Collaborate with researchers in Brazil

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and FAPESP have renewed their memorandum of understanding (MoU) to support collaborative applications for five years. The MoU provides for a lead agency assessment whereby participant UKRI research councils receive and assess joint applications from eligible UK and Brazil-based researchers from the state of São Paulo on behalf of both organisations. UKRI and FAPESP will co-fund applications submitted to participant UKRI councils' selected applicant-led mode funding opportunities. Collaborative research applications led by UK applicants, with São Paulo-based researchers, may be submitted in any single or cross-disciplinary area which fits within the remit of the participating research councils (AHRC, BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC, MRC, NERC, STFC). UK and São Paulo-based applicants should ensure that their joint applications are well balanced, with clear roles and objectives, and equivalent research effort attributed to both sides of the collaboration. Applications under the lead agency agreement can now be made until December 2030 but applicants should check closing dates of specific funding opportunities.