CESAR School, CESAR's school of innovation – the largest center for digital transformation in Brazil, headquartered in Porto Digital (PE) -, has just signed an agreement with the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), through a partnership signed with the Department of Computing at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE). The objective is to promote the exchange of undergraduate students and, in the future, to foster scientific exchange by facilitating, for example, sandwich masters and doctorates.
This is the first step towards the internationalization of CESAR School. The idea is to open up the range of possibilities not only with Norway, but to establish new partnerships, along the same lines, with other countries, as explained by the executive director of CESAR School, Felipe Furtado. “It is a networking opportunity that opens up for Brazil to get closer to international references and apply this knowledge in the job market”, he says.
This, by the way, is an important differential of the agreement that is born with the advantage of uniting academia and industry. “With the difficulties of obtaining funding for research, it is necessary to think of alternative paths and this agreement may be one of them”, says Professor Rafael Ferreira Leite de Mello, coordinator of the cooperation project between Brazil and Norway.
The agreement, which will be valid for the period 2020-2022, will receive during this period six students from the University of Norway. They will have to take some regular Computer Science courses at UFRPE, in addition to internships at CESAR School and Livox, a company already a partner of UFRPE, which owns an application that uses Artificial Intelligence to give voice to people with some type of deficiency.
According to Furtado, from CESAR School, the expectation to take the opposite path is promising. “I believe that very soon we will send the first CESAR School students to the world”.
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