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New
Grant to Support Discovery and Innovation in
the Americas
The Costa Rican National Council for
Scientific and Technological Research (CONICIT),
in association with the Costa Rica-United
States of America Foundation (CRUSA), the
National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA) at the University of
Illinois, and under the auspices of the
Advanced Research and Technology
Collaboratory for the Americas (ARTCA)
announced the Discovery and Innovation
Through Cyberactivity - Costa Rica (CR-DIC)
to the international scientific and research
community.
This initiative will facilitate
revolutionary research through innovation
and advances in computational thinking that
is applied to different areas of the
sciences and humanities.
Therefore, scholars from different
disciplines are invited to collaborate in
the development of cutting-edge research
that takes full and innovative advantage of
computational advances and has the potential
to have a broad impact upon society.
Thematic areas:
1. From data to knowledge: proposals that
improve cognition and generate new knowledge
from a wealth of digital data.
2. Understanding complexity in natural,
artificial systems, and social systems:
proposals that lead to fundamental insights
on systems comprising multiple interacting
elements.
3. Development of virtual organizations:
proposals that facilitate discovery and
innovation by connecting people through the
use of virtual communication tools and that
overcome institutional, geographical and
cultural boundaries.
Priority will be given to initiatives that
encourage collaborative research between
American countries.
Eligible Organizations:
Nonprofit, non-academic organizations:
Independent museums, observatories, research
laboratories, professional associations and
similar organizations in Costa Rica that are
associated with research and duly registered
with the Science and Technology Registry of
CONICIT.
Public, non-profit universities and
university institutes: Accredited in Costa
Rica with facilities in the country, acting
on behalf of the research organization.
These organizations must be duly registered
with the Science and Technology Registry of
CONICIT.
Proposals must be submitted online at
www.artcaonline.org in the period
between Oct. 5 and Nov. 11, 2009.
The official announcement for this call for
proposals was held at the facilities of
CONICIT in Zapote.
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