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FAPESP and British Council will fund training courses
Published on April 17, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the British Council announce a new call for proposals to support the organization of short courses for the development of professional communication skills under the Researcher Connect program. The call for proposals is supported by the Newton Fund. The same opportunity is being offered in other Brazilian states by the state research foundations (FAPs) which participate in the call, with articulation by the Brazilian [...] -
FAPESP and the British Council announce call for research workshops
Published on April 13, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the British Council announce a new call for proposals to support the organization of research workshops. The call aims to provide financial support to bring together a UK/São Paulo State cohort of early career researchers to take part in workshops focusing on building links for future collaboration and enhancing career opportunities. The initiative is announced under the scope of the Researcher Links program, supported by [...] -
FAPESP and Statoil will fund research center
Published on April 12, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and Statoil, a Norwegian multinational energy company, will fund an Engineering Research Center in Reservoir and Production Management (ERC-RPM), in Brazil. The institutions announce a call for proposals for establishing the center, whose focus at a strategic level will be to undertake R&D in to: Production optimization; Enhanced / Increased Oil Recovery; and Water handling. The plan for the selected ERC-RPM should include [...] -
Brazil will have a new energies research center
Published on April 12, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and BG E&P Brasil, a member of the Shell Group of Companies, will fund a research center for new energies in the State of São Paulo, Brazil. The parties jointly announced a call for proposals for the New Energies Research Center (NERC) in four strategic divisions: Dense Energy Carriers, Advanced Energy Storage, Methane to Products, and Computational Material Science. The Center will aim to have positive and sustainable societal [...] -
FAPESP and M-ERA.Net announce 2017 call for proposal
Published on April 06, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) is receiving submissions for the M-ERA.Net 2017 call for proposals. Researchers associated with higher education and research institutions and companies in the State of São Paulo can participate. M-ERA.NET is an EU funded network which has been established to support and increase the coordination of European research and innovation programmes and related funding in materials science and engineering. The objective of the [...] -
FAPESP and Trans-Atlantic Platform announce result of call for proposals
Published on March 28, 2017The Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and fifteen other international research funders today jointly awarded approximately $9.2 million to international teams investigating how large-scale computational techniques may be applied to answering research questions in the humanities and social sciences. These teams will be pursuing research in numerous areas, including musicology, economics, linguistics, political science, and history. Each of the fourteen winning teams [...] -
Workshops with German and São Paulo researchers will be funded
Published on March 24, 2017The São Paulo Research Fountation (FAPESP) and the Bavarian State Ministry of Education, Science and the Arts (StMBW) – represented by the Bavarian Academic Center for Latin America (BAYLAT) – announce a new call for proposals. The 2017 call is designed to provide financial support to bring together a Bavaria-São Paulo cohort of early career researchers and PhD students who are about to defend their thesis to take part in workshops focusing on building [...] -
FAPESP and IBM announce result of call for proposals
Published on March 16, 2017FAPESP and IBM announce the result of the first call for proposals under the cooperation agreement between the institutions. Eight research projects will be funded. The projects will be conducted by researchers in the State of São Paulo with the goal to generate knowledge about cognitive computing. The emphasis of the call is on computer systems that are able to process and integrate different kinds of data, learn at scale, reason with purpose, and interact with humans naturally. Project [...] -
Call for proposals with BE-Basic has new dates
Published on March 04, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP and the BE-Basic Consortium annouce new dates for the fourth call for research proposals under the memorandum of understanding between the institutions. Elegibility consultation can be made until April 7, 2017 and the new deadline for proposal submission is April 28. The call is open to researchers that are associated to BE-Basic, in the Netherlands, and to non-profit higher education and research institutions in the State of São Paulo. FAPESP has [...] -
FAPESP and UK academies announce the/result of call for proposals
Published on February 16, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) announce the result of a call for proposals to support UK visiting researchers to visit research groups in São Paulo. FAPESP will also offer an opportunity for young investigators from the UK to start a research career in a university or research institution in the State of São Paulo through its Young Investigator Awards. The call was issued in 2016 with the National Council for the State Funding Agencies (CONFAP) and the State Funding Agencies [...] -
SPRINT has selected projects for its third call for proposals in 2016
Published on January 26, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) announces the result of the third call for proposals in 2016 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 King’s College London announce result of call for proposals
Published on January 24, 2017The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and King’s College London, United Kingdom, announce the result of a call for joint research projects issued in 2016. The aim of the call is to promote and strengthen collaboration between researchers affiliated with King’s College London and researchers affiliated with higher education and research institutions in State of São Paulo. The call was open to proposals in all fields of knowledge. Two proposals were jointly selected by the [...] -
FAPESP and Belmont Forum announce new call for proposals
Published on January 20, 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 “Transformations to Sustainability” call for proposals aims to fund basic and applied research by scientists in the State of São Paulo, that will provide scientific basis for actions and policies to be undertaken by governments, private sector and the society at large. The [...]