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FAPESP announces SPRINT call in 2025 Versão em português
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Support will be provided for collaborations between researchers with FAPESP grants and partners at institutions abroad, anticipating mobility and joint research.
FAPESP announces the first call for proposals in 2025 for the SPRINT modality – São Paulo Researchers in International Collaboration.
The modality aims to promote the engagement of researchers linked to higher education and research institutions in the state of São Paulo with partner researchers abroad to qualitatively advance ongoing research projects and work cooperatively towards the development of medium and long-term joint research projects.
For this year, the so-called SPRINT will finance projects initially for 12 months, support that can, however, be extended for up to an additional 24 months depending on the results obtained and the evolution of the collaboration.
Initially, the proposals should only provide for the mobility of the research team from the state of São Paulo to the institution abroad for a period of one year, but they can already foresee the subsequent stages, which are the arrival of foreign researchers to the institution in the state of São Paulo in the second year of validity and the conduct of joint research in the third year, relying on initial funding (seed funding).
These subsequent stages will be made possible depending on the results and goals achieved from the previous period as described in the Scientific Reports. For each report, the proposal for the following year can be updated and the budget supplement requested in the SM – Solicitação de Mudança (“Change Request”) – Budget Modification.
The maximum counterpart funding from FAPESP will be equivalent to up to USD 12,500 per year for phases 1 and 2, that is, for the mobility of researchers from São Paulo to institutions abroad and for foreign researchers to institutions in São Paulo. For phase 3, which involves the undertaking of joint research, the maximum limit is USD 25,000.
There are two possibilities for the international collaboration proposal:
• partner researchers from any foreign research institution which provides travel resources from their university or grants awarded by a research funding agency.
• foreign research institutions that have confirmed conditions for receiving collaboration proposals with funding for scientific missions to research institutions in São Paulo State.
FAPESP considers eligible to submit proposals to this call principal investigators of ongoing research projects funded by FAPESP within the following FAPESP funding modalities: Regular Research Awards (excluding mobility projects), Thematic Projects, Young Investigators, Initial Projects (Pi), Generation, Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers (RIDCs), Engineering Research Centers/Applied Research Centers (ERCs/ARCs), Public Education Research Program, Research in Public Policies, and Research Partnership for Technological Innovation (PITE). Co-Principal Investigators of ongoing Thematic Projects, RIDC, ERCs, ARCs and PITEs are also eligible to apply.
Proposals must be submitted to FAPESP exclusively through SAGe (fapesp.br/sage). The SPRINT 2025 Call will have three editions throughout the year, with deadlines for project submissions set for June 30, 2025, October 27, 2025, and February 23, 2026, respectively.
The call for proposals is published at: fapesp.br/sprint/chamada2025.