01.02.2024

CONARE/DFG: Funding Opportunities for Costa Rican-German Research Projects: First Joint Call

Deadline: 30, April 2024

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.

This initiative aims to bring together relevant and competitive researchers from Germany and Costa Rica to design and carry out jointly organised research projects of outstanding scientific quality. 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). The collaborative research projects should involve active communication and cooperation between the participating researchers. 

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.

The present funding opportunities are open to joint research projects in all fields of research, including the social sciences and humanities.

Funding is available for bilateral collaborative research projects comprising researchers from Germany and Costa Rica. Applicants are required to fulfil the national requirements for funding and follow the general regulations of their respective funding organisation (see below). Proposals submitted too late and/or which are not fulfilling the national requirements will not be considered. No legal entitlement may be derived from the submission of a project description.

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, following the formal requirements of their respective funding organisation. All documents must be written in English. Please note that the projects submitted to the DFG and CONARE must have the same scientific content and the same applicants involved. Additional requirements for German and Costa Rican applicants are specified below. 

Within the first deadline for submission, proposals must be submitted by 30 April 2024.

The DFG strongly welcomes proposals from researchers of all genders and sexual identities, from different ethnic, cultural, religious, ideological or social backgrounds, from different career stages, types of universities and research institutions, and with disabilities or chronic illness.

Please note that this joint call focuses on the funding of joint research projects. Researchers, who are at an early stage of their cooperation with Costa Rican partners may apply under the DFG´s programme “Initiation of International Collaboration”. Please contact us for individual guidance if you are interested in this funding scheme.

General information for Costa Rican principal investigators may be found here (in English):
www.conare.ac.cr/fondo-del-sistema/#1662757941078-ce34f060-e566 

For questions concerning the international cooperation with Costa Rica: 
Contact at the DFG Head Office in Bonn, Germany:
Dr. Dietrich Halm
phone +49 228 885-2347
dietrich.halmspam prevention@dfg.de 

Contact at the DFG office in Sao Paulo, Brazil:
Dr. Christina Peters
phone +49 228 885-4550
christina.petersspam prevention@dfg.de 

Contact at CONARE, Costa Rica: 
Mág. Sharlin Sánchez Espinoza
phone +506 2519 5744
ssanchezspam prevention@conare.ac.cr 

For more informationen and the complete call please visit:

https://www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles/neuigkeiten-themen/info-wissenschaft/2024/ifr-24-11