With this call, the Israel Young Academy (IYA) aims to encourage long-term international collaborations and exposure of Israeli researchers to varying scientific fields through direct meetings with leading researchers worldwide. As part of the initiative, highly accomplished scholars from abroad will be invited with several of their group members for extended stays in Israel, facilitating:
- Significant interaction between local research groups and the visiting scholar and students
- Exposure to the scientific field of the visiting scholar through seminars for the local research community
- Direct meetings between Israeli students and the visiting scholar
- Initiation of collaborative research
- Exposure of the visiting scholar and students to local research, allowing visiting scholars to serve as ambassadors and present the quality of Israeli research to their colleagues worldwide
Deadline for submission is January 31, 2025