Dear Colleagues,

UC MEXUS  is pleased to announce that the 2020 Calls for Proposals for Collaborative Grants, providing seed funding of up to $25,000 to teams of UC and Mexico researchers for pilot projects in basic and applied research.  

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 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.

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. The program also favors projects that enhance institutional collaboration in terms of student training and researcher ex-change. Grant recipients are expected to use the seed funds to undertake the preliminary research necessary to develop proposals for extramural funding.

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 Tecnológi-cas (RENIECYT).

Awards of up to $25,000 will be provided for the 18-month period, July 1, 2020 through December 31, 2021.

To learn more or apply to this opportunity, please review the full call for proposal http://ucmexus.ucr.edu/funding/grant_collaborative.html

The deadline for submission is February 24, 2020 at 5:00 PM PT.

Thank you.

Kathleen Nolan, Director, ANR Office of Contracts & Grants (OCG)