www.delfi.lt , 22.11.2007

The support center for Lithuanians abroad announced the decision to finance 37 Lithuanian expatriate scientists for coming back to Lithuania to work on short term projects in universities and science centers. The budget of the project is around 100.000 Euro.

The scientists currently live in USA, Australia, Belgium, Italy, Spain, UK, Germany and many other countries and are going to work on different projects at various Lithuanian universities and institutes such as the Institute of Biotechnology in Vilnius. The funded applicants will perform scientific research and teach in social sciences and humanities, technologies, physics and biomedicine.

Representatives of the organisers- Institute of the Lithuanian Scientific Society- inform that most applications represent the field of biomedicine (13), and the rest come from social sciences (9), physics (7), humanitarian sciences (6) and technology (5).

The research visits will last from 2 weeks to 3 months and each project has a budget from ca.1600 Euro to 8000 Euro that is shared by the scientist and hosting institution.

Organisation and financial support of research visits is a part of the project “Preparation and implementation of the program for Brain gain” that is supported by the EU.