Subject: Reviewer for the Georgia NSF (2009)
From: [email-masked]
To: [email-masked]
Date: 3 Jun 2009 03:33:50 -0700

Dear Professor Imada,
The Georgia National Science Foundation (GNSF) is honored to contact you as an internationally recognized scientist and take your attention to the issue which is extremely important to us, hoping that it receives your kind consideration. The fact is that the science reform is vigorously underway in Georgia and GNSF is the core entity of the reform. It is commissioned to switch the state funding of research activities to the grant-based financing, based on the results of peer-review.
We already administered three annual calls in 2006, 2007 and 2008 years. Totally 2619 project proposals were registered in this period in almost all fields of science, 382 of which were awarded the grants. All projects were evaluated by peer-reviewers of high ranked western universities and research organizations. In spite of this, we utterly need more peer-reviewers to attain fully the international scientific standards.

On behalf of the Georgian scientific society I would therefore be very much honored if you could act as peer-reviewer of the project proposals, thus contributing to success of the reform.

In case of your positive decision to act as per-reviewer for GNSF we would kindly ask you to register through the following link:  Registration form - 2009

or for your convenience you can fill in attached "Registration form" and send it back to us.

Usually we allocate 1 or, at most, 2 project proposals to a single reviewer, though the number of projects to be evaluated is up to peer-reviewer to decide.

In conclusion, I would like to thank you in advance in anticipation of your earliest positive feedback.

Sincerely yours,

Natia Jokhadze
Director
Georgian National Science Foundation
68 Uznadze Str., 0102 Tbilisi, Georgia,
Tel: +995 32 95 46 86
Fax: +995 32 95 62 05
Web-site: www.gnsf.ge
Email: [email-masked]