The Minister of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic of Brazil, Luiz Eduardo Ramos, highlighted this Thursday, in Coimbra, the quality of Portuguese higher education, an area in which he guaranteed that the country is very interested in developing relationships and alliances . .
This is an area where we are very interested in developing relationships through quality, today it is at the forefront of teaching, here in Coimbra, especially at the Institute [Superior de Engenharia]”, held.
Luiz Eduardo Ramos visited the Higher Institute of Engineering of Coimbra (ISEC) in the morning, as part of the efforts that the Portuguese engineering school is developing in Portugal and Brazil, to have double degree courses with Brazilian universities.
We are opening a fertile and immense field. Today we speak with the Institute and tomorrow [sexta-feira] We will be with the University of Porto, to assume a partnership and an agreement, where several courses and specializations will be open for Brazilian students: it is a gold mine”, he pointed out.
Also in your opinion, the University of Coimbra has “the same shape as Oxford, Princeton and Harvard”.
“Since we were children, in Brazil, we have heard about the University of Coimbra,” he added.
The president of ISEC, Mário Velindro, highlighted the efforts that have been made to approach some higher education institutions in Brazil.
ISEC is working on a project that will allow double degree coursesso that Portuguese and Brazilian students can be graduated simultaneously by ISEC and by the corresponding university in Brazil.
“This teaching model that we have been developing, with strong links with companies, allows it to be a competitive advantage. ISEC, which this year turned 100 years old, is at the service of the region and the country, to contribute to the quality of our engineering courses, both in Portugal and in Brazil”, he said.
Before the journalists, he said that this work is still “in the beginning”, although he hopes to have “good news” very soon.
The Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering careers are at the forefront of this project, with “the digital transition being another important area”.
The possibility of double degree courses in Coimbra took shape during the visit of the president of ISEC to Brasiliain the last week of May.
According to the website of the Brazilian Ministry of Education, Mário Velindro discussed, on that occasion, “issues such as double degrees, joint virtual courses, clean energy projects and smart cities, digital transformation, organization of conferences to exchange experiences” with heads of the secretariats of Professional and Technological Education and Higher Education, with the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and with the National Fund for the Development of Education (FNDE).
Source: Observadora
