Middle East Regional Cooperation (MERC)
Overview
What you need to judge this in 30 seconds
The Middle East Regional Cooperation (MERC) Program supports joint scientific research and innovation partnerships between the United States, Israel, and countries across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The program funds applied research projects that address shared regional challenges while advancing U.S. economic, technological, and strategic interests. MERC is designed to bring togethe
- Category
- R&D
- Industry
- Other
- Technology
- Needs verification
- Target stage
- Needs verification
- Project duration
- Needs verification
- Estimated preparation
- Needs verification
Funding
Award size and how it is paid
- Award range
- $100K ~ $2M
- Currency
- USD
- Total programme budget
- $10M
- Support type
- Cash
- Co-funding
- None (fully funded)
- Matching fund
- Needs verification
- Disbursement
- Needs verification
- Note
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Eligibility
Can we actually apply?
The following organizations are eligible to apply: - Public and private educational institutions - Corporations and for-profit organizations - Not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations - Public International Organizations and governmental institutions
- Company age
- Needs verification
- Employees
- Needs verification
- Revenue limits
- Needs verification
- Consortium
- Needs verification
Location Requirements
Geography and legal-entity conditions
- Primary country
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Also eligible
- None
- Foreign companies
- Needs verification
- Local entity
- Needs verification
- Location condition
- A US federal programme: the applicant must be an eligible entity based in the United States.
Required Documents
Required/optional · issuer · difficulty · validity · cautions
Document requirements were not captured (needs verification). Check the official announcement.
Application Process
How you apply
Application process not captured.
Evaluation
Review process and criteria
Evaluation process not captured.
Timeline
Announcement → intake → review → agreement → execution
Process steps were not captured.
Equity & Financial Terms
Equity, loans and contract conditions
- Equity required
- Needs verification
- Loan
- Non-dilutive grant
- Duplicate funding
- Needs verification
- IP ownership
- Needs verification
- Deliverable ownership
- Needs verification
- Exclusivity
- Needs verification
- Right of first refusal
- Needs verification
- Audit & settlement
- Needs verification
- Bayh-Dole government licence
US federal R&D funding commonly carries a government licence clause.
Source: Standard across grants.gov federal programmes — check the individual announcement.
Risk Intelligence
Should we apply at all? — five dimensions plus an overall score (lower is safer)
No risk assessment yet. Re-analyse from Admin.
IP / Idea Protection
How much of your technology and idea you must disclose
No IP assessment yet.
AI Analysis
Pros · cons · difficulty · competition · attractiveness
From paperwork and review stages
Heuristic from award size and type
Amount, terms and IP combined
Weighted average of five dimensions
- Needs verification
- Needs verification
- Nothing flagged
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Source & Provenance
Every value carries its source URL and fetch time
- Application URL
- https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/363070
- Last fetched
- 2026.08.17
- Human review
- Not reviewed — check the official announcement
- First seen
- 2026.08.17
- Data status
- Auto-collected, not reviewed
- AI enrichment
- Needs verification
- PRIMARYGrants.gov DFOP0019227
Fetched 3h ago
- OFFICIAL_APIGrants.gov Search2 API
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