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FAPESP announces new call for proposals with the Belmont Forum
Published on October 03, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) announces a new call for research proposals with the Belmont Forum, group of member organizations with the mission to encourage research on global changes. The "Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services" call also includes BiodivERsA, a network of national and regional funding organisations promoting pan-European research on biodiversity and ecosystem services. BiodivERsA is funded under the Horizon 2020 ERA-NET COFUND [...] -
FAPESP announces the result of research internships in Italian universities
Published on September 28, 2017FAPESP announces the result of the call for proposals for supportting short and medium term research internships in Italian universities. The call was based on the cooperation agreement signed on February 1st, 2017, between CONFAP and the University of Bologna, acting as technical secretariat of the network of Italian universities, and is issued under the Mobility CONFAP/Italy Program (MCI). Selected proposals: Research at the University of Bologna (Universita [...] -
FAPESP and ANR announce result of call for proposals
Published on September 22, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France, announce the result of a call for collaborative research proposals issued in 2016. The aim was to select and fund collaborative research projects between researchers from the State of São Paulo and researchers from France. Selected proposal: Spatio temporal analysis of pediatric magnetic resonance images Processo / Grant [...] -
FAPESP and Microsoft announce new call for proposals
Published on September 18, 2017FAPESP and Microsoft announce a new call for proposals under the cooperation agreement between the institutions. Research projects that generate knowledge about computer vision and deep learning with application on urban mobility, public, industrial and infrastructure safety, and retail will be selected and funded. Possible research topics include: Computer vision theory. Action recognition from RGB video. Object tracking. [...] -
São Paulo – Canada cooperation in industrial research and innovation wil be funded
Published on September 05, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) announce the first call for proposals under the framework of the agreement signed between the parties. The aim of the call is to promote and facilitate bilateral research and innovation projects between companies from the State of São Paulo and from Canada. Industrial research and development projects should demonstrate the technological and mutually beneficial contribution of [...] -
FAPESP and King’s College London announce new call for proposals
Published on September 05, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and King’s College London announce a new call for joint research projects. The aim is to promote and strengthen collaboration between researchers affiliated with King’s College London and researchers affiliated with higher education and research institutions in the State of São Paulo. This is the second edition of the call for proposals for collaborative research by FAPESP and King’s College London. In the first [...] -
FAPESP and the Newton Fund will fund workshops
Published on August 30, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Newton Fund announce a call for proposals to support the organization of workshops with researchers from UK and Latin America countries. The workshops will be part of the programme “Biodiversity – ecosystem services for sustainable development”, a collaborative multinational research and capacity building to provide trans-regional level understanding of the role of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning [...] -
FAPESP and BAYLAT announce selected workshops
Published on August 16, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Bavarian State Ministry of Education, Science and the Arts (StMBW) – represented by the Bavarian Academic Center for Latin America (BAYLAT) – announce the result of a call for proposals to support scientific meetings in the State of São Paulo and in the Free State of Bavaria. The activities will be jointly funded by the institutions. Up to 40 early career researchers and PhD students who are about to defend their theses can take [...] -
FAPESP and Innovation Fund Denmark will fund new research projects
Published on August 15, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Innovation Fund Denmark (IFD) announce the result of a call for research proposals issued in November, 2016. Three projects were selected and will be conduct by researchers in the State of São Paulo and in Denmark within the food science area. FAPESP and the IFD funding may cover research and travel expenses (for example, payroll expenses, research training, equipment, travel costs, living allowances and insurance costs) according to each [...] -
FAPESP and Newton Fund will support the interchange of researchers
Published on August 15, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Newton Fund announce a call for proposals to provide financial support for researchers from the State of São Paulo to visit an institution in the UK and researchers from the UK to visit an institution in the State of São Paulo. The call for proposals will provide financial support for early and established career researchers to undertake an international research placement to strengthen links for future collaboration, [...] -
FAPESP and BBSRC will fund new research
Published on August 03, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) will fund new research focussing on anti-microbial resistance and insect pest resistance in agriculture. The joint Newton Fund call for proposals will be open to submissions in October 2017 with FAPESP specific guidelines for researchers in the State of São Paulo. A workshop at FAPESP’s auditorium in 5-6 October will provide opportunities for [...] -
SPRINT opens third call for proposals in 2017
Published on August 02, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) announces the third call for proposals in 2017 under the SPRINT – São Paulo Researchers in International Collaboration initiative. The call for proposals has the purpose of promoting the engagement of researchers affiliated to institutions of higher education and research in the State of São Paulo in partnership with researchers abroad in order to: further develop qualitatively the ongoing research projects and work [...] -
SPRINT has selected projects for its first call for proposals in 2017
Published on July 27, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) announces the result of the first call for proposals in 2017 under the SPRINT - São Paulo Researchers in International Collaboration initiative. The call for proposals has the purpose of promoting the engagement of researchers affiliated with higher education and research institutions in the State of São Paulo in partnership with researchers abroad in order to: further develop qualitatively the ongoing research projects and work cooperatively, [...] -
FAPESP and CDTI will fund innovative research
Published on July 27, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Centro para el Desarrollo Tecnológico Industrial (CDTI) announce the first call for research proposals under the cooperation agreement between the institutions. The call aims to promote and facilitate bilateral research and innovation projects between entities from the State of São Paulo and from Spain. The call is open to projects from any sector and it will be developed in one phase for Brazil and in two phases for [...] -
FAPESP and Intel announce new call for proposals
Published on July 25, 2017FAPESP and Intel announce a new call for proposals under the under the cooperation agreement between the institutions. The subject of the call is academic research on the novel approaches to employ Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in the context of security and cryptography, and the associated vertical domains. FPGAs are expected to cause a major positive impact on the security of areas such as Automotive, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles/Drones, Artificial Intelligence, [...]