General physiology

September 2018

Shared management of the PROAP

PPG General Physiology

This text is based on the Ordinance No. 156, of November 28, 2014 and is intended to present the procedures related to the presumption requests of CAPES / Graduate Support Program (PROAP) that were adopted by the Coordination of PPGFG a from August 2011

Coordination will transfer to the students the management of a part of the PROAP presupposition, related to the academic-scientific activities of the students, so that, in addition to the specified cases (item 1.A), it is necessary to send other requests for funds. PROAP al Student Committee for its evaluation and subsequent publication, as described below.

 

N.B.: If there is a need for transposition of funds, the Coordinator will inform the Representative of the Students about the need.

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A) "support for the development of planning and implementation of the postgraduate institutional policyo".

These expenses refer to:

Travels for Coordination Representation
Visiting teachers to participate as thesis judges / program lectures and courses

B) "Utilization of the resources available for the financing of scientific-academic activities related to the title of masters and doctorate, and the postdoctoral period".

Among the activities proposed in the Order, will be funded mainly:

Collection trips / fieldwork;
Participation of students in scientific events in the home and in the extraterrestrial, which implies the presentation of own work or co-authoring, the participation in the organization of the event;
Courses and training in laboratory techniques and equipment utilization;
Courses or signatures in other PPG, whenever related to dissertation or thesis.

2 – HOW DOES THE MANAGEMENT WORK?

The value assigned to the Program will be informed by the Coordination of the Commission for the Representation of Graduate Students (RD). The RD will carry out a survey on the intentions and prioritization of the use of funds by students. After the consultation, a meeting will be held with the Coordination, which will define the effective assignment of funds between the different points contained in SICONV (Management System of Accounts and Loan Contracts). The main matches that correspond to the assumption of the RD son:

• It will help students for the payment of long-distance fares, municipal transport, food, lodging, event registration, third-party services (eg, fishermen's pay), gasoline (only for USP cars). The student receives the reimbursement of the expenses authorized by the DR after presenting proof of expenses * the IB Treasury and the program coordinator.
• Daily aid for students: corresponds to support for activities in the national territory or abroad (according to the Ordinance No. 132 of 18 August 2016) and is intended exclusively for payment of municipal transport, food and accommodation **. This is always paid before the activity in question. The presentation of the spending schedule to the program coordinator is obligatory and the requirement for the approval of the activity report will be presented to the treasury section of the IB. Proof of travel (air / ground / boarding pass and photos in case of collection) must be presented.
• National and international airline tickets: The student must inform the closing and the quotation of the student ***, and the tickets are bought by the IB financial sector, directly with the offer of the USP tourism agency. Tickets cannot be refunded ex post.
• National invoices must contain CPF and, in foreign countries, the name and CPF.

**It is not possible to request from separate grants to pay the same type of expenditure (for example, housing, food, urban mobility) for the same activity, according to Article 10 of the Ordinance No. 156 of 28 November 2014.

*** It is advisable to calculate the cost of a billet that simulates your purchase as it would have to occur a week after the fare search.

In accordance with the foregoing, all requests corresponding to section 1.B should be sent to the PROAP student committee following the e-mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Requests should be sent to the specified closing dates of the request. bimonthly orders of RD. The request reception period will always be within the first 10 days of the month preceding each request winding, and will be reviewed and responded to within 7 days after the reception period.

• In all cases, the applicants must submit the completed application form and the justification for the use of the claim signed by the adviser. The justification must contain the purpose of the activity and the relevance to the development of the student's project / career, the closing and return locks and the specifications regarding the possible use of other funding sources (see item 3). If you request funding for a scientific event, please inform the title of the document that will be presented. In the event of requesting payment of the registration fee, please also state in the justification the forms of payment of the registration fee provided by the scientific event and mention that "it is not possible to make the registration fee through the invoice".
• Any remaining balance for a particular order window will be incorporated into the following windows..
• For calculation purposes, applicants must present the estimated closures of the activity. The beginning of the activity must necessarily take place at the end of the request windshield, except for the last wind at which the return must take place at the end of the request. If the student needs to change the activity locks for any reason, they should inform the RD by updating the justification for the new locks. All authorized expenditures must be incurred within the framework of the activity.
• Requests will be reviewed and rated (score scale) according to priority criteria and destination of applicants.
• Este RD buscará cumplir con la mayor cantidad de pedidos. Si la cuota no es suficiente para satisfacer completamente todos los pedidos, la escala de puntuación se utilizará de acuerdo con los criterios del ítem 3. La cantidad que se transferirá al solicitante será proporcional a la puntuación obtenida, de modo que al menos un ítem solicitado en solicitud al DR. En los casos en que no sea posible cumplir con ningún elemento de la solicitud, el solicitante será informado y recibirá la justificación.

3 – PRIORITY CRITERIA AND DESTINATIONS APPROVED FOR THIS MANAGEMENT

1. Priority Criteria of Applicants:

• Masters and doctoral students who have not received a scholarship, CAPES and CNPq with bank charges and other funding sources *, and students whose scholarships are already closed; (10 points)
• CNPq doctorate student students with bench tables, other funding sources, and CAPES and CNPq students (masters) with other funding sources (8 points);
• Becarios, masters and doctorates of FAPESP, without technical reserve ** and other sources of funding; (7 points)
• CNPq doctorate students with bank fees and other funding sources; (6 pieces)
• Becarios, teachers and doctorates of FAPESP, with a technical reserve ** and other funding sources, the technical reserve and other funding sources; (5 pieces)

OBS:

(a) Requests from students with FAPESP  scholarships, technical reserves and other funding sources will not be considered.

(b) No consideration will be given to requests of collection funds to students incurring in project's time extensions.

* Project funding sources and / or laboratory: FAPESP themed project, FAPESP grant project, CNPq universal project, USP project 1, USP field outlet aid, others.

** Studied FAPESP students without technical reserve: This category includes students who have supplied all their technical reserves. You must be informed of the justification for the request.

COMMENTS

• We will not analyze the requests that do not fit in item 3 and that there is no justification for the request;
• Requests should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. until the end of the order window established by RD;
• As a general rule, students must not perform more than one request by order window. If you are interested in requesting funds for more than one activities within a window, please inform the RD to consider the possibility of funding.

FORMS FILLING COMMENTS / GUIDES

• RD Resource Request Form
• Manuscript application form (presented after approval of RD)
• Disclaimer of liability (delivered after approval by RD)
• Daily Aid Receipt (delivered after RD approval)
• Remission of Liability (delivered after approval of DR)