The Bashan Foundation intends to support researchers and graduate students who are dedicated to basic and applied environmental research. The Foundation covers a wide range of research fields ranging from the biological sciences to the arts. The Bashan Foundation is especially interested in engaging in new, particularly innovative fields of research that are at the forefront of a particular field of emerging research, or have, as yet, not found a footing at universities or research institutes. As these research areas are often interdisciplinary in nature, and usually underfunded, they do not usually receive sufficient support from the common grant systems of most countries.

The Bashan Foundation is expected to gain new insights at the forefront of the process of acquiring knowledge, where research demands the greatest degree of competence and dedication, but at the same time, yield the highest possible levels of innovation, and most importantly, to make it available to the public. All research supported by The Bashan Foundation must be of a high quality, allowing publication in common scientific journals.

The Bashan Foundation is distinguished by the following qualities:

• Excellence is the decisive and sole criterion for granting scholarships.
• Research results must be published and be freely accessible to all.

The Bashan Foundation is a not-for-profit organization (Charity) founded in 1999. Part of its mission is to build trusted digital archives for scholarship and scholars mainly from developing countries who lack reliable access to most scientific information. It presents scholarly information created by its members and aims to preserve their scientific work and the materials they rely upon, and to assist in building a research assisted platform that promotes the discovery and use of these information resources for all mankind and especially in developing countries.

*Established: December 27, 1999 and incorporated (July 2003, Oregon, USA) as a nonprofit corporation.