CALL FOR RESEARCH PROPOSALS 2024

FUNDED BY UEES THROUGH

THE HEALTH AND SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTER (CISS Spanish acronym)

  The Center for Health and Society Research of the Evangelical University of El Salvador (CISS-UEES), aims to "contribute to the effective search for national needs and problems [...]" (CISS-UEES Regulation 2010, which means that such research should serve as tools for the objective evaluation of the Salvadoran reality, while becoming inputs for public decision making; proposing critical reflections on these problems. In this way contribute to the national scientific production, through the transfer of knowledge and scientific publication. Among its purposes, the CISS establishes to develop research relevant to the problems and needs of the national context in tune with international issues of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); a task that must be carried out with academic responsibility, methodological rigor and a Christian ethical framework by professionals with research competencies and experience. Therefore, the Office of the Vice-Rector for Research and Social Service, through the Directorate of Research and the Center for Health and Society Research (CISS-UEES), invites national and international researchers and academic organizations, and public or private institutions to propose research projects to be funded or co-funded by UEES. Tienen prioridad los proyectos multidisciplinarios o que se presenten en asocio con otras instancias. Áreas, líneas y ejes temáticos de investigación convocados   La línea de investigación convocadas para 2024 son: Educación, salud mental, promoción de la salud, migración, medio ambiente, participación política, cultura de paz. Humanities and Social Sciences, among others that contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Projects must show relevance and transcendence in the area and line where they are proposed.  

Area	Line of Research	Thematic axes of the agenda
1. Education	1.1 Vulnerable population	1.1.1 Inclusion and access to education of people with disabilities, forced displacement, etc.
	1.2 Educational Quality	1.2.1 Quality of the Education 1.2.2 UTime management in schools 1.2.3 Evidence of effectiveness of public policies in education
2. Health	2.1. Women, Childhood, and Adolescence	2.1.1 Healthcare and services to vulnerable population
	2.2. Quality	2.2.1Healthcare Quality 2.2.2 Evidence of effectiveness of public policies in healthcare
3. Environment	3.1. Women, Childhood, and Adolescence	3.1.1 Vulnerable populations and use, access, conservation, and exploitation of natural resources
	3.2. Quality	3.2.1 Evidence of effectiveness of public policies in the environment
4. Culture of Peace, political participation, and violence prevention	4.1. Women, Childhood, and Adolescence	4.1.1 Equality, equity, and access to justice for vulnerable groups
	4.2. Political Participation and Democracy	4.2.2 Political participation and representation for peace, budget transparency, and policy proposals
5. Humanities and Social Sciences	Theology, social and cultural studies 5.1.	Religious and Cultural Studies
	5.2. Populations Studies related to Poverty and economic development	Studies related to Poverty and economic development

  Researcher Profile   As established in Article 9 of the CISS regulations, the associated researchers must be persons "with verifiable experience in research and publication; as well as specialists in the areas of knowledge in which they propose to develop their research proposal." Researchers must present their ORCID ID and affiliation to Google Scholar. The researchers whose projects have been selected sign a contract for the assignment of patrimonial and author's rights, which establishes expected products, deadlines for the presentation of products, project completion dates, detailed budget of any investment required, and all legal aspects in accordance with the institutional procedures established by the Universidad Evangélica de El Salvador (art. 10 CISS regulations). In the case of partner institutions and NGOs, the signing of agreements or letters of understanding is expected for the execution of joint research.   Important Dates

SCHEDULE AND DATES OF THE 2024 RESEARCH PROPOSALS CALL
Call for applications	August 24, 2023
Receiving dates of proposals in research profile format	From August 29th to September 29th, 2023
Approval notification of the research profile October 20th, 2023	October 20th, 2023
Construction of preliminary research projects	From November 3rd to December 24th, 2023
Reception of preliminary research projects	From January 3 to 10, 2024
Notification of the approval of the preliminary research project	From January 10 to January 30, 2024
Researchers’ Tdr, Resume and statements, ID and TIN	From January 10th to the 30th, 2024
Researcher Recruitment	From February 1 to February 25, 2024

  Economic Proposal 2024 (research budget)   The "research profile" type research proposals received will be evaluated in their technical, methodological, ethical and financial aspects by the project approval committee of the Vice Rector's Office for Research and Social Projection. For the year 2024, proposed projects, individual or inter-institutional, are eligible for a maximum funding of US$15,000.00. Amounts greater than this will be evaluated in a special way for their level of relevance and national or regional importance.   Commitments of national and international researchers once their projects are approved.   In the development of institutional projects, researchers associated with the CISS acquire, at least, the following commitments:

