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THE BARD RESEARCH GRANT

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

BARD research projects, conducted cooperatively by American and Israeli
“I have enjoyed BARD
support throughout my scientists, cover all phases of agricultural research and development, including
career with scientists integrated projects and strategic or applied research. BARD research grants
from Stanford, UC Davis, emphasize the active collaboration between American and Israeli scientists.
Purdue and Cornell. It’s
been both a personal Research fields include: Crop Production & Crop Health; Animal Production &
and scientific feast Animal Health; Aquaculture; Soil, Water, Environment & Renewable Resources;
for which I am very Agricultural Engineering; Agricultural Economics; Food Products - Quality,
thankful.“ Safety & Security.
Prof. Avraham Levy,
The Weizmann Institute
of Science ACCOMPLISHMENTS
BARD has become an ever more competitive funding source. Of the 470
proposals submitted over the last 5 years, 130 were funded (an approval rate of 20%).

This approval rate is lower than the average approval rate BARD has had over
its first 40 years of operation.

BARD’s total investment in the research grant during the last 5 years is
approximately $38M.
In 2022, a new track was launched within this grant program, named the
“Pioneer” track. It offers a higher level of funding for outstanding proposals.

Typically, the areas of crop production and crop health see the highest number
of proposals.

IMPACT SNAPSHOT

470 130 400

Number of Number of Number of scientific
submitted applications funded projects publications stemmed
2017-2022 2017-2022 from BARD-funded
research 2017-2022
09