Venue: Faculty of Medicine of Universidad Complutense de Madrid – Sala Profesor Botella (1st floor)
Pza. Ramón y Cajal, s/n – Ciudad Universitaria
The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Complutense University of Madrid are glad to invite to FAPESP Week Spain.
The symposium aims at strengthening the links between researchers from São Paulo and Spain to promote research partnerships.
The discussions hope to catalyse new multidisciplinary research collaborations and will cover a range of themes.
FAPESP is one of the major research funding agencies in Latin America and, since 2011, has been holding FAPESP Week that helped create an environment for scientific collaboration between Brazilian and foreign researchers with shared or complementary interests. This is the 23rd edition.
Themes:
• Spain-Brazil relations
• History of Brazil
• Medical Humanities
• Biotechnology
• Soil Health in the context of Digital Agriculture
• Circular Economy
• Climate Change and Biodiversity
• Innovation and industry collaboration
São Paulo Research Foundation
FAPESP is one of the major research funding agencies in Latin America. Funded by the public taxpayer, its mission is to foster scientific research in all fields of knowledge by awarding scholarships, fellowships and grants to investigators linked with higher education and research institutions based in the State of São Paulo, Brazil.
The State of São Paulo has a population of 45 million and generates 32% of Brazil’s GDP. Under the State Constitution 1% of all state taxes are appropriated to fund FAPESP, which was put in motion in 1962.
The stability of the funding and the autonomy of the foundation allow for an efficient management of the resources that has had a sizable impact: while São Paulo has 16% of the Brazilian population and over 30% of the scientists with a doctorate in the country, the state responds for close to half of the country’s scientific articles published in international journals.
The effectiveness of research carried out in São Paulo is the combined result of several factors that include the quality of the state’s universities and institutes, the extraordinary productivity of its researchers, high rates of participation by private São Paulo-based companies that function within the state’s R&D outlays, São Paulo’s outstanding infrastructure, and the existence of FAPESP.
FAPESP is aware that the very best research can only be done by working with the best researchers internationally. Therefore, it has established partnerships with funding agencies, private companies, higher education and research organizations in other countries known by the quality of their research. With this, has been encouraging scientists funded by its grants to further develop their international collaboration. Agreements are listed here: fapesp.br/acordos/en.
As part of these efforts, FAPESP has organized FAPESP WEEKs in several countries, including in Argentina, Belgium, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, and Uruguay. Read more about the symposia at https://fapesp.br/fapespweek.
In 2023 FAPESP applied $ PPP 560 million in scholarships/fellowships and grants. In accordance with the Foundation’s funding strategies, 54,7% of expenditure was dedicated to Basic and Applied Research, 18.8% to Human Resources for Research, 8.5% to support Research Infrastructure, 9.0% to Research for Innovation, 7.2% Strategic Research and 1.8% was allocated to Diffusion, mapping and evaluation of research (source: https://fapesp.br/publicacoes/report2023.pdf).
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
The Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) is a Spanish public university founded by Cardinal Cisneros in 1499. Since 1836 it has been based in Madrid. It currently has 26 faculties with a long history and broad social recognition, which places it among the first universities in Europe. With students at the center of its activity, the UCM is committed to comprehensive and critical training at the highest level and has a vast offer of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees widely accepted in the labor market. In recent years, an average of 70,000 students have received training in its classrooms.
Its great research potential is reflected in the international leadership position occupied by many of its groups, and in its commitment to the development of poles of excellence based on large networks of high-quality groups. It also promotes emerging research groups and integrates young researchers, linking research with training at all undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is home to two Unique Scientific-Technological Facilities on the Spanish national map (National Center for Electron Microscopy and BioImagen Complutense).
The activity of the UCM responds to the principles of democracy, transparency, campus sustainability, real and virtual accessibility, environmental preservation and commitment to the social and economic environment. In addition, the academic and research excellence of the UCM has been endorsed by the qualification of the Campus of International Excellence in the highest category "A-Good Progress" within the European Commission initiative HRS4R - Human Resources Strategy for Researchers.
