CSGCA - CIC - UNAM

Introduction

Texas A&M University and the Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT) are pleased to announce a program to encourage research collaborations between faculty at Texas A&M University and faculty at higher education institutions in Mexico or CONACYT research centers. The program aims to facilitate faculty-to-faculty collaboration and to further research ties yielding preliminary results that will enable joint applications to various extramural funding programs.

Types of Awards

Principal investigators (PIs) may apply for a Regular Research Award providing up to $24,000 in joint funding or a Special Research Project Award providing up to $75,000 in joint funding.

PIs may not submit proposals to both award programs.

Regular Research Awards are intended to provide support for projects that advance scientific knowledge and will lay the basis for proposals to external funding agencies by one or both PIs.

Up to 10 regular research awards will be made under current funding plans.

Special Research Project Awards are intended to provide support for projects that build on existing extramurally funded research activities. PIs will need to demonstrate that a Special Research Project Award will result in a sustained binational research project supported by external funding. The immediate result of the award is expected to be a highly competitive proposal to an external funding agency and commercial applications, patents, or high-impact publications in leading professional journals or books. A maximum of two special research project awards will be made under current funding plans.

Eligibility

A principal investigator is required from both Texas A&M University and a higher education institution or research center from Mexico. The PI from the United States must be a tenured or tenure-track faculty member at Texas A&M University. The PI from Mexico must: (1) be part of the National System for Researchers (SNI) and (2) be a full-time faculty member from any institution of higher education or a research center in Mexico or research center that is registered in El Registro Nacional de Instituciones y Empresas Científicas y Tecnológicas (RENIECYT).

Each PI is limited to one submission per year. Any individual PI is precluded from receiving an award in two successive years.

http://vpr.tamu.edu/researchdevelopment/funding/internal/conacyt/2015-tamu-conacyt-rfp