About Débora Antunes Débora Antunes is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. Her current research focuses on the intersection between Disability Studies and Internet Studies, with a focus on issues of the Global South. Through a digital ethnographic approach, she investigates how autistic people and their supporters are using social media in Brazil, paying attention to questions of...

Fabiana was born and educated in Brazil. She is an alumna of the European Masters in Higher Education, an Erasmus Mundus programme jointly offered by the University of Oslo with two other European universities. She is currently a PhD candidate at the LH Martin Institute of the University of Melbourne, Australia. Fabiana, please tell us about your research background and interests. I have an interest in higher education systems and knowledge...

Find everything you have always wanted to know about how European funding for master degree to research stays in a simple flyer A new EURAXESS brochure: "Come to Europe!" presenting a few bulleted points on the three main European opportunities for researcher mobility (ERC, MSCA and Erasmus+) is available in annex and on-line. You can find all basic information on one handy leaflet. Boost your research career come to Europe

Snezana, tell us about your research background and interests I am a chemical engineer, but my research background is quite multidisciplinary with a broad interest in issues at the intersection of science, policy, society and innovation. I was involved in research activities as an undergraduate, when I worked on an “intelligent” system for separation of multicomponent liquids, which was of particular importance for the oil, pharmaceutical and...

About Vanessa Cardoso Pires Vanessa Cardoso Pires Brazilian, nutritionist, started her research career in 2006 working in a project of scientific initiation as an undergraduate student. In 2012 she finished her Master’s degree in Health Sciences and studied at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center as a research intern. Currently, she is finishing her PhD in Food Science, working with maternal and paternal programming of breast cancer...

The European Comission global university ranking tool, U-Multirank, which assesses the performance of more than 850 higher education institutions worldwide, recently released its second set of results. Particularly interesting for students and PhD candidates, the tool allows or the comparison of the performance of more than 1,200 higher education institutions, 1,800 faculties and 7,500 study programmes from more than 83 countries. Read the...

Professor Carlos Brito Cruz, could you tell us about your roles and responsibilities as scientific director of the Foundation for Support to Research of the São Paulo State (FAPESP)? FAPESP receives financing from tax payers in the São Paulo State for the development of science...

"Proving the power of collaboration in mathematics": read the portrait of Artur Avila, Brazilian Fields Medal awardee and ERC grantee published on ERC website.

On the occasion of the IVth edition of the European Conference of Brazilian Students and Researchers that was held in the Netherlands on 18 April, EURAXESS Links Brazil interviewed the organizers. This feature brings you information on why and how Brazilian researchers based in Europe should associate themselves with one another. In it, researchers also share their view on mobility and present the main outcomes of the event. What is Apeb-NL? How...

Horizon 2020 is the largest EU research and innovation programme ever. Almost EUR 80 billion in funding is available over seven years (2014 to 2020), in addition to the private and national public investment that this money will attract. This new guide explains the Horizon 2020 programme in greater detail. Download the document for free here.