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PIA Program

The Associative Research Program, PIA, was launched in 2009 with the goal of coordinating different instruments and initiatives of support for associative research, and of promotion for research centers of excellence.

Director: Isabel Meneses C.

Budget 2013: USD 50,59 millon

Lines of Action:

  • Contributing to the strengthening of Chile’s scientific base and facilitating the use of its progress and results, in order to encourage the development of the public and productive sectors.
  • Promoting the articulation and association of researchers and their links with other national and/or international actors, in order to encourage the establishment and consolidation of scientific and technological groups and centers.

Funding Instruments

  • Competitive calls for Research and Development Centers (R+D): Centers for Advanced Research in Education; Shared–Use Major Scientific and Technological Equipment Supply Centers; Scientific and Technological Centers of Excellence (baseline funding); Business Technological Consortia for Research (this instrument has been transferred to CORFO).
  • Competitive national calls for Science and Technology Research Networks; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Networks; and Antarctic Science Research Networks.
  • Competitive call for science–private companies partnerships, and for regional research networks (developed jointly with CONICYT’s Regional Program).
  • Strengthening of Social Sciences International Networks.

Main Achievements in 2012

  • Resources awarded during the Fourth National Call for Science and Technology Research Networks (22) and for Antarctic Science (2), and for the Third Call for Social Sciences and Humanities Research Networks (11).
  • International assessment favoring –for a new period of five years– the continuity of the first eight Scientific and Technological Centers of Excellence supported by baseline funding.
  • Launch of three of the four Shared–Use Major Scientific and Technological Equipment Supply Centers.
  • Implementation of the Second Call for science–private sector partnerships in the Regions of Tarapacá, Atacama, Araucanía, and Magallanes, with resources from FIC Regional (jointly with CONICYT’s Regional Program).
  • Launch of the First Regional Call for Science and Technology Research Networks – 2012, funded by FIC for Antofagasta Region.
  • Agreement signed between CONICYT and the Chilean Antarctic Institute (INACH), for joint funding of the coordination, development, and monitoring of Antarctic Science Research Networks.

Advisory Council 2012

President

  • José Miguel Aguilera

Advisors

  • María Cecilia Hidalgo
  • Roberto Hojman
  • Marigen Hornkohl
  • Bernabé Santelices