Graduate System in Brazil  CAPES is responsible for promoting and evaluating the entire Graduate System of Education in Brazil.  CAPES is a public foundation within the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC).  It sponsors approximately 35,000 MSc and 10,000 PhD degrees each year.  It sponsors 60% of graduate scholarships offered by the Brazilian Government, representing 41,039 grantees in the country and 7,600 grantees abroad.  It evaluates and gives support to more 3,000 Graduate Programs all over the country in all areas of knowledge, enrolling each year about 50,000 new students.

 Accreditation and Evaluation of graduate programs (MSc and PhD degrees);  Investment in qualifying high-level human resources, both in Brazil and abroad;  Promotion of international cooperation. Role of CAPES

Fellowships CAPES CNPq FAPS Other sources Investment in qualifying high-level human resources, both in Brazil and abroad

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION PROGRAMS  Scholarships abroad (individual fellowships)  Bi-National Doctoral Programs (Doctoral Colleges)  Joint research projects  University partnerships (University Consortia)  College of Advanced Studies

Sciences Without Borders PROGRAM FOR INTERNATIONAL MOBILIZATION IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION. Science without Borders Program will qualify human resources in the best universities and foreign research institutions, in order to foster innovation and competitiveness. The will promote a significant increase in the mobility of undergraduate and graduate students, post-docs, researchers and Brazilian senior professors. Science without Borders Program will train 75,000 Brazilian grant-holders until the end of 2014, through the joint effort of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) and the Ministry of Education (MEC), its respective funding institutions CNPq and CAPES, and Secretaries of Higher and Technological Education at MEC. Science without Borders Program will promote the arrival of at least 1,200 young talents and 300 foreign scientific leaders, through repatriation of Brazilian scientists and researchers who have established themselves overseas.

GOALS

Country Doctorates per thousands inhabitants Switzerland 23.0 Germany 15.4 USA 8.4 Canada 6.5 Australia 5.9 Brazil 1.4 Argentina 0.2 Population between 25 and 64 years old GOALS

Switzerland Germany USA Canada Degrees per year Doctorates/thousands inhabitants GOALS

Sidney L. M. Mello Vice-Rector Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Thank you!