RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - After Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed off on a law cutting R$690 million (US$122 million) from science funding administered by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), several Brazilian science societies are fighting with the funding agency's directors to recover the lost funds, putting the CNPq's work at risk.
"We are working with other ministers and the scientific community to change the situation," Evaldo Vilela, president of CNPq, told SciDev.Net.
The story began earlier this year (2021) when the government pledged R$690 million for the agency and tasked . . .
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