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FAPESP and Imperial College London announce result of call for proposals Versão em português
Seven projects for the exchange of researchers between the State of São Paulo and the UK were selected (photo:ICL)
FAPESP and Imperial College London announce the result of the first public call for proposals issued under the memorandum of understanding signed by the institutions.
Considering the excellent quality of the submitted proposals, FAPESP and Imperial College decided so support seven proposals for the exchange of researchers and PhD fellows between the State of São Paulo and the United Kingdom. Originally, the call anticipated the funding for up to five proposals.
FAPESP and Imperial will each provide funding of up to the equivalent of £6,000.00 per proposal per year, for the duration of the grant, to cover mobility expenses. The maximum duration of each project is 24 months.
For Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, Scientific Director of FAPESP, “the bilateral investment by FAPESP and Imperial College London facilitates collaborative research between researchers in São Paulo and their British colleagues, thus creating opportunities to broaden the horizons and the impact of scientific research for both countries.”
“We are very pleased to be working alongside FAPESP, one of our key international partners, to foster a new host of joint initiatives with some of São Paulo’s leading research institutions and I am delighted to see the diverse and exciting range of projects that will be supported by this partnership. Bringing together scientists from London and São Paulo, both global centres of excellence in research and innovation, will not only push the boundaries of scientific endeavour but will drive forward discoveries that benefit society on a global scale”, said James Stirling, Provost of the Imperial College London.
Selected proposals:
| Researchers | Project title |
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Carlos Clemente Cerri Jeremy Woods |
Assessing and guiding sustainability in Brazilian sugar cane production |
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Christiano José Santiago de Matos James Roy Taylor |
Optical nonlinearity in waveguides and substrates containing graphene like materials: a collaboration between the femtosecond optics group (FOG IC) and the graphene... FAPESP#: 2014/50460-0 |
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Luiz Antonio Martinelli Cristina Banks-Leite |
Ecosystem multifunctionality under environmental change FAPESP#: 2014/50452-8 |
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Pedro Caruso Nick Hopkinson |
Evaluation of inspiratory and expiratory muscles in respiratory diseases FAPESP#: 2014/50458-6 |
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Roberto Mendonça Faria Jenny Nelson |
Advanced characterisation techniques for probing buried interfaces and film morphology in organic electronic FAPESP#: 2014/50459-2 |
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Tomas Ferreira Domingues Jonathan Lloyd |
Incorporating phylogeny into a new integrated dataset of South American tropical tree trait characteristics FAPESP#: 2014/50453-4 |
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Jayme Augusto de Souza Neto George Christophides |
A lab system to study Plasmodium vivax transmission and interactions with the vector FAPESP#: 2014/50454-0 |
The call for proposals is available at: www.fapesp.br/en/8495.