{"id":33076,"date":"2026-10-12T11:20:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/?post_type=news&#038;p=33076"},"modified":"2026-10-12T11:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:20:35","slug":"university-of-illinois-system-and-the-national-autonomous-university-of-mexico-unam-issue-joint-call-for-research-proposals","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/news-stories\/university-of-illinois-system-and-the-national-autonomous-university-of-mexico-unam-issue-joint-call-for-research-proposals\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Illinois System and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) issue joint call for research proposals"},"template":"","news_categories":[17,65],"news_tags":[],"class_list":["post-33076","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news_categories-grants","news_categories-inside-ahs"],"acf":{"intro_text_subtitle":"","hide_subtitle":false,"intro_text_body":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\">The University of Illinois System and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) have agreed<br \/>\nto establish a seed funding research program for the <strong>2027\u20132028 academic year.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\">This program will fund projects in the following thematic areas:<strong>\u00a0Food and Health; Water; and Energy,<\/strong><strong><br \/>\nwith the overall objective of the projects being to contribute to solving problems related to poverty, the\u00a0environment, and sustainable well-being<\/strong>. Transdisciplinary approaches and the formation of research<br \/>\nteams with balanced participation of women and men will be especially encouraged.<br \/>\nJoint proposals are eligible if they include at least one principal investigator per institution and are submitted<br \/>\nby full-time tenured faculty members.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\">Funding and Eligible Expenses<\/span><\/strong><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\"><br \/>\nEach institution will contribute USD <strong>100,000 to the program.<\/strong> Five projects will be funded, each of which<br \/>\nmay jointly request up to USD 40,000, distributed as follows:<br \/>\n\u25cf up to <strong>USD 20,000<\/strong> for the University of Illinois System team; and<br \/>\n\u25cf up to <strong>USD 20,000<\/strong> for the UNAM team.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-ogsc=\"rgb(34, 34, 34)\">Applicants should submit their proposals by <strong>November 30, 2026.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1J2J4gA8QDOjzLlcHGXJSLrtZ3-oMhUfk\/view\">Dowload proposal requirements and evaluation criteria.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Faculty who might be interested but need help finding Mexican collaborators should email the Illinois Mexican and Mexican-American student (I-MM\u00c1S) initiative at ui-mexico@uillinois.edu for assistance.<\/p>\n","intro_text_excerpt":"","content_author":"","content_sticky":false,"intro_text_include_image":false,"news_include_thumbnail":false,"components":false,"SEO_meta_description":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33078,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33076\/revisions\/33078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_categories?post=33076"},{"taxonomy":"news_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_tags?post=33076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}