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FAPESP and Agilent will fund research in biopharma and metabolomics
Published on May 15, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and Agilent announce a new call for proposals opened to researchers associated to institutions of higher education or research, public or private, in the State of São Paulo. The themes of interest shared by Agilent and FAPESP for the call for research proposals are: BioPharma – the goal is to fund projects that can advance the state of the art of measurements for BioPharma, for human health, veterinary medicine and [...] -
FAPESP and NWO announce new call for proposals
Published on April 26, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) announce the fifth call of joint research projects under the scientific cooperation agreement between institutions. Project proposals must be jointly written by researchers formally associated with public or private Higher education or research institutions in the State of São Paulo, Brazil and universities or NWO-acknowledged research institutions in the [...] -
SPRINT opens second call for proposals in 2017
Published on April 25, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) announces the second call for proposals in 2017 under the SPRINT – São Paulo Researchers in International Collaboration initiative. The call for proposals has the purpose of promoting the engagement of researchers affiliated to institutions of higher education and research in the State of São Paulo in partnership with researchers abroad in order to: further develop qualitatively the ongoing research projects and work [...] -
New São Paulo Schools of Advanced Science will be selected
Published on April 20, 2017FAPESP announces a new call for proposals within the São Paulo School of Advanced Science (SPSAS) line of support for the organization of short courses on frontier science and technology topics in any field. In addition to furthering the advancement of knowledge, the funded events are expected to increase the visibility of research, doctoral programs, and postdoctoral opportunities in the State of São Paulo, especially among candidates in other Brazilian states and [...] -
FAPESP announces result of SPRINT 4/2016 call for proposals
Published on April 19, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) announces the resulto f the fourth call for proposals in 2016 under the SPRINT - São Paulo Researchers in International Collaboration initiative. The call has the purpose of 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 [...] -
FAPESP will fund research with Max Planck Institutes
Published on April 18, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science announce the first call for proposals under the agreement signed by the institutions. Young highly qualified investigators, with several years of a very well succeeded postdoctoral experience, are invited to submit research proposals to establish independent Tandem Research Groups at universities or research institutes in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, in strong [...] -
FAPESP announce new fund opportunity with NERC
Published on April 17, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), a UK Research Council, announce an opportunity of funding to collaborative projects between researchers in the United Kingdom and in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. In the FAPESP-NERC International Opportunities Fund (IOF) - Pump Priming and Pump Priming Plus Awards – 2017 the focus is in Earth System Science and Global Environmental Change research. FAPESP will consider [...] -
FAPESP and British Council will fund training courses
Published on April 17, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the British Council announce a new call for proposals to support the organization of short courses for the development of professional communication skills under the Researcher Connect program. The call for proposals is supported by the Newton Fund. The same opportunity is being offered in other Brazilian states by the state research foundations (FAPs) which participate in the call, with articulation by the Brazilian [...] -
FAPESP and the British Council announce call for research workshops
Published on April 13, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the British Council announce a new call for proposals to support the organization of research workshops. The call aims to provide financial support to bring together a UK/São Paulo State cohort of early career researchers to take part in workshops focusing on building links for future collaboration and enhancing career opportunities. The initiative is announced under the scope of the Researcher Links program, supported by [...] -
FAPESP and Statoil will fund research center
Published on April 12, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and Statoil, a Norwegian multinational energy company, will fund an Engineering Research Center in Reservoir and Production Management (ERC-RPM), in Brazil. The institutions announce a call for proposals for establishing the center, whose focus at a strategic level will be to undertake R&D in to: Production optimization; Enhanced / Increased Oil Recovery; and Water handling. The plan for the selected ERC-RPM should include [...] -
Brazil will have a new energies research center
Published on April 12, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and BG E&P Brasil, a member of the Shell Group of Companies, will fund a research center for new energies in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The parties jointly announced a call for proposals for the New Energies Research Center (NERC) in four strategic divisions: Dense Energy Carriers, Advanced Energy Storage, Methane to Products, and Computational Material Science. The Center will aim to have positive and sustainable societal [...] -
FAPESP and M-ERA.Net announce 2017 call for proposal
Published on April 06, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) is receiving submissions for the M-ERA.Net 2017 call for proposals. Researchers associated with higher education and research institutions and companies in the State of São Paulo can participate. M-ERA.NET is an EU funded network which has been established to support and increase the coordination of European research and innovation programmes and related funding in materials science and engineering. The objective of the [...] -
FAPESP and Trans-Atlantic Platform announce result of call for proposals
Published on March 28, 2017The Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and fifteen other international research funders today jointly awarded approximately $9.2 million to international teams investigating how large-scale computational techniques may be applied to answering research questions in the humanities and social sciences. These teams will be pursuing research in numerous areas, including musicology, economics, linguistics, political science, and history. Each of the fourteen winning teams [...] -
Workshops with German and São Paulo researchers will be funded
Published on March 24, 2017The São Paulo Research Fountation (FAPESP) and the Bavarian State Ministry of Education, Science and the Arts (StMBW) – represented by the Bavarian Academic Center for Latin America (BAYLAT) – announce a new call for proposals. The 2017 call is designed to provide financial support to bring together a Bavaria-São Paulo cohort of early career researchers and PhD students who are about to defend their thesis to take part in workshops focusing on building [...] -
FAPESP and IBM announce result of call for proposals
Published on March 16, 2017FAPESP and IBM announce the result of the first call for proposals under the cooperation agreement between the institutions. Eight research projects will be funded. The projects will be conducted by researchers in the State of São Paulo with the goal to generate knowledge about cognitive computing. The emphasis of the call is on computer systems that are able to process and integrate different kinds of data, learn at scale, reason with purpose, and interact with humans naturally. Project [...]