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FAU – Internationalisation

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International Work Environment at FAU

• 500 partner universities in more than 70 countries

• Largest Language Center in Germany

• 1 FAU Campus Busan (South Korea)

• 1 Bavarian University Center for Latin America (BAYLAT)

• 1 Bavaria California Technology Center

(BaCaTeC)

• 1 Confucius-Institute Nürnberg-Erlangen• About 3,300 students from abroad• About 1,000 researchers from abroad• 25 international Bachelor and Master degree programmes, among

them 18 English degree programmes with around 600 students

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Strategic Partnerships


FAU and Brazil


• FAU is home to the Bavarian University Center for Latin America (BAYLAT) • FAU is cooperating intensively with

11 Brazilian universities• 77 students from Brazil are currently

enrolled at FAU,including 52 exchange students,among them 44 CsF scholars

• 7 doctoral candidates,among them 4 CsF scholars

• 7 Post-Docs financed by CsF at FAU• 4 Brazilian citizens among FAU’s academic staff• 15 visiting professors at FAU

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FAU and Brazil: Facts & Figures*

* March 2015


• Strategy developed in April 2013• Goal: to strengthen FAU’s internationalisation by fostering

exchange and research between FAU and partners in Brazil• Why Brazil?

• Fast growing economy, emerging market• Attractive scholarship programs • Great variety of funding agencies • Clearly structured research and HEI landscape• German research alliances and institutions expand to Brazil more and

more • Global German companies which co-operate with FAU increase their

investments in Brazil synergies• FAU benefits from BAYLAT’s support

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FAU and Brazil: Strategy I


• Regular high-level delegations to and from Brazil since 2012• Results:

• New co-operations with universities with a similar research profile• Successful “matchmaking” between FAU’s researchers and

researchers from the partner universities• Strategic partnerships with TOP research universities• Negotiations with CAPES to establish a ‘Brazil rotating Chair’ at FAU• Signing agreements with funding agencies, e.g. FAPESP

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FAU and Brazil: Stratey II


Our next steps:… in teaching:

• To further increase the number of Brazilian Incoming students• To increase the number of Outgoing students• To establish Joint and Double Degrees as well as Summer

Schools with our Brazilian partners

… in research:• To strengthen the exchange on PhD-, PostDoc- and senior

researcher’s level• To establish internationally renowned joint German Brazilian

research projects• Administrative support of joint German Brazilian research projects

(e.g. by initial financing)

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FAU and Brazil: Strategy III

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Research excellence through International Partnerships

Joint Degrees

Researcher’s exchange

Student exchange

Strategic partnerships

Joint research projects

Cooperation with funding organisations and industry

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