University Network

Connected University Centers

The program envisages an open policy of cooperation with academics from other universities based on individual merit and entrepreneurship. The network’s initial size and composition aims at providing a solid and manageable institutional support to the development of the research activities, but it is not meant to restrict participation and cooperation to the original partners.

Broad Europe and Latin America Network

• OBREAL/EULARO - Observatorio de las Relaciones entre la Unión Europea y América Latina, sponsored by the European Commission.

In Europe

• CIES – Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, Lisboa).

• RSCAS – Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (European University Institute, Florence).

• IEIP – Instituto de Estudios de Iberoamérica y Portugal (Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca).

• CRIS – Comparative Regional Integration Studies (United Nations University, Bruges).

In Latin America

• IFCH – Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo).

• NIEI – Núcleo Interdisciplinario de Estudios Internacionales (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires).

• ICP – Instituto de Ciencia Política (Universidad de la República, Montevideo).

• PPGPOL - Programa de Pos-Graduação em Ciência Política (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre).

• POES - Maestría y Doctorado en Estudios Sociales  (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, Mexico D.F.)

Resources for Academic Mobility

The European Union has established three programs aimed at promoting academic mobility and scholarly cooperation between Latin America and Europe. It is worth having a look:

• ALFA focuses on the promotion of co-operation in higher education between both regions.

• @LIS aims to promote the benefits of using information technologies and tries to bridge the gap of the digital divide. 

• Alßan aims at the reinforcement of the European Union - Latin America co-operation in the area of Higher Education and covers studies for postgraduates as well as higher training for Latin America professionals/future decision-makers, in institutions or centers in the European Union.

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