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UK offers funds for development of Science and Innovation projects in Uruguay
With only 1% of world population, the UK produces 6.4% of the scientific articles; 11.6% of the quotations and 15.8% of the most cited articles worldwide. 
Some of the funds will be implemented in coordination with ANII (the National Agency for Research and Innovation of Uruguay), during the current year 
Proposals will be accepted until 14 September 2015 and all project activities should take place before 31 March 2016. The British Embassy in Montevideo offers funds to collaborate with the development of Science and Innovation in Uruguay through financing cooperation projects between Uruguayan and British researchers and institutions.
The funds will be implemented through different calls for proposals, some of them in coordination with ANII (the National Agency for Research and Innovation of Uruguay), during the current year. Whilst there are priority areas, proposals outside said list will also be considered should they present special interest for the country.
The British government offers the expertise and excellence of its researchers to provide opportunities for collaboration in various areas and this is based on the fact that with only 1% of world population, the UK produces 6.4% of the scientific articles; 11.6% of the quotations and 15.8% of the most cited articles worldwide.
Proposals will be accepted until 14 September 2015 and all project activities should take place before 31 March 2016.
The fund is intended basically to finance projects in science and innovation, including social and human sciences, in a variety of ways. The priority areas are Agriculture; Sustainable Energy; Human Health; Animal Sciences; Environment & Climate; Biotechnology; Water and sanitation; Food Science and food technology; IT; Cultural Industries; Plastics and metal industries.
Those entitled to apply are government agencies and organizations, universities, research institutes, graduate students, researchers at all levels, innovation centers, primary and secondary schools, organizations working in the field of entrepreneurship and civil organizations in general can apply for the funds.
Proposals will be accepted until 14 September 2015. Then, they will move to the evaluation stage in which the proposals will compete with each other for the available funds.
The British Embassy will define a committee in charge of the evaluation process and to recommend to the Fund’s Program Board the most suitable applications.
For further information refer to the British Embassy Montevideo website.
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Read all commentsThis sounds like a good idea but it may be an embarrassment for Uruguay.
Aug 17th, 2015 - 06:42 pm 0Of all the young Uni students I know (I do my best with application of computers and allied subjects, tailored to the student's problems) only two males are training to be electrical engineers and that's it from the sciences.
I have three females doing economics and it is clear that the Uni Lecturer has real problems herself understanding what the subject is about.
No mathematics, no physics, no industrial chemists and no electronic engineers. No hard sciences to speak of.
It is very upsetting to see the vast majority of Secondary / High School students not going into the Universities, many of which are private and a VERY mixed bad indeed.
I am really looking forward to seeing how many schemes will be launched: I hope they prove me wrong.
Chris @ 1
Aug 18th, 2015 - 03:51 am 0Uruguayan students' difficulties with maths start in primary school, and with physics in middle school. This has been happening for many years.
@ 2 ynsere
Aug 18th, 2015 - 05:49 pm 0I thought it must be systemic, but having the idiots in charge of the Education Department under The Broad Fraud has not helped one bit.
The present one, a doctor no less, has already started to mess with it again.
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