2017
DOI: 10.1177/1028315317748526
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Abstract: The Science Without Borders (SWB) program is Brazil’s major international education initiative. Begun in 2011, the SWB program is a government-funded initiative that encourages Brazilian universities to structure international relations offices and make international education experiences accessible to Brazilian students. However, its initial stages were marked by problems. First, the author’s analysis focuses on the history of SWB’s implementation and pivotal moments in the program’s evolution with the object… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1
1
1
1

Citation Types

0
5
0
1

Year Published

2018
2018
2020
2020

Publication Types

Select...
5

Relationship

0
5

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 9 publications
(6 citation statements)
references
References 11 publications
(8 reference statements)
0
5
0
1
Order By: Relevance
“…Funders for scholarships that achieve internationalization aims are various, and typically include funding or tuition remission provided by the host or home universities. In some university plans, scholarships are specifically mentioned as tools for internationalization (Moreira Nery, 2017).…”
Section: Internationalization Of Universitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Funders for scholarships that achieve internationalization aims are various, and typically include funding or tuition remission provided by the host or home universities. In some university plans, scholarships are specifically mentioned as tools for internationalization (Moreira Nery, 2017).…”
Section: Internationalization Of Universitiesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The Brazilian government has launched numerous internationalisation efforts -CAPES and National Council for Scientific and Technological Development [CNP] programmes, Science without Borders - (Rivas and Mullet 2016;McManus and Nobre 2017;Nery 2017). However, the focus has been on efforts to expand scientific networks and to increase Brazilian student mobility towards countries in Europe and North America and within Latin America, whereas academic collaboration and exchange with African countries seemed to be more of a footnote.…”
Section: Brazilcultural and Scientific Integrationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Increased effort in the young talents and visiting scholars programs is necessary, encouraging foreign students and researchers to come to Brazil. The program had several problems in its implementation, such as students' lack of foreign language proficiency, inexperience of higher education institutions with international exchange programs (Nery, 2018), inefficient management of students' progress abroad, and a lack of evaluative mechanisms of the program when returning to Brazil.…”
Section: Mobility Programs In Brazilmentioning
confidence: 99%