The Institutional Internationalization Project of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (IIP / UFRGS) is an outbound and inbound research and mobility program aiming at excellence, involving 65 Graduate Programs (CAPES grades 4, 5, 6 and 7) and proposing 96 interaction projects distributed in eight major research themes, aiming to consolidate the internationalization actions of the University.
This project intends to increase the mobility of all segments, the multilingual nature of the University’s actions, to develop a policy for attraction and institutional integration of visiting professors, to offer visiting researchers and postdoctoral fellowships, and to improve the hosting of academic research partners.
Professors and students from PPGCTA who develop collaborative research activities with international research groups within the thematic areas established by UFRGS can apply for scholarships in this program. The program includes scholarships for visiting foreign professor to Brazil (PVB), visiting professor from Brazil to a foreign country (PVE), Ph.D. sandwich scholarship (PDSE) and short-term missions.
Themes joined by PPGCTA:
Theme 1: Sustainable development; diversities; climate change; international cooperation. environmental, social and economic sustainability, including historical, political, cultural, ethical and legal aspects: to research sustainable development integrating different perspectives, inserting the university in the research and discussion forums on climate change, and establishing a network of research for studies related to sustainable development.
Theme 7: Food chain and agriculture, food security: researching agriculture, supply chains and food security from the perspective of introducing new technologies and alternatives in agriculture, as well as studying food chains of interest to the country and establishing a network for food security studies.
Theme 8: Education of high-level human resources for action in strategic areas: education of high-level human resources through the continuous qualification of graduate programs, with an increase of the international experience of graduate students and of the scope of this experience.