The Irish Government, and Irish universities and institutes of technology have is offering more than R$4 million in scholarships to Brazilian students to study in Ireland. Four separate scholarship schemes for Brazilian students were announced by the Irish Minister for Education, Jan O’Sullivan, at the opening of the new Irish consulate in Sao Paulo, on St Patrick’s Day, March 17th.
The Education Minister announced Government of Ireland scholarships, worth nearly R$1.3 million for Brazilian students. The Irish government will give 30 scholarships to international students, with 50% of these offered to Brazil.
Minister O’Sullivan said that the scholarships are “a long term investment in future global relationships. The scholarships will assist in ensuring that Ireland’s international profile and attractiveness is enhanced by educating the next generation of leaders, entrepreneurs, decision makers and social innovators.”
In addition, member of the Irish Universities Association will provide a scholarships scheme, worth R$2 million, to Brazilian students who studied in any of Ireland’s seven universities under the Science without Borders programme, to return to Irish universities to complete Masters programmes. This scholarship scheme is worth R$2 million over five years.
Institutes of Technology Ireland, an association of Institutes of Technology are offering scholarships, also to returning Science without Borders students who have studied in any of their member institutes, to the value of more than R$470.000,00.
So far, the Institutes of Technology have welcomed 1,000 Brazilian students to their campuses. The participating institutes of technology will waive all tuition and registration fees for ten scholarship recipients, and each recipient will also receive €5,000 towards their accommodation and living expenses.
The University of Limerick also launched a special scholarship offer, worth R$320.000,00, over five years to students from the University of Sao Paulo. The WB Yeats scholarship invites undergraduate and graduate students from USP to the UL Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
Josephine Page, Director, International Education Division, University of Limerick said that she was delighted with this new scholarship as it will further enhance the relationship between USP and UL. Braszllian students have proven to be a wonderful addition to our campus, they are excellent ambassadors for their home country and integrate well making the most out of the academic and cultural opportunity that study abroad offers.
The Irish Education Minister will spend a week in Brazil, meeting with officials from the Brazilian government; federal agencies like Capes and CNPq; business and education contacts; and members of the increasing Irish community in Brazil, as well as alumni who have studied in Ireland. Nine Irish Higher Education Institutions joined the official delegation from Ireland.
Ireland has become very popular for science and engineering students, who had the opportunity to study overseas, as part of the Brazilian Federal scholarship scheme, Science without Borders. Despite being a very small country, Ireland was the fourth most popular destination in the world, despite it’s
To coincide with the official visit, several Brazilian monuments have been illuminated in green, Irelands official colour, to commemorate St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. Christ the Redeemer shone bright green over Rio de Janeiro on Sunday evening; while the JK bridge in Brasilia will remain green for all of this week. In Sao Paulo, five public monuments will be greened, along with hundreds of landmark around the globe.
The greening of global landmarks is an initiative of Tourism Ireland, the Irish governmental organization responsible for promoting the Emerald Isle. Ireland has become very popular among Brazilian students and tourists, and Tourism Ireland also launched a Portuguese language website during last night’s St Patrick’s Day festivities.
The opening if the new Irish consulate in Sao Paulo marks 40 years of diplomatic relations between Ireland and Brazil, and will be led by Consul General Sharon Lennon, adding to Ireland’s presence in Brazil.
Ireland has its Embassy in Brasilia; Enterprise Ireland, a government agency that supports Irish businesses overseas, with a Sao Paulo base, along with Tourism Ireland, and the Irish Development Authority; while Education in Ireland, an arm of the Irish government responsible for promoting the Irish education system, is based in Rio de Janeiro, along with Research Brazil Ireland, an initiative of the Irish government to encourage and support collaborative research between Brazil and Ireland in the scientific research space.
Funded by Science Foundation Ireland, RBI hosted a conference in Dublin Castle last month, entitled “Collaborative Research for a Better Future”, to which more than 80 senior Brazilian researchers travelled, along with the presidents of three funding agencies (FAPESP, FAPERJ, Confap). During the event, Mark Ferguson, Director General of SFI signed cooperation agreements with Augusto Raupp, president of FAPERJ, and with Sergio Gargioni, president of Confap. This add to existing cooperation agreements already in place between SFi and FAPESP, and with Brazilian federal agencies Capes, and CNPq.
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