The Security Through Science Programme offers grants to scientists in NATO, Partner and Mediterranean Dialogue countries to collaborate on priority research topics. Grants are also offered to assist the academic community in Partner countries to set up basic computer networking infrastructure.

The aim of the Security Through Science Programme is to contribute to security, stability and solidarity among nations, by applying science to problem solving. Collaboration, networking and capacity-building are means used to accomplish this end. A further aim is to catalyse democratic reform and support economic development in NATO’s Partner countries in transition.

Civil science has proved to be a highly effective vehicle for international dialogue, due to its universality and its ability to create new international networks. The talent garnered in these scientific networks can be applied to the emerging threats to the Alliance. Science is both a means of finding answers to critical questions and a way of connecting nations.

Advanced Research Workshops (ARW) are one of types of the collaborative grants in priority research areas. They are focused on organisation of expert workshops where an intense but informal exchange of views at the frontiers of a subject aims at identifying directions for the future.

For more NATO information see http://www.nato.int/science