FAPESP and BBSRC will launch a call for proposals in early 2015

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Agência FAPESP* –Agência FAPESP – In early 2015, the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), a UK Research Council, will launch a joint funding call in the strategic priority area of Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy.
The aim is to advance the excellent scientific relationships developed between UK and Brazilian scientists and encourage new partnerships to develop integrated biorefinery approaches for the manufacture of advanced biofuels, producing industrially relevant scientific outputs which can be taken up by a global industry.
Joint UK-Brazil projects of significant scale, and up to 5 years duration, will be encouraged to address challenges such as: Enzyme design and development; Control and/or optimization feedstock attributes; and Development of novel high-yielding fermentative organisms.
This call has been announced by Duncan Eggar, from BBSRC, speaking at the Brazilian Bioenergy Science and Technology Conference (BBEST) in São Paulo, in October 2014.
Further details of this activity will be available later this year. This announcement is also available at: www.bbsrc.ac.uk/funding/opportunities/2015/joint-fapesp-advanced-biofuels.aspx.

<p><b>Agência FAPESP</b> – In early 2015, the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), a UK Research Council, will launch a joint funding call in the strategic priority area of Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy.</p>
<p>The aim is to advance the excellent scientific relationships developed between UK and Brazilian scientists and encourage new partnerships to develop integrated biorefinery approaches for the manufacture of advanced biofuels, producing industrially relevant scientific outputs which can be taken up by a global industry.</p>
<p>Joint UK-Brazil projects of significant scale, and up to 5 years duration, will be encouraged to address challenges such as: Enzyme design and development; Control and/or optimization feedstock attributes; and Development of novel high-yielding fermentative organisms.</p>
<p>This call has been announced by Duncan Eggar, from BBSRC, speaking at the Brazilian Bioenergy Science and Technology Conference (<b><a href="http://www.bbest.org.br/" target="_blank">BBEST</a></b>) in São Paulo, in October 2014.</p>
<p>Further details of this activity will be available later this year. This announcement is also available at: <b><a href="http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/funding/opportunities/2015/joint-fapesp-advanced-biofuels.aspx" target="_blank">www.bbsrc.ac.uk/funding/opportunities/2015/joint-fapesp-advanced-biofuels.aspx</a></b>.<br />
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