Abstract

ADuring 2010 the Grants from FONDECYT for Regular Competitions 2011 and for Introduction to Research 2010 were resolved. For Introduction to Research, 168 projects were approved. Of these, 4 corresponded to Psychology (from a total of 16 projects nominated), with an amount of 154.742 million pesos, representing 1.8% of total awarded funding in this category. In Regular Competition, from 1019 projects submitted for funding 503 were approved. Of these, 13 projects are from Psychology (out of 26 submitted), valued at 666.427 million, equivalent to 1.3% of the total amount allocated for this competition. In this special report, summaries from 16 of the 17 projects approved in the area are presented. They began to run in November 2010 (Introduction) and will run until the period 2012-2013