Euro-Atlantic research collaboration within NATO

The objective of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation NATO’s Science Programme is to promote science and technology through different forms of support as well as to increase scientific collaboration. Research collaboration supported by the NATO’s Science Council is operated through the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC).

Forms of research collaboration include advanced research workshops, advanced study institutes, collaborative research grants, linkage grants, expert visit grants, networking infrastructure grants and science fellowships and science for stability projects. Around 50 researcher conferences are organised annually, and some 2,400 researchers from partner countries participate in different activities.

Finnish researchers may (as well as Austrian, Swedish and Swiss researchers) participate in NATO-funded research collaboration through the EAPC membership, but they cannot receive personal grants from NATO. The NATO Science Council only partly supports research projects within the programme. Other funding for projects comes from national sources.