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Research on degraded ecosystem restoration will be supported
Published on October 26, 2020FAPESP announces a call for proposals to fund research projects on conservation and restoration of degraded ecosystems and their biodiversity. The call is issued in partnership with the European Union through the Water JPI and BiodivERsA initiatives and the Brazilian National Council of State Funding Agencies (CONFAP). Among the institutions from 27 countries participating in this call for proposals, are ANR (France), DFG (Germany), FCT (Portugal), FWO (Belgium) and SEIDI / AEI (Spain), with [...] -
FAPESP announces result of call for proposals with Université de Lyon
Published on October 22, 2020FAPESP and the Université de Lyon (France) announce the result of the first call for proposals launched under the cooperation agreement between the institutions. Eleven projects were selected and will be conducted by researchers from the Université de Lyon in cooperation with researchers from higher education and research institutions in the State of São Paulo. The call was open to proposals in all areas of scientific knowledge and is the result of the FAPESP Week France, [...] -
FAPESP announces call for proposals with Swiss National Science Foundation
Published on October 16, 2020FAPESP and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) announce a call for proposals in the Regular Research Grant or Thematic Project support opportunities. Open to all areas of knowledge, the call requires proposals to be submitted simultaneously to both institutions by the principal investigators in São Paulo and in Switzerland. Regardless of the support opportunity chosen, the grant conditions include some exceptionalities, including a maximum duration of 48 months, for [...] -
Result for FAPESP-NERC 2020 call is announced
Published on August 27, 2020The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) reveals the result of call for proposals organized in partnership with the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), the British research council for the field of environmental sciences. The opportunity, launched last February, is one of the annual calls FAPESP and NERC promote together under the aegis of the cooperation agreement between FAPESP and UK Research and Innovation, the British government’s main science funding agency. [...] -
New FAPESP/Belmont Forum call for proposals
Published on July 30, 2020The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Belmont Forum, group of reseaorganizations with the mission to encourage research on global changes, announce a new call for proposals under the cooperation agreement signed by the member institutions. The Belmont Forum, in collaboration with Future Earth, aims at bringing together researchers across the globe to carry out Earth systems-based investigations focused on integrated qualitative and quantitative approaches that aims at [...] -
FAPESP announces selected projects in partnership with Belmont Forum
Published on July 15, 2020FAPESP announces the results of three calls for proposals launched under the agreement with Belmont Forum, a group of funding organizations committed to the advancement on global environmental change research. These are the results of two calls launched in 2019 by the Belmont Forum, joined by FAPESP along with other agencies from several countries (“Disaster Risk, Reduction and Resilience (DR3)” and “Climate, Environment and Health“), and the call promoted by the [...] -
Call selects proposals in collaboration with researchers from Colombia
Published on June 30, 2020FAPESP and the Colombian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MinCiencias) announce a call for proposals for joint projects between researchers affiliated to higher education and research institutions in the state of São Paulo and to researchers in research institutions in Colombia. It is the first call under the cooperation agreement signed by FAPESP and MinCiencias in 2020. Scientific projects on Security and Defense, Environment or Agricultural Sciences will be [...] -
FAPESP-supported research news on COVID-19 and coronavirus
Published on June 08, 2020FAPESP-SUPPORTED RESEARCH NEWS ON COVID-19 AND CORONAVIRUS Herd immunity to novel coronavirus can be reached when up 20% are infected, study suggests (August 12, 2020) Herd immunity to novel coronavirus can be reached when up 20% are infected, study suggests Researchers from Portugal, the UK and Brazil produced the estimate using a mathematical model that takes into account variations in the risk of catching the disease within [...] -
Luiz Eugênio Mello takes office as Scientific Director of FAPESP
Published on May 05, 2020Luiz Eugênio Araújo de Morais Mello took office as Scientific Director of FAPESP on April 27, 2020, replacing Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, who had served in the post since 2005. Sworn in amid the COVID-19 pandemic and social isolation measures in the state of São Paulo, Luiz Eugênio Mello said in a video message (watch the video below and turn on the subtitles to English) that during his term FAPESP will continue to pursue a “trajectory of excellence” [...] -
“It has been a great privilege to serve in this position”
Published on May 05, 2020Dear friends at FAPESP and colleagues in the São Paulo research community Today is my last day as Scientific Director of FAPESP. I served in the post for 15 years (plus six as President and two as a board member). Five three-year terms, five three-name lists, five times appointed by the state governor. It has been a great privilege to serve in this position. I hope I have contributed to the scientific and technological development of the state of São Paulo. I believe [...] -
FAPESP Information about COVID-19: Calls, Research and News
Published on March 25, 2020Em português COVID-19 DATA SHARING/BR - open medical data on Brazilian patients COVID-19 CALL FOR RESEARCH PROPOSALS FAPESP-SUPPORTED RESEARCH NEWS ON COVID-19 AND CORONAVIRUS NEWS PUBLISHED IN BRAZILIAN AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA ABOUT CORONAVIRUS AND FAPESP COVID-19 CALL FOR RESEARCH PROPOSALS Call for Research Proposals for the Development of Technologies for Products, Services and Processes for [...] -
FAPESP and M-ERA.NET will fund projects in Materials Science and Engineering
Published on March 25, 2020FAPESP and M-ERA.NET announce a new call for proposals under the cooperation agreement signed by the institutions. M-ERA.NET is an EU funded network established to support and increase the coordination of European research and innovation programs in Materials Science and Engineering. The objective of the M-ERA.NET call 2020 (https://m-era.net/joint-calls/joint-call-2020) is to increase synergy, support for the innovation chain, international cooperation, interdisciplinarity and [...] -
Collaborative projects with South African researchers will be funded
Published on March 24, 2020FAPESP launches a call for research proposals with the South African government's funding agency, the National Research Foundation (NRF). Up to ten collaborative projects with a maximum duration of 24 months will be selected in the areas of "Health Sciences" and "Humanities and Social Sciences". Since the scientific cooperation agreement signed in 2015, FAPESP and NRF had already enabled collaboration between São Paulo and South African researchers in four editions [...] -
FAPESP and NWO announce result of call for proposals
Published on March 05, 2020The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) announces the result of a call for proposals launched in 2019 with the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Two projects are selected for the development of scientific collaborations between researchers from the State of São Paulo and the Kingdom of Netherlands under the proposed theme of “Healthy Aging”. More specifically, the call aimed at supporting research for deep understanding of the biological [...] -
FAPESP and Czech Science Foundation announce call for proposals
Published on March 03, 2020Researchers linked to higher education and research institutions in the State of São Paulo can participate in the joint call for proposals launched by FAPESP with the Czech Science Foundation (GACR), of the Czech Republic. That is the second call under the cooperation agreement signed between FAPESP and GACR. The call is open to proposals for research collaboration with investigators from Czech Republic and the State of São Paulo (Brazil) in any scientific domain, as long as it [...]