The Program

Type of Program

University Partnership

Status

Active

Participating Countries

Brazil and France

Partner Institution

DGER (Direction Générale de l’Enseignement et la Recherche, or General Directorate for Learning and Research)

The Program supports bilateral cooperation projects aiming to boost higher education in the areas of Agronomy and Agrifood Sciences, Veterinary Medicine and correlate areas, through the mutual exchange of faculty and students.

Objectives

The Program was created in 2005 through the signing of an Agreement between CAPES and the Directorate for Learning and Research (DGER) at the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of France, aiming to:

Support partnership projects between universities in the fields of Agronomy and Agrifood Sciences, Veterinary Medicine and correlate areas, exclusively at graduation level, to nurture the exchange in both countries and stimulate the approximation of curricular structures, including the equivalence and mutual recognition of credits gained at participating institutions.

Between its launching in 2005 and 2020, the BRAFAGRI Program had 7 open calls and selected 52 projects, which allowed university partnerships between approximately 26 Higher Education Institutions in France and Brazil at the graduation level.

Between 2011 and 2016, the Program also supported the visit of French students to pursue part of their graduation studies in Brazilian Higher Education Institutions. In total, the BRAFAGRI Program has offered financial support to the studies of 1.006 Brazilian students in French institutions, and 402 French students in Brazilian institutions.

You can access the program’s previous open calls and archives here (Portuguese only).