The Lemann Brazil Research Fund is made possible by a generous gift from the Lemann Foundation . The Office of the Provost for Research administers the Fund together with the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, in collaboration with the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the Brazil Studies Program. The Fund is intended to foster collaboration between scholars and to support research projects focused on current issues facing Brazil. Proposals are sought for research projects that address education management and administration; social science and its applications; public administration and policy; technological advances in education; and evidence-based research. Consideration will also be given to projects that propose collaboration between Harvard faculty and Brazilian academics in the life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, and basic and applied sciences.
To date there have been eight funding cycles with a total of 51 awards made to research teams across the university. You can read about our 2024 awardees here in the Harvard Gazette! A brochure highlighting results of four funded projects and listing the first five years of awardees can be found here.
Please email vpr_grants@harvard.edu with questions.
2019 awardees of the Lemann Brazil Research Fund, with Jorge Paulo Lemann, Marc Lemann, and representatives of the Lemann Foundation.
The 2025 cycle of the Lemann Brazil Research Fund is now open.
The 2025 RFP is available here.
The submission deadline is 1/31/2025.
Please note that this fund is only open to Harvard faculty members.
For information regarding Lemann Fellowships, please visit the Harvard University Committee on General Scholarships Lemann Fellowships
For more about other opportunities related to Harvard and Brazil, please visit the website for Harvard University’s David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Brazil page.