For questions regarding small grants proposals, or for more information on projects in a previous cycle, please contact Alianza MX.
Interested in submitting a Small Grants proposal?
Eligibility
PIs may submit only one unique proposal to fund activities that are not included in any other project with funding support from Alianza MX. These activities can include presentations of research at a conference or workshop in Mexico or hosting a Mexico-related event at their UC campus.
Funding
Each proposal submission can request up to $5,000 USD in funding for activities scheduled to take place during a six-month period (see below). Funds can support a range of travel and event hosting costs but may not be used at Casa de California in Mexico City.
Application
Alianza MX opens two calls for proposals each year, one in the Fall to support activities in Spring/Summer and the other in the Spring to support activities in Fall/Winter. Funding awards are generally announced within one month of the close of each call.
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Timeline of the Call
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Date
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Start date for supported activities
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September 1, 2025
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End date for supported activities
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February 28, 2026
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RECENT ACTIVITIES
Small Grants: Spring & Summer 2025
Alianza MX launched a call for proposals in October 2024 to support activities scheduled to take place between March and August 2025. Eight (8) proposals from seven UC campuses were selected for funding. Please see below for details and check back here soon for updates on these activities.
Activities
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Title
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Location
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Name
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Department
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Campus
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Mexican Spanish and the UC Systema
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UC Riverside
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Covadonga Lamar Prieto
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Hispanic Studies
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Riverside
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Water, environment, agriculture, and migration in the Mexicali Valley, Baja California
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UABC (Mexicali)
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Hugo Loaiciga
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Geography
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Santa Barbara
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Juan Bruce Novoa Mexican Studies Conference
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UC Irvine
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Jacobo Sefamí
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Spanish & Portuguese
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Irvine
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Literature and Society: On the Crónica as a Discursive Form and a Social Practice of Writing and Reading
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UNAM (Mexico City)
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Juan Poblete
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Literature
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Santa Cruz
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WELLSPRING Bioregional Regeneration Conference
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Tijuana
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Keith Pezzoli
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Urban Studies
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San Diego
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Trinational Exchange for the Defense of Native Maizes in the Maya Lowlands
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UNAM (Mexico City)
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Liza Grandia
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Native American Studies
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Davis
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Aguilas, an award-winning short documentary film
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Feria Internacional de la Lectura Yucatán (Mérida)
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Maite Zubiaurre
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Spanish & Portuguese
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Los Angeles
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Migrant World-Making in the Central/North American Migration Corridor
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UC Davis
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Robert McKee Irwin
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Spanish & Portuguese
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Davis
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RECENT ACTIVITIES
Small Grants: Fall 2024 & Winter 2025
Alianza MX launched a call for proposals in May 2024 to support activities scheduled to take place between October 2024 and March 2025. Four (4) proposals from three UC campuses were selected for funding. Please see below for details.
Activities
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Title
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Location
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Name
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Department
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Campus
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Narratives of Loss and Repair: Mexican Literature and Species Extinction
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UC Davis
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Emily Vázquez
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Spanish & Portuguese
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Davis
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Research on Heritage Spanish Speakers in California
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Universidad de Guadalajara (UDG)
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Mark Amengual
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Languages & Applied Linguistics
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Santa Cruz
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UADY-UCSC Research Collaboration Workshop
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UADY (Mérida)
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Matt Sparke
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Global & Community Health
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Santa Cruz
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Mini Symposium on the Biomedical Potential of the Newly Discovered Marine Plantactinospora
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UC San Diego
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William Fenical
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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San Diego
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RECENT ACTIVITIES
Small Grants: Spring & Summer 2024
Alianza MX launched a call for proposals in December 2023 to support activities scheduled to take place between April and September 2024. Twelve (12) proposals from eight UC campuses were selected for funding. Please see below for details.
Activities
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Title
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Location
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Name
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Department
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Campus
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The Social Relations of Mexican Commodities in the Twenty-First Century
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CIESAS Pacífic Sur (Oaxaca)
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Casey Walsh
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Anthropology
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Santa Barbara
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One Health: Challenges and Perspectives in Yucatán
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UNAM (Mérida)
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Charles Chiu
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Laboratory Medicine
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San Francisco
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Isolating the Causal Effects of Extreme Heat and Covid-19 on the Labor Supply of Migrant Workers in California
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UC Santa Barbara
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David Lopez-Carr
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Geography
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Santa Barbara
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UC INAH Digital Heritage Summit
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UC San Diego
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Dominique Rissolo
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Qualcomm Institute
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San Diego
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4D Printing: Explorations of Time, Space, and Performance in Contemporary Digital Labor
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UDG (Guadalajara)
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Jesse Colin Jackson
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Art
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Irvine
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Conference to Promote Research Collaboration between UCSC and UABC
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UABC (Ensenada)
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John MacMillan
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Office of Research
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Santa Cruz
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Transborder Approaches to Neglected Tropical Disease
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UC Santa Cruz
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Lily Balloffet
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Latin American & Latino Studies
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Santa Cruz
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Shared Challenges in Physics
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UAM (Mexico City)
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Linda Hirst
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Physics
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Merced
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Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social: Summer Institute
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UNAM (Oaxaca)
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Mayra Puente
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Education
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Santa Barbara
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International Conference on Advances in Education and Social Sciences
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Mexico City
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Ozcan Gulacar
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Chemistry
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Davis
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Enhancing Global Research Cooperation through Student Mentorship Program at Rapid Reviews Infectious Disease (RR\ID)
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UC Berkeley
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Stefano Bertozzi
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Public Health
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Berkeley
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las preciosas insignificancias
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UC San Diego
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Susan Narucki
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Music
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San Diego
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