Complementary Character

FAEPEX is intended exclusively for teaching, research and extension projects, complementing aid already granted by other funding agencies or covering areas not normally served by them, in accordance with Article 10 of Deliberation CONSU-A-24/2003.

It is the applicant's responsibility to demonstrate the complementarity of their request for support.

The following situations are recognized as complementary by FAEPEX:

  1. The applicant received part of the resources for their project from funding agencies, such as FAPESP, CNPq, CAPES, or other sources external to the university.
  2. The applicant has an ongoing research project, financed by national or international, public or private, funding agencies.
  3. The applicant has a good record of raising funds for research over the last 5 years (postgraduate and postdoctoral scholarships, except those from institutional quotas, such as those from CNPq, CAPES and PNPD).
  4. The applicant has a CNPq research grant at any level.
  5. Projects submitted to development agencies for the purpose of the request, but not yet contemplated, may be considered, but in any comparative analysis they will not have priority.
  6. In the case of Participation Assistance in Scientific Events, financial support from the congress/conference, the postgraduate program or other non-budgetary sources of the Unit may be considered as compensation. As this is the only demonstration of consideration, the request will have lower priority in any comparative analyses.
  7. In the case of support for travel by Unicamp's postgraduate programs or the Unit's extra-budgetary funds, it is necessary to present a document explicitly informing the amount and destination of the support granted.
  8. Research projects funded by institutions external to Unicamp (universities, companies, etc.) must be duly regularized with the appropriate bodies at the University.

What is not considered complementarity by FAEPEX:

  1. The contribution of personal resources by the applicant will not be accepted as a demonstration of complementarity, under any circumstances.
  2. Resources from the bodies that make up the Unicamp Rectorate will not be considered as complementarities (such as the Pro-Rectory of Research itself and its programs PIND, PIBIC, PIBIC-EM, CAF, CAFin or CAPAm, for example, as well as the other Pro-Rectories).
  3. Service provision contracts, consultancies and extension courses will not be accepted as compensation, except for Assistance for Participation in a Scientific Event.