students of Bahiana are selected for the Science without Borders Program

Medicine students Yasmin Alves Luz (United Kingdom); Nara Barbosa de Almeida and Rafaela Magalhães Britto (France); Ricardo Ferreira Flores Filho, Louran Andrade Reis Passos, Dabiel Cotrim de Oliveira, Luan Cesare Grilo, Lucas Rosemberg Pellegrino Jorge Alencar, Marcelle de Oliveira Cardoso and Lucas Teles Rodrigues (Canada), Mayara de Oliveira Pedrosa (Portugal) and the academic of the course Biomedicina, Thais Carvalho Santos (USA), were recently selected for an undergraduate sandwich scholarship through the Science without Borders Program.

The Program is an initiative of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) in partnership with the Ministry of Education (MEC), CNPq, CAPES, Secretariats of Higher Education and Technological Education of the MEC and aims to promote consolidation, expansion and the internationalization of science and technology, innovation and Brazilian competitiveness through exchange and international mobility.

Interested academics should contact their respective course coordinator for the necessary information and guidance. There is also the individual application, and the School is responsible for its approval. In this case, students must also be aware of the criteria established by the program, such as regular enrollment in the home course; graded in the National High School Exam (ENEM) of at least 600 points - in the case of individual applications; have good academic performance and have completed 20% of the curriculum planned for the undergraduate course.

The priority areas for the Science Without Borders program are: Engineering and other technological areas; Exact and Earth Sciences; Renewable energy; Mineral Technology; Training of Technologists; Biotechnology; Oil, Gas and Mineral Coal; Nanotechnology and New Materials; Sustainable Agricultural Production; Natural Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Technologies; Drugs; Biodiversity and Bioprospecting; Aerospace Technology; Marine Sciences; Computing and Information Technologies; Creative Industry (focused on products and processes for technological development and innovation); New Technologies in Constructive Engineering; Biology, Biomedical and Health Sciences.

Proficiency test

The British Council, England's department of international cultural relations, has partnered with Science without Borders to subsidize two thousand International English Language Testing System (IELTS) tests of English language proficiency for low-income students. The test (which costs R$440) is required by foreign institutions for all international students and the results achieved prove that candidates for university vacancies have sufficient fluency in the language. However, the department informs that registration for the events on January 10th and 12th are sold out.

The IELTS is an English test system used worldwide to test the fluency level of students, created by the British Council in partnership with the University of Cambridge. A huge number of foreign institutions officially use the IELTS results of foreign candidates for vacancies in their courses.

Is there a foreign language proficiency requirement? What foreign language proficiency exams will be accepted?

“The requirement will be made pursuant to an agreement between the agencies (CNPq and CAPES) and the foreign educational institution or partners. Brazilian higher education institutions are being encouraged to offer intensive foreign language courses to potential scholarship candidates who have difficulty in the language used at the host institution. Higher education in some countries such as: Germany, China and Korea is totally or partially carried out in the English language, making it possible for students and researchers who are fluent in English to apply for these countries.

Agreements with partners such as the Britisch Counci will allow offering high quality distance English courses to Brazilian students already accepted in the program. Access to short courses can also be negotiated, as needed. In order to facilitate the arrival of students and researchers from abroad to Brazil, Brazilian embassies and consulates are studying the possibility of promoting Portuguese courses abroad. Local groups will help with the insertion of foreigners, making it easier to overcome the language barrier in these cases. Students who do not reach the minimum score required in the proficiency tests will also be able to take language courses abroad as assessed by CAPES and CNPq”.

Source: Science without Borders

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