RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – This is Brazil’s first academic partnership with China.
The agreement with the Chinese research and innovation promotion agency was signed during President Jair Bolsonaro’s visit to China. The partnership will also benefit the ‘Future-se‘ program, according to CAPES.
“The NSFC and I signed [the agreement] in the presence of the two presidents. As CAPES is the main Brazilian institution for the internationalization of universities, this new agreement with a country that is the second-largest producer of science in the world is significant,” said Anderson Correia, president of CAPES.
The partnership provides for academic, educational and scientific exchange between professors, researchers and post-doctoral students from Brazilian and Chinese institutions. Seminars, workshops, and conferences will also be sponsored.
The Minister of Education, Abraham Weintraub, said that the partnership will provide more resources to the country: “The goal is to close a number of partnerships with China, a country that today is the growth engine of the world, to bring more resources, more opportunities and more areas of research to Brazil so that students can seek a better future.”
Through the Institutional Program for the Internationalization of CAPES, 11 Brazilian institutions are involved in projects with 18 Chinese universities.
The call for proposals with details of the partnership should be issued within 90 days for the study areas of Life, Biodiversity and Engineering Sciences.
“In addition to promoting joint projects, we should encourage professorships in the universities of both countries, enabling top-level professors to remain in the best teaching and research institutions,” added Anderson Correia.
Source: Agência Brasil