Foreign Exchanges and Internationalization:

The internationalization of PPGEQ-UFPE occurs mainly through foreign exchanges. The exchange occurs when our students and professors study/work at institutions abroad, or when we welcome foreign professors to work at PPGEQ-UFPE. The main types of exchange programs are: doctorate-sandwich (interuniversity exchange) abroad for students, postdoctorate researchers and visiting professors, welcoming foreign professors at PPGEQ-UFPE, execution of international collaboration research projects, participation in thesis defense comitees. PPGEQ-UFPE has given special encouragement to the sandwich doctorate abroad. In the sandwich doctorate, the student's thesis work plan is carried out for 4 to 12 months still as part of PPGEQ-UFPE, but including an internship at another foreign university, under the supervision of one or more foreign teachers outside the program. The highlight of this modality is the international experience, including in another scientific and technological environment, different orientation, with important impacts on the general context of the student’s education.

 

International Institutions that already collaborated with PPGEQ-UFPE:

• Aix-Marseille University (France)
• Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Hungary)
• Dalhousiev University(Canada)
• Laval University (Canada)
• Metropolitan Autonomous University (Mexico)
• Montreal Polytechnic (Canada)
• Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (Portugal)
• Polytechnic University of Valencia (Spain)
• Rovira i Virgili University (Spain)
• Superior National School of Chemistry of Rennes (France)
• Technical University of Manabí (Ecuador)
• University of Alcalá (Spain)
• University of Barcelona (Spain)
• University of Basque Country (Spain)
• University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
• University of Lorraine (France)
• University of Lyon I (France)
• University of Malaga (Spain)
• University of Milan (Italy)
• University of Minho (Portugal)
• University of Porto (Portugal)
• University of Valencia (Spain)
• University of Waterloo (Canada)
• US Department of Agriculture (USA)

 

PPGEQ-UFPE’s internationalization plan also includes receiving graduate students from South America, Central America and Africa. The arrival of students from South and Central America has occurred mainly through the Education and Training Alliance Program (Scholarships Brazil - PAEC OEA-GCUB). This program is the result of cooperation between the Organization of American States (OAS), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO / WHO) and the Coimbra Group of Brazilian Universities (GCUB), with support from the Division of Educational Themes of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DCE / MRE). Launched in 2011, integrates one of the most relevant cooperation initiatives in the educational domain from a regional perspective for the development of the Latin America and the Caribbean. Its main goal is to contribute to the regional integration and strengthening of the Americas, through the granting of full scholarships for stricto sensu postgraduate courses (master and doctorate), offered by Brazilian universities associated to GCUB, to students from the 34 OAS’s member countries, except Brazil. High-level academic students with a leadership background and high potential for impact in their home countries are selected. These students experience scientific and cultural exchange and return to their countries of origin with the mission of contributing to the socioeconomic development of their society.

PPGEQ-UFPE also has the possibility of exchange through the International Relations Directory (DRI) at UFPE. DRI is responsible for UFPE's cooperation with higher education institutions in different countries. It allows students and professors from Pernambuco to exchange knowledge and academic experiences with students and professors from all over the world. DRI's work consists of advising students and professors who seek information on exchange options and procedures required to study abroad and in formulating international agreements. In 2019, UFPE had formal agreements with 145 foreign institutions, spread over 37 countries on 05 continents.