Posted by the Office of the UP Vice President for Academic Affairs on its FB site (https://www.facebook.com/OVPAA/?fref=nf):

The University is inviting proposals for innovative, interdisciplinary, inter-CU research programs and projects that aim to generate fundamentally new knowledgecontributing to the understanding of natural phenomena, and with beneficial applications.

General research areas include:
– progressive pedagogy
– Philippine culture, arts, mass communication, humanities, to enhance national identity, global orientation or tourism development
– poverty alleviation: family and community development
– health, disease and wellness
– agriculture, aquaculture, animal husbandry and nutrition
– environment, climate and energy
– biodiversity, conservation and drug discovery
– genomics, other “-omics” and biotechnology
– ICT engineering, nanotechnology
– computational modeling, complex systems

EIDR grants are awarded up to P2.5M per project, or P10M per program (for 4 projects) per year, for 2 years, renewable for another two years.

Read the call: http://bit.ly/292F1GA
About the EIDR: http://bit.ly/1PpWagw