Summary: This project comprises two interconnected initiatives which aim to promote quality academic production in science/belief in society, an area with very limited scholarly production in Brazil, especially when it comes to empirical, data-based research. First, a research component that builds on the work accomplished in the seed grant scheme: we will conduct research that focuses on “trust in science” and how it interconnects with religiosity patterns, educational background, intellectual virtues and demographics, using data already obtained from a previous questionnaire (n=973), applied in Brazil during the seed grant scheme. The second initiative is a research promotion, capacity-building component: we will organize an online event to promote and stimulate new highquality academic research on the topic of science and belief in society. This event will have a “workshop” outlook, with participants discussing their proposed papers with more experienced scholars and senior researchers. We will start by launching a competitive call

Summary: This research project lies on the field of empirical virtue epistemology as to provide a survey-based foundation to evaluate what factors contribute or hinder fruitful and harmonic conversations between science and religion. The study will be performed with evangelical science and religion study groups in Brazil by means of an online questionnaire that uses as its basis an Intellectual Virtue Scale – a comprehensive psychometrically validated scale available to measure intellectual virtues/vices. We are going to analyze the configurations of group-level profiles of these groups and compare with individual level virtues/vices and how they make up group tendencies of virtuosity/viciousness. Finally, we will study the implicative associations of these profiles with the results from the scale as to determine, for example, what epistemic virtues are practiced, cherished or valued by a certain group that make it more open-minded towards the findings of science, and what intellectual vices there are