FAPESP Sprint aims to promote the engagement of researchers affiliated to higher education and research institutions in the state of São Paulo in partnership with researchers abroad to:
1.1. Improve ongoing research projects; and
1.2. Work cooperatively aiming at the elaboration of joint medium- and long-term research projects, for submission to FAPESP by researchers from São Paulo, and to partnering funding agencies by their foreign colleagues.
There are two possibilities for the International Collaboration Proposal:
- Partner researchers from any foreign research institution which provides travel resources from their university or grants awarded by a research funding agency.
- Foreign research institutions that have confirmed conditions for receiving collaboration proposals with funding for scientific missions to research institutions in São Paulo State (please see list below)
Who is eligible
FAPESP considers eligible to submit proposals to this call:
- Principal Investigators of ongoing research projects funded by FAPESP within the following FAPESP funding modalities: Regular Research Awards (excluding mobility projects), Thematic Projects, Young Investigators, Initial Projects (Pi), Generation, Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centers (CEPIDs), Engineering Research Centers/Applied Research Centers (CPEs/CPAs), Science Centers for Development (CCDs), Public Education Research Program (PPPP), Research in Public Policies, and Research Partnership for Technological Innovation (PITE). Co-Principal Investigators of ongoing Thematic Projects, CEPIDs, CPEs, CPAs and PITEs are also eligible to apply.
- Each researcher can present only one proposal to this Call.
- The ongoing research project linked to this proposal must have a minimum of six months duration left by the scheduled beginning of the mobility project.
- FAPESP may accept proposals submitted to this call linked to research proposals that are still undergoing merit review. However, if the research proposal is still under analysis or has not been approved by the time the proposals in this Call are selected, the related mobility proposal will be cancelled.
What is offered
FAPESP will match funding up to the limit of US$10.000,00 (ten thousand dollars) per year, per project, and with a duration of up to 24 months.
Up to the limit equivalent to US$10,000.00 (ten thousand dollars) per year, funds can be requested for the mobility of researchers, according to FAPESP standards, with reference to the objectives in item 1 of this Call for Proposals and must be must be requested individually for each researcher and per scientific mission :
- Air tickets
- Health insurance
- Living allowances
FAPESP will support the researchers from the state of São Paulo in scientific missions at the Partner Institution, and the Partner Institution (or another funding body) will support the researchers from the partner country carrying out scientific missions in the state of São Paulo.
The grant can only be used for the exchange of researchers, visits for research planning, participation in workshops, and initial data collection activities to maintain research collaboration and its consolidation.