scholarships for talented graduate students from developing countries with limited financial resources,free access to research papers
The Bashan Foundation* is a private, nonprofit foundation. Its sole mission is to promote high quality, scientific environmental research and arts [plastic arts (painting and sculpture) and music] for the benefit of humanity. Promotion of science and arts is carried on mainly by the following avenues:
- Provide free access to research papers and research data supported by the Bashan Foundation via its website.
- Provide exposure for yet-to-be-discovered artists via its website.
- Provide partial scholarships for talented graduate students from developing countries with limited financial resources to study and complete their
education at the master, doctoral, and postdoctoral levels in accredited graduate schools out of their home country.
- Provide research grants for frontier or uncommon research subjects that usually cannot be funded by public grant systems (future plans).
- Provide complementary travel grants for participation in scientific events for researchers and graduate students who have research grants supported by the Foundation (future plans).
For the excellence of science
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.
*Established: December 27, 1999 and incorporated (July 2003, Oregon, USA) as a nonprofit corporation.
