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FAPESP will fund new collaborative research with the UK Versão em português
Call with the ESRC receives proposals in Healthy Urban Living and the Social Science of the Food-Water-Energy Nexus (photo: Wikimedia)
The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) invites researchers in the State of São Paulo to propose collaborative projects with UK researchers which contribute to the economic development and welfare of Brazil within the areas of Healthy Urban Living and the Social Science of the Food-Water-Energy Nexus.
The call is part of the Newton Fund commitment to develop bilateral research partnerships and is being supported and announced simultaneously with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and the Brazilian State Funding Agencies (FAPs) articulated by the National Council of State Funding Agencies (CONFAP).
In the UK, the call has additional support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) under the Healthy Urban Living call, and the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) under the Social Science of the Food-Water-Energy Nexus call.
To support the selected projects the following budgets are available:
I. Healthy Urban Living - Up to £2.5 million is available from the ESRC, the MRC and the AHRC to support UK researchers, with matched equivalent effort (not necessarily equivalent money, reflecting different costs for salaries and fellowships in Brazil and in the UK) from the participating FAPs to support Brazilian researchers.
II. Food, Water, Energy Nexus - Up to £1.25 million is available from the ESRC to support UK researchers, with matched equivalent effort from the FAPs to support Brazilian researchers.
Applicants in the State of São Paulo must note that the requirements for eligibility are those applied normally to FAPESP Thematic Grants. Exceptionally for this Call for Proposals, the duration of proposals submitted to FAPESP will be for up to 36 months.
Proposals shall be sent to FAPESP before 12:00 (Brasilia time) on July 2, 2015.
The call for proposals is available at: www.fapesp.br/9463.