President Dilma Rousseff traveled to the United States this week, where one of her top agenda items was the Science Without Borders program, known as Ciência sem fronteiras in Portuguese. It’s one of Brazil’s most ambitious government education programs that aims to send 101,000 Brazilian students abroad to study the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math). The government will fund 75,000 scholarships, and is working with the private sector to fund the rest.
Ciência sem Fronteiras é um programa que busca promover a consolidação, expansão e internacionalização da ciência e tecnologia, da inovação e da competitividade brasileira por meio do intercâmbio e da mobilidade internacional. A iniciativa é fruto de esforço conjunto dos Ministérios da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação (MCTI) e do Ministério da Educação (MEC), por meio de suas respectivas instituições de fomento – CNPq e Capes –, e Secretarias de Ensino Superior e de Ensino Tecnológico do MEC.
O projeto prevê a utilização de até 75 mil bolsas em quatro anos para promover intercâmbio, de forma que alunos de graduação e pós-graduação façam estágio no exterior com a finalidade de manter contato com sistemas educacionais competitivos em relação à tecnologia e inovação. Além disso, busca atrair pesquisadores do exterior que queiram se fixar no Brasil ou estabelecer parcerias com os pesquisadores brasileiros nas áreas prioritárias definidas no Programa, bem como criar oportunidade para que pesquisadores de empresas recebam treinamento especializado no exterior.
Here’s an intro to the program and input from scholarship recipients.
And here’s an interview with Dr. Glaucius Oliva, president of the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico that helps run the program.
For the science without boarders to work, my country has to change current legislation about validation of foreign degrees. Brazil lesgislation is too broad and unequal about that. As an example, I would cite my wife. She attended an american university for B.S. in nursing. Currently, she is a MRN and teaches at two illinois colleges. USP of Brazil denied to validate her degree. Consequently, she could not work in Brazil. Only 30% of a foreign degrees that is entered for validation at University of Sao Paulo are validated. It is a huge shame.
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For the science without boarders to work, my country has to change current legislation about validation of foreign degrees. Brazil lesgislation is too broad and unequal about that. As an example, I would cite my wife. She attended an american university for B.S. in nursing. Currently, she is a MRN and teaches at two illinois colleges. USP of Brazil denied to validate her degree. Consequently, she could not work in Brazil. Only 30% of a foreign degrees that is entered for validation at University of Sao Paulo are validated. It is a huge shame.
Search for revalidacaobrasil blog and be informed.