News & Events 2022

The WiRe - Women in Research Programme of the University Münster’s Welcome Centre has been launched again. Excellent female researchers from all over the world are now once again eligible to apply for the WiRe scholarship.

On 22 December 2022, CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) published an amendment of the call for applications for two Brazil Chairs on different topics at the University of Münster.
CAPES has announced a new deadline for the call.

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.

The Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” of the University of Münster (WWU) has one open position as research assistant for a PhD student starting at the next possible date with a duration of up to 3 years (65%, TV-L E 13 salary level).

The SABio project team, the ZIN and the Brazil Centre jointly organised the World Café on the topic of "Energy Transition from another view: Perspectives from South America" as part of the WWU Sustainability Day "Campus Eart 2022" on 20 October 2022.

As part of the FAPESP (São Paulo Researchers in International Collaboration) SPRINT funding program, the research funding organization FAPESP of the state of São Paulo and the University of Münster once again launched a joint call for proposals to support up to three (3) mobility projects between researchers from the University of Münster and the state of São Paulo in order to promote research collaboration.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) has recently published the call “International Climate Protection Fellowship”.

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.

The Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) and founder of the Brazilian Institute for Teaching, Development and Research (IDP), Gilmar Mendes, and the academic coordinator of the IDP's Faculty of Law, Raphael Carvalho, visited the German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) São Paulo on 28 October at the invitation of the Brazil Centre of Münster University (WWU).

On 27 October, WWU received the visit of Prof Lívia Pelli Palumbo, from the Directorate of International Affairs of the largest Brazilian funding agency CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior), with which a cooperation agreement on a Chair at WWU - the so-called Brazil Chair - has been in place since 2010.
 

As part of WWU’s Sustainability Day "Campus Earth 2022", the SABio research group is organising the World Café on 20.10.22 (2-4pm) together with ZIN and the Brazil Centre on the topic "Energy transition from another view: Perspectives from South America".
 

Full Professor of Public Law, International Law and European Union Law, Prof. Dr. Niels Petersen, was in Brazil between the end of August and the beginning of September to hold a series of meetings and lectures.

In collaboration with GIZ, DAAD will start a new project in Brazil: the German-Brazilian Research Cooperation Program (NoPA) – DAAD.

The joint call for applications of the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD and the Brazilian funding agency CAPES for doctoral scholarships to pursue research in Germany was recently launched.

The project "Tech_la" won the first German-Brazilian Hackathon. The event involved 35 participants from seven Brazilian states, selected among 100 applicants, including students, teachers, designers, public sector workers, etc.

For the first time in Brazil the German-Brazilian EdTech Hackathon - Digital Education will take place face-to-face at the Goethe-Institut in São Paulo from 22 to 24 August.

On Monday, 4 July, the Brazil Centre was pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Niels Olsen Saraiva Câmara, Deputy Vice-Rector for Graduate Studies at the University of São Paulo (USP) since February 2022.

The third and, for the moment, last edition of the webinar series between the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) and the Faculty of Law of the University of Münster (WWU) took place on 3 June 2022.

Attention Brazilian and German researchers! The Marie Skłodowska-Curie call for individual postdoctoral fellowships at research institutions in Europe and abroad is open again.
 

The Brazilian funding agency FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation) has recently published the joint call for proposals with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for the PROPASP programme (DAAD: PPP-projektbezogener Personenaustausch).

The PROBRAL programme, a cooperation between the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES), has been announced again. Application deadline is: 31 May 2022 until 5pm.
 

On 3 June 2022, at 4 pm (CEST)/11 am (BRT), the third edition of the virtual seminar series between the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) and the Faculty of Law of the University of Münster (WWU) will take place.

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, the Brazil Centre of the University of Münster (WWU) co-organized and participated in face-to-face events to provide information about doctoral and postdoctoral research opportunities in Germany.

The joint call for applications by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) and the Brazilian funding agency CAPES was published. The application deadline is 31 May 2022 (11:59 pm BRT).

The Brazilian Seminars, an international summer school developed by PUC-Rio, will take place in July this year in presence and online. This year, PUC-Rio is offering an additional virtual information session on 11 May 2022.

PhD candidates and professors at WWU and the University of São Paulo (USP) are cordially invited to find out more about joint cotutelle doctoral opportunities between WWU and USP in a YouTube video!

The Liaison Office São Paulo of the Brazil Centre of the University of Münster together with other German universities cordially invite prospective doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to this Opportunities Workshop for Chilean candidates.

The Liaison Office São Paulo of the Brazil Centre of the University of Münster together with other German institutions cordially invite prospective post-doctoral researchers to this Opportunities Workshop for Brazilian candidates.

The foundation of the new network "APOENA" was announced during the 2nd meeting of the “Brazilian Diaspora Science and Innovation" on 17 March 2022 at the Brazilian Embassy in Berlin. The idea of joining forces with a network was born at the 1rst diaspora meeting hosted by the Embassy in February 2021.
 

On 26.04.2022 at 10am (BRT) / 3pm (CET), the Brazil Centre of the University of Münster, with the support of its Münster Centre for Emerging Researchers and in cooperation with the University of São Paulo, will host an informative workshop on binational doctoral studies.

Prof. Matias de Oliveira Pinto from the WWU University of Music was invited to give the Masterclass for Strings at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) in Natal, which took place for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic.

In the second virtual seminar between the University of Münster (WWU) and the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF), held on 11 March 2022, the role of constitutional courts and countermajoritarian protection was discussed.

To celebrate the significant achievements of its first decade of operation, a commemorative event was held on 22 February 2022 at the DWIH-SP itself, attended by several institutional representatives, scholars and friends of the DWIH.

For the first time since the beginning of the pandemic, the delegation of the Brazil Center of the University of Münster (WWU) held a series of meetings in three Brazilian cities – São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Brasília – reinforcing the importance that the country maintains in the scientific and academic cooperation of the WWU.

The EU&LAC joint call is open until 28 April 2022 for transnational collaborative projects in the field of scientific research and innovation between member countries of the EU and Latin America/Caribbean

The second webinar organized by the University of Münster and its Faculty of Law in cooperation with the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF) will take place on 11 March at 11am (BRT)/3pm (CET) on the topic “Constitutional Courts and Countermajoritarian Protection”.

The Brazilian Embassy in Berlin organizes on 17 March 2022, in partnership with other institutions, the "2nd Meeting of the Brazilian Diaspora of Science and Innovation in Germany".