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Consolidating the Cambridge-Brazil relationship

Ángel Gurría-Quintana, International Strategy Office

Cambridge-Brazil, 1832

Charles Darwin

Cambridge University Herbarium

Cambridge-Brazil 2012: Simón Bolívar Chair

Cambridge-Brazil 2012: Partners

• Brazilian universities and research institutes
• Brazilian government: CAPES, CNPq, FAPESP, EMBRAPA, FINEP,

BNDES, Itamaraty

• UK funding councils: RCUK-FAPESP (AHRC, BBSRC, ESRC, NERC)
• UK government: FCO (Science and Innovation Network; Prosperity

Fund); BIS

• Brazilian industry (Petrobras, BG Brasil)

Cambridge-Brazil 2012: Student numbers

Mexico: 54 Chile: 39 Denmark: 37 Vietnam: 35 Brazil: 33 Nigeria: 33 Iran: 33

• R. Serbia: 33

Argentina: 14

Cambridge-Brazil 2012

• Cambridge Overseas Trust… 30 fully-funded PhDs for Brazilian students: 20 for STEM

subjects (CAPES/Ciência sem Fronteiras); 10 for arts, humanities and social sciences (CAPES)

• Cambridge Enterprise: Innovation & tech transfer programme with Inova/Unicamp,

Survey of Brazilian IP landscape

• Cambridge University Press (SP, Rio): Cambridge Books Online (2011, digitised

content for Brazilian universities); distribution deal with Abril; CUP’s EFL books in national curriculum

• Cambridge Assessment: 67 authorised ESOL centres; 30 types of qualifications
• Judge Business School: Executive Education (SP, RJ, MG, BRAS)
• Schools, Faculties, Departments, Research centres

Cambridge-Brazil 2012

Cambridge museums:

• Museum Archaeology and Anthropology:

Fran Vincent collection

• Fitzwilliam Museum:

“Heroes and Bandits: Brazilian Popular Art” (2001)

• Kettle’s Yard:

“Mischief: Works by Lucia Nogueira” (2011) Cambridge libraries:

• UL, over 9000 books about Brazil (5110 books published in Brazil)
• St John’s College: Kenneth Maxwell collection (2000 books)

Cambridge-Brazil: Strategic Initiatives and Networks

Cambridge-Brazil 2012: Collaborative projects

• School of Arts and Humanities: New post in Brazilian Studies
• School of Biological Sciences: Sustainable Amazon Network
• School of Clinical Medicine: Intracranial pressure: UoC/IEA-USP
• School of Humanities and Social Sciences: Centre of Latin

American Studies, Centre of Rising Powers

• School of Physical Sciences: UoC/Unicamp Chemistry cluster
• School of Technology: Biofuel combustion, UoC/Esc. Politecnica

USP

Cambridge-Brazil 2012: International Strategy Office