The 2018 Catalyzing New Research Partnerships (Cat-NRP) Program will provide travel grants of up to $10,000 for early-career scientists working in the natural sciences and engineering to travel to a non-U.S. counterpart’s institution to undertake activities including data gathering, preliminary fieldwork, and research planning which will lay the foundation for a new international research partnership. This solicitation is currently open to U.S. researchers who have received their Ph.D. or equivalent in the last 6 years, collaborating with non. U.S. counterparts working and residing in 80 specific Lower and Middle Income countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America.