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FAPESP and University of Surrey issue new call for proposals Versão em português
Up to four proposals for the exchange of researchers between the state of São Paulo and the United Kingdom will be supported (Un.Surrey)
As part of their accord on scientific collaboration, FAPESP and the University of Surrey, in the United Kingdom, are jointly issuing a new public Call for Proposals for the exchange of researchers from the State of São Paulo and from the United Kingdom.
The Call is open to researchers affiliated to the University of Surrey and to researchers affiliated to Higher Education and Research Institutions in the State of São Paulo, who are Principal Investigators of ongoing research projects funded by FAPESP within the following schemes: Regular Research Awards, Thematic Projects, Young Investigators, or Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centres (CEPIDs/RIDCs).
Research proposals in all fields of knowledge will be accepted. The maximum duration of each project is 24 months, non-extendable. FAPESP and the University of Surrey will jointly support up to four proposals under this Call.
FAPESP and the University of Surrey will each provide funding of up to £5,000.00, per project, necessarily and exclusively to cover mobility expenses (travel costs, living allowances, and insurance costs).
FAPESP will provide the selected proposals with funds for travel (air tickets), health insurance and living allowances for researchers from the State of São Paulo working in the United Kingdom.
University of Surrey will provide the selected projects with funds for travel (air tickets), health insurance, and living allowances for researchers from the United Kingdom working in the State of São Paulo.
The proposals must be submitted simultaneously to FAPESP by the researcher from the State of São Paulo and to University of Surrey by his/her collaborator from the United Kingdom. Each Party will select the proposals according to its own procedures. Only the proposals selected by both Parties will be funded.
The closing date for proposals is November 1st, 2012.
More information is available at www.fapesp.br/en/7286.