Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)

FAPESP and the National Agency of Recherche (ANR) of France have a cooperation agreement in scientific and technological research to fund projects between researchers from France, and from the State of São Paulo, Brazil.

The collaboration covers the implementation of joint research projects on topics of common interest and the exchange of knowledge and results.

For each of the approved research projects, ANR will assume the funding of the French research teams and FAPESP will assume the same for the teams of the State of São Paulo, according to each country's rules and regulations and the institutions' budget availability.

Agreement - Agreement signed December 22, 2011, validity of five years.

First Amendment - Signed December 21, 2016, validity of five years.

Second Amendment - Signed December 22, 2021, validity of five years.

FAPESP Cooperation Partnerships and Agreements

Research grants

Ongoing (most recent)

Abstract
Sex chromosomes (SC) evolution is a long-standing question in evolutionary biology. H.J. Muller's century-old theory suggests that SC evolve by fixing a new sex-determining gene (SD) on an ancestral autosome. Over time, sex-specific alleles accumulate, leading to recombination loss and ultimately SC degeneration. While this unidirectional scenario aligns with SC evolution in well-studied …
Sex chromosomes evolution in Characoidei fishes, AP.TEM
Abstract
Plasmodium vivax causes 14.3 million infections annually, with 3.3 billion people at risk worldwide. No effective vaccine is available. P. vivax can only invade immature reticulocytes, expressing high levels of CD71, and <1.5% of circulating red blood cells (RBCs). CD71 is the receptor for PvRBP2b, a member of the P. vivax reticulocyte-binding protein (PvRBP) family. Another member, PvRBP…
Exploring the dual role of CD98hc in human erythropoiesis and Vivax Malaria, AP.TEM
Abstract
At the intersection of economic geography, urban planning, and political ecology, this research aims to clarify the links between territorial development trajectories and the environmental crisis in a conjuncture of financialized capitalism. The economic specializations of territories determine diverse forms of production of space and the resulting environmental transitions. This is evide…
Unsustainable planetary financialization. Economic specialization, capital markets and environmental degradation in the production of space in France and Brazil (FinPlanet), AP.R

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Completed (most recent)

Abstract
This project aims to study the brown algae Sargassum spp. which is landing in the Caribbean region and northeast of Brazil in order to better manage the biofouling by the algae and develop methods for valorization of the biomass. Sargassum are brown algae, originally found in the Sargasso Sea, located in the Gulf of Mexico. The flow of sargassum is becoming a serious environmental problem…
Holostic approch of Sargassum valorisation, AP.R
Abstract
Since 2011 pelagic Sargassum strandings in the Caribbean basin have had significant environmental, health, economic and socio-political consequences and a substantial impact on tourism. Research so far tends to confirm the existence of a new ecosystem subjected to movements of water masses across the equatorial Atlantic. The phenomenon occurred in 2011 and the 2012-2018 period, along with…
Coastal environment under Sargassum crisis, AP.R
Abstract
Since 2010, massive and repeated invasions of sargassum seaweeds (s. fluitans and s.natans) have taken place on coasts of Caribbean countries. Stranding of these brown algae represents not only an environmental and economic disaster but also a real threat to human health due to the production of toxic gaseous and organic compounds that are not yet completely identified. Among them, howeve…
Human health consequences of long term exposure to gaseous emission produced by sargassum seaweed decomposition, AP.R

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Scholarships in Brazil

Ongoing (most recent)

Abstract
The student will systematically and rigorously study the foundations of differential geometry that underpin the mathematical formulation of general relativity. (AU)
Differential geometry of general relativity, BP.IC
Evaluation of the impact of biogenic emissions on air quality numerical simulations in the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo, BP.TT
Abstract
The main objective of this project is to carry out an introductory study on commutative algebra and the concept of free divisors. Once the preliminary concepts of commutative algebra have been introduced, the focus will be on the study of plane algebraic curves in order to establish criteria for the freeness of such curves on the projective plane. (AU)
Free divisors: freeness criteria on the projective plane, BP.IC

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Completed (most recent)

Mean-field effects in the propagation of vectorial light in a 3D atomic cloud with diagonal disorder : study of the fluctuations, BP.TT
Abstract
Despite the growing expansion of literature on illegal markets, little research strays from normative approaches that link the existence and expansion of these markets to the lack of economic and urban development. Furthermore, there are still few empirical studies that focus on how these markets impact everyday life and socio-spatial dynamics. Therefore, in order to contribute to overcom…
Transnational connections between (il)legal markets in the Port of Santos: the journeys of auto parts, cars and cocaine, BP.IC
A Biodiversity-Ecosystem Functioning experiment to restore Cerrado, a major Brazilian tropical savanna biome, BP.TT

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Virtual Library in numbers * Updated data on July 26, 2025

Total / Available in English

37 / 37	Ongoing grants
21 / 21	Completed research grants
19 / 19	Ongoing scholarships in Brazil
59 / 51	Completed scholarships in Brazil
136 / 128	All research grants and scholarships

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