Bases de la convocatoria de la beca Fulbright NEXUS correspondiente a 2012.
La beca está enfocada hacia académicos o profesionales con experiencia en investigación en el sector público, privado o sin fines de lucro en las siguientes áreas:
- Ciencia, tecnología e innovación,
- Emprendimiento
- Energías sustentables
Es requisito poseer un doctorado o grado equivalente, tener experiencia en investigación en el área propuesta y acreditar dominio avanzado de inglés. La selección final de la beca se realizará en un concurso internacional en EE.UU.
The Fulbright Regional Network for Applied Research (NEXUS) Program will bring together a network of junior scholars, professionals and mid-career applied researchers from the United States and other Western Hemisphere nations for a series of three seminar meetings and a Fulbright exchange experience.
C o m p e t i t i o n 2 0 1 2 – 2 0 1 3
At its core, the Fulbright NEXUS Program will foster collaborative and multidisciplinary research to address challenging regional issues and produce tangible results.
- Up to twenty outstanding scholars and practitioners from the U.S. and abroad will be selected as Fulbright NEXUS Scholars to participate in the program through an open competition. Approximately one-third of grantees will be selected from the United States. Approximately two thirds of the grantees will originate from Western Hemisphere countries other than the United States. Program activities will commence in November 2012 and conclude in October 2013.
- Fulbright NEXUS Program will provide a platform for scholars from across the region to engage in collaborative thinking, analy sis, problem-solving and multi-disciplinary research in one of three inter-related topics:
• Science, Technology and Innovation
Projects focusing on climate change adaptation strategies, and/or public policy focused research ventures that examine strategies to
cope with climate variability, including extreme events, are particularly welcome.
- In order to create a platform for collaborative thinking and analysis, Fulbright NEXUS combines the core Fulbright research exchange experience with a series of three in-person seminar meetings and ongoing virtual communication among the multinational and multidisciplinary participants under the guidance of the Fulbright NEXUS Lead Scholar. NEXUS Scholars will be challenged to move beyond their individual research and to engage in collaborative examination of the program themes.
- NEXUS Scholars will work in research teams in the program thematic areas described earlier. Scholars will engage in integrated group research as members of designated teams. Combining nationalities and disciplines, each team will include 4-5 participants. In addition to the Lead Scholar, each of the NEXUS research teams will select a coordinator to lead their respective groups.
- While NEXUS Scholars’ pursuit of individual research objectives will be intrinsic to a collaborative and comparative analysis of the issues elaborated by the program, prospective applicants should be advised that at the time of application they will be expected to identify up to three local stakeholders from a range of sectors (i.e. NGOs, government, private industries) that have a demon strated commitment to the application of the proposed research projects as potential model solutions to real-life challenges. Scholars will be expected to integrate selected stakeholders into their research and may invite up to two stakeholders to participate in the interim (second) group seminar meeting.
- At the end of the program year, NEXUS Scholars will convene for the third and final meeting in Washington, DC to share the results of their collaborative interactions and report on the accomplishment of program objectives and the national and regional implications of their findings. Scholars will disseminate policy-relevant recommendations, describe the concrete steps they have taken in implementing their projects and models at the local, national and/or regional level, and share the progress they have made and challenges they have faced
in moving their recommendations from theory to practice.
P r o g r a m T h e m e s
Program themes include Science, Technology and Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainable Energy. Scholar applicants should
have particular expertise in these themes and submit research proposals in the following critical areas of engagement:
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
- Move ideas from laboratories to the marketplace in fields of regional importance, such as climate change and adaptation strategies, including research projects focusing on food production and food security, and emergency preparedness;
- Address public health issues arising from climate variability and change, including those related to air quality, water- and food-borne diseases, parasites, and weather-related injury or death.
- Contribute to the development of sustainable cities, informed by best practices in urban planning, earthquake and other natur al disaster preparedness (including floods, hurricanes, tsunamis, etc), green energy and environmental standards;
- Foster regional and local competitiveness;
- Address poverty eradication and increase quality-of-life outcomes for all individuals from the region;
- Promote expanded access to education, including in STEM fields at the primary, secondary and post-secondary levels.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
- Provide consumers with greater access to clean-energy research and green technologies;
- Foster innovative market solutions to pressing social needs across the region;
- Expand access to working capital for micro-entrepreneurs;
- Link markets to producers and consumers across the supply and distribution chain so that small producers and service providers can participate more effectively in trade;
- Expand credit access to the unbanked through innovative approaches such as utilizing movable assets like collateral and promoting
the availability of secured transactions;
- Build upon a continuum of experiences to capitalize on a wide range of entrepreneurial knowledge from micro to mainstream, including social entrepreneurship theories and practices;
- Engage the private sector and civil society to advance labor and environmental standards in business and industry, sharing best practices for such standards and their enforcement;
- Outline how activities can become self-sustainable and replicable over time.
