What is ACCESS2MEXCYT?
Access2MexCyT aims at improving the development of the Euro-Mexican research area and, in particular, to identify access opportunities for European researchers in research and innovation programmes managed by Mexico. The project will also provide the Mexican research community with cooperation opportunities and the establishment of new partnerships with European counterparts. The project objectives are:
- To map Mexican research and innovation programmes and open calls open to EU participation
- To increase the efforts achieved in the bilateral S&T agreements between Mexico and EU Member States
- To raise awareness amongst EU researchers about Mexican research and innovation programmes
- To improve the development of the Euro-Mexican research area
Regarding the matching EU and Mexican research and innovation programmes, the Access2MexCyT project will furthermore provide valuable information to the EU-Mexico Joint Steering Committee (JSC)
The main activities of the project are:
- Info-days to present access opportunities to Mexican research and innovation programmes and to promote Access2mexcyt activities in events organized by the European NCP networks
- A strategic brokerage event in Mexico to build new partnerships
It is expected that the increased awareness of both sides will lead to a higher participation of EU researchers in Mexican research programmes, thus contributing to improve reciprocity between Mexico and EU.
Services for European researchers
The ACCESS2MEXCYT project will provide EU researchers with relevant information about access opportunities in Mexican research and innovation programmes. For this purpose the following products will be elaborated and disseminated among the European research community.
- A brochure on the Mexican S&T funds and programmes opened to EU
- A short video on Mexican research capacities, national research, innovation programmes and the ACCESS2MEXCYT project
- A newsletter with relevant information on access and collaboration opportunities
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Fact Sheets
- Mexican programmes and funds opened to EU participation
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Highlights: Mexican programmes and funds opened to EU participation
CONACYT
54 funds
- 1 Institutional Fund which finances programmes directly managed by the CONACyT to encourage research and innovation.
- 20 Sectorial Funds. Aimed to support sectorial programmes, they are co-financed by the CONACyT and the ministries concerned. Among them, two funds are opened to foreign participation:
• Sectorial fund on renewable energy: launched in 2008. Budget: €200 millions (call 2010)
• Sectorial fund CONACYT-SENER Hydrocarbons: launched in 2008. Budget: € 800 millions (call 2010)
- 34 Mixed funds co-financed by both the CONACYT and the federal entities. Created in the frame of the decentralization of Mexican S&T capacities, they support applied research programmes led by the different States of the Republic.
- International cooperation fund, nourished by bilateral funds ‘Mexico-partner’ (FONCICYT), is specifically intended to fund bilateral actions.
Postgraduate Studies Scholarships National Program from CONACYT
Offers a framework of continuous evaluation of the Mexican academic programmes and promotes scholarships whose value in money is proportional to the excellence of the chosen curricula.
In 2009: 1 069 programmes in 113 institutions. Including 72 programmes of “international expertise” (2009). Most of this programmes developed agreements with foreign academic institutions (mobility and joint research projects).
The “International expertise” programmes and institutions are listed in the Report on Mexican Research funds programs open to EU participation which is downloadable here
To find more information on the PNPC please visit www.conacyt.mx
SRE Scholarships (Foreign Affairs Ministry)
The SRE scholarships are launched in the frame of three kinds of programmes linking Mexico and its European counterparts.
- Bilateral programmes: 42 calls are launched through public and technical education Universities; 6 calls through Private Universities; 18 calls through CONACyT Research Centres; 6 calls through Public Research Centres; 10 calls through other Centres; 1 call through the Health Ministry.
- Special programmes for specific topics:
- Special Chairs: mobility support for foreign researchers to work in Mexican academic and research institutions (1-12 months).
- Support for Participation of foreign experts/researchers in high level conferences (1 month).
- Traineeship for master and doctorate students (2-6 months).
- Scholarships for Mexicanists (Genaro Estrada) working in Mexico (1-6 months).
- Support to quality improvement of Mexican higher education institutions: open to education experts to lead activities to improve the quality of the higher education institutions (1 month).
- Multilateral programmes (do not include the EU).
To find more information on the SRE scholarships please visit the SRE website
You can find the institutions launching calls of this programme on the Access2MexCyT website under the section Research Directory
SEP Scholarships (Programa de calidad y competencia Internacional en México)
The SEP scholarships target foreign students wishing to achieve Master and Doctorate studies in Mexico in the frame of excellence programmes and at an international level. More specifically the programme targets:
- Citizens from Germany, Austria, Denmark, Spain, Finland, Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Great Britain or Sweden. Candidates non-resident in Mexico,
- Non residents in Mexico,
- Not Mexican citizens.
