NATO Science for Peace and Security
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The Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Committee is a NATO programme supporting civil science cooperation and innovation. Created in 2006[1] as the merger of the NATO Science Committee (SCOM) and the Committee on the Challenges of Modern Society (CCMS), the SPS offers grants to scientists in NATO and NATO Partner countries for work on civil science projects. Partner countries include Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Grants are also available to scientists in seven countries known as the Mediterranean Dialogue: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia.
Each SPS project is conducted in a specific NATO priority area by a collaboration between working scientists in eligible Partner or Mediterranean Dialogue countries and scientsits in NATO countries. Applications priority areas include countering threats, environmental sustainability, and communications infrastructure.[2]
Representative SPS Projects
Satellite dish of the Virtual Silk Highway on
DESY grounds.
- protection of the Caspian Sea environment.
- Improvement of Egypt's water supply.
- South Caucasus River Monitoring—assess pollutants and radionuclides in the Kura and Araks rivers, shared by Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia.
- Preparation of handbooks on environmental aspects of military compounds (safe drinking water, waste management, energy supply).
- Virtual Silk Highway—satellite-based broadband technology for universities and civil research institutions in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
- STANDEX—prototype system for remote detection of suicide bombers.
- Safe conversion of mélange (a highly toxic rocket fuel oxidizer left from the Cold War era) in Azerbaijan.
References
- ^ Creation of the NATO Science for Peace and Security Committee
- ^ Teplitz, Vigdor (November 21, 2009). Science News (Society for Science and the Public) 176 (11): 36.
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