Dear Colleagues,
The University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS) and El Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) are pleased to announce a call for proposals to provide $25,000 in seed funding to teams of UC and Mexican researchers with beginning projects in basic and applied collaborative research, instructional development, and public service and education projects that apply research to public issues.
The primary objective of the program is to enable the establishment of new collaborative initiatives with the potential for creating permanent ties between UC campuses and Mexican institutions that will grow and continue with the support of other institutional and extramural funds. Grant recipients are expected to use the seed funds to undertake the preliminary research necessary to develop proposals for extramural funding. Projects funded are expected to lead to development of major, long-term collaborations; significant advancement of scholarship in the natural sciences, physical sciences, engineering, computer sciences, social sciences, or humanities; strengthening of academic and research capabilities of the participating UC and Mexican institutions, especially in Mexican regional universities and institutions outside of the traditional Mexican research centers; the development of innovative binational instruction or new courses or degree programs; and/or public service and education programs addressing critical issues in Mexico or in the United States.
Each proposal must be co-directed by an eligible Principal Investigator from a UC campus and an eligible Principal Investigator from a Mexican institution of higher education and/or research center that is part of the Registro Nacional de Instituciones y Empresas Científicas y Tecnológicas (RENIECYT). Proposals must be jointly submitted by eligible UC and Mexican collaborators by Monday, February 25, 2019.
Please see the UC Mexus Program website for more information regarding this opportunity: http://ucmexus.ucr.edu/funding/grant_collaborative.html
Please contact the Office of Contracts and Grants at ocg@ucanr.edu with your upcoming proposal plans to the UC MEXUS Collaborative Grants Program.
Thank you.
Kathleen Nolan, Director, ANR Office of Contracts & Grants (OCG)