ABOVE: CNPQ/DIVULGAÇÃO
More than 80,000 Brazilian students and researchers could lose their government-funded fellowships in the coming weeks. The director of the CNPq, the Ministry of Science’s research agency, said last week during an interview to Jornal da USP that CNPq only has enough resources to pay for this month’s stipends. From September onward, the agency will have no means to support many of these researchers.
The CNPq’s budget deficit has been known since the beginning of the year. In an interview last February, also with Jornal da USP, the CNPq’s director warned that resources would only make it until September. But months have passed and nothing has been done to resolve the situation. The agency needs 330 million reais ($82 million US) to pay all ongoing fellowships until the end of the year.
The funding problem affects mainly undergraduates and PhD students, but not exclusively. Part of the money ...
