Final Report - Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster

The universities of the ABRUEM system are responsible for 2,234 undergraduate
courses with a total of 581,366 students in Brazil. In addition, 1,312 graduate programs
including Master and PhD (40 %) degrees are offered, which are attended by 111,290
students. The total teaching staff accounts 42,269 doctors (44 %), masters (31 %) and
other specialists (25 %). Moreover, the system involves 66,724 administrative
technicians and sustains 26 university hospitals, 13 veterinary hospitals and 69 dentistry
units. ABRUEM affiliates include some of the most important Brazilian universities and
are responsible for around 50 % of the total Brazilian scientific academic production.
1.3. The ABRUEM academic prospecting tours
To improve the quality of Higher Education, providing its members opportunities
to establish partnerships, agreements, cultural exchanges and student mobility, is
among the ABRUEM goals. A particularly efficient way to reach these goals is to
knowledge successful experiences of institutions in other countries in the field of
academic education and research.
In this sense ABRUEM organizes a yearly delegation tour aiming to prospect the
academic scenery of a defined foreign country. In the last years, universities of three
European countries had been visited, i. e. Italy (2009), Spain (2010) and Portugal (2011).
The 2012 tour focused at the education, scientific and technological landscape of the
higher education institutions in Germany and Belgium. A special feature of the present
tour was the divulgation of the Brazilian scholarship program “Science without Borders”.
ABRUEM Delegation Visit to Germany – Final Report
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