Fapespa discusses the future of Science and Innovation at national event
Held in São Paulo, the 68th National CONFAP Forum 2025 brings together representatives from across the country to discuss incentives and cooperation among research institutions
The Amazon Foundation for Support of Studies and Research (Fapespa) participates in the 68th edition of the National CONFAP Forum 2025, in São Paulo (SP), held from July 2 to 4 (Wednesday to Friday). The event is organized by the National Council of State Foundations for Support of Research (CONFAP), in partnership with the São Paulo Research Foundation (Fapesp).
The Forum aims to discuss the future of technological innovation and research incentives; strengthen collaboration among national institutions and expand equitable long-term partnerships in cooperation with international institutions. The program includes presidents and directors of State Foundations for Support of Research (FAPs), representatives from federal agencies that promote Science, Technology, and Innovation, ministries, and international organizations. Fapespa is represented by its president, Marcel Botelho, who is also the vice-president of CONFAP, and by the Scientific Director Dayvison Medrado.
Marcel Botelho emphasized that CONFAP members "have autonomy and independence, and yet work together, which makes the negotiated operations extremely relevant and indispensable, and represents a great advance in the possibility of forming negotiated solutions that bring us closer, when the role is to discuss operational guidelines and the possibility of advancing these institutions."
Award - On the morning of this Thursday (3), at the Carvalho Pinto auditorium of Fapesp, the award ceremony for the CONFAP Award for Good Practices in Promoting Science, Technology & Innovation and the CONFAP Award for Science, Technology & Innovation – Professor Ennio Candotti (4th edition) took place.
Six initiatives from the State Foundations for Support of Research received the CONFAP Award for Good Practices in Promoting Science, Technology & Innovation, in the categories of Development of the Science, Technology & Innovation Ecosystem and Management and Organizational Development. The award also recognized, individually, an innovative manager and an innovative technician for their outstanding performance in science, technology, and innovation funding agencies in Brazil.
The CONFAP Award for Science, Technology and Innovation – Professor Ennio Candotti honored 15 researchers and three communication professionals, distributed across six categories: Outstanding Researcher, in the subcategories of Life Sciences, Exact Sciences, and Human Sciences; Innovative Researcher, in the subcategories of Innovation for the Business Sector and Innovation for the Public Sector, and Communication Professional.
The national award aims to recognize good practices in promoting Science, Technology & Innovation carried out by the Research Support Foundations in Brazil, and the actions of managers and technicians from science, technology, and innovation funding agencies who have developed creative, differentiated, innovative, efficient, and effective actions and procedures in promoting the development and execution of the National Science, Technology & Innovation Policy, enhancing interaction between academia, the productive sector, government, and society.
The award promoted by CONFAP is sponsored by the Financing Agency for Studies and Projects (Finep)/Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, and supported by the Coordination of Execution and Dissemination of National and International Awards in Science, Technology & Innovation (COEDP/CGITC), of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).
Tribute - Since its creation in 2021, the CONFAP Award for Science & Innovation has been named in each edition in honor of a researcher with significant contributions to Brazilian Science & Innovation. In the first edition, the honoree was researcher Francisco Romeu Landi (in memoriam); in the second edition (2022), the honoree was researcher Odete Fátima Machado da Silveira (in memoriam), and in the third edition (2023), the award was named after researcher Johanna Döbereiner (in memoriam).
In this fourth edition (2024), researcher Ennio Candotti was chosen by acclamation by representatives of the 27 State Foundations for Support of Research to be honored.
(With information from Ascom/Confap)
