The vice-director of the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia), Tomaz Mars, was visiting FMUSP on November 1st to sign an Accord of International Cooperation, which will include the mobility of students and teachers for the development of research and academic activities.
The partnership will include the interchange of graduation students for rotating clinical internships for up to 2 months in Slovenia, including a scholarship of € 400 EUR and exemption of expenses with the trip, besides free accommodation provided by the hosting university. For professors, the accord predicted a financial aid of € 2.400 EUR for travel expenses, with a permanence of five days.
“The institution demonstrated a specific interest in receiving professors of the areas of pediatrics endocrinology and neurologic oncology, in a first stage. They should give us the lines of research in more details and in return we should present adequate partners for this partnership”, says the president of the International Relations Committee (CRInt) of FMUSP, Prof. Dr. Aluisio Segurado.
According to Tomaz Mars, the University of Ljubljana is an enthusiast of internationalization and is broadening the range to establish a network of partnerships beyond the European Union. “The intention is to better our research and academic collaborations, emphasizing not only research, but also the interchange of good institutional practices”, says Mars.
The University of Ljubljana, the most important one from Slovenia, is receiving funding from the European found Erasmus Plus, which is opening resources for countries outside the European Union. “The director of the University of Ljubljana apparently received a highly positive feedback of Slovenian students who have been here for Winter Schools FMUSP and also of partnerships in publications previously established. It may have had a weight in the decision to reach us for a more qualified partnership”, observed Segurado.
According to the president of the CRInt, the FMUSP has been searching to broaden the range of strategical partners, besides regional cooperation which prioritizes Latin America and African countries which have Portuguese as an official language. “The fact that Slovenia belongs to the European Union is one more attractive”, says Segurado.
