Collaborative Calls for Proposals
Call for Joint Research Proposals FAPESP – Universidad de Antioquia 2022 Versão em português
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Summary |
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Closing date for submission of proposals: |
11th July, 2022 |
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Successful proposals notified: |
21st November, 2022 |
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FAPESP Support Opportunity: |
Regular Research Grants |
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Maximum Duration of the projects: |
Up to 24 months |
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Eligibility: |
According to Regular Research Grant guidelines for researchers affiliated with Higher Education or Research Institutions in the State of São Paulo. Researchers affiliated with the Universidad de Antioquia, accordingly to Item 6 |
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Submission of proposals: |
Through the SAGe system, only by the Principal Investigator in São Paulo. No documents should be submitted directly to the Universidad de Antioquia |
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Contact FAPESP: |
Carolina Costa, e-mail: chamada-udea@fapesp.br |
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Contact Universidad de Antioquia: |
Gloria Valencia, e-mail asisinvestigacion@udea.edu.co, Camilo Gaviria, e-mail investigacioninter@udea.edu.co |
1. INTRODUCTION
The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), Brazil, and the Universidad de Antioquia (UdeA), Colombia, launch a call for joint research projects. The aim of this call is to promote and strengthen collaboration in basic and applied research, and innovation between researchers affiliated with the UdeA and researchers affiliated with Higher Education and Research Institutions in the State of São Paulo.
2. RESEARCH AREAS
The present call invites research proposals in basic and applied research, and innovation in all fields of knowledge.
3. DURATION OF PROJECTS
The maximum project duration is 24 months.
4. FINANCIAL SUPPORT
The call aims at giving financial support to selected joint research. Each side will finance its own national research teams.
An approved single joint proposal may receive, a maximum limit per proposal of 150.000.000,00 COP (or its equivalent in dollars) from the UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA and up to 300.000,00 BRL (or its equivalent amount in dollars) from FAPESP for a two-year project.
4.1 FAPESP will fund the research team from the state of São Paulo under the following conditions:
a) The collaborative proposal will be processed at FAPESP as a Regular Research Grant (“Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular”);
b) Fundable items, according to rules described in www.fapesp.br/apr, include consumables, third-party services, mobility costs for researchers listed and approved by FAPESP as team members, and equipment with individual cost of up to R$ 150.000,00, as well as Research Overhead and Fringe Benefits.
c) The limit of R$ 300.000,00 per project applies to projects with the duration of 24 months, being proportionate to the duration of the project and including fundable items and applicable Research Overheads and provision for imports, when applicable, including Fringe Benefits.
4.2 UdeA will fund the research team from the Universidad de Antioquia under the conditions stated in the Annex I.
5. TIMELINE
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Call announcement in FAPESP and UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA websites |
07 April, 2022 |
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Closing date for submission of proposals |
11th July, 2022 |
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Successful proposals notification estimated date |
21st November, 2022 |
6. ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
Applicants from the UdeA and from the State of São Paulo must satisfy the eligibility criteria of both FAPESP and UdeA, respectively. Proponents should be aware that proposals submitted that do not fit the eligibility criteria of both funders will not go through scientific merit analysis:
a) For FAPESP: Principal Investigators must be affiliated to a Research or Higher Education Institution based in the State of Sao Paulo. Eligibility criteria are available at apr;
b) For UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA:
I. Principal Investigators must be tenured professors at the UdeA. Substitute faculty (ocasionales) or lecturers (cátedra) are also eligible, as long as they have the support of a tenured professor;
i. Concerning UdeA lecturers (cátedra), the research projects submitted by them must be prepared taking into account the parameters of the academic periods, the schedule of execution and the availability of the involved professors. Consequently, the development of these proposals will occur in stages;
ii. Lecturers (cátedra) who apply must have enough available hours to dedicate to their particular research project. These terms are in accordance with articles 6 and 19 of the Acuerdo Superior 253/03.
iii. The processes of hiring and evaluating lecturers (cátedra) must abide by the terms established in Chapter V of the Acuerdo Superior 253/03. If the lecturers do not receive positive results during the hiring and evaluation processes, then the supporting tenured professor must assume the role of the principal investigator. The same procedure will be followed in the event that lecturers ( cátedra) cannot sign a new contract required to continue the execution of any of the given project´s stages.
