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On 20 and 21 August 2025, the Faculty of Law at the University of São Paulo welcomed professors from the University of Münster for the second edition of their joint workshops, this time held in Brazil.

In October 2025, the consortium of German universities will hold two editions of the Postdoc in Germany workshop in Brazil’s Northeast: in Fortaleza (21/10) and Recife (23/10). Organised by the German Centre for Research and Innovation (DWIH) São Paulo and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the events target early-career researchers who are in the final years of their PhD or who completed their doctorate no more than four years ago and wish to conduct research in Germany.

The Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) announced a joint call for proposals to select up to 10 basic research projects from German research institutions in collaboration with Brazilian ones.

The Brazilian Embassy in Berlin invites to the 5th Meeting of the Brazilian Diaspora for Science and Innovation on 17 October 2025.

From 13 to 18 July 2025, the University of Münster – represented by Cíntia Toth, Head of the Brazil Centre and the Liaison Office São Paulo, and Dr. Anne Vortkamp from the REACH – Euregio Start-up Center – took part in the 77th Annual Meeting of the Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência (SBPC) in Recife.

On 19 November 2024, the new Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Disease Dynamics (IMMIDD) was officially founded at the University of Münster.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) offers doctoral candidates at Brazilian universities the opportunity to carry out a funded research stay of two to six months at a university or non-university research institution in Germany.

Prof. Daniel Villela, an outstanding senior researcher at the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), a renowned and internationally recognised research institution in Brazil, has been selected to be the new holder of the CAPES Brazil Chair at the University of Münster.

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) offers funding to excellent early-career researchers who plan to pursue a PhD in Germany.
 

Prof. Dr. Ana Larissa Oliveira (FALE/UFMG) is organising an interdisciplinary academic event and publishing the book Digital Language, Gender and Democracy in Brazil as part of her research activities as a CAPES Brazil Chair at the University of Münster.

The student’s association of the School of Business and Economics at the University of Münster has awarded its annual Teaching Prize to lecturers who have made outstanding contributions to teaching.

Since June 2025, Cíntia Toth Gonçalves is the head of the Liaison Office of the Brazil Centre at the University of Münster in São Paulo. In this role, she serves as the main contact point for individuals in Brazil interested in academic collaboration or pursuing studies at the University of Münster.
 

On 23 June 2025 at 3:15 p.m., the University of Münster will celebrate an impressive milestone in German-Brazilian scientific cooperation: the Brazil Centre will mark its 15th anniversary with a celebratory event at the Alexander von Humboldt-House.

The 24th FAPESP Week took place on 25 and 26 March at Freie Universität Berlin. The event was organised by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) in cooperation with the German Research Foundation (DFG). The University of Münster was successfully represented at the event.