements for applying for the RGC Early Career Scheme . The Hong Kong PI should collaborate with a Mainland Co-organiser who should meet the eligibility requirements of a “young scientist” specified by the NSFC. Enquiries relating to the NSFC's eligibility requirements should be directed to the Office of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs of the NSFC via email at [email protected] .

A. Research Proposals The assessment criteria for research proposals include scientific merit, the extent to which existing strengths of each side may complement each another, and opportunities for training young researchers.

Balance of different disciplines may be taken into consideration when the scientific aspects of two proposals are considered being equal.

B. Conference Proposals The assessment criteria for conference proposals include the research standing of the Main and Co-organisers, and that of the guest speakers, the degree of intra and inter-institutional participation by local and Mainland researchers and students, and prospects for new/longer-term research collaboration between Hong Kong and Mainland researchers.

A. Research Proposals Parallel submissions of both applications by the Hong Kong and the Mainland applicants before the respective deadlines are required. Hong Kong applicants are reminded to check with their universities regarding internal closing dates. Mainland applications are to be submitted to the Office of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs of the NSFC. Detailed information regarding application procedures of the NSFC is available at http://www.nsfc.gov.cn . Hong Kong applications should be submitted to the RGC through the research offices of the respective universities by 5:00 pm of 26 January 2024 . A copy of the proposals submitted by their Mainland partners to the NSFC should also be submitted to the RGC by 5 February 2024 . The RGC will notify the shortlisted Hong Kong applicants in April or May 2024 for submission of full proposals. The deadline for submission of full proposals to the RGC will be in June or July 2024 .

B. Conference Proposals Applicants should submit applications to the RGC through the research offices of their universities by 5:00 pm of 26 January 2024 . Applicants are reminded to check with their universities regarding internal closing dates.

To view the call circular, please click here . To download the application form, please click here .

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What else do i need to know about when applying for funding for conference proposals, is the research focus limited to six areas.