II. Proposals for the UdeA component must include a PhD, a Master’s or Clinical/Surgical Specialization Student;
III. Researchers must have no pending commitments in any project registered at the University Research System when submitting their proposals.
c) Applicants must be aware that submitted proposals may not pass to merit evaluation if eligibility criteria of both institutions are not met.
7. PROPOSAL CHARACTERISTICS
Proposals must follow the general rules for Regular Research Grant (www.fapesp.br/apr), including a research project, CV Summary, in English, of all investigators and additional documents required by both institutions.
7.1 The research project must be jointly written by applicants from the Universidad de Antioquia and those from the research institutions in the State of São Paulo and have the following characteristics:
a) A maximum of 15 pages.
b) Only proposals written in English will be accepted.
c) A clear description of the planned collaboration (distribution of work per year/per side and methods of implementation) and the added value to be expected from the collaboration.
d) Projects should include: title, state of art, objectives, methodology and references.
7.2 Curricular Summary
a) Curricular Summary of the Principal Investigators from São Paulo and from the Universidad de Antioquia (in English, following the guidelines at www.fapesp.br/en/6351); the proponent from the Universidad de Antioquia must be registered at the SAGe system (items 8.1.c and 8.1.d below);
b) Curricular Summary of Collaborating Researchers from São Paulo and from the Universidad de Antioquia (in English, following the guidelines at www.fapesp.br/en/6351).
7.3 Additional documents:
a) For researchers from the State of São Paulo (all documents to be sent in Portuguese), all other documents required for Regular Research Grants. Please refer to: apr (items 9.2 and 9.3).
b) For researchers from the University of Antioquia (all documents in Spanish):
i. Technical Committee endorsement (in .pdf);
ii. Time dedication endorsement (in .pdf);
iii. UdeA specific Budget Worksheet according to the available model (“Presupuesto”), in Colombian pesos (COP);
iv. Ethics Committee approval (in .pdf), for projects that involve experimentation with animals and humans. This may be submitted after the evaluation process and publication of results, but prior to the beginning of the funded project.
8. SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS
Proposals can be submitted only to FAPESP until 11 July 2022 by the Principal Investigator of the proposal from the research institutions in the state of São Paulo. No document should be sent to UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA by the UdeA PI.
No proposal will be accepted after the closing date for submission, nor will any addendum or explanation be accepted, unless those explicitly and formally requested by FAPESP or by the UdeA.
8.1 The SAGE system
Submissions can only be accepted through the SAGe online system, available at www.fapesp.br/sage/.
a) The specific path for this call is:
Nova Proposta Inicial > + Outras Linhas de Fomento > + Acordos de Cooperação > + UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA - Projeto de Pesquisa - Regular > Chamada de Propostas (2022);
b) No documents should be sent to the UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA by the partner research from UdeA;
c) The UdeA Principal Investigator (PI) must be registered at the SAGe system and complete the registration (Personal Information > Update Personal Information) before being chosen as the associate researcher in the proposal. This could be done in the English version of SAGe, by choosing the option “Not Registered?” All fields marked as mandatory (*) in the registration form should be filled out with updated information. After completing the registration, the profile is available to be included in the proposal by the SAGe system.
d) After being appointed at the proposal, the UdeA PI must access SAGe and validate his/her participation in the research proposal;
e) Proposals submitted by any other means will not be accepted.
9. REVIEW OF PROPOSALS
9.1 Criteria
Among regular review criteria by FAPESP and UdeA, the evaluation criteria for this call for proposals will value:
a. Scientific, social, artistic quality and innovativeness of the research proposal;
b. Feasibility of the research proposal [1];
c. An innovation component derived from the research will be highly valued;
d. Competence and expertise of the PIs from both countries.
e. Competence and expertise of the teams from both countries.
f. Scientific, technological social or artistic knowledge dissemination potential yielded by the project.
9.2 Proposals that do not comply with the terms of this Call will not qualify for analysis.
9.3 Joint Steering Committee (JSC)
a) UdeA and FAPESP will designate a Joint Steering Committee (JSC), specially appointed for this Call.
b) Proposals will be analysed through the system of peer review
c) The funding of approved proposals by UdeA and FAPESP will be agreed between the JSC;
d) Results will be published on the websites of FAPESP and UdeA - available at www.fapesp.br/ and http://www.udea.edu.co.
e) No appeals against any merit decision of the JSC will be accepted.
