International Polar Year 2007-2008
The IASSA IPY Facilitation Initiative
In order to create a larger ‘footprint’ for social sciences and humanities in International Polar Year 2007-2008 (IPY), IASSA is encouraging its members and all interested social scientists to be involved with the IPY proposal process.

To facilitate submission of social science and humanities proposals, IASSA has launched an initiative to create a vigorous exchange of ideas, discussion, and active communication.

We invite you to post your idea statements, proposal drafts, and/or any calls for prospective partnership here, in our form below. When you do so, other researchers may contact you and discuss collaboration, and we may offer our advice on the proposal process, as members of the IASSA IPY task-group will be regularly reviewing the website. They may also help connect you to prospective partners in other countries or other institutions that may not be on your personal ‘radar screen.’

Please note that you still need to submit your proposals to the ICSU at www.ipy.org/development/eoi/survey.php and/or your respective national IPY committee (see list of committees at www.ipy.org/national/committee.htm). Please also note that you are free to opt out of this IASSA project. Nevertheless, we would be grateful if you send us a short note informing IASSA about your intent.

IASSA representatives on the IPY Joint Committee (IPY JC), Igor Krupnik and Grete Hovelsrud-Broda, will be involved in reviewing the whole body of submitted social science and humanities pre-proposals and in advising the committee on further strategies.

Once the IPY JC accepts proposals, the projects may use the IPY imprimatur. Project leaders and individual investigators will be responsible for securing their own funding.

We invite all interested scholars to read about IPY (www.ipy.org), especially the sections on social sciences and humanities, which were prepared by the IASSA IPY task-group.

Submittal Form
Please use this form to submit to IASSA your IPY idea statements, proposal drafts, and/or any calls for prospective partnership. Please note that you still need to submit your proposals to the ICSU at www.ipy.org/development/eoi/survey.php and/or your respective national IPY committee (see list of committees at www.ipy.org/national/committee.htm).

Directions:

  1. Read the IASSA webpage with background on IPY;
  2. After filling out the form, press "Submit" to send the information to us, or "Reset" to start over again;
  3. After the form is submitted, a web page with the information you submitted will appear. If this information is incorrect, please submit again. Do not worry if your text does not wrap--it will do so when it gets to us; and
  4. If you are unable to use this form, you are welcome to send information either by email or snail mail.


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Idea statements, proposal drafts, and/or calls for prospective partnership (hint: copy and paste your text here, rather than typing it in).



Sincere thanks to the U.S. National Science Foundation for support for this project.

Questions? Contact Anne Sudkamp at <fyiassa@uaf.edu>.

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