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FGV received another maximum score from the Ministry of Education (MEC). Now it was the turn of the Undergraduate Course of Technology in Management Processes - a partnership between EBAPE and FGV Online - which was evaluated with a score of 5, the highest score of the evaluation. The result was published on February 15, 2013, in the Official...
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On February 11 and 12, a delegation composed of members of the Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV), the Civil House of the Presidency of the Republic and the Government of Minas Gerais attended the first Government Summit of the United Arab Emirates in Dubai. Invited as a strategic partner, FGV, through its International Board, was responsible for...
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The birthday of Martin Luther King Jr - leader of the American movement for civil rights - was celebrated in January, and as part of the celebrations held in Marin County, located in the metropolitan region of San Francisco/California, the Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian Award is given at the 31st Annual Dinner of the Human Rights...
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International Law Professor of DIREITO RIO, Evandro Menezes de Carvalho, was one of the ten candidates chosen to participate in the China-OAS Scholarship Program - a partnership between the Chinese government and the Organization of American States (OAS) that includes the South, Central and North America. The professor was the only Brazilian...
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The students of the Professional Executive Master in Business Management (MEX) participated last week, January 21-25, in the Doing Business in Spain - a program signed by the International Relations Department of EBAPE with IE Business School in Madrid. It is a Short Exchange whose theme was Cultural and Social Perspective, focusing on Spanish...
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The director of DIREITO RIO, Professor Joaquim Falcão, was invited once again to join the International Activities Committee of the Law and Society Association - headquartered in Salt Lake City, in the United States. The Law and Society Association is composed of professors from various fields and countries interested in the role of law in...
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At the invitation of professor and director of École Doctorale de Droit International et Européen da Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Denys Simon, the International Law professor of DIREITO RIO, Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida gave a lecture in Paris on regulation and litigation in Mercosur. The latest developments, the chronic difficulties and...
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More than 2,500 foreign students have taken the short and medium duration courses of the distance undergraduate and MBA programs of Fundação Getulio Vargas up until 2012. This is what the FGV Online survey on internationalization reveals, with consolidated data since the creation of the programs until last year. Moreover, according to the...
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On January 23, the president Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal welcomed to lunch Khalid Al Jaradi, Oman's ambassador in Brazil, Tamer Mansour, responsible for government relations for the Arabian-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, and Fernanda Baldo, assistant ambassador. FGV's international director, Bianor Cavalcanti, and the executive director of the...
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The past year was not as good for the Brazilian trade balance as in the previous years, since it closed at a deficit of R$ 10.4 billion, compared to 2011. In 2012, China, the country's main trading partner, bought 7% less from Brazil, while the Brazilians spent 4.4% more on products made ??in China. However, a closer look at Brazilian exports...
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DIREITO RIO's Center for Technology and Society (CTS) is supporting the World Wide Web Conference (WWW), the most important global conference on the future of the web. The 22nd edition of the conference will be held from May 13th to 17th at the Windsor Barra Hotel, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil During the WWW Conference, about 1,500 participants from...
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DIREITO RIO's professor, Márcio Guimarães, is in Paris for the event 8ème Édition des Entretiens de la Sauvegarde being held at the Maison de la Chimie, in Paris. The professor talked about the comparison between the French and Brazilian bankruptcy and business recovery systems. The event, organized by the Institut Francais des Praticiens des...
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Foreigners interested in doing business in Brazil are increasingly seeking cities like Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo to complement their education and get to know the Brazilian market. In order to meet this demand, FGV's business schools in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo have invested in international programs targeted at this audience, and the...
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The Institute of Educational Development's deputy director, Stavros Xanthopoylos, participated, between January 20-26, in a meeting that brought together education officials in Jakarta, Indonesia, to discuss research projects on the impacts and benefits of open educational resources (OERs) in Latin America, Asia and Africa. The meeting is part...
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Brazilian businesspeople are optimistic about the economic outlook for this year. That's what the Global Business Overview research revealed, carried out by EESP in partnership with Duke University and CFO Magazine, and with the support of BMFBovespa and the Brazilian Institute of Finance Executives (IBEF). According to the survey, revenue,...
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Professors Paula Spieler and Luci Oliveira are in Tilburg, the Netherlands, to teach the winter program on human security, until January 26. According to Professor Paula, the course aims to provide students with a comparative perspective on the topic. The Inter-American System of Human Rights in the light of two Brazilian cases is the theme of...
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46% of foreign tourists who visit the shanty towns (favelas) look for a different view of the city from the top of the hills. As for Brazilian tourists, 47% who visit the communities seek to know the culture, reality and the people who live there. These are some of the data revealed by the research commissioned by the Ministry of Tourism to the...
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For the fourth year in a row, FGV is considered one of the top 30 think tanks in the world, according to the Global Go To Think Tank Rankings. Produced annually by the Department of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, the ranking evaluates over 6600 think tanks from 182 countries.In this edition, FGV climbed three...
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Regis Bonelli, senior researcher at IBRE presented in Beijing the article The Changing Role of the State and Latin America's Recent Economic and Institutional Record: A Note from the Brazilian Perspective, which examines some key issues associated with the role of the state in Latin America, taking as examples the experiences of a number of...
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Oliver Stuenkel, professor of International Relations and Coordinator of FGV's Social Sciences School, CPDOC, in São Paulo contributed to research related to the South-South Cooperation for the United Nations' High-Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda. Oliver wrote the paper Institutionalizing South-South Cooperation: Towards a New...
