Annual Activities Report 2011 - INCT-Inofar - UFRJ

Annual Report 2011 | INCT-INOFAR
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Scientific Exchange
By allowing researchers from several different institutions and
geographical regions to work together, INCT-INOFAR enables
the exchange between large research centers and emerging
research groups. Through cooperative action, INCT-INOFAR
contributes for the increase of scientific and technological
production in emerging centers, especially in the Midwest
and Northeast regions, which in turn benefits the professional
qualification of undergraduate and graduate students.
Through the past three years, INCT-INOFAR has seen
remarkable benefits in the advancement of these emerging
science groups. So INCT-INOFAR actively contributes to
reduce the regional scientific imbalance in Brazil, as well as
strengthens the expertise in a sector that is strategic for Brazil.
INCT-INOFAR has been laying the groundwork for more
international cooperation, and it signed a cooperation
agreement in November 2011 with the Interdisciplinary
Center of Pharmacogenomics and Pharmaceutical Research
of the University (ICEPHA) of Tübingen, in Germany. The
agreement was signed (see page 30) to enhance the scientific
exchange in the development of new research between both
Institutions.
Among the main goals of the agreement are the development
of joint projects, the organizing of academic and scientific
activities like courses, conferences, seminars, symposiums or
lectures, the exchange of researchers and/or students and also
the exchange of materials and publications of mutual interest.