Technische Universität Dortmund with New Agency in Brazil: UAMR Office Inaugurated in Sao Paulo in the Presence of the Federal Foreign Minister Westerwelle
2/22/12
Source: Technische Universität Dortmund
On February 14th the Federal Foreign Minister Dr. Guido Westerwelle inaugurated the German House of Science and Innovation (DWIH - Deutsches Wissenschafts- und Innovationshaus) in Sao Paulo. The University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr (UAMR) will also have an office there. Westerwelle emphasized the importance of Brazil as a location for science and technology because the Sao Paulo region has the most German research companies outside of Germany.
The coordinators of the UAMR liaison office ConRuhr Latin America Prof. Christoph Käppler (right side, director) und Dr. Stephan Hollensteiner with Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle.
Westerwelle refers to the DWIH in Sao Paulo as the foundation for further German-Brazilian cooperations and in this regard particularly acclaimed the special program Ciencias sem Fronterias (CsF, science without frontiers) launched by the Brazil government.
This program enables 10,000 Brazilian students and scientists to come to Germany within the next three years. In connection with the Csf, the universities of the University Alliance Metropolis Ruhr (UAMR) currently offer the most scholarships in all of Germany.
Besides the focus Brazil, the universities of the Ruhr Metropolis are actively engaged in other countries of Latin America, among them Chile, Argentina, Columbia, Ecuador and Peru. DAAD president Prof. Margret Wintermantel, who came to Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro together with the delegation of the German Foreign Minister, praised the engagement of the UAMR in Latin America as exemplary.
The UAMR office in Sao Paulo is the branch of the UAMR liaison office ConRuhr Latin America in Rio de Janeiro. This liaison office is organizationally attached to the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD – Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst). Coordinators of ConRuhr Latin America are the Dortmund scientists Prof. Christoph Käppler (director) and Dr. Stephan Hollensteiner (office management).
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