- Universidad de Santiago was among the four national universities that will receive more funds from the National Fund for the Scientific and Technological Development (Fondecyt, its acronym in Spanish), according to the results of the 2014 Contest. Universidad de Chile, Universidad Católica and Universidad de Concepción were the other three universities.
In this new version of the Fondecyt national contest, our University had 33 projects approved that involve 3,616,000,798 Chilean pesos. This is 44,6% of the projects that applied for the funds.
Some of the researchers who will receive the funds are Alexis Aspee, María Ureta, Manuel Azócar, Marcos Caroli and Gustavo Zúñiga, from the Faculty of Chemistry and Biology; Juan Retamal, Juliano Casagrande and Luis Hamm, from the Faculty of Science; César Ross and José Santos, from the Institute for Advanced Studies; Ana María Fernández, Julio Pinto, Mario Garcés and Juan Muñoz, from the Faculty of Humanities, and Pedro Jara, from the Faculty of Administration and Economics, among others. See the complete list of researchers at the Fondecyt website.
According to the contest modality, it was informed that the communication letters containing the results will be sent to the applicants as of the beginning of March, as per the regular notification process. Until March the 06th, the sponsors of projects that have been approved who are in disagreement with the budgets allocated will be able to submitt reassessment requests.
The financing agreements for the projects that won the contest will be signed once the proceedings before the Office of the National Comptroller General are finished. The deadline is June 30th, 2014.
The starting date for the first year of the projects is between March 15th, 2014 and March 15th, 2015.