• Writing of the terms of reference of the research, delivery of attestations, and curriculum vitae/resume of the team of researcher/researchers
• Signing of the contract with UEES
• Delivery of a preliminary project or research protocol
• Delivery of progress or advances, based on schedule (depending on the magnitude of the project)
• Delivery of the final research report, to the satisfaction of the CISS-UEES, to be delivered no later than the last week of November 2024
• One or two publishable articles (depending on the magnitude of the project), one for a UEES journal or another for a high-impact indexed journal in Scopus or WoS
• Make publication arrangements in indexed journals of high scientific impact to be published in 2025
• Public presentation of the study in congresses and internal and external contests, etc. This presentation may be subsidized by UEES or by another entity that collaborates financially, to be carried out in 2024-2025
• Participation in planning, monitoring, and evaluation meetings with the coordination of the CISS
• In the case of research in which there is a need to apply informed consent of the participants, the preliminary project or research protocol must be submitted to an evaluation by the Institutional Ethics Committee (CEI Spanish acronym). Once the preliminary project or protocol is approved, the research may be executed. For this process, the CISS coordination will provide the pertinent formats at the appropriate time

All commitments that generate products must be properly budgeted.

Content of the technical proposal

1. Research Profile. Annex 1
2. Annex 2
3. Principal investigator resume. Resume of the main investigator and/or secondary investigators and collaborators (if applicable). Annex 3

Economic Proposal Content

4. Attachment 4

    IMPORTANT: to apply to the call interested parties must register their application at the following link: https://forms.gle/7BDejuym6EuiNg7H6  In addition, the registration of the research proposal must be notified to centrodeinvestigacion.ciss@uees.edu.sv no later than September 29, 2023, indicating in the subject "Notification of Registration of Research Proposal CISS 2024",  ANNEXES IMPORTANT NOTE: if you are unable to access the links provided, please copy the link directly into the search engine.   ANNEX 1. PROFILE TEMPLATE DOWNLOAD LINK: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uwj8Q2tBpBmqqX-o5rCDyYAUT5s3xYUo/edit?usp=drive_linkouid=103730404311018031990rtpof=truesd=true   ANNEX 2. MODEL OF CHRONOGRAM DOWNLOAD LINK: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1beJeoj2n2uN2vdgEjlQW5THlpuXVzKuB/edit?usp=drive_linkouid=103730404311018031990rtpof=truesd=true   APPENDIX 3. LIFE LETTER DOWNLOAD LINK:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QU2iD9g9Sh5jsgVfFXaP3apDSEi8yVxi/edit?usp=drive_linkouid=103730404311018031990rtpof=truesd=true  

• ANNEX 4. BUDGET MODEL

DOWNLOAD LINK  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17m1RypOo7puk6LvkRfyX4jwN_dJmzkeJ/edit?usp=drive_linkouid=103730404311018031990rtpof=truesd=true   ANNEX 5. BUDGET PREPARATION GUIDE  

Introduction

Due to the importance of order and financial control, it is necessary to standardize the items in the investment of research projects. Although it is recognized that the peculiarities of each project may require unforeseeable expenses, there are items in which it is possible to standardize expenses, such as food, transportation, lodging, certain equipment and stationery expenses, as well as the contracting of technical services. For this reason, this Budget Preparation Guide has been prepared and presented.

Budget items

Budget Items are defined as those predictable and planned designations of general expenditure required by research projects. UEES research project budgets should consider each of the following items:

1. Personal Services.

This includes expenses in the form of fees for the research team.

2. Non-Personal Services.

This includes travel expenses, transportation, presentation of results and all other services required for the project.

3. Travel and representations.

This item includes expenses related to support for travel related to academic research representation at congresses, symposiums, workshops where the researcher will present findings, results and publications that have been financed by the university.

4. Materials and Supplies.

This item takes into account the necessary operating or fieldwork material required for the project. Expenses for stationery (copies, paper, pens, etc.) and equipment (tape recorders, computers, plates, reagents, etc.) are included in this section of the budget.

Many projects have expenses that are impossible to foresee. Therefore, this item is considered within the budget and may not exceed 10% of the total cost of the research project.

