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BRAZILIAN FEDERAL AGENCY FOR SUPPORT AND EVALUATION OF GRADUATE EDUCATION. Denise de M. Neddermeyer Director of International Relations Brasília, January, 2013. Science Without Borders Program. National Development Strategy.
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BRAZILIAN FEDERAL AGENCY FOR SUPPORT AND EVALUATION OF GRADUATE EDUCATION Denise de M. Neddermeyer DirectorofInternationalRelations Brasília, January, 2013
National Development Strategy • Invest in the development of skills and competences needed to a knowledge-based economy • Focus on the national strategic challenges • Engineering and other technological areas • Promotion of industrial R,D&I
Scholarships of Science without borders Program Joint program implemented by CAPES and CNPqand direct monitored by the President Cabinet Office.
Some Priority Areas • Engineering and other technological areas; • Natural Sciences • Health and Biomedical Sciences ; • Computing and Information Technology; • Aerospace; • Pharmaceuticals; • Sustainable Agricultural Production; • Oil and gas; • Nuclear Energy • Renewable Energy; • Minerals; • Biotechnology; • Nanotechnology and New Materials; • Technology for prevention and mitigation of natural disasters; • Biodiversity and bio-prospection; • Marine Sciences; • Technologies for the green economy; • New technologies for constructive engineering; • Capacity building for technical personnel.
Types of scholarships and target numbers (funded by the federal government) Plus 26.000 scholarships from Private Sector
Undergraduate “Sandwich” Next calls 2013 Previsions to be launched on February 2013: • Portugal • China • Austria • Ireland
Graduate Level • TypesofScholarships: • PhD Sandwhich (1 yearofstudyabroad) • Full PhD • Post-doctoralFellowship • The currentcalendar for GraduateScholarships closes onmarch 28th,2013.
Support of the Productive Sector Offering internships • Natura • BG • SAAB • Boeing • Hyundai • Varian • SANOFI • NASA • Frito-Lay • Amgen • SnowShoe Food Inc • Robostics Institute • Gulf Coast Research Laboratory • Tate & Lyle • Motorola • Baxter • Ingredion
Support of the Productive Sector Offering internships • AES • Braskem • CH2M HILL • General Eletric • International Paper • NCR • NurturEnergy • Smithsonian • S&T Technologies • Vermeer • Cargill • Praxair • Rockwell Automation • Dupont-Wilmington
New Partnerships • Belgium • Portugal – CCISP: technological undergraduate • China • Austria • Denmark • Ireland
Main partners abroad • United States • Undergraduate Sandwich: IIE • PhD – LASPAU • France: Campus France • Germany: DAAD • United Kingdom: UUK • Portugal: CCISP and CRUP • Italy: University of Bologna
The main partner Universities in the USA Harvard Michigan Pennsylvania Cornell John Hopkins Cornell California, Berkeley • California • Illinois • Texas – Austin • Virginia • North Caroline • Georgia Institute of Technology • New York
The main partner Universities – other countries Cambridge Oxford École Polytechnique Munique Fraunhofer Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zurich Tokio École Normale Supérieure de Paris Università di Bologna
CAPES parallel actions of the SwB • Expansion of the Program of improvement for English Teachers in the USA: 1.080 teachers per year. • EnglishwithoutBorders • Proposed Expansion of the Program of International Teacher Education for: Switzerland, Canada, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, UK and USA.