Annual Plan for Using the Institucional Technical Reserve 2022 for Research Support at FZEA/USP

• Grant number: 22/15001-1
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Technical Reserve for Institutional Research Infrastructure
• Start date: February 01, 2023
• End date: April 30, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Food Science and Technology
• Principal Investigator: Carlos Augusto Fernandes de Oliveira
• Grantee: Carlos Augusto Fernandes de Oliveira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Zootecnia e Engenharia de Alimentos (FZEA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Pirassununga , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The Faculty of Animal Science and Food Engineering FZEA/USP has been experiencing very strong growth in recent years, from a total of 80 students in 1993 when it was founded, to the current 1,526 students (undergraduate and graduate), with all classes of undergraduate courses fully implemented. This growth, although very beneficial for research, as it allows a significant increase in critical mass, causes a certain priority in resources for small infrastructure works aimed at research development and supporting professors who have demands to develop their projects. It is therefore necessary to guarantee to the professors who are developing these proposals, the minimum necessary conditions of infrastructure. Given the difficulty of doing this with the budget, this project to use the portion of the Technical Reserve for FAPESP's institutional infrastructure costs is of capital importance in this phase of growth. In this sense, the present proposal for investment in infrastructure with resources from FAPESP's Institutional Technical Reserve was designed to support the demands of collective research infrastructure. As already mentioned, the Faculty of Animal Science and Food Engineering is still expanding in terms of research infrastructure, and additional resources are always welcome until all research areas are fully implemented and consolidated. In this year 2022, the main focus is to support research laboratories, consolidating them with the acquisition of laboratory benches, laboratory cabinets and equipment repair, aiming at improvements to the research environments of our Institution. (AU)