← Innovation & International Collaboration Division

International Partnership & Cooperation Center

Builds global research networks and coordinates international collaborations for advancing geoscience frontiers, negotiating bilateral and multilateral partnership agreements and pursuing international funding opportunities such as Horizon Europe and NSF.

Technology Transfer & Commercialization Center Innovation Hub & Open R&D Center Startup Incubation & Entrepreneurship Center International Partnership & Cooperation Center Horizon Scanning & Tech Intelligence Center

Research Fields 14

Science Diplomacy & Track II Cooperation

🕊️ Science Diplomacy & Track II Cooperation

Science diplomacy designates the use of scientific relations as an instrument and a channe…

International Scientific Organization Building

🏛️ International Scientific Organization Building

International scientific organization building is the institutional design craft of foundi…

Researcher Mobility & Academic Exchange Programs

🎓 Researcher Mobility & Academic Exchange Programs

Researcher mobility programmes are institutional schemes — government-funded exchanges, fo…

UNESCO & International Science Policy Institutions

🌐 UNESCO & International Science Policy Institutions

UNESCO-type science institutions are the intergovernmental bodies, anchored in the UN syst…

International Geophysical Year & Collaborative Mega-Campaigns

🛰️ International Geophysical Year & Collaborative Mega-Campaigns

The International Geophysical Year (IGY, 1 July 1957 – 31 December 1958) was a planned, pl…

International Polar Year & Early Geophysical Cooperation

🧭 International Polar Year & Early Geophysical Cooperation

The International Polar Years were the first sustained experiments in coordinating geophys…

Capacity Building & Technology Cooperation with Developing Countries

🌾 Capacity Building & Technology Cooperation with Developing Countries

Capacity building and technology cooperation denote the deliberate construction of researc…

International Auxiliary Language & Cross-Border Scientific Communication

💬 International Auxiliary Language & Cross-Border Scientific Communication

An international auxiliary language is a constructed or adopted second language, neutral a…

International Science Treaties & Commons Governance

❄️ International Science Treaties & Commons Governance

International science treaties are binding instruments under which states reserve territor…

Big Science & Multinational Research Consortia Management

🔬 Big Science & Multinational Research Consortia Management

Big science is the mode of research in which a single instrument or project — an accelerat…

International Research Infrastructure Consortia (COSPAR/ICSU model)

📡 International Research Infrastructure Consortia (COSPAR/ICSU model)

International research infrastructure consortia are standing frameworks that coordinate an…

Philanthropic Foundation-Based International Science Funding

🏛️ Philanthropic Foundation-Based International Science Funding

Foundation-based science funding is the private financing of research — fellowships, insti…

Early International Scientific Expeditions & Global Networks

🗺️ Early International Scientific Expeditions & Global Networks

The expedition-and-correspondence mode was the first architecture of international science…

International Science & Technology Cooperation Law/Treaty Frameworks

📜 International Science & Technology Cooperation Law/Treaty Frameworks

The law of international science and technology cooperation is the body of binding and non…