Policy Paper on Brazil

Brazil Expert Group

8 March 2013

Policy Paper on Brazil - content

Introduction

1. Higher Education in Brazil

2. Ranking universities and programmes

3. History of collaboration

4. Present collaboration

5. Science Without Borders

6. Focus on “research” and “quality”

7. Focus on preferential partners in Brazil

8. Actions to intensify a focussed cooperation with Brazil

1. Higher Education in Brazil

• entrance exam (vestibular)

• top universities mainly public institutions – free admission

• undergraduate (graduação)

o Bacharel (4-6 years, sometimes including internship)

o Licenciado (3-5 years, including teacher training)

o Título profissional (5-6 years, f.e. architect, engineer, medical doctor…)

• postgraduate (pós-graduação)

o Mestrado (2 years, giving access to PhD)

o Mestrado profissional (1 year, no access to PhD)

o Doutorado (3-4 years)

• CAPES : transparent evaluation of Master’s and PhD

2. Ranking universities

• Federal and state universities in top of ranking 1. Universidade de São Paulo

2. Universidade de Brasília

3. Universidade Estadual de Campinas

4. Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul

5. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

6. Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

7. Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina

8. Universidade Estadual Paulista

9. Universidade Federal do Paraná

10. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro

11. Universidade Federal da Bahia

2. Ranking rogrammes

• Quality of study programmes may differ

• CAPES postgraduate evaluation is useful guide 3 = acceptable

6 = excellent on a national scale

7 = excellent on an international scale

UF Nome IES Sigla IES Programa Nível

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Área de Avaliação

RJPONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO

RIO DE JANEIROPUC-RIO EDUCAÇÃO M/D 7 EDUCAÇÃO

RJPONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO

RIO DE JANEIROPUC-RIO ENGENHARIA MECÂNICA M/D 7 ENGENHARIAS III

RJPONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO

RIO DE JANEIROPUC-RIO INFORMÁTICA M/D 7 CIÊNCIA DA COMPUTAÇÃO

BA UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA BAHIA UFBA SAÚDE COLETIVA M/D 7 SAÚDE COLETIVA

MG UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS UFMG BIOQUÍMICA E IMUNOLOGIA M/D 7 CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS II

MG UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS UFMG CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS (FISIOLOGIA E

FARMACOLOGIA) M/D 7 CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS II

MG UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS UFMG CIÊNCIAS DA COMPUTAÇÃO M/D 7 CIÊNCIA DA COMPUTAÇÃO

MG UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS UFMG DEMOGRAFIA M/D 7PLANEJAMENTO URBANO E REGIONAL

/ DEMOGRAFIA

3. History of collaboration • Long tradition of cooperation with Brazil in the faculties

• 2001-2008 : SBA agreement, including USP

• May 2009 : KU Leuven delegation to Latin America, including USP and

UNESP

• Oct. 2009 : Cooperation Consultation Meeting in Leuven, including

USP and UNESP

3. History of collaboration

• Oct. 2009 : Latin America Fund (call 2010-2011-2012-2013)

• May 2010 : KU Leuven delegation joined Belgian Economic Mission,

including visit to USP and UNESP

• 2011 : Brazil Expert Group

• June 2012 : visit of ABRUEM network

• Nov. 2012 : welcome SWB

students

• Nov. 2012 : Ambassador’s

lecture

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1 Universidade de Sao Paulo USP 85

