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The UBBI’s annual Brazil Visiting Fellows Funding Scheme supports Brazilian early career university lecturers or post-doctoral researchers wishing to spend up to three months at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ carrying out identified research projects. The call is now OPEN for applications and will close on the 10 June 2025. Outcomes will be announced by the end of June in order to allow fellows to visit Birmingham from September onwards. Visit here for further information.

Our joint seed fund with UNICAMP is now OPEN. The UBBI-UNICAMP Seed Fund supports collaborative engagement between UoB and UNICAMP to support and strengthen existing faculty-faculty relationships leading to clearly defined outputs. Applications will close on the 19th May 2025. Find out more about the scheme on our website here.

Our new joint seed fund with the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) is now OPEN. The UBBI-USP Seed Fund supports collaborative engagement between UoB and USP to support and strengthen existing faculty-faculty relationships leading to clearly defined outputs.

Applications will close on the 26 May 2025.

Find out more about the scheme on our website here.

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Over a five-year term, the Brazilian federal funding agency for graduate education CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) will support an annual visiting Chair appointment, associated one-year postdoctoral and sandwich PhD fellowships at the UBBI. Fellowships are for six months to one year. The first call closed on 26 January 2024, with successful applicants taking up fellowships in September 2024. The second call opened for applications between August and December 2024, with successful applicants able to take up fellowships from September 2025.

The third call will open for applications between August and December 2025, with successful candidates undertaking their fellowships from September 2026.

Our long-standing pump-priming fund with São Paulo’s state funding agency, FAPESPA (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) has been running since 2011 to support joint research projects and the exchange of researchers and postgraduate students. .

The call funds in any discipline, up to a maximum of £40,000, over a duration of 24 months. The fund covers research-related expenses directly pertaining to the project, as well as travel (air tickets), health insurance, and living allowances for researchers based in Birmingham and the state of São Paulo.

Please find information about the previous call here: . 

The University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ Brazil Institute (UBBI) and FAPESPA are pleased to announce Connect Amazonia 2025, a joint seed funding call to support collaborative research addressing critical challenges in the Amazon region.

The joint seed fund, Connect Amazonia 2025, aims to foster research collaborations between academics from the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ (UoB) and the State of Pará to build capacity and advance research on key Amazonian challenges and related disciplines from a broad spectrum of science and humanities. This includes the themes of global change, energy transition, green economy, public health, bioeconomy, sustainable development, sustainable agriculture, gender equality, traditional knowledge, indigenous rights, biodiversity and forest restoration.

The deadline for submissions is 12 May 2025.

Find out more on our webpage Connect Amazonia: UBBI-FAPESPA Collaboration Fund.

, with closing dates at the end of February, June and October. FAPESP provide up to US$10,000 funding to support mobility opportunities, providing the partner is able to offer some level of match. Awarded grants support research activity over a two-year project term.

Birmingham colleagues are invited to apply to their College or the to secure the matched-funding needed to submit a SPRINT application. Colleagues who submitted bids to the joint UoB-FAPESP call are encouraged to consider SPRINT as an alternative to proceed with their projects on a smaller scale.

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and FAPESP have signed a memorandum of understanding to support collaborative applications between researchers from the UK and the state of São Paulo. This provides for a lead agency agreement whereby participant UKRI research councils (AHRC, BBSRC, ESPRC, ESRC, MRC, NERC and STFC) receive and assess joint applications from eligible UK and Brazil-based researchers from the state of São Paulo on behalf of both organisations. The funding available ranges from £300,000-£1,500,000, depending on the subject area. There is no closing date and applications can be submitted at any time. Visit for further details.

This is a funding collaboration between the AHRC and NERC with Brazilian funders (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and National Council of State Funding Agencies (CONFAP)). The call funds collaborations with Brazilian partners on research expeditions to increase knowledge of biodiversity and socio-cultural diversity of the Amazon. Brazilian leadership of the projects is a requirement. Full economic cost of the UKRI component can be up to £1,000,000, funded at 80% FEC. Projects can be up to three years. The submission deadline is 29 April 2024, with results announced 23 August 2024. .

Round 11 of BactiVac Network catalyst funding for pump priming projects is now OPEN. Funding is available to support collaborations between Network members in bacterial vaccinology to explore new approaches and strategies to advance their vaccines in partnership with LMICs and industry, and acquire the data to support substantive funding applications. BactiVac aims to fund a diversified portfolio of projects to catalyse research in bacterial vaccinology.

The catalyst funds are flexible, typically up to £70,000 GBP and aim to provide deliverables within six months post-award. Projects are required to align to one of the following:

• Focus on pathogens with outbreak potential 
• Tackle the global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) challenge

Submission deadline for applications is 15 June 2025 (23:59 hours UK time)

Full details about the call are available on the website: BactiVac Catalyst Pump Priming Projects. 

For more details and regular updates, please follow BactiVac on X (Twitter) @BactiVac using the hashtag #BactiVacFunding. You can also download the BactiVac Catalyst Funding flyer.

For all queries, please email: bactivac@contacts.bham.ac.uk