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[4] [5] An emerging branch of Citizen Science are Community Mapping projects that utilize smartphone and tablet technology. For example, TurtleSAT [6] is a community mapping project that is mapping freshwater turtle deaths throughout Australia. This list of citizen science projects involves projects that engage all age groups.
It includes R&D funded from abroad, but excludes domestic funds for R&D performed outside the domestic economy.″ [2] As of 2022, Israel leads the world in R&D spending as a percentage of GDP, followed by South Korea, the United States, Japan, Belgium and Sweden.
The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) Program is a worldwide hands-on, science and education program focusing on the environment, now active in over 125 countries worldwide. [1] It works to promote the teaching and learning of science, enhance environmental literacy and stewardship, and promote scientific ...
The study of materials science is an important ISS research activity, with the objective of reaping economic benefits through the improvement of techniques used on the ground. [10] Other areas of interest include the effect of the low gravity environment on combustion, through the study of the efficiency of burning and control of emissions and ...
Research funding is a term generally covering any funding for scientific research, in the areas of natural science, technology, and social science.Different methods can be used to disburse funding, but the term often connotes funding obtained through a competitive process, in which potential research projects are evaluated and only the most promising receive funding.
Donor Total development aid Development aid per capita [citation needed]% of GNI Australia $2.95 billion: $129.92 0.22 Austria $1.21 billion: $137.59 0.27 Belgium $2.18 billion
In 2023–2024, 124 institutions successfully bid for funding from the Turing scheme to support nearly 23,000 higher education students to travel abroad, the most popular country was the United States with 2,057 students, France, Spain and Germany were close behind. 84% of students go to countries where English is not the main language. [11]
Space agencies, governments, researchers and commentators have isolated a large number of direct and indirect benefits of space exploration programs including: New technologies that can be utilized in other industries and society (such as the development of communications satellites) Improved knowledge of space and the origin of the universe