Researchers and researchers have until November 20 of this year to submit their projects to the Fund's Research Projects System.

This call was published to increase cooperation with the International Institute for Application Systems Analysis (YASA) to promote research related to the activities of this institute.

In this regard, the fund supports the submitted projects in 5 areas. These include energy, climate change, water resources, and food security, air and environmental pollution, modeling, and systems analysis.

3- Research programs to promote system analysis, biodiversity, energy, climate, and environment are among the programs of Yasa Institute that are in line with the axes of this call. Therefore, the projects submitted by the country's researchers should be thematically related to one of these three programs. Also, the use of databases, models, and research tools of the institute is a prerequisite for any proposal.

Of course, having a systemic approach to research and predicting usable outputs for evidence-based policy-making or providing solutions to local, national, and regional challenges is another requirement of this call.

All the support of this call will be done by the fund and 10 research projects with qualitative characteristics and all the scientific conditions desired by the fund will be supported up to 5 billion Rials.

Those interested can refer to the fund's website for more information. The cost of laboratory services, travel costs, and manpower costs in this call is supported by the fund.

Communication and Information Center in the Vice Presidency of Science and Technology