Science Funding Agencies in Europe
These links to foreign science funding agencies (NSF counterparts) are provided as a resource for the US science community. Please note that listing an agency is not an endorsement by NSF. Viewers will leave the NSF website when selecting a specific counterpart link.
COUNTRY-SPECIFIC SCIENCE AGENCIES
Many countries have several science agencies. For more information related to a specific country or a country with no counterpart agency listed, contact the NSF OISE program officer listed for that country.
- Albania - Ministry of Education and Sport (also responsible for science)
- Armenia - Armenian National Science and Education Fund (ANSEF)
Armenia - Foundation for Armenian Science and Technology (FAST) - Austria - Austrian Centre for Social Innovation (ZSI)
Austria - Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Austria - Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) - Azerbaijian - Science Development Foundation
- Belarus - National Academy of Sciences (NAScB)
- Belgium - Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)
Belgium - Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) - Bosnia and Herzegovina - Federal Ministry of Education and Science
Bosnia and Herzegovina - Ministry of Science and Technology - Bulgaria - Bulgarian National Science Fund (BNSF)
- Croatia - Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ)
- Cyprus - Research Promotion Foundation (RPF)
- Czech Republic - Czech Science Foundation (GACR)
Czech Republic - Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA CR) - Denmark - Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science
Denmark - Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF)
Denmark - Independent Research Fund Denmark - Estonia - Estonian Research Council (ETAG)
- Finland - Academy of Finland (AKA)
- France - French National Research Agency (ANR)
France - National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) - Georgia - Georgian Research and Development Foundation (GRDF)
Georgia - Shota Rustavelly National Science Foundation of Georgia - Germany - German Research Foundation (DFG)
Germany - Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) - Greece - Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH)
- Hungary - Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA)
- Iceland - Icelandic Centre for Research (RANNIS)
- Ireland - Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)
Ireland - Irish Research Council - Italy - National Research Council (CNR)
Italy - Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) - Latvia - Latvian Council of Science (LCS)
- Lithuania - Research Council of Lithuania (LMT)
- Luxembourg - National Research Fund (FNR)
- Malta - Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST)
- Republic of Moldova - Moldovan Academy of Sciences
- Montenegro - Ministry of Science
- Netherlands - Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
- Norway - Research Council of Norway (RCN)
- Poland - National Science Centre (NCN)
Poland - Poland Ministry of Science & Higher Education (NAUKA) - Portugal - Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT)
- Romania - Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI)
Romania - National Research Council (CNCS) - Russia - Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR)
Russia - Russian Science Foundation (RSF) - Serbia - Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development
- Slovakia - Slovak Research and Development Agency (SRDA)
- Slovenia - Slovenian Science Foundation (SZF)
Slovenia - Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS) - Spain - Secretary of State for Research, Development and Innovation
Spain - Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) - Sweden - Swedish Research Council (VR)
Sweden - Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (SSF)
Sweden - Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (VINNOVA)
Sweden - Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) - Switzerland - Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
- "The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" - Ministry of Education and Science
- Ukraine -National Research Foundation of Ukraine
- United Kingdom - UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)