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Washington, DC symposium highlights the importance of research on the Amazon
Published on October 29, 2014Researchers from the United States and the state of São Paulo met at the FAPESP symposium in Washington, DC on Tuesday (10/28/14) to present the findings of their studies on the Amazon in a variety of fields. The meeting, “FAPESP-U.S. Collaborative Research on the Amazon” was organized in partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy and the Brazil Institute of the Wilson Center. Held in the auditorium of the Brazil Institute, the meeting was attended by an audience of [...] -
FAPESP signs new cooperation agreements in Germany
Published on October 16, 2014Two new agreements aimed at promoting cooperation among researchers from the state of São Paulo and Germany were signed by FAPESP on October 15th during the FAPESP Week Munich symposium. Partnerships were formalized with the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of the Federal Republic of Germany (abbreviated BMBF) and the University of Münster, one of the three most important institutions of higher education in Germany. The event held at the Deutsches Museum in Munich was attended [...] -
FAPESP signs agreement with Europe's largest applied research organization
Published on October 15, 2014On Tuesday (10/14) FAPESP signed a science and technology cooperation agreement with Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Europe’s largest organization for applied research, in Munich, Germany. The document was signed by Celso Lafer, FAPESP president, and Frank Treppe, director of the Division of Corporate Strategy and International Relations at Fraunhofer during a visit by the delegation from the São Paulo Foundation. According to the text, collaborative efforts will focus on innovation-oriented [...] -
FAPESP and Agence Nationale de la Recherche issue new call for proposals
Published on September 19, 2014The Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) has issued a Call for Proposals for new research projects in collaboration between French and the State of São Paulo researchers in the framework of the Generic Call 2015, under the cooperation agreement signed by the French agency and the FAPESP. The selected themes are “Neurosciences, Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) and Metabolism”, “Marine Research” and “Social Sciences and Humanities” (on October 10, 2014, an [...] -
FAPESP announce new call for proposals with the Newton Fund
Published on September 16, 2014The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), the National Council for the State Funding Agencies (CONFAP) and the State Funding Agencies (FAPs) of Brazil, the Academy of Medical Sciences, the British Academy, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Royal Society of the United Kingdom announce a call for proposals to support UK scientists as visitors, or, in the case of FAPESP, also as young-investigators willing to start their scientific carreers in São Paulo. The UK Academies will offer [...] -
FAPESP and NSF announce result of call for proposals in biodiversity
Published on September 04, 2014The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announce the result of a call for scientific cooperation through their programs BIOTA and Dimensions of Biodiversity, issued in December, 2013. As expected in the call for proposals, two US-São Paulo Collaborative Research Project awards will be funded at a level of up to $2,000,000 by FAPESP, to the researchers in São Paulo State and at a level of up to $2,000,000 by NSF to the U.S. researchers. The [...] -
FAPESP and British Council announce Newton Fund supported workshops selected in call for proposals
Published on September 02, 2014The São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP and the British Council announce the result of a call for proposals to support research workshops issued in April, 2014. The institutions will provide financial support to bring together a UK/São Paulo State cohort of early researchers to take part in a workshop focusing on building links for future collaboration and enhancing the researchers’ career opportunities. The call anticipated the funding for up to six proposals. However, considering [...] -
Agreement between FAPESP and NEPAD
Published on August 27, 2014COOPERATION AGREEMENT FOR RESEARCH BETWEEN THE SAO PAULO RESEARCH FOUNDATION AND NEPAD PLANNING AND COORDINATING AGENCY The SAO PAULO RESEARCH FOUNDATION - FAPESP, established by Law nº 5.918, of October 18th, 1960, with headquarters at Rua Pio XI, 1500, Alto da Lapa, São Paulo, SP, enrolled in CNPJ/MF under nº 43.828.151/0001-45, herein represented according to article 11, “a” of Law nº 5.918, combined with its bylaws approved by Decree n° 40.132, of May 23, [...] -
RCUK and FAPESP open call for proposals for the Newton Fund
Published on August 26, 2014The Research Council UK (RCUK) issued the first call for proposals for the Newton Fund (UK’s development assistance for science and innovation) to be managed by the RCUK and the Brazilian Council of State Funding Agencies (CONFAP) with the goal to support collaboration between researchers from the United Kingdom and Brazil. Applications that address the following areas are particularly welcomed: Health; Urban transformations; Food energy water environment nexus; Biodiversity and [...] -
FAPESP and University of Texas at Austin announce new call for proposals
Published on August 25, 2014The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the University of Texas at Austin (UTexas), United States, announce a new call for joint research projects under the scientific cooperation agreement between the institutions. The aim is to strengthen collaboration between researchers affiliated with UTexas and researches affiliated with higher education and research institutions in the State of São Paulo, in all fields of knowledge. For the applicant researcher from the State of São Paulo, [...] -
FAPESP and universities of Nottingham and Birmingham announce result of call for proposals
Published on August 22, 2014The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the universities of Nottingham (UoN) and Birmingham (UoB), from the United Kingdom, announce the result of the second call for proposals within the range of scientific cooperation between the institutions. Six proposals were selected. FAPESP, Nottingham and Birmingham awards will be up to an absolute maximum of £80,000.00 (up to £40,000.00 from FAPESP; up to £20,000.00 from Nottingham and up to £20,000.00 from Birmingham) per proposal for the [...] -
FAPESP and Imperial College London announce result of call for proposals
Published on August 21, 2014FAPESP and Imperial College London announce the result of the first public call for proposals issued under the memorandum of understanding signed by the institutions. Considering the excellent quality of the submitted proposals, FAPESP and Imperial College decided so support seven proposals for the exchange of researchers and PhD fellows between the State of São Paulo and the United Kingdom. Originally, the call anticipated the funding for up to five proposals. FAPESP and Imperial will each [...] -
FAPESP and University of Warwick sign cooperation agreement
Published on August 11, 2014University of Warwick Pro Vice-Chancellor for Science, Engineering and Medicine Tim Jones and Senior Public Affairs and Policy Advisor for the University Alex Miles visited FAPESP on July 29 to sign a cooperation agreement. They were welcomed by Foundation President Celso Lafer, Vice-president Eduardo Moacyr Krieger, and Scientific Director Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz. Also discussed at the meeting was the potential development of joint projects between researchers associated with [...] -
FAPESP and BE-Basic announce result of call for proposals
Published on August 05, 2014The State of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), and the BE-Basic Consortium, from the Netherlands, announce the result of the third call for proposals according to the cooperation agreement between the institutions. The aim is to promote and support research projects involving the collaboration between scientists working in the State of São Paulo, Brazil and scientists associated to BE-Basic in The Netherlands. The research projects should help to build up scientific and technological [...] -
SPRINT has second call for proposals
Published on July 29, 2014The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) announces the second call for proposals for SPRINT - São Paulo Researchers in International Collaboration (www.fapesp.br/en/sprint), a strategy designed to encourage and promote the advancement of scientific research through the engagement of researchers affiliated with research institutions in the State of São Paulo with researcher partners abroad. The second call for proposals has the purpose of promoting the engagement of researchers affiliated [...]