Fortalecimiento de Capacidades Territoriales

Strengthening Territorial Capacities — Call 52 (Fortalecimiento de Capacidades Territoriales)

Supports Colombian territorial resilience projects through grants strengthening climate adaptation and food security.

⚠ This may reflect a past cycle — verify the current call on the funder's site.

Fortalecimiento de Capacidades Territoriales, registered as Convocatoria 52 in MinCiencias' sub-series numbering, funds science, technology, and innovation (STI) projects that strengthen territorial capacity to address climate resilience and food security challenges in Colombian regions affected by extreme weather events. The total budget is COP $100,000,000,000, approximately USD $24 million. The submission deadline was 12 March 2026. The sub-series number (52, rather than the main sequential 9xx series) suggests this call may draw from SGR-CTeI regional co-funding — Sistema General de Regalías — rather than solely from the national PGN research budget, which is relevant to applicants seeking to understand co-funding requirements.

Eligibility covers companies, nonprofits, universities, and research organizations active in Colombia; individual applicants are not eligible. Projects must address recovery or resilience in territories specifically impacted by extreme weather, meaning general climate technology proposals without a defined territorial focus in an affected Colombian region would be outside the call's scope. No full terms-of-reference document was captured in the raw sources, so applicants for future cycles must verify exact entity-type eligibility, maximum per-project award, and co-funding requirements in the official Convocatoria 52 document.

The thematic focus on climate resilience and food security aligns with the Petro government's national Misiones — in particular the missions on bioeconomía y territorio and derecho a la alimentación — giving proposals that explicitly reference those missions a strategic framing advantage. Organizations working in agricultural adaptation, early warning systems, water management, or food production innovation in climate-stressed Colombian territories represent the clearest fit. Applicants should monitor the MinCiencias portal for future cycles of this or successor territorial capacity calls.