Major Research Program

       This program support teams an individual research sub-project to be carried out over a two or three year period. To give priority to project proposals involving training of Master's and Ph.D. students, requests that strengthen national and foreign scientific collaboration; at the activities having the potential for generating significant research funding, and to principal investigators with demonstrated scientific accomplishments. In addition, awards and renewal of support will require increasing institutional contribution to the costs of research and training activities.
        USD 13.11 million were allocated for this sub-component.

      Depending on the projects' domain the financial resources available for this sub-component were distributed as follows: