Uruguay Institution National Research and Innovation Agency (ANII) First Name María Laura Fernández Email [email protected] Telephone number 00 (598) 2600 44 11 Ext. 231 Initial Funding Committment 250.000 Euros (two hundred and fifty thousand Euros) Who can apply? The applicants should be research groups that must belong to national institutions public or private nonprofit, involved in research and development and/or innovation activities. The main researcher and all the researchers of the Uruguayan partner of the project must have their CV in CVuy format. Each researcher must present a statement of the ongoing projects, with the number of hours of each one and the estimated completion date (according to our web model). A letter of endorsement shall be submitted from the participating institution (according to our web model). What types of costs are eligible for funding? The items that are considered by ANII as fundable for R&D projects are listed below: - Materials and supplies Lab equipment and other equipment Consultants Training Services Building adaptation Bibliographic material Software Protection of intellectual property Promotion and dissemination Administration expenses (up to 5% of the total budget) Contingencies (up to 5% of the total budget) Salaries Technical staff Travel. Only Travel allowance and tickets for the team’s members are eligible for funding and only for activities related to the project’s execution or to the presentation of the project’s results. Visiting professors. Travel allowance, tickets and fees are funded. Additional national eligibility criteria for the proposal beyond the general criteria in the Terms of Reference of the joint call The maximum amount of the requested Project required by the Uruguayan partner is up to € 50.000. We would not accept applications whose Main Researcher is in a noncompliance situation with any ANII´s Program. Each project responsible can be responsible and/or co-responsible of up to two R&D projects with National funding (ANII, CSIC, INIA, etc.) in simultaneous execution (we will consider the starting date of each project) Each responsible and co-responsible can´t have more than 60 hours among all the activities that executes (including teaching hours and from other public and private jobs) Call contact point: María Laura Fernández [email protected] 00 (598) 2600 44 11 Ext. 231 Other Information: ANII would like to support five areas ( Biodiversity/Climate Change, ICT, Health, Energy, and Bioeconomy) of interest and each one will have a budget of fifty thousand euros ( 50.000 Euros).