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Location
Published on November 04, 2005Fundação de Amparo á Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo - FAPESP Address: R. Pio XI, 1500 - Alto da Lapa - CEP 05468-901 - São Paulo/SP - Brasil Tel: (+55) 11 3838 4000 Fax. (+55) 11 3645 2421 Office hours: 8h to 17h Click here to zoom in Click here to zoom in NEARBY HOTELS Howard Johnson Faria Lima [...] -
Creation and Structure of FAPESP
Published on November 04, 2005The beginning in two rooms in the School of Medicine The State of São Paulo Research Foundation was formally established in 1960 (State Law 5.918, of 18.10.1960) and effectively began to operate in 1962 (Decree 40.132, of 23.05.1962). However, its existence was foreseen in the 1947 State Constitution, thanks to a group of professors and laboratory workers led by Adriano Marchini and Luiz Meiller. The São Paulo Charter established in its Article 123: "Support for scientific [...] -
Information Technology in the Development of Advanced Internet Program, TIDIA (closed)
Published on November 04, 2005The Information Technology in the Development of Advanced Internet Program (TIDIA) was launched by FAPESP in 2001 with the aim of transforming the internet into an object of research. It proposed partnerships with companies in the telecommunications sector and the creation of a high velocity fiber optic network to connect, initially, São Paulo, Campinas and São Carlos and, at a later date, other municipalities in the State of São Paulo. This network served as a testing ground [...] -
CInAPCe
Published on October 25, 2005Inter-institutional Cooperation in Support of Brain Research Program 1. Background CInAPCe is an abbreviation for the Portuguese expression Cooperação Interinstitucional de Apoio a Pesquisas sobre o Cérebro - Inter-institutional Cooperation in Support of Brain Research Program. The development of neuroscience research has implications that extend far beyond the physical evaluation of a subject. The motor, sensory, cognitive and emotional functions that emerge from [...] -
Public Education - Modalities
Published on January 07, 2004Two modalities of grants will be given out. One modality addresses the problems and needs that come up from the school reality and the other one will support the proposals that are part of FAPESP's research projects currently underway. Under this program, grants concerning the continuing education of teachers (courses, seminars, workshops) won?t be conceded and neither will be grants given to the production of educational material, unless when perfectly characterized as a research [...] -
Young Researchers Awards - Aim
Published on January 07, 2004This program aims to create work opportunities for a young investigator or groups of young investigators with great potential preferably in emerging research centers. The goal is to spawn new groups and thus decentralize the research system in the state. The funds will be granted in fashion that will promptly assure the basic conditions for a full and independent development of the project. New support in complementary requests is assured to the research groups through agile review process of [...] -
Honors Doctorate
Published on April 14, 2003This is intended to support research projects of students who, enrolled in doctoral programs, do not hold a Masters degree. The duration of this mode of fellowship is for four years, renewable for an additional 12 months. -
FAPESP's Board of Trustees
Published on April 07, 2003The Board of Trustees is responsible for the general direction of the Foundation and the most important decisions on scientific, administrative and financial policy. This board is made up of 12 members, each with a six-year mandate. Six of these members are freely chosen by the State governor and the reminder are appointed by him from triple lists supplied by the São Paulo state universities, and by public and private teaching and research institutions based in the State of São [...] -
Four decades of research
Published on April 07, 2003The State of São Paulo Research Foundation was founded in 1962. However, the idea of creating a foundation along the lines of FAPESP goes back much further than that. It was an idea first sketched in 1942, with the setting up of the University Research Funds for National Defense, immediately after Brazil entered the Second World War. These funds proposed to support the universities contribution to the victory of the democratic forces, through research and training programs, and up until [...] -
Research Geared Towards Applications
Published on March 20, 2003Biodiversity Bioenergy Collaborative Research between Universities Research Institutions & Companies eScience Global Climate Change Quantum Technologies Initiative -
Rednesp
Published on February 09, 2003The Rednesp (Research and Education Network at São Paulo), former ANSP Network, connects dozens of education and research institutions in the State of São Paulo, among them and abroad, through cooperation with international academic networks and consortia such as AmLight, RedCLARA and GNA-G. Funded from the beginning by FAPESP, Rednesp is co-responsible for managing a 100G fiber optic ring between São Paulo, Miami (USA) and Santiago (Chile), but the network does not stop [...] -
Grant Policy Guidelines - Thematic Projects
Published on February 09, 2003FAPESP’s “Thematic Projects” aim at supporting projects with bold and novel approaches. Funding for thematic projects can be awarded for up to 5 years, under especially favorable conditions, which include the possibility of supporting supplemental requests linked to the project. Requirements for granting Fellowships as budget items National Science and Technology Institutes in Sao Paulo Requirements - Index: 1) Purpose and [...]