On 7 June 2024, at 14:30 Berlin time (09:30 Brasília time), the Brazilian Embassy in Berlin, in partnership with the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), the Getúlio Vargas Foundation Europe (FGV Europe) and the Apoena Network, is organizing the fourth meeting of the Brazilian Diaspora for Science and Innovation in Germany.
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.
Learn everything you need to know about funding, research careers and opportunities for Postdocs in Germany. The event is co-organized by the “Universities in Germany” consortium and DWIH São Paulo and is supported by DAAD Brasil, Humboldt Foundation, DFG Latin American Office and EURAXESS.
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Norbert Robers, head of the Communication and Public Relations Office and press spokesperson of Münster University, accompanied the Rector and representatives of the Brazil Centre on their trip to Brazil (6 to 11 February) with a dense programme of about 15 meetings over five days in three cities with numerous partners.
On the evening of November 30th, around 30 former students, researchers and professors who were at some point in their academic career at WWU or Freie Universität Berlin gathered at the first Brazilian alumni meeting organized by the two universities.
Learn everything you need to know about funding, research careers and opportunities as Postdocs in Germany. The event is organized by the “Universities in Germany” consortium and supported by DAAD Brazil, DAAD Chile, Humboldt Foundation, DFG Latin American Office and EURAXESS.