In June 2025, France will host an exceptional FAPESP Week, as this French edition will be held as part of the Season of Brazil in France (Saison France-Brésil 2025). Its activities will take place in renowned academic places as well as at VIVATECH 2025, Europe's largest innovation fair.
This FAPESP Week will showcase the diversity of partners that give life to Franco-Paulista scientific cooperation: universities, grandes écoles and écoles d'ingénierie, research organizations such as the CNRS and INSERM.
The FAPESP delegation will be made up of authorities, researchers and start-ups, as well as operational staff.
This 25th edition of the FW will take place in two cities: Toulouse and Paris.
In Toulouse, the two topics that will be addressed are health and aeronautics.
Health, in partnership with CRCT INSERM, CNRS and Université de Toulouse, with the support of CHU de Toulouse, Fondation Toulouse Cancer Santé, EUR CARe, Toulouse Métropole, Eurobiomed, SFR B2S and Mairie de Toulouse.
This workshop franco-paulista on health will be the second after the first edition in São Paulo in June 2024.
Dates: from June 10 to 12, 2025
Aeronautics, with the ISAE-SUPAERO engineering school
Dates: from June 10 to 12, 2025
In Toulouse, there will be 4 startups taking part in this stage: 2 in Health/Biotech and 2 in aeronautics.
Toulouse, Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Jacques
Toulouse, ISAE-SUPAERO
In Paris, the topics will be museology and forests/biodiversity.
Forests/biodiversity, with a scientific forum on “Forests, biodiversity and human societies”, in partnership with the Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN)
Dates: from June 16 to 18, 2025
In Paris, 10 startups brought by FAPESP will also take part in Vivatech 2025 (June 11-14, 2025), 4 of which will also go to Toulouse.
Paris, Museum national d’Histoire naturelle
São Paulo Research Foundation
The State of São Paulo corresponds to 3% of Brazil's territory, but the state accounts for 1/3 of Brazilian GDP and produces over 40% of the country's scientific output. The state's research and innovation ecosystem is extremely rich. In and around São Paulo, you'll find some of the best universities in Brazil, including the University of São Paulo (best university in Latin America in 2024, according to the Times Higher Education (THE) ranking), Unicamp and UNESP. Paulist science can benefit from the support of FAPESP.
FAPESP is a public foundation, funded by the taxpayer in the State of São Paulo, with the mission to support research projects in higher education and research institutions, in all fields of knowledge. The constitution of the State establishes that 1% of all state taxes belong to the foundation and the government transfers these funds monthly. 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. FAPESP allocated $ PPP 400.5 million to the funding of 19,692 research projects in 2021, for growth of 3.5% compared with 2020. Investment in the training of human resources in 2021 corresponded to 36.4% of annual disbursement to fund 11,469 scholarships.
Since 2011, FAPESP has been organizing FAPESP Week around the world. These FAPESP “weeks” give visibility to the research developed in the state of São Paulo and supported by FAPESP, strengthen existing collaborations with the partners involved in these FAPESP Weeks and create new cooperation dynamics based on the international cooperation tools of FAPESP and research and innovation funding agencies.
FAPESP Weeks are organized by FAPESP and partners in the chosen country. They can be held in a single institution/city or in two or more institutions/cities in the same region/country. Each FAPESP Week brings together leading researchers from São Paulo and colleagues from the target region in various sequences: presentations, round tables, startup pitches, networking moments. In recent editions of FAPESP Week, FAPESP has also promoted the participation of startups that receive support through one of the various programs created by FAPESP to encourage innovation.
