{"id":9,"date":"2012-03-07T09:40:25","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T09:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/?p=9"},"modified":"2016-06-14T09:41:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T08:41:07","slug":"kent-selected-for-brazils-science-without-borders-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/2012\/03\/07\/kent-selected-for-brazils-science-without-borders-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent selected for Brazils Science without Borders programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that Kent is one of a select number of UK universities to be included on the Brazilian government\u2019s Science without Borders programme, an innovation which will provide 75,000 scholarships from 2012 to Brazilian students to spend a period of study abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The programme will focus on promoting \u201cExact Sciences\u201d and subjects which are seen as key to Brazil\u2019s strategic development, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Physics, Chemistry, \u00a0Geosciences\/Earthsciences<\/li>\n<li>Biology, Biomedical and Natural Sciences<\/li>\n<li>Computer Science and Information Technology<\/li>\n<li>Sustainable Agricultural Production Technology<\/li>\n<li>Technologies for the transition to a green economy<\/li>\n<li>Biotechnology<\/li>\n<li>Aerospace Technology<\/li>\n<li>Biodiversity and Bioprospecting<\/li>\n<li>Renewable Energy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Placements will be administered by CNPq (the Brazillian Research Council) and CAPES (an academic exchange service under the Ministry of Education) who will be looking mainly for UG short-programmes abroad (6 months, including industrial placements) and PhD sandwich (co-tutelle) programmes, full PhDs and academic exchange.<\/p>\n<p>The places will be funded by the Brazilian government with a financial package that will cover tuition, accommodation, student support and living cost.<\/p>\n<p>For further information, please contact James Banner:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:j.t.banner@kent.ac.uk\">j.t.banner@kent.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are delighted to announce that Kent is one of a select number of UK universities to be included on the Brazilian government\u2019s Science without &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/2012\/03\/07\/kent-selected-for-brazils-science-without-borders-programme\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40816,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40816"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/internationalpartnerships-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}