WHAT IS ATLANTEA?
Atlantea is an initiative from professors at the University of Puerto Rico who in solidarity, volunteer to collaborate with each other with the purpose of enriching their daily academic experience and that of their colleagues. They are able to achieve this by promoting one-on-one academic exchanges with colleagues in the Caribbean region. These lia is ons have allowed for the maximization of the professional and productive potential of all people involved.
Atlantea promotes collaborative work among professors, researchers, students and non-academic collaborators. Its purpose is to enrich academic life out of liasions and academic exchanges that daily take place in our university system by making sure that either visiting colleagues or our own academic staff who visits other countries, promote their work and interact with as many people as pos s ible. In this way, we can multiply the specific gains of their participation in academic events.
Altantea ´s purpose is to motivate and promote creativity that is achieved in collective work. Atlantea only promotes exchange s. The people involved are solely respons i b le for creating links and making them happen is.
Finally, Atlantea is an initiative that aims to promote a larger academic presence and influence from the University of Puerto Rico in the region and to make sure that students and professors in the Caribbean know our university system. That´s what Atlantea is all about : to make these expectations a reality and maintain the capacity of recreating a University that has a direct and positive impact in the future of our people and our region.
ABOUT THE NAME, ATLANTEA
The name of the Atlantea Project is symbolic, for it represents the theory of the geological brotherhood of the Antilles and contemplates the meaning of the concept, “we are one”. In short, it is both a simple and complex theory about Puerto Ricans being part of the Caribbean region.
Atlantea is an antique and endemic species of butterfl ies from the Greater Antilles. Each island of the Antilles is home to a different Atlantea species: Cuba , Atlantea Perezi, Jamaica , Atlantea Pantoni, t he Hispa ni ola , Atlantea Cryptalia and Puerto Rico , Atlantea Tulita. This congruence in the distribution by species supports its common origin.
The Project pretends to bind the Caribbean islands in a sisterhood amongst themselves and with the rest of the countries in the Caribbean Basin , giving form to a broad research agenda and of academic lia is ons and exchange s .
ATLANTEA ´S VALUES
Atlantea´s values are framed in the solidarity that is often characteristic of one-to-one academic liasions. These grow out of the positive energy generated in a professional friendship. Among the values Atlantea promotes are:
1. Solidarity:
Atlantea promotes the sharing of ideas, contacts, materials, time and opportunities in a volunteer and fluid way. In this way, we encourage that our faculty help each other in their development process.
2. UPR Systemic Collaboration:
Atlantea promotes that our academic staff collaborate in multi-unit academic projects, helping in this way to expand contacts among professors from the eleven academic units of the university system.
3. Interdisciplinarity:
Atlantea promotes projects that have been coordinated by colleagues from different disciplines, so as to assure that one same subject is studied from different perspectives. This is a way to enrich the nature of research work.
4. The work between mentor and student:
Atlantea promotes that professors and students work in collaborative projects. This practice enriches teaching and breaks with traditional pedagogical styles.
5. A collective and comparative perspective:
Atlantea promotes collective work with a comparative perspective. This has proven to be enriching, not only from the human perspective but also in the professional realm.
6. Inter-institutional and matching funds :
Atlantea promotes matching of funds to finance activities. This has proven to be more efficient in raising investment in the exchanges.
7. Caribbean Promotion:
Atlantea believes that the Caribbean as a region has much to offer to the arts, sciences, and global culture. The promotion and coordination of exchanges that Atlantea carries out seeks to recognize the Caribbean and secure the presence of its researchers and representatives in academic forums.
WHAT DOES ATLANTEA DO ?
The main objectives of the Atlantea Project are :
1. To promote the academic exchange of colleagues in the region:
a. by announcing activities and projects ;
b. by announcing academic opportunities ;
c. by developing a network of resources and contacts ;
2. To organize exchange trips among academic and research staff, as well as students from Puerto Rico and the Caribbean ;
3. To provide funds for exchange projects through a Call for Projects Proposals ;
4. To provide funds for special projects (Mini-Grants) and publications ;
5. To support and finance networks of academic research in the region .
6. Gestionar fondos externos para financiar los enlaces e intercambios académicos en el Caribe.
ATLANTEA OFFERS FUNDING FOR :
1. EXCHANGE PROJECTS
INDIVIDUAL
Projects that are initiated by a professor or researcher from the UPR university system who proposes an specific collaboration, exchange, research, etc. with his or her counterpart in the Caribbean. Maximum allocated $3,000.
COLLECTIVE
Projects that facilitate the collective work between the academic community, the UPR university system and their counterparts in the Caribbean so that they may engage in inter, multi and trans-disciplinary projects in pursue of research and academic goals. Maximum allocated : $6,000.
GROUP PRESENTATIONS
S upport is available in the form of matching of expenses of presentations i n regional and international conferences. The presentation must be organiz e d by a profes s or in the UPR university system. Maxi m um allocated : $3,000.
RESEARCH
Projects that facilitate access to information resources that are nee ded to carry out a research p roject outside Puerto Rico. Liasions beyond the day-to-day academic collaboration are not required while doing the research. Maxi m um allocated : $ 2 , 0 00.
CURRICULUM REVISIONS
The purpose of this category is the broadening or contextualization of a course to include Caribbean themes or areas, or to create a new course about the region. The process of curriculum revision must be formal and must be supported by the Department´s Director or unit. Maximum allocated : $1,500.
WORK GROUPS
Support is given for the organization and realization of seminars and workshops on or about the Caribbean region . The design must guarantee that all participants have an active role in the seminar or workshop. Planned activities must respond to one same p roject. Proposals must be submitted by two or more professors from the UPR university system, independently of how the rest of the group is composed. Maximum allocated : $3,000.
SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
Proposals have to be submitted by two or more professors from the UPR university system, independently of how the rest of the group is composed. The design must guarantee that all participants have an active role in the seminar or workshop. Planned activities must respond to the same Project. Maximum allocated: $6,000.
2. SPECIAL PROJECTS (MINI-GRANTS)
These are complementary funds to support activities that do not require too much money and that cannot wait the regular evaluation cycle of Atlantea. Its main purpose is to support activities that clearly promote exchanges or research about Caribbean themes and that are not financed by other Atlantea funds. There is a maximum of $ 700 per person, per year. Funds are available all year round until they run out.
PUBLI CATION PROJECTS
Atlantea Project accepts publishing proposals under the following categories: Book Subsid ies , Atlantea books, Electronic Publishing Subsid ies andAtlantea Working Papers. Proposals for book subsid ies and Electronic publish ing subsid ies may be submitted by active UPR professors, whether they are members or not of Atlantea Affiliated Networks. Proposals for Atlantea books and Atlantea Working Papers may be submitted by Atlantea Affiliated Networks. Maxi m um allocated : $5,000.
4. RESEARCH NETWORKS
These are groups formed for academic deliberation to study a regional theme from multiple perspectives. These are in reality a common methodological resource in the region. Atlantea promotes and finance research networks organized by country or by theme. These funds are available to make possible the expansion of networks in our university system, and extend this opportunity to other universities in the country and in the region. Maximum allocated : $1,500 per year.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
An nually, Atlantea launches a call for proposals for academic exchange projects aimed at our university community in order to allow our academic and research staff to initiate exchange projects with colleagues in the region.
All proposals include general and specific guidelines regarding the different types of projects we promote.
For more information, please access our Web Page:
http://atlantea.upr.edu
Or write to: rmori @upr.ed
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