FAPESP will hold the executive secretariat of the Global Research Council from September

June 01, 2022

FAPESP Agency – In September, FAPESP will hold the Executive Secretariat of the Global Research Council (GRC), An organization that brings together more than 60 public research financial institutions from all continents. The announcement was made yesterday (31/05), the first day of the GRC Annual Meeting in Panama until Friday (03/06). Since its inception in 2012, this responsibility has been vested in the National Science Foundation (NSF, USA), the German Research Foundation (DFG, Germany) and the United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI, United Kingdom). Kingdom).

“Our participation in the GRC is part of the Foundation’s efforts towards internationalization. The fact that we have the company’s executive secretariat is a result of FAPESP’s value among international organizations and will definitely contribute to our greater presence on the world stage, “said Marco Antonio Jako, President of FAPESP.

The Executive Secretariat is one of the three components of the GRC’s management structure. Governing Body (Board of Directors) and The Admin Support Panel (Admin Support Panel). Its role is to mediate the Council’s relationship with participating financial institutions and to regulate the communication and communication framework for other GRC events.

“During the UKRI period, the functions of the Executive Secretariat were greatly expanded and played a very active role in the formulation of GRC policy,” said Luiz Eugênio Mello, FAPESP’s Director of Science.

In addition, GRC plans to significantly expand its operations and strategies. “Over the past few years, GRC has built a vision to be a forum with great potential for developing multidisciplinary funding mechanisms for research and innovation,” said Euclides de Mesquida Neto, assistant coordinator for special projects and collaboration at FAPESP Research. . He will hold the position of Executive Secretary of the GRC, with Carolina Oliveira Martின்nez Costa as Research Cooperation Consultant and Assistant.

The possibility of increasing funding for multidisciplinary activities is on the agenda of the GRC Annual Meeting in Panama, which coincides with the other two events. One of them, advertised by FAPESP and the Netherlands Scientific Research Organization (NWO), was about the opportunities for research contribution to the sustainable development of the Amazon. The event was co-chaired by Anita Horton of NWO and Mello of FAPESP, with the participation of Carlos Amerigo Pacheco, Director-Chairman of the Foundation’s Technology-Executive Council and Odir Delacostin, President of the National Council. Foundations Research Support (Confap).

“The purpose of this event is to integrate financial institutions that support or plan to support research on the Amazon, with the aim of developing tools that will encourage researchers to submit projects for sustainable regional development, including local actors in the field of research, grants. Contribute ”, details Mello (read more: agencia.fapesp.br/38765)

The second page event assessed the constitutional challenges of the multidisciplinary fund for research, which also relies on the participation of the FAPESP’s Director of Science.

Next year’s meeting of the GRC will be held in the Netherlands and will include FAPESP in conjunction with the NWO. As a co-host, he becomes a part of FAPESP’s Director of Science Governing BodyFor the term of office from 2022 to 2023.

FAPESP has been part of the GRC since 2012 and the Executive Support Group since 2017. In 2019, it hosted the 8th Annual GRC Annual Meeting with the DFG and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones la Técíficasy la Técíficasy in Sவோo Paulo. República Argentina (Conicet) and Gonicet, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Conacyt, from Paraguay), in collaboration with the Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering Research (NSERC) and the NSF – a series of scientific webinars held in 2020 on the epidemic of COVID-19.

GRC is central to FAPESP’s internationalization strategy. Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, FAPESP’s Director of Science between 2005 and April 2020, with all his belongings as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Celso Lafarge, former President of FAPESP, took important steps so that today we can achieve these results and achieve explicit recognition. . For FAPESP, the GRC is not a government policy, but a state policy, ”the FAPESP’s director of science insists.

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