LACREG 2011

Funding Opportunity: Canada-Latin America and the Caribbean Research Exchange Grants (LACREG) 2011 Competition

The Canada-Latin America and the Caribbean Research Exchange Grants (LACREG) program has been managed by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) with financial support from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) since 1995.

The new Phase of the LACREG program (2011-2014) will consist of two competitions. The deadline for this first competition is October 6, 2011 and AUCC plans to announce the results of the competition before the end of November, 2011. It is expected that the next competition will be launched in March 2012 with a June 2012 application deadline. The amount of funding available per competition is $190,000 and it is anticipated that at least 15 grants will be awarded per competition..

Projects must address one or more of the IDRC’s research themes:
• agriculture and the environment;
• science, technology, and innovation;
• social and economic policy; and
• health and health systems.

Value: $15,000 CAD. Support through this program must be cost-shared on a 2:1 ratio by the program and the partner institutions, respectively. Partner institutions must make a cash or in-kind contribution to cover at least one-third of the total cost.

Eligibility: Applicants from Canada and eligible Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries are encouraged to apply.
The LACREG program applies to collaborative research between Canada and the following LAC countries: Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.

Deadline: Thursday, October 6, 2011 (4:00 p.m. EST)

Application forms and guidelines:
http://www.aucc.ca/programs/intprograms/lacreg/2010-11_e.html

Please note a number of changes have been brought to this year’s guidelines so please read them carefully.

Former LACREG awardees at the UofS are willing to share their proposals. Please contact le.li@usask.ca if you have an interest in pursuing this opportunity and our International Research Office team would be very pleased to assist with the development of the application.