The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) and UNESCO – through its programme unit, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) has launched a call to fund up to 20 PosDoc Fellowships in Brazil for up to 2 years.
FAPESP has selected around 100 supervisors eligible to submit proposals: https://fapesp.br/16684/fapesp-announces-supervisors-for-call-with-unescotwas
Now, each supervisor has until the end of May to select a PostDoctoral researcher from Least Developed Countries and apply for the opportunity. Full details of the call: https://twas.org/opportunity/twas-fapesp-postdoctoral-fellowship-programme-least-developed-countries-ldc
Opportunity for Marine Scientists
The Institute of Marine Sciences from the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP) has TWO opportunities to work with ocean literacy and governance of sociobiodiversity systems (see project abstracts below).
For the PostDoctoral researchers interested, it is mandatory to be a permanent resident and native of a Least Developed Country (LDC), listed at http://twas.org/least-developed-countries-ldcs
The other 6 eligibility criteria are listed at the item 2.2 and the financial support at the item 3 from the call: https://fapesp.br/16501/call-for-proposals-of-unesco-twasfapesp-postdoctoral-fellowships-for-least-developed-countries-ldc
Eligible candidates should submit the FAPESP CV Model (https://fapesp.br/6351/instructions-for-the-elaboration-of-a-curricular-summary) for the specific opportunity with Prof Leandra Gonçalves (goncalves.leandra@unifesp.br) or Prof Ronaldo Christofoletti (southoceanliteracy@gmail.com), as listed below, by May 5th.