Within the scope of the Memorandum of Understanding between the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Consejo Nacional de Rectores de Costa Rica (CONARE), which was signed on 19 October 2023, a first joint call with two submission deadlines for Costa Rican-German research projects has been launched.
Funding within this initiative will be available for collaborative research projects consisting of researchers from Germany and Costa Rica. Within these research teams, each national funding organisation will generally only fund those project components that are carried out within its own country (DFG in Germany and CONARE in Costa Rica).
There are no separate funds available for these efforts; proposals must succeed on the strengths of their intellectual merit and teams in competition with all other proposals in the funding programmes “Sachbeihilfe/Individual Research Grants”.
Funding of the joint research projects is contingent upon positive assessment by both funding organisations. Joint Costa Rican-German projects will be co-funded by CONARE; unilateral funding of only one part of the project is not possible. The collaborative projects selected to take part in this initiative will receive research funding for a period of up to three years.
Applicants for a bilateral project within this call must submit their joint proposal to their national funding organisation. Costa Rican principal investigators (PI) submit their documents to CONARE, German PIs to the DFG.
Proposals must be submitted by 30 April 2024 (first deadline for submission) or by 30 September 2024 (second deadline for submission).
