NATO Science for Peace
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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 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
Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is the eastern part of Europe. The term has widely disparate geopolitical, geographical, cultural and socioeconomic readings, which makes it highly context-dependent and even volatile, and there are "almost as many definitions of Eastern Europe as there are scholars of the region"...

 and the former Soviet Union
Soviet Union
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. 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
Counter-terrorism
Counter-terrorism is the practices, tactics, techniques, and strategies that governments, militaries, police departments and corporations adopt to prevent or in response to terrorist threats and/or acts, both real and imputed.The tactic of terrorism is available to insurgents and governments...

, environmental sustainability, and communications infrastructure.

Representative SPS Projects

  • 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
    Military camp
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     (safe drinking water, waste management, energy supply).
  • Virtual Silk Highway—satellite-based broadband
    Broadband
    The term broadband refers to a telecommunications signal or device of greater bandwidth, in some sense, than another standard or usual signal or device . Different criteria for "broad" have been applied in different contexts and at different times...

     technology for universities and civil research institutions in the Caucasus and Central Asia.
  • STANDEX—prototype system for remote detection of suicide bombers
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    .
  • Safe conversion of mélange (a highly toxic rocket fuel oxidizer left from the Cold War era) in Azerbaijan.

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