The Brazil Gateway in collaboration with the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences (CFAES) and the Global One Health Initiative (GOHi) invites you to learn more about one of the top federal universities in Brazil, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). The Dean of International Affairs at UFRGS will present on the second of four webinars that are part of the CAPES PrInt Online Workshop with Brazilian Universities. He will share the university’s research focus under the CAPES PrInt funding system, opportunities for collaboration with Ohio State, and past successful experiences. 

CAPES PrInt - Four Brazilian universities have listed Ohio State as a partner for the new Brazilian government funding system, CAPES PrInt. CAPES is an important foundation connected with the Ministry of Education in Brazil (https://www.capes.gov.br). CAPES PrInt is a 60 million four-year program that aims to promote the development of strategic internationalization plans as a means to improve the quality of Brazilian graduate courses and to draw greater international visibility to scientific research carried out in Brazil. Opportunities include Brazilian graduate students interested in being visiting scholars abroad and positions for graduate students wanting to be visiting scholars in Brazil, as well as Brazilian faculty nominating their foreign collaborators as visiting faculty in Brazil, and the establishment of research networks among universities. 

Join the webinar by registering and share with those who might be interested. See you on Jun 23 at noon (ET).

About the speaker:

Nicolas Maillard is Dean of International Affairs at UFRGS for the period 2016-2020, where he was first appointed in Oct. 2012. In 2019, he published a book on the management of international affairs. He graduated in 1996 at the French “Grande École d’Ingénieur” ENSIMAG – INPG and obtained a Ph.D. in Information Sciences and Technologies at the Université Joseph Fourier, in 2001. He is ”Professor Associado” at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, since 2004. His research field is Parallel Programming. He has advised 15 Master´s and 4 Ph.D. students. He has published 24 papers in international conferences with editorial review and 7 in international journals. In 2012, he spent six months as an invited scholar at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. As Dean of International Affairs, Nicolas is in charge of the internationalization process of UFRGS, being the direct representative of the Rector for international affairs, and in close connection with the Vice-Presidents of Teaching, Research and Outreach. His activities also include the management of student mobility.

About UFRGS: 

UFRGS is a public university maintained by the Federal Government of Brazil. Founded in 1934, it is located in Porto Alegre, capital of Rio Grande do Sul, with an area of approximately 22 km2. In 2019, it had more than 29 thousand undergraduate students. A couple Brazilian presidents are among its alumni. Although there has been faculty collaborations, Ohio State and UFRGS does not currently have an executed agreement/MOU.

For CAPES PrInt the focus is on research and mobility of faculty and Ph.D. students, both incoming and outgoing. UFRGS should receive USD 17,800 for four years.

Thematic areas:

Education

Technology

Food Safety

Energy

Sustainable Development

STEM

Health

You can see details of each area and calls here: https://www.ufrgs.br/propg/print-ufrgs/

  Brazil Gateway team,