FGV students participate in founding of BRASA Asia

Rio de Janeiro Law School (Direito Rio) undergraduate students Eduardo Cavaliere and Luan Camargo actively participated in the founding of the Brazilian Students Association Asian (BRASA Asia) – the first organization of Brazilian students officially registered on the Asian continent.   

The students’ actions in the Asian continent began in the second half of 2016, after they started an exchange program in Beijing, China, through Direito Rio. During their time overseas, they teamed up with other students and started the BRASA Asia foundation at the universities of Beijing, Tsinghua and Renmin – People’s University of China. While studying at Renmin University and Fudan University, in Shanghai, Cavaliere led BRASA Asia’s communication front and now coordinates the project in Brazil.

“Our country is underrepresented in China. One of our goals is to change this over the next few years. We want Brazilian students to realize how many opportunities the Asian continent holds,” he said.

BRASA Asia’s next steps are to recruit more partner universities in China and expand to South Korea, Japan and Singapore. The students are also organizing a conference for 2017 to share success cases between Brazil and China, ultimately outlining an alternative development agenda for the country.

The “Brazil + China Challenge Conference” will be held in Beijing in May, supported by Fundação Getulio Vargas through the Laboratory for Public Policy (Lab FGV).

“Learning about the successful experiences of other countries is extremely relevant for Brazil’s development. It is an efficient way of finding potential solutions to the structural problems in our country,” said the vice president of Lab FGV, student Pedro Henrique Costa, who has also been to China.

BRASA (Brazilian Students Association) is the largest organization of Brazilian students abroad, featuring 3,500 members and 65 universities across 50 cities around the world. The institution was established in the United States and now operates on a global scale as a benchmark for Brazilians who have studied, currently study, or intend to study abroad.