As a result of the partnership with the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes), the Capes Natura Campus Award for Excellence in Research received 268 articles of high relevance and impact for scientific and technological development focused on sustainability and biodiversity.
The articles submitted for the award encompass the themes “Sustainability: new materials and technologies,” with 177 submissions, and “Sociobiodiversity and Biological Conservation,” with 91 submitted articles.
Awards
The awards ceremony will take place during the National Environment Week, in the second week of June 2016. In addition to certificates and travel expenses, the initiative provides R$ 25,000 to the winning articles.
The launch of the award took place in November of last year. During the event, the president of Capes, Carlos Nobre, highlighted the innovation of the Capes Natura Award in selecting scientific articles instead of theses or dissertations. "The tradition at Capes is to value the training of human resources, especially at the doctoral level, in the form of awards for theses. This time, we will reward a scientific work originating from a doctoral thesis or a master's dissertation. We want to increasingly encourage theses and dissertations to generate high-level and relevant articles, thus enhancing the culture of disseminating results in the best journals in the world."
(CCS/Capes)