16 Mexican institutions are involved in this programme. You can find the information on these institutions and their fields of research on the "Research directory" To find more information on the SEP scholarships, please visit the SEP website:
UNAM programmes and scholarship system
- The UNAM scholarship system offers support for 26 institutional programmes managed by 12 academic organizations and facilities:
- Student Scholarships (1-12 months).
- Post-Doctorate scholarships (12-24 months). The programme concerns different fields: Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Engineering, Biology, Health, Social studies, Human sciences and liberal arts.
- The yearly academic exchange between the UNAM and its counterparts in Mexico and abroad. This programme offers academic exchanges on six thematic fields: Health, Information and Communication Technologies, Energy, Environment, Social and Human Sciences, Security. Beneficiaries can undertake basic and applied research, as well as to prepare joint research projects with the teams of the UNAM.
- Human Sciences coordination Post doctorate scholarship programme: biennial call for specific themes: Economics and Social studies, Human sciences, Security matters (1 year).
- Priorities
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14 high thematic priorities of the Mexican S&T National System for the period 2008-2012
1) Health,
2) Education,
3) Food,
4) Environment,
5) Water and Climatic Change,
6) Energy,
7) Economic Growth and Sustainable Development,
8) Struggle against Poverty,
9) Security,
10) Governability,
11) Population,
12) Gender Equality,
13) Infrastructure
14) Tourism.
Applied research programmes encouraged
by the Plan 2008-2012, linked to industrial sectors:
1) Biotechnology,
2) Medicine,
3) Energy,
4) Environment,
5) Industrial production technologies,
6) Materials,
7) Nanotechnology,
8) Information and telecommunication technology,
9) Applied mathematics and modelation.
- Mexican Science and Technology System
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Existing reports describing the Mexican S&T system
Report on the National S&T systems in Latin America, UNESCO National report of the OST (French observatory of S&T)http://www.obs-ost.fr/fileadmin/medias/tx_ostdocuments/ProfilMexique2008_OST_01.pdf
Country Report EULANEST Additional information on existing reports on the Mexican S&T system
RENIECYT
http://www.conacyt.gob.mx/registros/reniecyt/Paginas/default.aspx
The RENIECYT, managed by the CONACYT, is a register of the institutions from the public, social and private sectors that lead activities linked to S&T in Mexico. This register permits to take part of the calls published by the CONACYT. This is not always obligatory f or foreign entities.
National Thematic Networks
http://148.207.1.2/Fondos/Institucional/RedesTematicas/Index_RedesTematicas.html
Aimed to a better interaction between the national actors of the priority domains of the S&T in Mexico, the thematic networks seek to identify needs, weaknesses, strengths and opportunities of research all over the country in order to be able to formulate some projects at the national level. In addition, the thematic networks should permit national S&T community to develop ties with the international scientific community.
The thematic networks are not open to the participation of foreign experts, but one of their objectives is –precisely- to become international.
Existing networks:
- Water
- Life’s barcode
- Complexity, science and society
- High energies physics
- Energetic sources
-Environment and durable management
- Nanosciences and nanotechnology
- Medicine new tendencies
- Food, agriculture and biotechnology
- Information Technology
- Ecosystems
- Poverty and development
- Mathematical and computer models
The International cooperation dimension of the Mexican S&T system
UEMEXCYT bureauhttp://www.conacyt.gob.mx/uemexcyt2/index.html
Mexican NCP Networkhttp://www.conacyt.gob.mx/uemexcyt2/FP7Contact/Index.html
FONCICYT EU-Mexico joint call - Bilateral Agreement and Programmes
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38 BILATERAL AGREEMENTS
Typology
- Intergovernmental agreements signed by the Foreign Affaires Ministry (MRE).
- Agreements signed between the CONACYT and its homologous.
- Inter-institutional agreements signed between universities and research centres.
6 BILATERAL PROGRAMMES LINKING MEXICO TO EU MEMBER STATES
Typology
- Academic collaboration between higher education institutions.
- Public/Private collaboration aimed at innovation and industrial research projects.
- Mobility: scholarships
Frequent themes in bilateral programmes
22 programmes do not privilege any thematic field. When themes are targeted, the most frequent are:
- Health
- Food, agriculture, fishing, biotechnology
- ICT
- Nano sciences, nanotechnologies, materials, new technologies
- Energy
- Environment
- Economic and social sciences