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FAPESP will support workshops with German and São Paulo researchers Versão em português

FAPESP will support workshops with German and São Paulo researchers Call with the Bavarian State Ministry of Education, Science and the Arts receives proposals until February (photo: BAYLAT)

The São Paulo Research Fountation (FAPESP) and the Bavarian State Ministry of Education, Science and the Arts (StMBW) – represented by the Bavarian University Center for Latin America (BAYLAT) – announce a new call for proposals.

The call is designed to provide financial support to bring together a Bavaria-São Paulo cohort of early career researchers to take part in workshops focusing on building links for future collaboration and enhancing the researchers’ career opportunities.

Workshops must be coordinated by two leading researchers, one from a higher education or research institutions in Bavaria, one from a higher education or research institution in the State of São Paulo. FAPESP and the Free State of Bavaria will co-fund the workshops.

Proposals will be accepted in all fields of knowledge.

Workshop coordinators from São Paulo must be or have been principal or co-principal investigators of research projects funded by FAPESP within at least one of the following FAPESP funding lines: Thematic Projects, Young Investigators Award (JP), Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers (CEPIDs/RIDCs), and Research Partnership for Technological Innovation (PITE).

The workshops will take place, one in the State of São Paulo and one in the Free State of Bavaria. Up to 40 researchers can take part in each workshop.

The first workshop must take place between 1st of May 2016 and 30th of November 2016. The second workshop must take place between the 1st of March 2017 and the 31st of October 2017.

The deadline for applications is 26th of February 2016.

The call for proposals is published at: www.fapesp.br/9879.