The memorandum of understanding with the Fulbright Cooperative Program for Visiting Professors and Researchers from the United States has the following objectives: to increase awareness of science and technology research conducted in Brazil, and in the state of São Paulo in particular, among academics and researchers in the United States; to demonstrate FAPESP’s commitment to the promotion of scientific and technological research at higher education level in the State of Sao Paulo; and to establish new lines of research for FAPESP-funded projects, such as the thematic projects of those conducted at one of the Centers for Research, Innovation and Dissemination (CEPIDs). Ended agreement.