The past six months have been quite busy as Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq, Portuguese: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico) opened some calls for grant proposals.
Few weeks ago, CNPq announced the accepted proposals for the "Universal Call 2023", and ours was accepted in the "Emerging Groups" section! Although the final result is yet to be officially published, our team it eager to start working on the project entitled "Mangroves and mangrove forests in a changing world: A multi-scale, multi-taxonomic integrative approach" . Fingers crossed for the next announcements by CNPq!
We definitely celebrated this achievement in our biweekly lab meeting with three (!!!!!!) cakes!!!