The Office of International Programs in the College of ACES with the support of the ACES Office of Research solicited proposals for joint research projects with researchers at the Brazilian Agricultural Research Organization (Embrapa).
This program enables ACES faculty to work on joint projects with researchers based at Embrapa. ACES will fund two, 2-year proposals at $25,000 per year per project for two years. Embrapa will provide the same level of funding to two Embrapa projects, but these projects will not necessarily be the collaborators of the Illinois-funded projects. In order to receive funding, the activities of an ACES-funded project must form an integrated research program with an Embrapa collaborator.
The lead PI from the College of ACES must be a tenure track professor or research-focused specialized faculty and must have an active Hatch project related to the proposed activities. The activities of the ACES investigator and the collaborator form an integrated research program.