(VOVworld) – After surpassing 500 projects from 63 countries around the world, Vietnam earned two awards in the first round of a US Government program to fund scientific research in developing countries. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Science Foundation (NSF), part of the PEER awards, announced its grants to support and build scientific and technical capacity in the developing world. PEER is a USAID-funded grants program that is administered by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in coordination with the NSF. The winning research programs in Vietnam include: a project to assess the Impact of Emissions on Southeast Asia’s Air Quality and Climate. The other project will monitor the dynamic emissions and forests. Each winning project will receive an aid of up to 50,000 USD.