Page Updated: 23-Jan-2012

Who can apply for a NATO SPS grant?

Applicants should note that they cannot have two SPS activities running simultaneously. Therefore, prospective Co-Directors should ensure that a file on any previous SPS activity in which they have been involved (as co-director) is already closed before applying for another.

Categories of grants – Projects – Training - Workshops

A)  PROJECTS

Multi-year Projects (SfP):
grants to collaborate on multi-year applied R&D projects offering support to cover project-related costs such as scientific equipment, computers, software and training of project personnel.

Any person who is currently working as an expert in the field for which he/she is applying and who has his/her main residence in a NATO, an eligible Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) partner or a Mediterranean Dialogue country with mailing address and contact details in that country. (The person must be settled in the country and not just a short-term visitor.)

To be eligible for consideration, an application for a grant must be submitted jointly by a person from a NATO country and a person from either an eligible EAPC partner or a Mediterranean Dialogue country. Any other combination (such as NATO-NATO, partners EAPC-EAPC, partners EAPC-MD, etc.) is not acceptable.

In addition to the two main applicants (NPD and PPD), an application will often include participants from other NATO, EAPC partner and/or MD countries.

Countries eligible to participate in SPS multi-year Projects are NATO countries, Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council partner countries listed at 1.a below and Mediterranean Dialogue (MD) countries only.
Self-funding EAPC partner countries (listed at 1.b below), Istanbul Cooperation Initiative Countries (ICI) and Global Partner countries are not eligible for participation in SPS multi-year Projects.

B)  TRAINING

Advanced Study Institutes (ASI):
grants to organise high-level tutorial courses to convey the latest developments in a subject of relevance to NATO to an advanced-level audience.

Advanced Training Courses (ATC):
designed to enable specialists in NATO countries to share their security-related expertise with trainees from NATO’s partner countries.

Any person can apply for a NATO grant who is an expert in the field for which he/she is applying and who has his/her main residence in a NATO, an eligible EAPC partner country or Mediterranean Dialogue country with mailing address and contact details in that country. (The person must be settled in the country and not just a short-term visitor.) See list of countries below.

To be eligible for consideration, an application for a grant must be submitted jointly by a person from a NATO country and a person from either an eligible EAPC partner country or a Mediterranean Dialogue country. Any other combination (such as NATO-NATO, Partner-Partner, Partner-Mediterranean, etc.) is not acceptable.

In addition to the two main applicants, an application will often include participants from other NATO or NATO’s partner countries, including ICI and Global Partners, depending on the topic of the application.

C)  WORKSHOPS

Advanced Research Workshops (ARW):

grants to organise expert workshops where advanced-level, intensive discussions aim at finding solutions for today’s security challenges.

Any person can apply for a NATO grant who is an expert in the field for which he/she is applying and who has his/her main residence in a NATO, an eligible EAPC partner country or Mediterranean Dialogue country with mailing address and contact details in that country. (The person must be settled in the country and not just a short-term visitor.)  See list of countries below.

To be eligible for consideration, an application for a grant must be submitted jointly by a person from a NATO country and a person from either an eligible EAPC partner country or a Mediterranean Dialogue country. Any other combination (such as NATO-NATO, Partner-Partner, Partner-Mediterranean, etc.) is not acceptable.

In addition to the two main applicants, an application will often include participants from other NATO or NATO’s partner countries, including ICI and Global Partners, depending on the topic of the application.

LIST OF COUNTRIES

NATO countries:
Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.

NATO’s partner countries:

Participation in SPS Trainings and SPS Workshops
The co-directors of NATO SPS Trainings (ASI and ATC of Category B) and Workshops (ARW, Category C), will be provided with NATO funds which may be used to support all speakers/specialists/lecturers, as well as the costs of qualified participants from EAPC, Mediterranean Dialogue and NATO countries.
Participation in ASIs and ARWs is at the discretion of the co-directors, and all enquiries concerning participation and support, as well as the content of the meeting, should be addressed to the co-directors.
The calendars of SPS events are regularly updated here as new meetings are supported.

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