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Prof Dr Stephan Ludwig (Institute of Molecular Virology), who has maintained contacts to Fiocruz for many years and initiated the university-wide partnership with Münster University, organised the visit to WWU with the support of the Brazil Centre.

The scientific and academic cooperation between WWU and the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil will receive new important impulses through two recently approved projects within the framework of the PROBRAL and PROPASP calls for proposals.

On 23 March 2023, at 3pm (CET)/11am (BRA), the third meeting of the Brazilian Diaspora for Science, Technology and Innovation will take place and the Brazil Centre of the University of Münster is also on the programme this time.

Norbert Robers, head of the Communication and Public Relations Office and press spokesperson of Münster University, accompanied the Rector and representatives of the Brazil Centre on their trip to Brazil (6 to 11 February) with a dense programme of about 15 meetings over five days in three cities with numerous partners.
 

On 18.01.2022, the general assembly of the Brazil Centre was held in a hybrid format, during which the new board of the Brazil Centre was elected.

On the evening of November 30th, around 30 former students, researchers and professors who were at some point in their academic career at WWU or Freie Universität Berlin gathered at the first Brazilian alumni meeting organized by the two universities.

The Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” of the University of Münster (WWU) has one open position as research assistant for a PhD student starting at the next possible date with a duration of up to 3 years (65%, TV-L E 13 salary level).

The Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) and founder of the Brazilian Institute for Teaching, Development and Research (IDP), Gilmar Mendes, and the academic coordinator of the IDP's Faculty of Law, Raphael Carvalho, visited the German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) São Paulo on 28 October at the invitation of the Brazil Centre of Münster University (WWU).

As part of WWU’s Sustainability Day "Campus Earth 2022", the SABio research group is organising the World Café on 20.10.22 (2-4pm) together with ZIN and the Brazil Centre on the topic "Energy transition from another view: Perspectives from South America".