The Collaborative Research on the Sustainable Development Agenda seminar, scheduled for this Thursday (19/03), but canceled due to safety measures against the spread of the new coronavirus, would bring together researchers from Brazil and abroad in a tribute to Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz, scientific director of FAPESP who will leave his position at the end of April.
The meeting included two round tables on collaboration in research and strategic projects for a sustainable development agenda, which would bring together ambassador Achilles Zaluar, from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Ted Hewitt, president of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SCHRC), Canada; Michael Booth, Head of International Partnership Development at UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), UK; Evaldo Ferreira Vilela, president of the National Council of Research Support Foundations (Confap); Molapo Qhobela, president of the National Research Foundation (NRF), South Africa; Ruben Sharpe, from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), in the Netherlands; Tim Willis, director of the International, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC), UK; and Alejandro Zurita, head of Science, Technology and Innovation at the European Union.
At the end of the seminar, a tribute ceremony to Brito Cruz was scheduled, in which the entire FAPESP management would participate – Marco Antonio Zago, president; Carlos Américo Pacheco, CEO of the Technical-Administrative Council (CTA); and Fernando Menezes, Administrative Director –, the Foundation's new scientific director, Luiz Eugênio Mello, in addition to the seminar participants and invited researchers. France Córdova, president of the National Science Foundation (NSF), and Peter Strohschneider, former president of the German Research Foundation (DFG), in Germany, sent videos congratulating Brito Cruz for his management's initiatives.
The meeting would end with the delivery of a book (festschrift), German term for a work that brings together texts in tribute to a prominent academic) that brings together the reflection of leaders from funding agencies, partners in government bodies, researchers and FAPESP colleagues on the 15 years of Brito Cruz's management at the helm of the Foundation's Scientific Board. The book, delivered to Brito Cruz on March 16th, at FAPESP, can be accessed at http://www.fapesp.br/publications/festschrift.pdf
This text was originally published by Agência FAPESP.
