Funding
Chris Somerville
Christopher Roland Somerville: Alternatives under development
Universities, companies and government take joint action to make biofuels
Cover
Heaven cannot wait
Redefinition of the space program aims to speed up the launching of satellites
Indicators
Advances and challenges
Analysis shows the strength of research and development in São Paulo
John Beddington
John Beddington: The “Sir” of science
Chief Scientific Advisor to the British government is interviewed
By Carlos Fioravanti and Maria Guimarães
Promotion
More time for research
Universities creates services to cut red tape in researchers' routine
Internationalization
Quality and experience
Special program attracts visiting professors to Unicamp from abroad
Luiz Eugênio Mello
Luiz Eugênio Mello: Thinking about the future
Head of Vale Technology Institute talks about the R&D projects
internationalization
Combined efforts
FAPESP resorts to make São Paulo research more competitive abroad
Infrastructure
Collection multiplied
FAPESP's FAP-Books Program earmarks R$33.9 million to buy 165,000 titles
Acknowledgement
Between the laboratory and the office
Oscar Sala combined scientific excellence and institutional leadership
Cooperation
Embracing partnerships
FAPESP and Vale sign agreement to invest R$40 million in projects
Collaboration
Important partnership agreements
FAPESP enters into cooperation agreements with UK research councils
biodiversity
The next ten years
Researchers prepare strategies for the future of the Programa Biota-FAPESP
institution
Bottlenecks in development
IPT plans to network solutions for leading technological themes
collaboration
Networking movement
Meeting of the FAPs discuss the ways of leveraging resources for research
climatic changes
Eclectic cast
FAPESP program announces winning projects in its first call for proposals
climatic changes
Effort on three fronts
Agreement encourages collaboration between São Paulo, Pernambuco and France