6. Summary of Expenses.

Inputs for the preparation of the budget guide.

In order to prepare the budget, researchers should refer to the Per Diem Guide and the list of suppliers approved by UEES. Both instruments must be reviewed and approved annually by the Vice Rector's Office for Research and Social Outreach, as well as by the Purchasing Department. Per Diem Guide  

Final Considerations

For each approved expenditure in the line items there must be a description specifying and justifying the projected and/or actual expenditure. In addition, each approved budget must be tracked in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, or a spreadsheet in compatible software, which is available for audit at the time requested.  

CALL FOR RESEARCH PROPOSALS 2023 FUNDED BY UEES THROUGH THE CENTER FOR HEALTH AND SOCIETY RESEARCH, CISS

The Center for Health and Society Research of the Evangelical University of El Salvador (CISS-UEES), aims to "contribute to the effective search for national needs and problems [...]" (CISS-UEES Regulation 2010, which means that such research should serve as tools for the objective evaluation of the Salvadoran reality, while becoming inputs for public decision making; proposing critical reflections on these problems.

With the purpose of strengthening institutional research and converting the University into a generator of scientific information and knowledge that provides inputs in proposals for the development of the country; The UEES, through the Vice-Rector's Office for Research and Social Projection, directed by the Research Directorate, has created the Health and Society Research Center (CISS).

Among its purposes, the CISS establishes developing research relevant to the problems and needs of the national context in line with international issues of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); a task that must be carried out with academic responsibility, methodological rigor and an ethical Christian framework by professionals whose skills and investigative experience can be corroborated by required documentation.

Therefore, the Vice Rector's Office for Research and Social Projection, through the Research Department in support of the Center for Health and Society Research (CISS-UEES), invites national and international researchers from different areas of professional specialty and academic and social organizations, individually or institutionally, national (public and private) and international, to propose research projects to be funded or co-funded by UEES.

  Called Areas, Lines, and Topics of Research

The line of research called for 2023 are: Environment, Quality, Human Rights, Vulnerable Populations, Health Promotion, Social, Cultural and Humanistic Studies. among others that contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

 

Area	Line of Research	Thematic axes of the agenda
1. Education	1.1 Vulnerable population	1.1.1 Inclusion and access to education of people with disabilities, forced displacement, etc.
	1.2 Quality	1.2.1 Quality of the Education 1.2.2 UTime management in schools 1.2.3 Evidence of effectiveness of public policies in education
2. Health	2.1. Women, Childhood, and Adolescence	2.1.1 Healthcare and services to vulnerable population
	2.2. Quality	2.2.1Healthcare Quality 2.2.2 Evidence of effectiveness of public policies in healthcare
3. Environment	3.1. Women, Childhood, and Adolescence	3.1.1 Vulnerable populations and use, access, conservation, and exploitation of natural resources
	3.2. Quality	3.2.1 Evidence of effectiveness of public policies in the environment
4. Culture of Peace, political participation, and violence prevention	4.1. Women, Childhood, and Adolescence	4.1.1 Equality, equity, and access to justice for vulnerable groups
	4.2. Political Participation and Democracy	4.2.2 Political participation and representation for peace, budget transparency, and policy proposals
5. Humanities and Social Sciences	5.1. Theology social and cultural studies	Religion and Cultural Studies
	5.2. Populations Studies related to Poverty and economic development	Studies related to Poverty and economic development

  Researchers Profile

As established in Article 9 of the CISS (Spanish acronym) regulations, the associated researchers must be persons "with verifiable experience in research and publication; as well as specialists with knowledge in areas they propose to develop their research proposal."

Researchers whose projects have been selected must sign a contract for the transfer of economic and copyright rights, which establishes expected products, deadlines for product presentation, project completion dates, a detailed budget for any investment required, and any legal aspect that is considered pertinent, in accordance with the established institutional procedures and the guidelines of the Legal Department and the Human Talent Management of the Universidad Evangélica. (art. 10 CISS regulations). In the case of partner institutions and NGOs, the signing of agreements or letters of understanding is expected for the execution of the investigations.

