BRAZILIAN FEDERAL AGENCY FOR SUPPORT AND BRAZILIAN FEDERAL AGENCY FOR SUPPORT AND EVALUATION OF GRADUATE EDUCATIONEVALUATION OF GRADUATE EDUCATION

Denise de M. NeddermeyerDirector of International Relations

Brasília, January, 2013

 

Science Without Borders

Program

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 CNPq and 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)Undergraduate “Sandwich” ( one year of study abroad) 27.500

PhD “Sandwich” (one year of study abroad) 24.700

Full PhD 9.940

Post-Doctoral Fellowship 10.910

Fellowships for scientists and engineers 700

Young researchers (for expatriates and foreigners) 860

Visiting scientists (for expatriates and foreigners) 390

Total 75.000

Plus 26.000 scholarships from Private Sector

Global ExecutionCAPES/CNPq

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# Scholarship Type Total1 Undergraduate “Sandwich” 15.1262 PhD “Sandwich”  3.5943 Post-doctorate Fellowship  2.3344 Full PhD 8235 Young researchers/Visiting scientists  597  Overall Total  22.474

Global scholarships by destination country

(CAPES Execution)

Destination CountryTotal

1 United States 36232 France 22463 Germany 12804 Portugal 8305 U.K. 7836 Spain 4257 Italy 3958 Canada 3019 Holland 14210 Australia 9211 Others 457

TOTAL 10.574

Undergraduate “Sandwich”Calls in progress CAPES

Undergraduate “Sandwich” Next calls 2013

Portugal China Austria Ireland

Previsions to be launched on February 2013:

Graduate Level

Types of Scholarships:• PhD Sandwhich (1 year of study abroad)• Full PhD • Post-doctoral Fellowship

The current calendar for Graduate Scholarships closes on march 28th,2013.

Agreements with the Productive Sector

Company Scholarships to befinanced Total (R$)

Petrobrás  5.000 318.963.630,50VALE  1.000 35.390.458,00FEBRABAN  6.500 364.821.345,86ELETROBRÁS 2.500 150.000.000,00CNI (under negotiation) 6.000 215.580.978,00ABDIB (under negotiation) 5.000 -

TOTAL 26.000 1.084.756.412,36

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.

English without Borders

Proposed Expansion of the Program of International Teacher Education for: Switzerland, Canada, France, Spain, Germany, Italy, UK and USA.

Thank you!

Denise de M. Neddermeyerdri@capes.gov.br