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Science and Technology in the State
of São Paulo, Brazil
Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz
Science Director
São Paulo Research Foundation, FAPESP
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State of São Paulo,
Brasil
42
32%
45%
13%
Million people
of Brazil’s GDP
of Brazilian science
of State budget to HE
and R&D
1.7% GDP for R&D
3
3+1
52
45%
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State Universities
Federal H.E. institutions
State Tech Faculties
of the PhDs graduated in
Brazil (6,131 in 2014)
Research Institutes (19
state/3 federal)
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The State of São Paulo has a distinct
funding policy
• Funding for the state universities is a fixed percentage
(9.57%) of the sales tax
• Funding for FAPESP is 1% of total state fiscal revenues
– Stability and Autonomy
• Effects
– 25% of the country’s scientists create 44% of the scientific
articles and supervise 40% of the doctoral thesis concluded
each year
– Intense university-industry research interaction
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FAPESP’s main programs
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Some of FAPESP’s main programs
• 12,000 Fellowships (3,000 SI, 2,600 MSc, 4,000 DrSc, 1,800 Post-docs, 800 other)
• Research grants
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11 Centers for Research, Innovation and Diffusion (CEPID) - 11 years funding
312 Young Investigator Awards – 4 years funding
419 Thematic Research Projects – 5 years funding
3,983 Regular Research Grants – 2 years funding
• Special Programs
– Biota: Virtual Institute for Biodiversity − BIOEN: Bioenergy Research
– PFGCC: Global Climate Change Research − Neurosciences: Epillepsy (using imaging)
– IT and Advanced Internet
− Large, multiuser research instruments
• Application oriented research
– Joint University – Industry (PITE)
– Small bussiness research (PIPE)
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FAPESP international collaboration:
bringing foreign scientists to SP
• International agreements and
collaborations
• Doctorate Fellowships
• Post Doctoral Fellowships
• Young Scientist Award
• São Paulo Excellence Chairs (SPEC)
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FAPESP: international agreements for
joint research funding
• Agreements with foreign funding agencies, universities
and companies
RCUK (UK)
KCL; Surrey;Southampton;Nottingham (UK)
DFG (Ge)
CNRS; ANR (Fr)
INSERM;INRIA;INRA (Fr)
U. Toronto (Ca)
U. W. Ontario (Ca)
Hebrew Univ. Jerusalem (Israel)
UE-CNPq (Bioenergy)
CONICET (Ar); CONICYT (Ch)
ISTP (Ca)
NSF (U.S.) – CNIC and ICC
Microsoft Research
MIT (U.S.)
FCT (Portugal)
Belmont Forum – Future Earth
• 303 joint proposals supported, 2005-2010
– U.S 115; France 87; Germany 41; U.K. 27; Argentina 11; Canada
8; Portugal 8
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Thank you!
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