How did you come to Brazil? With which initiative or funding? I came to São Paulo in August 2012 with a postdoctoral scholarship from FAPESP to work at the Fundamendal Chemistry department of USP. In 2015 I moved to Rio de Janeiro and now have a postdoctoral grant from CNPq to work in the Inorganic Chemistry Department of UFF. You are going back to Europe. How did you find a new position? I was offered a contract at the University of Nîmes (...

The IRC Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme entitled CAROLINE – ‘Collaborative Research Fellowships for a Responsive and Innovative Europe’ will provide experienced researchers with an opportunity to obtain a prestigious research mobility and career development Fellowship. Successful candidates will carry out research either in Ireland or abroad and will gain inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary...

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  25 leading research and public health organizations from Latin America, North America, Africa, Asia, and Europe gathered in Recife at the end of October for the launch of ZikaPLAN (Zika Preparedness Latin American Network). This global initiative, created in response to a Horizon 2020 funding call by the European Commission’s Directorate-General Research and Innovation, has been formed to address the Zika virus outbreak and the many research...

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  Discover how Brazilian students, researchers and higher education institutions benefit or have benefited from Erasmus+ by reading their testimonials below. Jean Monnet activities at UFMG, by Alexandre Mendes Cunha The Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) now holds a Jean Monnet Module and a Jean Monnet Chair. Could you tell us more about the objectives and its application process? In the Jean Monnet 2015 Call for proposals, the Federal...

You are the director of the European Commission Executive Agency Education, Audiovisual and Culture (EACEA). Could you please tell us about the agency’s main activities? The Agency’s mission is to support European projects that connect people and cultures, reach out to the world and make a difference. We implement EU programmes in the fields of education, culture, audiovisual, sport, citizenship and volunteering while ensuring high quality...

About Rafael Viana de Carvalho Rafael Viana de Carvalho is a Brazilian researcher interested in computational biology. Bachelor in Computer Science from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás (PUC-GO), Master in Computer Science from Núcleo de Computação e Eletrônica da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (NCE-UFRJ) and PhD in Computer Science at Universiteit Leiden (Netherlands). Rafael worked as research trainee at International...

About Luciana Ferrari Montemezzo Luciana Ferrari Montemezzo is a Brazilian researcher focued on Spanish Literature and Translation. Bachelor of Arts (Spanish translation of habilitation) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1995), Master of Arts from the Federal University of Santa Maria (1999) and PhD in Theory and Literary History at the State University of Campinas (2008). Since 1996, Lucinana is a professor at the Federal...

About Fernanda Peris Fernanda Peris is a Brazilian PhD student at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) focused on communication and media, with a full-time grant offered by the Doctoral School of UOC. Interview Tell us a bit about yourself. Where are you from? What is your research about? My name is Fernanda Pires de Sá. I am from São Paulo, Brazil. My background is in social communications with a specialisation in film production. I’ve been...