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FAPESP participates on new call for proposal with Trans-Atlantic Platform
Published on November 04, 2019Jointly with the Trans-Atlantic Platform in Social Sciences and Humanities – T-AP (www.transatlanticplatform.com), FAPESP announces an international call for proposals with the aiming of supporting research projects teaming with the subject “Social Innovation”. The call is intended to support social science and/or humanities research that can contribute meaningfully to the understanding of societal transformations and the role of social innovation by integrating the local, [...] -
FAPESP announces result of call for proposal with Transatlantic Platform
Published on November 04, 2019The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) announces the São Paulo State researchers with selected proposals in the 2018 call for proposals issued by the Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) in Social Sciences and Humanities. FAPESP took part in the call for proposals together with research funding agencies from other seven countries – Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland and the United Kingdom. FAPESP is one of the three agencies that coordinate T-AP (alongside [...] -
FAPESP announces result of SPRINT 2/2019 call
Published on November 01, 2019The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) announces the result of the second call for proposals in 2019 under the SPRINT – São Paulo Researchers in International Collaboration initiative. The SPRINT aims at promoting the engagement of researchers affiliated with higher education and research institutions in the State of São Paulo in partnership with researchers abroad in order to further develop qualitatively the ongoing research projects and work cooperatively, [...] -
Joint Research on cancer prevention will be funded
Published on November 01, 2019FAPESP announces the participation in a joint call for proposals with the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD). The call will select and support research projects focusing on Primary and Secondary Prevention of Cancer. Proposals must build on evidence-based interventions for primary and secondary prevention of cancer in populations facing conditions of vulnerability, especially in lower and middle income countries. Interventions should be gender-responsive. Proposals should be driven by [...] -
FAPESP and Agilent will fund research in BioPharma
Published on October 24, 2019The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and Agilent announce a new call for proposals, with BioPharma as the main theme of interest. The opportunity is open to researchers associated to institutions of higher education or research, public or private, in the State of São Paulo. The call aims at funding projects that can advance the state of the art of measurements for BioPharma, for human health, veterinary medicine and agricultural research. Specifically, in finding ways to [...] -
FAPESP will support research in Digital Human Health
Published on October 22, 2019FAPESP announces the fourth call for proposals under its Research Program on eScience and Data Science. The main goal of the program is to encourage bold, novel, and unconventional approaches to world-class multidisciplinary research and innovation involving joint collaboration of computer scientists and researchers in other fields. This call is open to researchers associated to higher education and research institutions in the State of São Paulo and will receive proposals in Digital [...] -
FAPESP and Max Planck announce new call for proposals in basic research
Published on October 14, 2019FAPESP and the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science (MPG), in Germany, announce a new call for proposals to foster scientific collaboration within the scope of basic research, covering all knowledge areas. This is the fourth call for proposals issued in the timeline of the cooperation agreement firmed between the institutions. Each proposal should have two principal investigators – one affiliated to a São Paulo State higher education or research institution, and [...] -
FAPESP and IBM select the new Center for Artificial Intelligence
Published on October 08, 2019The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and IBM announce the result of call for proposals issued with the goal of constituting a Centre for Artificial Intelligence (AI) that will operate under the aegis of FAPESP’s Engineering Research Centers (ERC) program. The AI IBM-FAPESP Centre will be hosted by Inova USP – University of São Paulo’s Innovation Centre, at its main campus in São Paulo, Brazil. Activities are expected to start by the year 2020. The [...] -
FAPESP announces result of call for proposals with French funding agency
Published on September 30, 2019The São Paulo Research Foundation – FAPESP announces the result of the “Generic Call for Proposals 2019” – promoted within the scope of FAPESP’s agreement with Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, the French National Research Agency), the opportunity aimed at fostering collaborative projects between researchers from France and from São Paulo State’s higher education and research institutions. In total, three proposals were approved. The call [...] -
FAPESP and ANR announce new call for proposals
Published on September 24, 2019FAPESP and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) has issued a new call for proposals for research projects in collaboration between scientists from France and scientists from the State of São Paulo under the cooperation agreement signed by ANR and FAPESP. This is the 16th time FAPESP and ANR are teaming in a call for proposals. It has been ten years since FAPESP and ANR first jointly promoted an international opportunity for scientific research. Four new themes were added to the [...] -
FAPESP and NRC announce new call for proposals
Published on September 24, 2019FAPESP and Canada’s National Research Council (NRC) announce the third call for proposals under the cooperation agreement between the institutions. The goal of the call is to foster and support collaborative projects between Canadian and São Paulo State-based small businesses. Besides featuring high potential for commercialization in the global market or in Brazil, the proposals must also take into account the call’s six sectors of focus: Artificial intelligence and [...] -
FAPESP announce result of call for proposals with the universities of Birmingham and Nottingham
Published on September 23, 2019The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), the University of Birmingham and the University of Nottingham announce the result of a call for proposals to fund joint collaborative proposals involving research and the exchange of researchers. Six collaborative proposals were selected from researchers affiliated with the University of Birmingham and the University of Nottingham and researchers affiliated with higher education and research institutions in the State of São Paulo. The [...] -
FAPESP announces result of call for proposals with the European Research Council
Published on September 03, 2019FAPESP announces the result of a call for proposals issued in partnership with the European Research Council (ERC), and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development, and articulated by the Brazilian National Council of State Funding Agencies (CONFAP). Six proposals were selected. The selected proposals’ Principal Investigators will integrate teams from projects currently financed by the ERC. FAPESP will provide funding for travel expenses through its Research [...] -
FAPESP and Swedish agency Vinnova will fund innovation projects
Published on August 19, 2019FAPESP announces the launching of a new call for proposal with Vinnova, the Swedish government’s innovation agency, under the title São Paulo – Sweden Cooperation in Industrial Research and Innovation Projects. This is the first initiative on the cooperation agreement between the institutions. The opportunity aims at fostering scientific research projects between the State of São Paulo and Sweden that can yield highly innovative products and processes with significant commercial [...] -
FAPESP and BAYLAT will fund workshops in São Paulo and Bavaria
Published on August 15, 2019A scientific workshop is an excellent opportunity to build a scientific network of people with common interests. Following this stream of thought, FAPESP announces the fourth call for proposals for workshops in partnership with the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts of the Free State of Bavaria (StMWK), represented by the Bavarian Academic Center for Latin America (BAYLAT). The FAPESP-BAYLAT partnership, which began with an agreement signed in 2012, has already resulted in the [...]