FAPESP and MIT will organize joint Calls for Proposals so that researchers at MIT and researchers associated to public or private Higher Education or Research Institutions in the State of São Paulo can request seed funds for starting a collaboration.
The researchers at MIT will use their MISTI Program (http://mit.edu/misti/faculty/seed.html) while researchers in São Paulo must be Principal Investigators of ongoing research projects funded by FAPESP within the following schemes: Regular Research Awards, Thematic Projects, Young Investigators, or Research, Innovation and Dissemination Centres (CEPIDs/RIDCs), to submit projects for the exchange of researchers between the State of São Paulo, Brazil and the USA, under the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.
- Call for proposals (announced on June 3, 2011)
- Call for proposals 2010
- Web page for the MIT MISTI Brazil Seed Funds Program: http://mit.edu/misti/mit-brazil/faculty/seed.html