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FGV?s Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (EBAPE) has signed an exchange partnership with one of the oldest universities in the US, the Texas A&M University.Located at College Station, Texas A&M University was the first higher education institution in Texas, founded in 1876 and originally named ?Agricultural and...
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Brazilian and international authorities and experts met on October 1 and 2 at FGV?s Cultural Center, in Rio de Janeiro, for the conference UrbanTec Brasil 2015. With the theme ?Smart Solutions for Better Cities?, the event was conducted by FGV in partnership with Koelnmesse, and organized and planned by FGV Projects.About 800 people...
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Non-white Brazilians ? mixed-race, Afro-American and indigenous people ? have the lowest confidence in the judiciary, consider going to court expensive and have a lower degree of satisfaction with the work of the police. This is an unprecedented result for a new calculation of the Confidence in Brazilian Justice Index (ICJBrasil), produced by...
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The Laboratory for Labor and Social Movement Studies (LEMT) of FGV?s School of Social Sciences (CPDOC), the History Department of Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) and the Multidisciplinary Institute of UFRRJ will hold, on October 14-16, the first International Conference on Worlds of Labor and Dictatorships in the...
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The Annual Conference of the Latin American Group for Public Administration (LAGPA/IIAS) will take place in Cartagena, Colombia, next Monday and Tuesday, October 5-6. The Escuela Superior de Administración Pública (...
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Eduardo Magrani, professor and researcher at the Center for Technology and Society (CTS) at FGV?s Rio de Janeiro Law School (Direito Rio), addressed digital democracy at the ?2015 Berlin Early Stage Researchers Colloquium on Internet and Society?. The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society organized the event, held in the...
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Professor Matias Spektor, from FGV?s Center for International Relations, based at the School of Social Sciences (CPDOC), participated in the international seminar ?Re-Imagining the Global Nuclear Order?, held in Oxford, by the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, in partnership with the University of Oxford and the Center for International...
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On September 20-21, Fundação Getulio Vargas, in partnership with Fundación Foro del Sur, from Argentina, organized the 1st Forum for Argentina-Brazil Young Leaders. The forum brought together a group of 30 outstanding Argentinian and Brazilian young leaders from different fields, such as representatives of civil society and government agencies...
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Professor Bianor Cavalcanti, FGV?s International Affairs Director, participated in the Global Forum on Law, Justice and Development, held September 15, at the main offices of the Public Ministry of the State of Minas Gerais, in Belo Horizonte. The event, attended by about 130 guests, aimed to discuss public and private actions for the...
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Professor Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida, from Rio de Janeiro Law School (Direito Rio) attended the 11th ESIL Annual Conference on ?The Judicialization of International Law - A Mixed Blessing??, which took place in Oslo, Norway, on September 9-12. The conference was organized by the Center of Excellence Pluricourts - The Legitimacy of the...
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This week, from September 30 to October 2, the Center for Applied Legal Research (CPJA) at FGV?s São Paulo Law School (Direito SP) will hold the meeting ?INVESTIGACCIÓN - Encuentro de Investigadores sobre el Ambiente Legal de Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil en América Latina? (RESEARCH - Meeting of Researchers on the Legal Environment of...
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Fernanda Crespo, analyst at FGV?s International Intelligence Unit (NPII), will participate on Wednesday, September 30, from 8:30 am to 12:30 pm, in the roundtable Conscious Energy, organized by the Brazilian Center for International Relations (CEBRI), in São Paulo. The event will bring together environmental experts, scholars and government...
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The wave of Haitian immigrants coming to Brazil in search for better living conditions, and the Syrian refugees, who are fleeing the Middle East from the conflicts and the successive tragedies caused by trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea, in addition to the great difficulties to enter European countries ? which are causing global outrage ?...
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On October 1-2, FGV and Koelnmesse will hold UrbanTec Brasil 2015 - Smart Solutions for Better Cities, an international conference that will discuss the best planning, management and investment strategies for intelligent and sustainable urban development. The event marks the opening of FGV?s Cultural Center, designed by Oscar Niemeyer.Brazilian...
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FGV?s Brazilian School of Economics and Finance (EPGE) organized, in partnership with the University of Bath (UK), the International Seminar on Higher Education called Higher Education: Perspectives and International Experiences?. The event, held on September 17, addressed topics such as social impact, regulation, quality of higher education,...
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The publisher Campus Elsevier has just released new editions of two books by Professor Marcus Vinicius Rodrigues, manager of the Cooperation Center with Africa and Portugal (NuCAP) based at FGV?s International Affairs Division (DINT). The sales of the books on quality, productivity and waste doubled in the first half of this year.The book ...
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A group of students from FGV/EPGE - Brazilian School of Economics and Finance won the regional competition of the Bain Strategy Challenge. Philip Fiedler, Hugo Barreto, Yann Oliveira and Felipe Borges made it to the South American finals of the event sponsored by Bain & Company, one of the largest strategic consulting firms in the world....
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FGV?s Public Policy Analysis Division (DAPP) inaugurated the platform Transparência Política (Political Transparency) this week, to monitor election donations in Brazil. The section consists of two tools ? Câmara Transparente e Mosaico Eleitoral (Transparent House of Representatives and Electoral Mosaic) ?, which provide information on all...
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Fundação Getulio Vargas held the third edition of the Encuentro Latinoamericano de Think Tanks (Latin American Think Tanks Meeting), in partnership with the Center for the Implementation of Public Policies Promoting Equity and Growth (CIPPEC), Argentine Council for International Relations (CARI) and the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (...
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FGV?s Brazilian School of Public and Business Administration (EBAPE), with the support from Meira Mattos Institute at the Army Command and General Staff College (IMM/ECEME), will hold the event A new theoretical approach to the study of civil-military relations. The lecture will take place on December 1, at 2 pm, with the professor emeritus at...
