Collaboration in Brazil

The collaboration in Brazil includes both education and research activities with Brazilian universities, hospitals and institutions. Focus areas are research interaction and innovation and student exchange programmes.

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

Universidade de Sao Paulo

KI is also a member of CISB, the Swedish-Brazilian Research and Innovation Centre, which is a private non-profit association that acts as a platform to connect innovation ecosystems and facilitates the collaboration between Sweden and Brazil.

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:

Pontus Nauclér (Academic coordinator for Brazil)
Martin Schalling
Janina Seubert
Carla Avesani
Elham Rostami
Maria Olsson

Looking for research collaborators?

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

Bachelor's and master's education

At the moment there are no 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.

Collaboration on national level

Sweden Brazil Innovation Initiative
The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet) Formas and Vinnova singed a MoU with Brazilian organisations CNPq, FINEP and CONFAP The goal and the hope is that the MoU will lead to increased academic collaboration and exchange between Sweden and Brazil.