Annual Report FAPESP 2019

This annual report on FAPESP’s activities in 2019 details the results of the its investment in scientific and technological research using funds transferred by a constitutional mandate from the São Paulo State Treasury, and from other sources. It highlights FAPESP’s contributions to the advancement of science and innovation in São Paulo and its impact on solutions to economic and social challenges. The main funding instruments are scholarships/fellowships and research grants awarded to further six funding strategies: 1) Training of Human Resources for S&T; 2) Basic and Applied Research (Research for Knowledge Advancement); 3) Research for Innovation; 4) Research on Strategic Themes; 5) Support for Research Infrastructure; and 6) Communicating Science to the Public (Knowledge Diffusion). Clarifying the content of these six strategies, they can be said to translate respectively into: 1) scholarships/fellowships in Brazil and abroad to support the training of human resources for academic and technological research; 2) support for long-term research and regular research grants; 3) research in partnership with companies; 4) strategic projects in areas such as biodiversity, bioenergy, climate change, and public policy; 5) support for modernization and conservation of research installations; and 6) dissemination and diffusion of scientific and technological research findings. The indicators of the results of funding instruments are: amounts disbursed, numbers of active projects, and numbers of projects contracted from January to December. These results are presented in the report in connection with the funding strategies. The classification of funding instruments – scholarships/fellowships and research grants – by funding strategy provides insight into to the objectives of FAPESP’s investment in research because it accounts for all types of funding lines and distinguishes among support for long- and short-term research projects, support for projects selected in calls for proposals and for projects submitted spontaneously, support for human resource training, support for scientific exchange, and support for research infrastructure, among others. FAPESP Management: Marco Antonio Zago (President); Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz (Scientific director – until April 26, 2020); Luiz Eugênio Mello (Scientific director – beginning April 27, 2020); Carlos Américo Pacheco (Chief executive); Fernando Dias Menezes de Almeida (Administrative director).

Autoria: FAPESP

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