Funding

FUNDING

FAPESP Board of Trustees speaks out on LDO

FAPESP Board of Trustees speaks out on the proposed 2025 Budgetary Guidelines bill

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SOCIOLOGY

New center to debate global issues

Center for Critical Imagination: Political Economy and Citizenship (CCI) will hold discussions on global problems

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Data

Industrial expenditure on R&D in Brazil

Graphs show industry R&D spending in Brazil in 2022

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Planning

Preparatory events gather suggestions for the National Conference on Science, Technology, and Innovation

Dozens of meetings held across Brazil bring together the scientific community and other sectors of society

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Projects

More researchers submitting applications

In 2023, FAPESP received 4,483 proposals from researchers who had never before requested funding

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Funding

Fund to identify organizations that support the Black population with Black leadership

Initiative seeks to collect data on inequality and philanthropy

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Human Resources

Open positions at research institutions

Jobs announced by MCTI offer relief, but new hires will not offset the number of staff retiring

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Genetics

Partnership to sequence the genomes of 500,000 Africans

Sequencing the genome of 500,000 Africans could aid medical research

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Health

Open innovation to fight diseases

Center for advanced therapies at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein pursues new treatments for genetic, chronic, and malignant diseases

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Development

Industrial policy retakes the spotlight

Government and private sector propose missions to combat deindustrialization of the Brazilian economy

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INDICATORS

Expanding opportunities for researchers

Annual Report shows that FAPESP increased funding in 2022 and sought to recover from losses caused by the pandemic

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INFRASTRUCTURE

New research facilities

Federal government includes six projects of interest to scientific community in Growth Acceleration Plan

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INDICATORS

Brazilian scientific output suffers decline

Post-pandemic drop in scientific output in Brazil is one of the biggest in the world

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Patents

The end of an era

The end of the FAPESP intellectual property protection program indicates there has been progress in the passing of scientific knowledge onto society

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BIOECONOMY

Sustainability, female subject

Entrepreneurs from the Amazon use innovation and traditional knowledge to create new cosmetics and foods

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OPEN ACCESS

The pain of exclusion

This study finds that discount and waiver policies for the publication of scientific articles with large publishers are limited and fail to consider the difficulties faced by authors from countries such as Brazil

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Technology

India plans national research agency with US$6 billion budget

India planning to create a national funding agency to stimulate research at the country's universities, institutes, and laboratories

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Indicators show a decline in Research and Development in 2020

The pandemic affected private sector investments in Brazil

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Human resources

Strategies for attracting and rewarding talent

Experts discuss how to increase interest in scientific careers among young people and better appreciate the work of researchers in Brazil

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HISTORY

Unkept promises

Liberal ideas and the need for national cohesion inspired early proposals for universal public education, but funding was always limited

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FUNDING

Foreign boost

How science and technology offices linked to the United States Armed Forces fund basic research projects in Brazil

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INTERVIEW

Euclides de Mesquita Neto: The chess game of global science

UNICAMP researcher Euclides de Mesquita Neto discusses the challenges ahead as the executive secretary of the Global Research Council, an association of more than 60 research-funding agencies on all continents

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FAPESP

Five new RIDCs

FAPESP announces five new Research, Innovation, and Dissemination Centers (RIDCs)

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INTERVIEW

Luiz Eugênio Mello: Intense times

Neuroscientist revisits his three years as FAPESP's Scientific Director

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Funding

Research budget for neglected diseases shrinks in Brazil

Funding fluctuated widely between 2004 and 2020, suffering sharp drops with each change of government

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Interview

Luciana Santos: We need new arrangements

The new minister of the MCTI talks about plans to recover public funding for research and how to combat gender inequality in science

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Knowledge production

Analysis of millions of papers and patents suggests science is becoming less disruptive

Study indicates limits on the ability of researchers to change the direction of fields of knowledge

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DATA

Applications by women for FAPESP fellowships and grants

Women applying for more FAPESP fellowships and grants

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Data

Invention patents in Brazil

The number of invention patent applications decreased by 8.2% between 2020 and 2021

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Graduate studies

CAPES assessment finds that quality indicators for master’s and doctoral courses in Brazil have improved

Improvements have been made despite the financial hardships faced by science, with cuts to research funding and falling grant values

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