In SELVA we know that it is hard to get funding to pay for the time that it takes to finish analyzing data and for producing a good scientific publication. Unfortunately, this means that many good projects are never published. So to promote a scientific writing culture and to hopefully provide a means for Good science to come out to the light, we created our scientific writing grants from the Ignacio Gómez-Montes fund.

Researchers which already have data in an advanced stage of analysis, including theses projects, and who need some economic support to finish writing and submitting a scientific manuscript to an indexed peer-reviewed journal, are welcome to apply to these grants. Applying projects/publications must generate knowledge that can be used for biodiversity conservation. Grantees have 6 months to submit a manuscript. We annually give out at least 3 scientific writing grants for $2.500.000 COP each. The deadline for application is the 17th of March each year.