  Important Dates

SCHEDULE AND DATES OF THE 2023 CALL FOR RESEARCH
Call for applications	August 22, 2022
Receiving dates of proposals in research profile format	From August 29 to September 29, 2022
Notification of the opinion of the research proposal	October 20, 2022
Recruitment of researchers	November 4, 2022
Start of writing preliminary research projects of approved proposals	November 7, 2022

  Economic Proposal 2023 (research budget)

The "research profile" type research proposals received will be evaluated in their technical, methodological, ethical, and financial aspects by the project approval committee of the Vice Rector's Office for Research and Social Service. The final approval of the projects requires an internal process in which different institutional bodies participate; Institutions, national and international, interested in proposing research projects in one(s) of the University's research lines or under the lines of the ODS, considering participating logistically and financially through economic or in-kind contributions. , you must sign an agreement or letter of understanding for the execution of any investigation. For the year 2023, the proposed projects, individual or inter-institutional, must consider a maximum financing of US$ 10,000.00. Amounts greater than this will be evaluated in a special way.

  Commitments of national and international researchers once their projects are approved. In the development of institutional projects, researchers associated with the CISS acquire, at least, the following commitments:

• Writing the terms of reference of the research, delivery of reports and curriculum vitae/resume of the researcher/res.
• Signing of the contract with the UEES and approval of the commitment to the 2023 work schedule.
• Delivery of a preliminary project or research protocol
• Delivery of progress or advances, based on schedule (depending on the magnitude of the project)
• Delivery of the final investigation report, to the satisfaction of the CISS-UEES, must be delivered no later than the last week of November 2023.
• One or two publishable articles depending on the magnitude of the project), following the editorial guidelines of the UEES.
• Carry out publication procedures in indexed journals of high scientific impact, by 2024.
• Public presentation of the study in congresses and internal and external contests, etc. This presentation may be subsidized by the UEES or by another entity that collaborates financially, to be carried out in 2024.
• Participation in planning, monitoring, and evaluation meetings with the coordination of the CISS
• In the case of research in which there is a need to apply informed consent of the participants, the preliminary project or research protocol must be submitted to an evaluation by the Institutional Ethics Committee (CEI Spanish acronym). Once the preliminary project or protocol is approved, the research may be executed. For this process, the CISS coordination will provide the pertinent formats at the appropriate time

All commitments that generate products must be properly budgeted.

Content of the technical proposal

1. Research Profile. Annex 1
2. Schedule. Annex 2
3. Principal investigator resume. Resume of the main investigator and/or secondary investigators and collaborators (if applicable). Annex 3

Economic Proposal Content

4. Budget. Attachment 4

Download: Annexes of the call for proposals

  Research proposals must be sent in the provided formats, indicating in the subject “CISS 2023 Research Proposal”, no later than September 29, 2022, to the email: centrodeinvestigacion.ciss@uees.edu.sv  

 

No.	CISS RESEARCH 2021	RESEARCHERS	AREA
1	Characterization (epidemiological) of subjects vaccinated against Covid-19.	Dr. Elmer Mendoza	Health
2	Systematic review of adverse events reported in different international studies on COVID-19 vaccines.	Dr. Elmer Mendoza Dr. Virginia Granados	Health
3	Political Constitutions of the 20th Century in El Salvador. 2020-2021 project. (transition from Dictatorships to Democracy)	Licdo. Roberto Turcios	History
4	Arboreal composition and way of life in a community on the banks of the Sumpul River, Lempa River.	Msc. Melvin Iván López Méndez. Lic. Felipe Franco	Environment
6	Diagnosis (Baseline) of University Social Responsibility (USR) UEES 2021.	Raúl Torres	Institutional Development

 

 

No.	Research 2020	Researchers	Area
1	Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Mental Health of the consulting population of the national psychiatric hospital "Dr. José Molina Martínez".	Cecilia Castro Figueroa Willian Henry Betancourth Cardoza National Psychiatric Hospital	School of Medicine
2	Clinical epidemiological factors associated with the severity of COVID 19 infection in psychiatric patients admitted to the inpatient ward of the National Psychiatric Hospital, 2020.	Roberto Medina Cecilia Castro Figueroa National Psychiatric Hospital	School of Medicine
3	The role of men and women in the quarantine household Covid-19	Ana Iris Peña	Non-violence and promotion of Culture of Peace
4	Is truth a goal of research?	Raul Torres	Philosophy/Research/Epistemology
5	NEITHER DENIALISM NOR SCIENTIFICISM. Science and politics in times of COVID-19	Raul Torres	Public Policy