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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.

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 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.

The federal funding institution in São Paulo FAPESP and the University of Münster have once again published a joint SPRINT call (SPRINT: São Paulo Researchers in International Collaboration).