{"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":"2026-10-15T15:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T20:30:15","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 to 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> food and health; water; and energy, <\/strong><strong>with the overall objective of contributing to solving problems related to poverty, the environment, and sustainable well-being<\/strong>. Transdisciplinary approaches and the formation of research teams with balanced participation of women and men will be especially encouraged. Joint proposals are eligible if they include at least one principal investigator per institution and are submitted by 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":"Erika Ch\u00e1vez","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":33233,"href":"https:\/\/ahs.uic.edu\/inside-ahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/33076\/revisions\/33233"}],"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}]}}