Collaboration in Brazil

The majority of the activities with Brazilian collaborators takes place between researchers. Most of the activities are in the fields of odontology, neuroscience, immunology and infectious diseases and psychiatry. There is an extended and more strategic collaboration with Universidade de São Paulo (USP) and the region of Sao Paulo.

Collaborative agreements

KI has agreements at different levels with different institutes in Brazil, but the majority of the activities with Brazilian collaborators takes place between researchers and are not centrally regulated. There are a few exceptions, where collaborative agreements, projects and activities are initiated and supported centrally.

KI has signed Memoranda of Understanding with the following universities and research foundations:

• Universidade de Sao Paulo
• Universidad De Estado De Rio de Janeiro
• São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)

Steering group

An operative steering group's is leading the work and its focus is on stimulate and deepen new and on-going collaborations with Brazil. The members of KI's steering group are:

Martin Schalling (Academic coordinator for Brazil)

Antonio Gigliotti Rothfuchs

Pontus Nauclér

Lisa Westerberg

Terese Stenfors

Maria Olsson

Bachelor's and master's education

A few KI study programmes have bilateral exchange agreements with Brasilian universities.

For current agreements on student exchange and more information search the map where all agreements can be found.

Collaborations on doctoral level

For information regarding PhD-agreements at the departmental level, please contact the relevant department. There are no PhD collaboration agreements coordinated by the International Relations Unit.

Looking for research collaborators?

Are you interested to collaborate with Brazilian researchers, and looking for a collaborator at USP?
Contact the academic coordinator Martin Schalling and he will try to facilitate.

Collaboration on national levels

• Sweden Brazil Innovation Initiative
• Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) and FAPESP (São Paulo Research Foundation) have a signed MoU.
• The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) singed a MoU with The Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES/MEC) calls for research collaborations with Brazil.

Funding possibilities when collaboration with Brazil