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International Relations News Portugal and Brazil Sign Scientific, Technology and Information Society Agreements Portugal and Brazil Sign Scientific, Technology and Information Society Agreements
- 11/10/2009
The Portuguese Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education, José Mariano Gago, and the Brazilian Minister of Science and Technology, Sérgio Rezende, signed five cooperation agreements on science, technology, innovation and the information society at the Grémio Literário Literary Club on 10 October 2010:
- Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education of the Portuguese Republic and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Federal Republic of Brazil on strengthening the Portuguese language in the Information Society through open/free access scientific repositories, provision of resources for computer processing of the Portuguese language, assessment of Web content in Portuguese and Web archiving (text in Portuguese);
- Agreement between the Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education of the Portuguese Republic and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Federal Republic of Brazil on Distributed GRID Computing (text in Portuguese);
- Agreement between the Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education of the Portuguese Republic and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Federal Republic of Brazil on nanotechnology (text in Portuguese);
- Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education of the Portuguese Republic and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Federal Republic of Brazil on research support material in Social and Human Sciences in the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (CPLP) (text in Portuguese);
- Agreement between the Ministry for Science, Technology and Higher Education of the Portuguese Republic and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Federal Republic of Brazil on joint participation in EUREKA and IBEROEKA projects (text in Portuguese);
Preparation of these agreement was coordinated in Portugal by the President of The Knowledge Society Agency (UMIC), Luis Magalhães, and in Brazil by the Head of the International Affairs Department at the Ministry of Science and Technology, José Monserrat Filho, in a series of videoconferences with different Brazilian institutions on 18 May, 22 and 8 April and on 17 March 2009.