The research grants of the Ignacio Gómez-Montes fund, support projects that generate knowledge that can be used for biodiversity conservation. We are interested in projects which, in addition to generating scientific knowledge, involve local communities or the wider public either during the actual research or through creative strategies of communication and education. Lastly, we hope that funded projects will eventually publish their results in peer-reviewed scientific journals. We therefore seek projects which adhere to the scientific method, propose clear hypotheses, and propose appropriate methodologies and coherent analyses to test them. Projects must justify their importance accounting for existing knowledge and available literature. Annually we assign at least one research grant for $5.000.000 COP. The application deadline is the 17th of March every year.