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2008 Cooperative Grants Program
Press Release

The Moldovan Research and Development Association (MRDA) is pleased to notify the Moldovan scientific community that the U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation (CRDF) is running several competitions under its CGP program in 2008.

The competitions will be focused on themes or specific topics as follows:

I. Biomedical Research Competitions

*LARGE COMPETITION*
*Research Areas*		*Expected Program Announcement*
1.	HIV/AIDS and Related Infections	March 2008
2.	Environmental Health
3.	Allergies and Infectious Diseases
4.	Vision Research
*SMALL COMPETITION*
*Research Areas*			*Expected Program Announcement*
1.	HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse		End March 2008

These competitions will be open to researchers from the following countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation, Poland, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.

II. Climate Change Competition

	*Research Areas*	*Expected Program Announcement*
1.	Biology	June 2008
2.	Chemistry
3.	Math and Information Sciences
4.	Physics
5.	Geology

There is no information on the countries eligible for this competition yet.
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Note: All competitions will still require research to be conducted a collaborative effort between an International and a U.S. researcher.

For Program Announcement please access the CRDF web page at: www.crdf.org

Special thanks
to the U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation
for its generous support of our activities