INCOBRA - Increasing International Science, Technology and Innovation Cooperation between Brazil and the European Union

i-LINK + Program aims to stimulate new collaborations between CSIC research groups and leading research groups from international institutions always with the final objective of creating scientifically excellent, highly competitive consortia for the participation in international calls of R&D projects, or the promotion of technology transfer from CSIC to companies, mainly international firms.

This i-LINK + will fund one proposal from Universidade Federal da Paraiba (Brazil), Universidad del Bio-Bio (Chile) and Instituto de Física Corpuscular (CSIC) with a financial support of 20.000 €, to cover meetings and joint workshops of the participating members and to cover the expenses of scientific exchanges for training or research purposes from 1/1/2018 until 31/12/2019.

i-COOP + Program will grant three proposals, two i-COOP + A to cover short training periods of PhD students and one proposal i-COOP + B to cover training stays for scientist and technical staff to consolidate scientific and technical capacities, with and maximum financial support of 20.000 € for two years (10.000 € / year).

       i-COOP + A:

• Faculdade de Tecnologia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil) and Instituto de Diagnóstico Ambiental y Estudios del Agua (CSIC).
• Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul PUCRS (Brazil) and Estación Biológica de Doñana (CSIC

      i-COOP + B:

• Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos (Brazil) and Instituto de Micro y Nanotecnología (CSIC)