Funding

More money for science in the USA

The US House of Representatives passed a bill expanding the budgets of research-funding agencies in the country

Committed effort

Survey finds investment in cancer research has fallen in Brazil

André Tortato Rauen: Research focused on mission

Economist from IPEA suggests bolder investment that tackles society’s greatest challenges in addition to basic science

A system imbalance

Gender inequality in distribution of productivity-based grants by the CNPq

Refining business statistics

Refining business statistics

Public R&D funding in São Paulo

Time to face the numbers

Economic crisis and high unemployment rate boost the number of FIES debtors

Turbulence on the horizon for postgraduate education

Uncertainties arise as assessment of Brazilian graduate programs goes to court

Renato Janine Ribeiro: There is no development without science

The new president of SBPC says Brazil lacks an awareness of the influence of research on economic and social prosperity

Rapid response to an extreme crisis

With funding from FAPESP, São Paulo’s scientific community came together to confront the health emergency, shows 2020 Activities Report

RISB and the fourth industrial revolution

Industry 4.0 is revolutionizing the means of production through coordinated use of the information generated and managed by production monitoring systems

Soraya Smaili: Bringing science closer to society

Soraya Smaili, a former dean at UNIFESP, discusses the goals of a new think tank devoted to developing policy proposals for higher education and science funding

New quality metrics

Universities and funding agencies search for more comprehensive metrics to assess researchers

R&D intensity in national productive structures

Of the various data used to calculate a country’s GDP, the output of different economical sectors is of particular importance

Innovation enablers

Limited public and private investment in strategic and potentially disruptive technologies threatens competitiveness in Brazilian industry

INPE under pressure

Brazil’s most important space research center celebrates its 60^th anniversary with a reduced budget, research projects facing uncertain futures, and major challenges ahead

ERC president

German geneticist Maria Leptin will be the new president of the European Research Council

Boost for startups

Government passes bill to encourage investment in small innovative companies in Brazil

Public R&D funding

Government expenditure on R&D in relation to GDP

Learning at the turn of the century

Research examines enrollment and attendance rates to measure Brazil’s progress in education

A compass for science

CAPES and CNPq have each played a central role in building the research ecosystem in Brazil

The American strategy

The United States plans to invest heavily in STI to accelerate its economic recovery and respond to China's threat to its technological leadership

Science on the ropes

Successive budget cuts have eroded Brazil’s capacity to fund research

Direct funding to Africa

In April, African health experts published an open letter in the journal Nature Medicine, addressed to international funders of studies on health problems in Africa

Whence the money

A new study analyzes scientometric data to track the sources of funding for Brazilian research and assess the level of internationalization

In search of improvement

Investing in the training of teachers and the sharing of knowledge between schools helps improve student performance

More money for science in the USA

US President Joe Biden presented the country’s 2022 budget in April

A sigh of relief

New legislation to reduce the use of animals in scientific research in Brazil

Understand the long-term effects

The US NIH announced a plan to invest US$1.15 billion over the next four years into research on the long-term effects of COVID-19

More funding for science in the UK

The British government has announced plans to create a new funding agency in the country, known as the Advanced Research and Invention Agency