10. GRANT TERM
10.1 At FAPESP :
a) A Letter of Agreement regarding Intellectual Property Rights must be issued before FAPESP sends out the Grant Term to the proponent (as of item 11 below);
b) Selected proposals start as soon as the Grant Contract is signed by FAPESP, the proponent and the legal representative of the Higher Education and Research Institution to which he/she is affiliated.
10.2 At UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA :
Selected proposals must be registered in the University Research System in English or Spanish
11. GRANT CANCELLATION
FAPESP or UdeA may cancel funding if, during the grant timeframe, a significant event justifies its cancellation, without prejudice of any other appropriate actions.
12. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Any intellectual property rights accumulated in the process of the project will be subject to the regulations and laws applicable in each country, as well as international conventions on intellectual property rights to which both countries are parties.
13. FUNDING PARTNERS AND CONTACT POINTS:
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State of São Paulo, Brazil |
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo – FAPESP |
Carolina Costa |
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Antioquia, Colombia |
Vicerrectoría de Investigación Dirección de Relaciones Internacionales – Universidad de Antioquia |
Gloria Valencia Camilo Gaviria |
ANNEX I
UdeA: The funds and commitments
UdeA funds shall only be used for:
1. Scientific Staff: The one required by the research project. The payment to students in training or their registration may be financed, in addition to the hiring of research assistants or young researchers.
2. Support Staff: All personnel necessary for the development of the project.
3. Computational Supplies: Computational resources necessary for the implementation of the project, including software, licenses, hard disk, memories and laptops necessary for the development of the activities planned.
4. Materials/Laboratory Supplies: Those required for the successful execution of the research project.
5. Field trips: Those trips necessary for the execution of the project will be funded. This item is not intended to fund travel associated with participation in meetings, or academic events or conferences for the academic disclosure of research results.
6. Travel: All trips (tickets and travel expenses) to present the results of the project in congresses or national or international events, and mobility in general that is required for the development of the project will be funded through this item.
7. Equipment: The acquisition of equipment required for the execution of the project will be funded.
8. Technical Services: This item is different from the "Staff" item above. This type of services refers to hiring a person or entity to develop a specific task as part of the project, and does not generate any intellectual property right (industrial property rights, copyright.) Some technical service examples include: exams, tests, laboratory tests, and surveys.
9. Publications: The program will fund the costs of publishing new-knowledge, co-authored products derived from submitted projects (e.g. indexed journal articles, book chapters or research-derived books, especially Open Access publications) or social appropriation of knowledge (community-sharing events, brochures, audiovisual material, community training, books, etcetera) that serve as strategies for circulating the results of the funded project. All publications or dissemination products must openly acknowledge the two funding institutions involved in the call.
10. Bibliographical Material: The acquisition of literature relevant for the execution of the project will be funded.
11. Infrastructure Use: The use of computer equipment, laboratories, offices, rooms, meeting rooms, etcetera must be included in the budget. (This item is an in-kind contribution).
12. Administration: Up to 5% of the total funding requested to UdeA may be budgeted to cover expenses related to the administration in the dependency that manages the project.
The minimum commitments taken on by researchers are:
1. New-Knowledge Products: To generate at least one Top-classification product according to the chart of acceptance of research-derived products issued by the CODI
Articles and publications must take into account the recommendations for the institutional signature, and it is recommended to publish them in open access media, in accordance with the institutional policy on open access (Superior Agreement 451 of 2018).
2. Social-Appropriation-of-Knowledge Products: To produce at least one social-appropriation-of-knowledge product according to the chart of acceptance of research-derived products issued by the CODI.
3. Human-Resource Training: To include one or more UdeA graduate students for being trained as part of the project. Projects can also include young researchers or undergraduate students in other types of internships.
4. Final Research Report: To submit a copy of the final Scientific Report that has been delivered to FAPESP.
1 The research proposal is well developed, with detail about how activities will be carried out. The proposal includes a reasonable implementation timeline.