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During signing the agreement, the President Sebastián Piñera; CONICYT President José Miguel Aguilera; Director of NSF, Subra Suresh, and U.S. Ambassador. in Chile, Alejandro D. Wolff.

The director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Subra Suresh, and President of the National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICYT), José Miguel Aguilera, sealed a new research alliance with Chile through GROW (Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide), allowing graduate students in the fields of science and engineering, expand research opportunities worldwide.

 

The agreement was signed in the presence of the President of the Republic, Sebastián Piñera, and U.S. Ambassador. in Chile, Alejandro D. Wolff, Chajnantor plateau in, Antofagasta Region, as part of the opening ceremony of ALMA, the largest radio telescope project in the world.

 

GROW, is a coordinated effort to improve the opportunities for international research collaboration for NSF fellows. Currently there are agreements between NSF and GROW scientific bodies 10 countries (Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Japan, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland and South Korea), our country being the first Latin American nation to join this select group.

 

"Graduate students who are now being trained as scientists and engineers in the U.S.. can collaborate and compete increasingly with their peers around the world throughout his career ", said NSF director, Subra Suresh. He added that "through GROW are preparing to Graduate Research Fellows (GRF) NSF to successfully participate in the global research company, by connecting to the main scientific and research infrastructure worldwide ".

 

And GROW, a streamlined and well coordinated, has been developed to connect the NSF GRFs fellows strategically to several educational and research institutions worldwide.

 

"This new initiative for international cooperation in science and technology will certainly improve collaboration among Chilean researchers and scholars from the U.S. GROW", said President of CONICYT, José Miguel Aguilera. "We intend to foster a growing number of NSF fellows entering Chilean research institutions. Chile has extraordinary natural laboratories where graduate fellows can perform scientific frontier research ", President of CONICYT added.

 

Fellows selected to participate in GROW are received and subsidized science agency in a partner country, in our case CONICYT, for a period of three to 12 months.

 

GROW is a reflection of the continued commitment of the NSF and CONICYT to address the internationalization of science and to provide multiple avenues for collaboration with researchers worldwide.