Events in Brazil

Dr. Anne Vortkamp, member of the scouting team of the REACH - EUREGIO Start-up Center at the University of Münster and Münster University of Applied Sciences and founder of the start-up CARAPAX biotechnologies, was nominated by the Brazil Center of the University of Münster and selected as one of two speakers from Germany for the traditional round table of the German House for Research and Innovation (DWIH) São Paulo.

Since June 2025, Cíntia Toth Gonçalves is the head of the Liaison Office of the Brazil Centre at the University of Münster in São Paulo. In this role, she serves as the main contact point for individuals in Brazil interested in academic collaboration or pursuing studies at the University of Münster.
 

For over a decade, the Brazil Centre at the University of Münster has been organising and participating in informational events for Brazilian students and researchers interested in pursuing postdoctoral stays in Germany. More recently, these activities have been expanded to cover other countries in South America.
 

A visit by representatives of the Casa de Oswaldo Cruz, the institute of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) dedicated to the remembrance and study of the history of medicine in Brazil, served as the impetus for organizing a seminar that took place on 6 December in Rio de Janeiro.

The official residence of the German Consul General in Brazil was once again the venue for the University of Münster's annual alumni meeting, which was organised jointly with the Freie Universität Berlin as in 2022. Almost 40 participants came together on 26 November in the beautiful evening weather to exchange contacts and experiences. 

The last leg of the trip took place in Chile, a country with numerous joint publications with the University of Münster. This time, the delegation was accompanied in most of its appointments by another representative of the University of Münster.

The Brazilian Association for International Education, FAUBAI, held its 36th conference at the end of April in São Paulo.  The organisation, which brings together executives and heads of international affairs from Brazilian higher education institutions, also opens its conference to foreign participants.

At the end of March 2024, with the aim of bringing institutions closer to other Latin American countries, the Scientific Director of the Brazil Centre, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Hellingrath, and the Director of the São Paulo Office, Laura Redondo, took part in the conference "The challenges of the university system and internationalisation", held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The two phases of the Postdoc Workshop 2024, which took place on 16 April in Rio de Janeiro and 20 April in São Paulo, brought together people interested in a postdoc in Germany with German universities and institutions

Since 2016, a consortium of German universities has been organising an information symposium in Brazil and Argentina for young researchers interested in a postdoctoral research stay in Germany.

The GLOSUS project – "The Global Geographies of Sustainability: Local Knowledge, Everyday Practices, and non-professional Forms of Living and Housing" is an initiative funded by DAAD and CAPES, which marks a very significant collaboration between the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP) and the Institute of Geography at the University of Münster (UM).
 

The city of Rio de Janeiro was chosen to host the seventh edition of the annual Alumni Meeting of the University of Münster in Brazil. The dinner hosted by the Brazilian Centre on December 6, 2023 brought together graduates with the most diverse profiles: from a newly arrived undergraduate exchange student to a professor who did his master's and doctorate at Münster and who maintains strong research and teaching ties at the University.

A series of events, meetings and gatherings, in which the Brazil Centre was involved, took place in Argentina and in Brazil at the end of October and the beginning of November.

On 12 September, the Falling Walls Lab Brazil 2023 will be held on the campus of the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp).