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Instructions for the elaboration of a Curricular Summary Versão em português
Last updated on March 1st, 2025
The Curricular Summary (CS) is the key document to analyze the qualifications of researchers, who request or are members of the team applying for a FAPESP grant. The CS aids the Scientific Directorate peer reviewers in assessing the professional experience of the Principal Investigator and the other members of their research team.
Every initial request for funding submitted to FAPESP must be accompanied by a Curricular Summary (CS) of the Principal Investigator and, when relevant, the Curricular Summaries of each one of the Co-Principal Investigators and Associate Researchers. Requests for Scientific Initiation (IC), Masters (MS), Doctorate (applicant without MSc degree - DD) and Doctorate scholarships or Post-Doctoral fellowships should include the candidate’s curricular summary, as well as the advisor/supervisor’s.
The CS should inform the professional experience of the researcher, whether academic or at mission oriented research institutes; whether research in companies or at social organizations. As per the template available bellow, some items that are applicable to every candidate, some only to academic researchers, and some better fit to company researchers. The interested parties must choose which items they intend to emphasize, and the CS may differ according to the type of grant or scholarship/fellowship requested.
The Curricular Summary should be on A-4 paper sheet, be of up to four pages, with a left margin of at least 2.5 cm and all other margins of at least 2 cm, typed in a legible font (such as Arial 10 pt or Calibri 11 pt, for instance).
If the submitted Curricular Summary has more than four pages, only the first four will be considered for analysis.
The Curricular Summary should be organized in six sections. All of them should be included, even if limited to the expression “NOTHING TO DECLARE”. The sections are:
1) Education/Training;
2) Professional/Academic Background;
3) Contributions to Science (Scientific, Technological, or Innovation);
4) Research Funding;
5) Quantitative Indicators;
6) Other Relevant Information.
MODEL FOR THE CURRICULAR SUMMARY
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Name: Orcid (mandatory): (inform link) Lattes Curriculum: (inform link) Web of Science: (inform link) MyCitation (Google Scholar): (inform link) 1) Education/Training Specify titles and academic background, including undergraduate, master’s, doctorate, residency, post-doctorate, habilitation (if applicable), and any other relevant training and certifications. Add more lines if necessary.
1.1) Education/Training – Additional Information Provide details of any interruptions due to medical leave, maternity and paternity leave, temporary incapacities or intensive care for sick, elderly or disabled individuals, as provided for in Portaria PR n. 171/2024 (https://fapesp.br/16724). In addition to including this information in the CS, a prior eligibility consultation must be submitted via Converse with FAPESP, as stipulated in Portaria PR n. 171/2024. 2) Professional/Academic Background List up to 3 main professional positions taken, reporting starting and completion dates, and the name of each institution. These positions may be administrative, such as managing large projects in companies or research institutions. Associative activities (participation in associations, federations, thematic/technical commissions, companies/institutes/universities/boards of trustees), as well as activities in entrepreneurship and startups and academic distinction and awards may also be listed. 3) Contributions to Science (Scientific, Technological, or Innovation) 3.a) List up to 5 of your most relevant researches/products/contributions to technological development and innovation, primarily from the last 5 years. This may include scientific articles, books, book chapters, lectures as guest speaker, patents (filed, granted and especially licensed), registered softwares, plant varieties, creation of technology-based companies, technical reports of projects with proven leadership or in which you have had an outstanding role, new products, new processes or other types of relevant results to your current project submission. All the author names, up to 15, should be included in the citation. The citation conventions of your field may be used. If the list has more than 5 items, FAPESP will only consider the first 5 in the review process. 3.b) Include, in each result, a justification (up to 5 lines) for its choice: its impact (social, scientific, economic, technological, in innovation, etc.) its significance in analyzing your output – scientific, technological, and in innovation – and its importance for your ongoing or proposed research projects. 4) Research Funding Report up to 5 of the most relevant research funding, both ongoing and/or completed, received from Brazilian or international agencies or companies, where you served as Principal or Co-Principal Investigator. 5) Academic Quantitative Indicators Please separately indicate the total amount of: 1) books; 2) publications in journals with selective editorial policy; 3) book chapters; 4) supervised Master's dissertations: 4.a) ongoing; and 4.b) concluded; 5) supervised Doctoral theses: 5.a) ongoing; and 5.b) concluded; 6) Postdoctoral supervisions: 6.a) ongoing; and 6.b) concluded; 7) number of citations received in the international scientific literature according to Web of Science, Scopus or Google Scholar; 8) applied patents, granted patents and licensed patents; 9) products developed and launched on the market; 10) optimized processes implemented in companies or social organizations; 11) created or supported companies; 12) relevant technical and scientific consultancy. 6) Other Relevant Information 6.a) Other relevant biographical information to contextualize and analyze your recent professional work (past ten years), as well as to document your experience and expertise in the field of knowledge or economic branch of the proposed project, or in entrepreneurship, innovation and/or social impacts related to the project. 6.b) Describe your international research experience after obtaining PhD title, highlighting your participation in international research collaboration networks with published results. 6.c) Awards, prizes or honours. |