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
- Renewable and sustainable energy (hydro, wind, air, solar);
- Energy poverty and energy security;
- Energy efficiency and environmental security;
- Energy industries as drivers of economic growth;
- Energy independence at regional, national, community and household levels;
- Energy innovation and indigenous sources of energy as means to decrease reliance on fossil fuels and carbon emissions;
- Energy infrastructure and regional integration as related to emergency preparedness (earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, offsh ore drilling accidents);
- Research, development, deployment and dissemination of cleaner, cheaper and more efficient energy technologies to drive low- carbon economic growth.
W h o ‘ s E l i g i b l e
Successful candidates will include rising scholars or practitioners active in the academic, public or private sectors that de monstrate outstanding qualifications and a record of experience and accomplishment in an area clearly related to one of the designated research themes. Applicants must be conducting current research relevant to the program’s themes and objectives, be open to exploring and incorporating comparative, interdisciplinary approaches in their investigations, and interested in developing collaborative activities with other Fulbright NEXUS Scholars.
- Applicants must be from Latin America, Canada, the Caribbean or the United States.
- Applicants must be citizens or permanent residents of and residing in the country from which they are applying at the time of application. Non-U.S. applicants holding permanent residency ”green cards”, whether or not they reside in the U.S., are not eligible.
Since specific residency requirements vary from country to country, applicants should contact their local Fulbright office directly to determine their eligibility.
- Participants should be early or mid-career academics, applied researchers and/or professionals with research experience in the
public, non-profit, or private sector.
- A Ph.D. or equivalent professional/terminal degree is preferred, but is not required. Candidates with a master’s degree are r equired to have a minimum of five years of research experience.
- Applicants should have particular expertise and research experience in one of the three identified program themes.
- Non-U.S. Scholars must demonstrate proficiency in English; U.S. Scholars must demonstrate proficiency in either Portuguese or
Spanish.
- Non-U.S. applications must be submitted through a participating Fulbright Commission in Chile.
T i m e l i n e http://www.cies.org/NEXUS/Timeline.htm
THE COMPETITION FOR 2012-2013
May 15, 2012 | Application Deadline in Fulbright Chile
July 2012 | Finalists notified of select or non-select decisions
November 8-12, 2012 | First group meeting and orientation hosted by the Fulbright Canada
April 22-24, 2013 | Mid-year group meeting hosted by Fulbright Colombia
Mid September , 2013 | Final Group Meeting (Washington, DC)
Grant Provisions
Scholars will receive funding in the amount of USD $30,000 for grantees only. Accommodations and meals for all group meetings will be covered separately. Grants will also include limited accident and sickness benefits.
A p p l i c a t i o n
Given past experience, we anticipate that many candidates will submit their online application materials in the final days befo re the deadline. To avoid heavy server traffic and potential delays, we encourage candidates to submit their application materials as early as possible.
Please Note: You do not need to complete the application in one sitting. The system will allow you to enter, reenter and revi se all sections of your application. Remember to periodically save any data you have entered.
THE COMPETITION FOR 2012-2013 IS NOW OPEN
CHILEAN SCHOLARS Applications in Chile must be submitted through the Fulbright Commission in Chile, contact details below.
General information of the NEXUS program: http://web.fulbright.cl/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/special-
instructions-for-scholars-from-commission-countries.pdf
To apply: http://www.cies.org/NEXUS/Application.htm
Application Instructions: http://www.cies.org/NEXUS/ApplicationInstructions_US.pdf
For more information please visit: http://www.cies.org/NEXUS/
Previous Nexus Grantees : http://fulbright.state.gov/grants/fulbright-nexus/2011-2012-nexus-grantees
CONTACT IN CHLE
Non-U.S. applications must be submitted through the Fulbright Commission in Chile. Please contact the Commission.
Yunuén Varela Velasco
U.S. Grantees Program Officer Fulbright Commission – Chile Ph: +56-2-3344368 ext. 207
Fax +56-2-2323173
Av. Providencia 2331, of. 901
Providencia – Santiago – CHILE
CONTACTS IN THE U.S.
Fulbright NEXUS Scholar Program
Council for International Exchange of Scholars
1400 K Street, NW • Suite 700
Washington, DC • 20005
Katrin DeWindt
Assistant Director kdewindt@iie.org
Ph: 202.686.6254
Jake Silva
Program Associate jsilva@iie.org
Ph: 202.686.4018
