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UK-Brazil Partnership in Science and Innovation
The UK-Brazil Year of Science & Innovation, launched in March 2007, was a great success. With over 8 cooperation agreements signed and more than 40 seminars organised, the project initiated a series
of possibilities of cooperation between Brazil and the UK in different areas of science.
Read the UK-Brazil Year of Science & Innovation Final Report and get to know more about all the co-operation agreements and activities developed through this bilateral partnership. Although the Year of Science has officially come to and end, Brazil and the UK will continue to foster collaboration through the "UK-Brazil Partnership in Science and Innovation". On March 12 2008, during the closing ceremony of Year of Science in the Ministry for Science and Technology in Brasilia, Prof. John Beddington, the UK Chief Scientific Advisor, and Sérgio Rezende, the Brazilian Minister for Science and Technology, launched the "UK-Brazil Partnership in Science & Innovation".
Following the success of the Year of Science and the recognition of the potential collaboration in research between the two countries, the UK-Brazil Partnership in Science and Innovation will maintain and strengthen the relationships initiated during the previous agreement by focusing on the goals below:
- strengthening the relationships between research and business communities from both countries initiated in the Year of Science;
- increasing the exchange of technical and scientific knowledge between both countries;
- identifying and fostering new collaborations for innovative products with high scientific-technological value
- strengthening the collaboration between research funding agencies from both countries; and
- implementing the Memoranda of Understanding and agreements signed between UK and Brazilian institutions through the UK-Brazil Year of Science & Innovation
The UK-Brazil Partnership in Science and Innovation will reach these goals through the promotion of seminars, workshops, lectures and event, missions, researcher exchanges, and new memoranda of understanding between relevant institutions in Brazil and in the UK. These will focus on, but will not be exclusive to, the priority areas identified under the Joint Action Plan for Science, Technology and Innovation signed by both countries in March 2006, which include research and development in health and agriculture, climate change and energy, nanotechnology and science and technology management policy.
