4th Portugal-Brazil Videoconference to Prepare Cooperation Programmes
- 18/05/2009A videoconference with several Brazilian institutions was held at Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC) on 18th May 2009 to help prepare potential cooperation programmes in science, technology, innovation and information society fields, following on from previous videoconferences held on 22nd and 8th April and 17th March 2009.
The videoconference was held between the President of Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC), Luis Magalhães, and representing Brazil, the Head of the International Affairs Department at the Ministry of Science and Technology, José Monserrat Filho. It enabled a series of important agreements for concrete bilateral cooperation programmes to be wrapped up successfully. These could potentially open a new era of opportunities for effective work between the two countries’ researchers, scientific institutions and public policy bodies for science, technology and the information society.