Tomorrow (Nov. 17, 2014 at 16:00 hrs UK time/12:00 hrs Brazil time) is the deadline for Newton Fund RCUK-CONFAP public call, launched to provide up to financial support for short-termed, small-scaled research, for establishing sustainable collaborations between United Kingdom and Brazilian researchers.

Applications that address the following areas will be particularly welcomed:

–   Health

–   Urban transformations

–   Food, energy, water, environment nexus

–   Biodiversity and ecosystems

–   Economic development and welfare reform

Every information regarding eligibility, criteria and resources is in the public call (and can be seen in this link).  More at http://confap.org.br/news/en/newton-fund-publishes-call-notice-for-collaboration-between-brazilian-and-british-researchers/. Successful grants will be announced in December 2014.

This is the first Newton Fund call in Brazil. The second one – open till Nov.22, 2014, at 12a.m. Brasília time – is aimed at applications for the first round of the Fellowships scheme under the auspices of the Newton Fund.

The Fellowships scheme provides young and senior researchers who hold a permanent academic post or postdoctoral fellowship/position which extends beyond the period of the grant in a UK Research Institution with the opportunity to develop academic research at Universities or Institutions in Brazil.

Awards last for between 6 months to 36 months and are available to support researchers across the natural sciences including engineering; clinical or patient-oriented research; social sciences and humanities.

The FAPs (excluding The State Funding Agency of São Paulo, FAPESP) offer:

• Scholarship: for Young Researchers in the amount of R$ 7,000.00 monthly; and for Senior Researchers, who have completed a PhD programme more than seven years ago, the amount of R$ 10,000.00 monthly.
• Travel support: airline tickets and health insurance.
• Scholarship: for one undergraduate student to assist the Researcher.
• Grant in the amount of R$ 25,000.00 every six months.

FAPESP offers support for visiting researchers who must be associated to a FAPESP PI (co-applicant) in charge of an ongoing grant of the following types: Thematic, Young Investigator, or Research, Innovation, and Diffusion of Knowledge Centers. The FAPESP support comprises:

• Scholarship: ranging from R$ 9,148.80 to R$ 13,653.60 (the amount is to be suggested by the host investigator and reviewed under individual merit and confirmed by FAPESP).
• Travel support: airline ticket and health insurance.

Scholarship: for on undergraduate student to assist the Researcher.

• Grant: The PI in charge of the grant to which the visitor will be associated may request from FAPESP supplementary funds of up to R$ 25,000.00 for every six months of the visitor’s stay. These funds are to be used for research related consumable materials, services, and travel.
• Post-doctoral scholarship: in case of visitors staying for 36 months.

Applicants must have a UK based collaborator as their co-applicant.

Registrations can be made through the website http://confap.org.br, on the page marked as Newton Fund. After filling the registration form, the candidate researcher must send it to the email fundonewton@confap.org.br, except if he if he is from Rio de Janeiro or São Paulo, in which case he should send it to, respectively, fundonewton-faperj2014@faperj.br (FAPERJ)  and chamada_ukacademies@fapesp.br (FAPESP).

The list of FAPs participants may be found at: http://confap.org.br

A third Memorandum of Understanding was signed Oct. 16, 2014. It´s aimed at giving financial support for workshops that may foster research partnerships between British and Brazilian researchers.

Source: CONFAP’s press office