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MEC and ONG signed an agreement to send students to top universities

11/07/2012

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Partnership with government is part of the Lemann Foundation scholarship program without Frontiers Science
 
The Ministry of Education officially on Monday, 9th, cooperation agreement with the Lemann Foundation to enable the participation of Brazilian students in graduate programs of leading universities in the United States. The partnership is part of the actions of the program Science Without Borders, which plans to send 101,000 overseas students by the year 2014 (75,000 in government grants and scholarships will be awarded 26,000 with funds from the private sector).

The Lemann Foundation is a nonprofit organization, which also grants scholarships to Brazilian students who excel, and has agreements with six top universities in the United States: Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Illinois and California. The understanding with the Ministry of Education provides the foundation to supplement the scholarship offered by the Brazilian government and universities.
In the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes) will be responsible, among other things, launching annual calls the program, provide the student movement to the destination country and back to Brazil and pay health insurance aid for students to remain abroad.

 
The Minister of Education, Aloizio Mercadante, remembered in the ceremony of signing the agreement that Science without Frontiers send 12,000 students abroad in September 2012. "This program opens a new chapter in the history of Brazilian education, taking the best students to the best institutions in the world," he said.

The Science Without Borders aims to provide scholarships for undergraduate and graduate programs for Brazilians abroad in knowledge areas defined as priorities by the government. The focus is to send students to institutions of proven excellence.

The Lemann Foundation president, Jorge Paulo Lemann, praised the government initiative.
"I'm sure this program will be one of the great landmarks of Brazil's development," he said.



Source: R7 News

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