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FAPESP announces result of SPRINT 3/2018 call
Published on January 28, 2019The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) announces the result of the third call for proposals in 2018 under the SPRINT – São Paulo Researchers in International Collaboration initiative. 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, aiming at the elaboration [...] -
FAPESP and IBM to sponsor Center for Artificial Intelligence
Published on January 21, 2019The São Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP) and IBM have joined efforts to support the creation of a Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI), within the FAPESP Engineering Research Center Program. The new Center will pursue a disruptive research program, with the potential to promote paradigm shifts in AI. Its mission is twofold: to generate deeper knowledge at the fundamental front and to develop applications of economical vale to industry. The IBM-FAPESP AI [...] -
FAPESP and Belmont Forum selected proposal in ecosystem services
Published on December 20, 2018The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) announces the result of a call for research proposals with the Belmont Forum, group of member organizations with the mission to encourage research on global changes. The "Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services" call also included BiodivERsA, a network of national and regional funding organisations promoting pan-European research on biodiversity and ecosystem services. BiodivERsA is funded under the Horizon 2020 ERA-NET COFUND scheme. This [...] -
Call for proposals selects collaboration in neglected infectious diseases
Published on December 20, 2018FAPESP, the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Newton Fund announce the result of a call for proposals to select and fund Neglected Infectious Diseases Joint Center Partnerships. Five proposals were selected. The centers will be an agreed collaboration and a way of working together, with the aim of enhancing existing partnerships and developing new collaborations between researchers from the State of São Paulo and researchers from United Kingdom. The call for proposals is available at: [...] -
FAPESP and Belmont Forum will fund projects in sustainability
Published on December 20, 2018The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) announces the result of a new call for research proposals with the Belmont Forum, group of member organizations with the mission to encourage research on global changes. Four proposals were selected. The “Transformations to Sustainability” call for proposals aims to fund basic and applied research by scientists in the State of São Paulo, that will provide scientific basis for actions and policies to be undertaken by [...] -
Funding for UK researchers in Brazil
Published on December 18, 2018The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) announces a new opportunity to stimulate scientific collaboration between researchers from the State of São Paulo and the United Kingdom. The terms are described in a call for proposals issued with the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), the Brazilian National Council of State Funding Agencies (CONFAP) and the State Funding Agencies (FAPs), in Brazil, and the Newton Fund, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the British [...] -
FAPESP and BAYLAT announce result of call for proposals
Published on December 14, 2018FAPESP and the State Ministry of Sciences, Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts of the Free State of Bavaria (StMWK), in Germany, represented by the Bavarian University Centre for Latin America (BAYLAT), make public the result of a call for proposals opened in July, 2018. The call for proposals was open to researchers in all fields of knowledge and was directed to the formation of workshops, had an approved proposal. The realization of the worhshop will be [...] -
FAPESP announces result of call for proposals within eScience Program
Published on December 14, 2018FAPESP announces the result for the third call of eScience and Data Science FAPESP Program, issued April 2018. 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. The present call’s notice focused in the field of eAgricultue – collaborative research conducted by computer scientists and researchers in [...] -
FAPESP and universities of Birmingham and Nottingham announce new call for proposals
Published on December 13, 2018The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), the University of Birmingham and the University of Nottingham announce a new call for proposals to fund joint collaborative proposals involving research and the exchange of researchers under the scientific cooperation agreements among the institutions. The call is open to interested researchers affiliated with the University of Birmingham and the University of Nottingham and researchers formally affiliated with higher [...] -
FAPESP announces call results with Research Foundation – Flanders
Published on December 12, 2018The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) announce the result of the first call of proposals under the cooperation agreement signed by the institutions. Seven projects were selected and will be carried out in partnership by researchers from the State of São Paulo and from the FWO. The projects will start from January 1st, 2019, with a maximum duration of three years. Selected proposals: [...] -
FAPESP and European Union will fund research in micro-plastic pollution in the ocean
Published on December 11, 2018FAPESP announces a call for proposals to fund research projects aiming at reducing micro-plastic ocean pollution in support of United Nations Sustainable Development Goals as well as the implementation of the Belém Statement on the Atlantic Ocean. The call is issued in partnership with the European Union through the JPI Oceans Initiative and the Brazilian National Council of State Funding Agencies (CONFAP) . Among the institutions from several countries participating in this call for [...] -
FAPESP and NSF announce new call for proposals
Published on November 30, 2018FAPESP and the National Science Foundation (NSF) announce a new call for research proposals and invite researchers to submit projects for scientific cooperation through their programs BIOTA (FAPESP Research Program on Biodiversity Characterization, Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Use) and Dimensions of Biodiversity. This call for proposals is based in a broader call for proposals published annually by the NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity’s Program, which invites the participation [...] -
Joint call with the British Council selects projects for the organization of workshops
Published on November 13, 2018The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the British Council, with the Newton Fund, announce the result of the FAPESP / Brazil – Newton Researcher Links (BNRL) Workshop 2018 call for proposals, which aimed at supporting the organization of research workshops. A total of ten proposals were selected. The call for proposals was designed to bring together young researchers from the State of São Paulo and researchers from United Kingdom, building links for future collaborations and [...] -
FAPESP announces call results with IDRC, Canada
Published on November 13, 2018FAPESP and Canada's International Development Research Center (IDRC) announce the result of the first call for proposals under the cooperation agreement signed between the institutions. Entitled "Innovations for marginalized youth economic inclusion", the call aims to support the generation and systematization of innovation and knowledge geared towards the economic inclusion of marginalized youth. A collaborative project was approved that will follow the norms and criteria [...] -
FAPESP and Belmont Forum announce new call for proposals
Published on November 06, 2018The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Belmont Forum, group of member organizations with the mission to encourage research on global changes, announce a new call for proposals under de cooperation agreement signed by the institutions. Through this call the Belmont Forum, in collaboration with Future Earth, aims at bringing together researchers and other expertise across the globe to innovate solutions to accelerate sustainable use of [...]