Calls for Proposals
Call for Proposals FAPESP and NRF 2023 Versão em português
Joint Call for Proposals: National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) and São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) 2023
Call announcement: April 3rd, 2023
Deadline for submission: June 30th, 2023
Selection results announcement: November, 2023
Start of projects: January 1st, 2024
FAPESP Support Opportunity: Regular Research Grant
Maximum duration of the projects: 24 months
Eligibility: Researchers affiliated with Higher Education or Research Institutions in the state of São Paulo and Researchers from South Korea
Submission: To FAPESP via SAGe and to NRF via IRIS
FAPESP contact details: chamada-nrfk@fapesp.br
NRF contact details: sbpark725@nrf.re.kr
Opportunity announcement at NRF: https://www.nrf.re.kr/xxxxxx
1. Introduction
Under the scope of their Cooperation Agreement, FAPESP and NRF launch this third Call for Proposals of research projects, to be jointly conceived and implemented by researchers from institutions in the state of São Paulo and South Korea.
Researchers from the state of São Paulo interested in applying to this Call must follow the instructions described in www.fapesp.br/apr, as modified in this call (see section 3.1). Researchers from South Korea must follow the instructions described in these guidelines and additional instructions from NRF at https://www.nrf.re.kr/index. The two agencies will fund up to three research projects under this Call.
2. Research Themes
Research proposals in all fields of knowledge may be submitted to this Call.
3. Eligibility of Researchers
3.1. FAPESP eligibility rules:
FAPESP considers eligible to apply all researchers affiliated to public or private Higher Education or Research Institutions in the state of São Paulo that meet the FAPESP eligibility requirements for the Regular Research Grant, described at www.fapesp.br/apr, with the addition of the following proviso:
In order to promote international collaboration among Sao Paulo state researchers, this call welcomes submissions by PIs of ongoing Regular Research Award projects, unless that project already is a collaborative joint project (granted through a FAPESP international collaborative call for proposals).
3.2. NRF eligibility rules:
Researchers eligible for NRF funding under the scope of this Call must be researchers at Universities/Research Institutes eligible under Article 2 of the Academic Promotion Act (https://elaw.klri.re.kr/eng_mobile/viewer.do?hseq=45322&type=sogan&key=2).
4. Characteristics of Proposals under this Call
Each proposal must have a Principal Investigator in the state of São Paulo and a Principal Investigator in South Korea.
The research project must be jointly conceived and written by the two proponents.
Proposal submitted to NRF may be either Korean or English version while proposals submitted to FAPESP may be either Portuguese or English. The projects submitted to both agencies must present the same title with corresponding content required by each agency in it.
5. Support Opportunity and eligible costs
Researchers from the state of São Paulo must follow all rules and guidelines for the submission of proposals in the form of Regular Research Grants (www.fapesp.br/apr), with the modifications described in section 3.1 of this call.
5.1. Eligible costs for NRF:
NRF will fund the research team in the South Korea up to KRW 30.000.000,00 per project per year. All costs have to be specified in the South Korean proposal. Eligible costs include:
a. Direct costs (personnel expense, equipment, research activities, materials);
b. Indirect cost (must be 5% of the total of the direct costs).
5.2. Eligible costs for FAPESP:
FAPESP will fund the research team in the state of São Paulo up to the maximum amount of R$ 150.000,00 per project per year. Funding and eligible costs must be in accordance with FAPESP norms for Regular Research Grant (fapesp.br/apr).
Eligible costs to FAPESP are:
a. Consumables;
b. Services;
c. Small equipment (below R$150.000,00);
d. Travel costs of brazilian researchers going to South Korea;
e. Technical Training Fellowships (fapesp.br/bolsas/tt);
f. Research Overheads (Direct Research Infrastructure Costs, Fringe Benefits granted to the PI, and Research Overhead - Institutional Research Infrastructure).
The total budget will include Research Overheads: “Direct Research Infrastructure Costs” (15% of the total amount requested), “Fringe Benefits” (R$ 16,000.00 per year for the PI), “Institutional Research Infrastructure” (10% of the total amount requested), “Import Provision” (fapesp.br/9557), if any, and Fellowships.
This amount will appear as “Custo Total da Proposta (em R$)”:
Note: If the proposal budget (“Custo Total da Proposta (em R$)”) exceeds the limit of R$ 300,000.00, the submission will be automatically blocked by SAGe:
6. Submission
The Principal Investigator from São Paulo must submit the collaborative proposal to FAPESP and the Principal Investigator from the South Korea must submit the collaborative proposal to NRF.
The deadline for submission of proposals is June 30th, 2023. No proposals will be accepted after the deadline for submission, nor will any addendum or explanation be accepted, unless those are explicitly and formally requested by FAPESP or NRF.
Proposals not in conformity to the specifications herein will be declared ineligible. Proposals submitted lacking mandatory documentation or with unsigned documentation (upon explicit request of each agency), or using templates other than those provided by FAPESP or NRF will be returned and may be resubmitted before the deadline for submission (June 30, 2023).
The submission to both agencies must be through their online systems:
Submission to FAPESP through SAGe: The specific path for this Call is: Nova Proposta Inicial > + Outras Linhas de Fomento > + Acordos de Cooperação > + NRFK – National Research Foundation of Korea > + NRFK - Projeto de Pesquisa - Regular> + Chamada de Propostas (2023).
Submission to NRF: The proposal must be submitted through IRIS (iris.go.kr).
Each PI may submit only one proposal to this Call. After the deadline for submission, NRF and FAPESP will check whether the proposals have been submitted simultaneously in South Korea and the state of São Paulo. If a proposal was submitted in only one country and/or received after the deadline, it will be declared ineligible.
7. Application timeline
Call announcement: April 3rd, 2023
Deadline for submission: June 30th, 2023
Selection results announcement: November, 2023
Start of Project: January 1st, 2024
8. Assessment and Selection
8.1. Evaluation Procedure
Proposals that do not comply with the rules established in this Call will not be qualified for merit analysis. Proposals qualified for this opportunity will be evaluated using a three-step procedure:
I. FAPESP and NRF will perform peer-review analyses according to the standard procedures of each Institution. The systematic of analysis used by FAPESP is available at fapesp.br/analise. Meanwhile, each eligible application submitted to NRF will be peer-reviewed by South Korean expert reviewers and international external referees.
II. After the peer-review analysis, the proposals proceed to an Area Evaluation Panel in each Agency.
III. The partner agencies will then exchange recommendations and will jointly determine which proposals will be recommended for funding.
The funding recommendation is final and no appeals will be accepted.
9. Intellectual property
In case of approval of the proposal, a Letter of Agreement (or “Consortium Agreement”) must be signed between the partner Host Institutions (from South Korea and from the state of São Paulo), establishing how Intellectual Property rights, confidentiality and publications will be treated jointly, in accordance to the policies of each Funding Agency and each Host Institution. Note that no specific format for this agreement will be provided by NRF or FAPESP.
The presentation of this document is not mandatory for signing the Grant Term. However, the two agencies can request its presentation at any time.
10. Contact information
Researchers from the state of São Paulo: specific questions to FAPESP about this Call for Proposals should be sent to chamada-nrfk@fapesp.br. Researchers should send their queries with time in advance, avoiding urgent requests close to the Call for Proposals submission deadline.
Researchers from South Korea: specific questions to NRF about the Call for Proposals should be sent to Sungbeen PARK (Mr.), e-mail: sbpark725@nrf.re.kr