From 30 December to 31 March, 2025
The BBVA Foundation announces a new call under its Fundamentos Program to support exploratory projects addressing core questions in Physics and Chemistry, Biology and Biomedicine, and Engineering
On 30 December, the BBVA Foundation will launch a new call under its Fundamentos Program, designed to support exploratory projects that innovatively address the core or fundamental questions of a scientific field or discipline at its current stage of development, or questions of the same fundamental nature emerging from the intersection of various disciplines. In this second call, the research projects, to be implemented over a maximum of three years, may belong to one or more of the following areas: Physics, Chemistry; Biology and Biomedicine; Engineering. The program, whose overall allocation is 3,000,000 euros, will award a maximum of four grants per area for a gross amount of up to 250,000 euros each. The conditions of the call can be consulted at this link.
16 December, 2024
For more than two decades now, the BBVA Foundation has centered its activity on the promotion of scientific research and its transmission to society, which it sees as the best means to understand the natural and social world and enlarge individual and collective choices. The Fundamentos Research Program, whose first call was resolved in March 2024 with the award of five grants, targets projects that generate basic knowledge and, within it, the fundamental questions in a given knowledge area, or that explore the intersections between fields.
The call is open to researchers from public or private universities, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and other public research organizations, and hospitals, as well as to the research staff of private non-profit organizations.
The Fundamentos Program admits projects led by up to two principal investigators (PIs), a coordinating PI of Spanish nationality or attached to a research center in Spain and an additional PI who may be attached to a center in any other country. The rest of the team may comprise researchers attached to centers in any country, albeit with no more than 20 percent of its membership residing abroad.
The submission period will run from 30 December this year to March 31, 2025.
Submissions received will undergo a selection process in the charge of evaluation committees specific to each area appointed by the BBVA Foundation and made up of experts of acknowledged prestige. These committees will act with complete independence, relying on the best metrics of the specialist field and with safeguards in place to prevent conflicts of interest.