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NEWS22 Dec 2016News

Interviews with researchers who participated in Industry-Academia programmes

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In October 2015, EURAXESS Brazil organised a seminar on Industrial PhDs under the Tour of Brazil umbrella. The event was co-hosted by the French Embassy to Brazil. The objective was to discuss the Brazilian industrial PhD context and existing initiatives as well as to introduce to the scientific community the STI programmes from EU Member States regarding partnerships between academia and the private sector.

This event also focused on the issues of establishing bridges between academia and industry and of finding alternative ways to employ the large number of PhDs graduating every year in Brazil.

The participant stressed that industrial PhD's initiatives should not be exclusively from professors or the academic milieu; the State should also encourage universities to promote a favourable environment to allow innovation flourish.

In this context, please read the interviews with Gustavo Malagoli Buiatti, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Brazilian fellow, and Kelly Lixandrão, who is currently enrolled in the Brazilian pilot programme Academic Industrial PhD (DAI). Please read more details on this focus on the links between Academia and Industry on page 6 of our Newsletter of October 2015 here.

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