{"id":108754,"date":"2010-09-01T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T12:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=108754"},"modified":"2016-06-03T13:12:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-03T16:12:22","slug":"combined-efforts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/combined-efforts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Combined efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"LAURA DAVI\u00f1A<\/span><\/p>\n

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The internationalization of research in S\u00e3o Paulo state has become the target of a set of FAPESP initiatives. One of the examples of this strategy was seen in S\u00e3o Paulo, in early August, when 350 Brazilian and foreign graduate students plus 20 experts of several nationalities met, to honor the American mathematician John Nash and to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Nash Equilibrium, the theorem that forms the cornerstone of game theory. The speakers included four Nobel Prize laureates: John Nash himself, who was awarded the prize in 1994, Robert Aumann, the 2005 laureate, and Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson, the 2007 laureates. This was the fourth event held as part of the ESPCA program (S\u00e3o Paulo School of Advanced Science Program), a form of FAPESP aid designed to increase the international exposure of those areas in which S\u00e3o Paulo research has achieved world standards of competitiveness. Released last year, the program enables S\u00e3o Paulo researchers to organize short courses of one or two weeks, to which professors from around the world and from S\u00e3o Paulo state must be invited. It is a requirement that the courses be attended by a certain number of students, at least half of whom must be from abroad. \u201cIn this way, we plan to garner global exposure for these research areas, in order to awaken foreign students\u2019 interest in working as scientists here in S\u00e3o Paulo,\u201d said the scientific director of FAPESP, Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, in an interview to Pesquisa Brasil<\/i> [Brasil Research], a Pesquisa FAPESP<\/i> radio program. \u201cWe want to show them what is best here in S\u00e3o Paulo. The public calls establish that each event is to include a reserved session in which someone from FAPESP presents the Foundation and the research opportunities available in S\u00e3o Paulo state. I did this presentation at three such events with an excellent reception. There were lots of questions and the students from several places abroad, such as Chile, the United States, France, China and India, seemed genuinely interested\u201d he states. The program provides for two public calls a year; the third call should be published shortly.<\/p>\n

The Foundation\u2019s internationalization strategy brings together a set of other efforts, such as cooperation agreements with agencies, companies and\/or scientific institutions in Germany, Canada, the United States, France, Mexico, Portugal, the United Kingdom and Switzerland (see list of agreements here<\/a>). One such example is the cooperation agreement signed in 2004 with France\u2019s CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), which aims to encourage an interchange of scientists and the submission of joint projects from researchers at S\u00e3o Paulo institutions and their French colleagues. To date, this has given rise to four calls for proposals and has provided grants for 27 projects. Likewise, FAPESP has an agreement with DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft), Germany\u2019s main research promotion agency. Last year, the Foundation established a bridge to British research, when it signed cooperation agreements with RCUK (the Research Councils of the United Kingdom) and with King\u2019s College London, which became the first British university to partner FAPESP.<\/p>\n

Foreign institutions have been showing a rising interest in partnering S\u00e3o Paulo researchers. Last month, for instance, six representatives of CAS (the Chinese Academy of Sciences) visited FAPESP headquarters in S\u00e3o Paulo with the aim of initiating scientific collaborations. \u201cWe wanted to find out how agencies such as FAPESP operate,\u201d commented Pan Jiaofeng, the CAS secretary-general. \u201cWe are especially interested in biomass, biodiversity and the neurosciences.\u201d According to him, this was the first visit to Brazil. \u201cThere is concern as to how we select the areas of priority,\u201d said Celso Lafer, the FAPESP chairman. \u201cWe talked about the possibility of future cooperation and agreed to explore this at a later date.\u201d<\/p>\n

To attract foreign researchers, opportunities for FAPESP post-doctoral grants are offered in monthly advertisements in the journal Nature<\/i> and on the Foundation\u2019s website, in Portuguese and English. The Foundation\u2019s major initiatives, such as the Biota program, which studies S\u00e3o Paulo state biodiversity, the Bioen program, which researches bioenergy, and the Program of Research into Global Climate Change have been holding workshops and seminars attended by foreign researchers, in order to encourage the participation of S\u00e3o Paulo state researchers in international networks and to keep them in contact with the state of the art in their respective fields of knowledge. \u201cThere\u2019s no silver bullet to solve complicated problems, because there are many points to be resolved. That\u2019s why, when it comes to the issue of making S\u00e3o Paulo research more international, it\u2019s important to maintain several articulated initiatives,\u201d stated Brito Cruz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FAPESP resorts to make S\u00e3o Paulo research more competitive abroad \r\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[234],"coauthors":[98],"class_list":["post-108754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policies-st-en","tag-finance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108754"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=108754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}