The National Agency for Innovation and Research (ANII) reported that the Clemente Estable and María Viñas funds will allocate up to 1.9 million pesos (almost $49,000) to finance basic and applied research projects. With this, the government entity announced an increase in financial support for researchers.
The projects must be completed in a period not exceeding three years, with the addition that the projects of the Maria Viñas Fund that have financial contributions from a company or organization may access an additional amount of 380,000 pesos.
The calls of this 2023 call They have brought some novelties, since topics such as access to open data of scientific information, climate change and the gender perspective were incorporated.
From the Stable Clement Fund, ANII is in charge of financing basic research projects, which seek to generate new knowledge for the country. While on the side of the María Viñas Fund, it seeks to finance those of applied research, which try to solve practical problems.
These funds are alternated between young researchers with little experience and those with a longer scientific trajectory. On this occasion, the call of the modality 1 It is aimed at the most consolidated researchers, who have a PhD or equivalent production.
The ANII is working together with the Inter-American Development Bank
With the support of Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the ANII works to incorporate a more varied theme into its research instruments, as well as what refers to scholarships, entrepreneurship and business innovation at the national level.
This 2023, the María Viñas Fund will additionally finance to projects that contribute to the mitigation of climate change, and those that have women in leadership roles within the research teams. The Clemente Estable Fund, for its part, will provide an additional amount to those who can present “a data management plan that ensures access and the possibility of reusing the data generated or collected during the investigation.”
access to funds
The Clemente Estable Fund will remain open until Thursday May 18 at 2:00 p.m.. Get in here.
The María Viñas Fund will receive projects until Thursday 25 of May at 2:00 p.m.. Get in here.
Source: Ambito
