<span style="border-collapse:collapse"><p>Dear Researcher,</p><p><span style="border-collapse:collapse">The <b>Latin American and Caribbean Collaborative ICT Research (LACCIR) Federation</b> invites you to participate in its call for proposals 2009. At this time we have two open calls <span style="background-repeat:initial;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 204)">as</span> we describe below.<br>
<br> <br>Please find the attached Call for Proposals for<b> </b>both our programs, we eagerly invite you to participate this year.<br><br>Please have in mind the Research Project Proposal requirements threefold: it should focus on the objective of supporting high-quality fundamental research in information and communication technologies that are geared towards addressing the social and economic development needs of the Latin American and Caribbean region; research should be jointly developed in collaboration with at least one other country University (one LACCIR member University and at least one institution from other country); and it should have the potential to be granted with other organizations matching funds.<br>
<br> <br>Please visit our website for more information <a href="http://www.laccir.org" style="color:rgb(42, 93, 176)" target="_blank">www.laccir.org</a> and if you have any doubts please contact us at <a href="mailto:laccir@laccir.org" style="color:rgb(42, 93, 176)" target="_blank">laccir@laccir.org</a> </span></p>
<p><span style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></p><p><b>Request for Research Project Proposals 2009.</b></p><p><span>Call for CS and ICT Research Project Proposals applied to regional priority areas such as: <b>Education, Energy, Healthcare and Earth, Environment and Climate Change.</b></span></p>
<p>Deadline, September 22nd 2009.</p><p><span> </span></p><p><b>Request for Short Stays Proposals 2009.</b></p><p>The Short Stays Program (SSP) from LACCIR has as its main goal to support the completion of Graduate dissertations in Computer Science and related fields, developed in the Latin American and Caribbean region by<span> </span>partially financing useful research stays in other research centers in the region. Inparticular, SSP provides funds to cover students'<span> </span>travel and/or stay expenses to visit a research center in a different country of her/his university doing relevant research work.</p>
<p><font color="#FF0000">Deadline, August 31st 2009.</font></p></span>