News & Events 2024

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. 

On 16 October and 19 November, the first two online events in the series “The Future of Online Participation in Smart Cities“ took place, organised by the Brazil Chair and the Brazil Centre at the University of Münster. 

At the end of October, the Brazil Centre at the University of Münster welcomed a group of students from the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, led by Prof. Daniela Leal, Professor at the Faculty of Social Work, for a two-day visit.

We are pleased to welcome a group of students from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV) to the University of Münster on 28 and 29 October 2024. Students of the University of Münster are cordially invited to exchange ideas with our Chilean guests and gain insights into their student life and the country of Chile!
 

As part of the CAPES-Brazil Chair, the research team led by the Brazilian academic Prof. Dr José Carlos Vaz is organising the online event series "The Future of Online Participation in Smart Cities".

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has announced that submissions is open for a support programme for Brazilian doctoral students who are already scholarship holders in Brazil.

In cooperation with the RWTH Aachen University and the Brazilian Embassy in Berlin, the Apoena Network of Brazilian Researchers in Germany invites all researchers interested in German-Brazilian research cooperation as well as advanced students to the second network meeting in the North Rhine-Westphalia area on 18 October 2024. 

The German Research Foundation (DFG), as a partner of Biodiversa+, announces the launch of the joint call for research proposals on "Biodiversity and Transformative Change".

The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has launched the "Bioeconomy International 2025" funding programme.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is now accepting applications for its research stay program in Germany, specifically designed for Brazilian professors and scientists. 

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.

CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel) has announced the opening of the application period for second Chair in the 2023 call for applications of the CAPES-Brazil Chair Programme at the University of Münster (UM) with the topic ‘Modelling Infection Disease Dynamics for Epidemiologic Management’.

For someone who hasn’t yet been to South America, it might be surprising to know that it takes longer than 6 hours to reach Buenos Aires, in Argentina, from Medellín, in Colombia. The long flight marked the beginning of the second leg of the Brazil Centre’s fact-finding mission, which proved itself as rewarding as the first part. 

Around 9000km separate Münster from Colombia’s capital city of Bogotá. Yet this distance might feel a bit shorter as of August 2024, when a delegation of the Brazil Centre has paid its first official visit to the country as part of its effort to evaluate collaboration potentials for the University of Münster in Latin America. The first stop of a two-week long fact-finding mission that will also cover Argentina and Chile presented a promising outlook for future collaborations.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) has launched a new call for its Doctoral Scholarship Programme in Germany.

The University of Münster’s WiRe – Women in Research programme is now accepting applications for exciting fellowships awarded to international female postdocs in 2025.

During the week of the 24th of June, the University of Münster was delighted to welcome three delegation groups from various Brazilian institutions, including the University of São Paulo (USP), the Butantan Institute, the Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), the São Paulo State University (UNESP) and the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).
 

The 2nd meeting of the Brazilian Diaspora for Science and Innovation in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) will take place on Friday, 18 October 2024, from 13:30 to 19:00. This time at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen University), in the Skylounge of the main building (4th floor), Templergraben 55, 52062 Aachen.  

The postdoctoral programme "Migration, Diaspora, Citizenship" (MDC) is an initiative of the University of Münster funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie funding line of the European Union. It calls for applications from researchers from the social sciences and humanities with a strong interdisciplinary profile to join their programme.

The results of the last call for proposals of joint projects (3/2023) with the Brazilian state agency FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) as part of the FAPESP/SPRINT-Uni Münster funding programme are now announced. Two projects have been selected to promote cooperation between researchers from the University of Münster and the state of São Paulo. 

Last Friday, 7 June 2024, the University of Münster received a special visit from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). The group, consisting of 11 students and two professors, had the opportunity to visit the central facilities of the University of Münster and participate in events that promoted academic exchange between the two institutions. 
 

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 opened a new call.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) recently launched a brand-new program aimed at deepening and expanding cooperation between Brazilian and German research groups: PROPAR, the Germany-Paraná Research Program.

PROPASP aims to strengthen research collaborations between German and Brazilian universities and research institutions in São Paulo, especially long-term partnerships.

For our Brazil Centre, we are seeking for a dedicated and reliable office assistant: the application deadline is 14 June 2024!
 

On May 2nd and 3rd, the Faculty of Law of the University of Münster welcomed professors from the Universidade de São Paulo (USP) for a joint workshop. Representatives of both faculties presented their current research projects and deepened the existing cooperation between the USP and the University of Münster.
 

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. 

Long-term networks: Brazilian teams at the University of Münster

If you search for the distance between Münster Castle and the universities in Minas Gerais and São Paulo, the result is a rounded distance of 10,000 kilometres. However, this great distance does not reflect the relationships that the University of Münster maintains with Brazilian institutions in any way. In terms of scientific activities, it is actually one of the most active foreign universities in Brazil.

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

"Collaboration Talks on Glycobiology" are organised by Prof. Dr Martin Götte, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the University of Münster (UM), and Dr Jessica Onyeisi, postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH).

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.

On 27 March 2024, Professor Dr Dr h. c. Hans-Uwe Erichsen, former Rector of the University of Münster and Professor Emeritus of Public Law, European Law and Administrative Law, was honoured for his extraordinary services to German-Brazilian relations at the Brazilian Embassy in Berlin.

The winning team of the 2nd German-Brazilian EdTech Hackathon, held in 2023 in São Paulo, received a 2,000 euro travel grant to enable one of its members to travel to Germany. The purpose of the trip was to visit the organising universities - the University of Münster, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Free University of Berlin - as well as their start-up and incubator support and acceleration centres.

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).