Call for research proposals: the Future of Work in Latin America & the Caribbean
As part of the International Development Research Centre’s (IDRC) FutureWORKS Collective initiative, Sur Futuro launches a call for innovative, rigorous, high-impact research proposals with a gender perspective that addresses the main challenges and opportunities associated with the Future of Work in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Key information
Type: Grant
Duration: 18 months
Funding: Sur Futuro / IDRC
Budget: up to CAD 80,000 (Canadian dollars)
Deadline: May 10th, 2024 (23:59 EDT)
Email: surfuturoconvocatorias2024@gmail.comnvio: xxxxxxxxxx.org
In this call, the hub invites research centers from LAC to submit proposals aimed to support the design of educational, labor, productive, and technological policies that promote quality employment in four sectors/occupational groups:
(a) jobs in science and technology
b) platform-based jobs
c) green and climate-resilient jobs
d) care economy jobs
The call will consider research proposals from various disciplines and methodological perspectives that incorporate a cross-cutting gender approach and include an analysis of groups that face disadvantages in labor markets such as women and gender diversities, youth, migrants, ethnic minorities, poor workers, and other vulnerable populations. Proposals that include a comparative perspective involving more than one country in the region will be particularly valued.
Research projects of up to CAD 80,000 (Canadian dollars) and a maximum duration of 18 months will be considered for funding.
The deadline has been extended until May 10th (23:59 EDT). Applications can be submitted in English or Spanish. Proposals and documents detailed must be sent to surfuturoconvocatorias2024@gmail.com before this date.
Applicants can write to the email if they have doubts or need more information.