2 Universidade Estadual de Campinas UNICAM P 29

3 Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro UFRJ 36

4 Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais UFM G 25

5 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul UFRGS 21

6 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina UFSC 10

7 Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro PUC-RIO 8

8 Universidade Federal da Bahía UFBA 3

9 Universidade de Brasilia UNB 6

10 Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP 12

11 Universidade Federal do Paraná UFPR 1

14 Universidade Federal de Uberlândia UFU 1

18 Universidade Federal de Pernambuco UFPE 2

25 Universidade Estadual de Londrina UEL 0

28 Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos UFSCAR 5

31 Universidade Federal de Santa Maria UFSM 2

38 Universidade Federal do Ouro Preto UFOP 0

39 Universidade Federal de Lavras UFLA 2

53 Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná PUC/PR 0

84 Universidade Federal do ABC UFABC 0

98 Universidade Estadual do Norte Fluminense UENF 0

PETROBAS 0

Fundaçâo Oswaldo Cruz FIOCRUZ 4

Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica ITA 1

Instituto de Botânica de Sao Paulo IBT 0

Faculdade Ibmec Sao Paulo INSPER 0

4. Present collaboration

Faculty

number of

Brazilians Brazilians Programme

Engineering Science 23 25 Full PhD

Science 11 16 Master Exchange

Medicine 11 10 Master Degree

Bioscience Engineering 10 7 PhD Sandwich

Arts 6 7 Visiting scholar

FABER 3 5 Various

Social Sciences 2

Economics 2

Law 1

Pharmacy 1

Total 70

Distribution of 70 Brazilians at KU Leuven in November 2012:

5. Science Without Borders

• 2011-2015

• 100,000 grants

• Brazilian undergraduate, PhD and postdoc

• International senior researchers and promising (Brazilian)

postdoc researchers

• CAPES and CNPQ sign agreements with national

authorities

• Agreement with Flanders and Walloon Region – work plan

still being discussed

5. Science Without Borders - grants Brazil to KU Leuven

Level Period Next deadline

Undergraduate

(exchange)

12 months 30 April 2013

PhD sandwich 6 up to 12 months 31 May 2013

PhD full up to 48 months 31 May 2013

Postdoc 6 tot 24 months 31 May 2013

KU Leuven to Brazil

Level Period Next deadline

Postdoc

(young talent)

1 up to 3 years in

Brazil To be confirmed

Senior

Researcher

spread over a period of

2 to 3 years, up to 3

months in Brazil each

year

To be confirmed

5. Science without Borders - Belgium

SWB Scholarships awarded

till November 2012

TOTAL PhD Full PhD

sandwich postdoc

under- graduate

KU Leuven + IMEC 39 5 13 6 15

U Gent 18 1 4 2 11

U Antwerpen 6 1 4 1 0

VUB 4 0 0 0 4

UHasselt 3 0 1 2

UCLouvain 26 0 11 1 14

ULB 24 1 10 7 6

U Liège 19 0 2 3 14

U Mons 3 0 1 1 1

FUNDP 1 0 1 0 0

FUSL 1 0 0 0 1

TOTAL BELGIUM 144 8 47 21 68

5. Science without Borders - Leuven

6. Focus on “research” and “quality”

• Attract excellent doctoral students

• Attract excellent postdoctoral researchers

• Attract excellent students at Master’s level to become future

doctoral students

• Cooperation between research departments through “senior

researchers”

• Cooperation through “young Brazilian postdoc”

• Intensify existing cooperation

• Explore new cooperation opportunities

7. Focus on preferential partners

• Preferential partners on central level of KU Leuven

• Without excluding any individual top student or collaboration

• Two options for focussing cooperation:

o Two traditional partners: USP and UNESP

o More (how many?) top ten universities in Brazil we already

are cooperating with

7. Focus on top universities

University city

Universidade de Sao Paulo Sao Paulo

Universidade Estadual de Campinas Campinas Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro

Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre

Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Florianópolis Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro

Universidade Federal da Bahía Salvador

Universidade de Brasilia Brasilia

Universidade Estadual Paulista Sao Paulo

8. Actions to intensify a focussed

cooperation with Brazil

1. Get in touch with potential partners in Brazil

o Correspondence : how to distinguish?

o Activities in Brazil ?

2. Promote cooperation with Brazil

o Activities at KU Leuven?

o Stimulate cooperation in specific unexplored top domains

o Include Humanities and Social Sciences

o Additional funding?

3. Bring “good practices” into the spotlight

4. Facilitate access to useful information