The National Institutes of Health (NIH) seeks to advance its mission by maintaining strong, productive, and secure international research collaborations in support of the NIH mission. The NIH Collaborative International Research Project (Parent Announcement) supports international research collaborations. This opportunity specifically implements an award structure of prime domestic awards with independent foreign awards that are linked to the prime. This structure provides NIH with oversight capacity for international collaborations, and allows NIH to track international funding, as identified in NOT-OD-25-104. 

All collaborative international research project applications must include at least 1 international subproject. The proposed project must be related to the programmatic interests of one or more of the participating NIH Institutes, Centers and Offices (ICOs) based on their scientific missions. The application will be evaluated as a whole, and the international subproject(s) will be evaluated on whether the project presents special opportunities for furthering research programs through the use of unusual talent, resources, populations, or environmental conditions in other countries that are not readily available in the United States or that augment existing United States resources, and whether the proposed project has specific relevance to the mission and objectives of the ICO and has the potential for significantly advancing the health sciences in the United States. Grant authorities that allow NIH to forecast this opportunity are as follows: 42 U.S.C 241 and 284.

Government

• County governments
• State governments
• Public and Indian housing authorities
• Special district governments
• City or township governments
• Federally recognized Native American tribal governments

Business

• Small businesses
• For-profit organizations other than small businesses

Miscellaneous

• Other

Education

• Public and state institutions of higher education
• Independent school districts
• Private institutions of higher education

Nonprofit

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• Other Native American tribal organizations
• Nonprofits non-higher education with 501(c)(3)