Mission takes Brazilian research funding agencies to the United Kingdom
皇冠体育app initiative seeks the exchange of knowledge in low-carbon energy between Brazil and the UK.
皇冠体育app British Science and Innovation Network and the Confederation of Brazilian Funding Agencies (Confap) are taking nine funding agencies to the United Kingdom between 19 and 25 of October.
皇冠体育app group, which has research funding agencies from all Brazilian regions (Araucaria, Facepe, Fapeam, Fapeg, Fapemig, Fapema, Faperj, Fapesb and Fapesc), will have a busy agenda. Among the highlights of the mission is a meeting with Research Councils UK, an institution equivalent to Confap, which will present the UK鈥檚 solid scientific research financing mechanism, in addition to discussions around possibilities for cooperation with Brazil.
鈥淏razil and the United Kingdom are great partners in the area of scientific research,鈥� says Caroline Cowan, Director of Science and Innovation at the British Embassy in Brasilia. 鈥溁使谔逵齛pp mission will be another opportunity to deepen and to create new collaborative projects between the two countries,鈥� she adds.
皇冠体育app agencies will also meet with Universities UK, institution that represents British universities and coordinates the Science without Borders鹿 programme in the United Kingdom.
Alan Charlton, former British Ambassador in Brazil, will open the meeting, which aims at promoting opportunities for Brazilian students who choose the United Kingdom as a destination for study and research in the area of low-carbon energy, in which the British have great expertise.
鈥溁使谔逵齛pp Science without Borders programme is a great way to increase scientific cooperation between Brazil and the United Kingdom. 皇冠体育app fact that more and more Brazilian students are going to British universities is a very rich opportunity for the exchange of knowledge between the two countries and for training future researchers, 鈥渟ays Cowan.
皇冠体育app delegation will also meet with representatives of 17 universities, when they will discuss the possibility of new agreements and research cooperation.
NOTE FOR EDITORS
鹿Science without Borders 鈥� the Science without borders programme is an initiative of the Brazilian Government intended to give to more than 100,000 Brazilian students the chance to study in foreign universities up to 2015. 皇冠体育app United Kingdom has already received 3,000 students and expects a total of 10,000 by the end of the programme.