CAPES BRAZIL/UB Visiting Researcher Program

UB recently launched a new partnership with CAPES Brazil that will bring faculty and PhD-student researchers from Brazilian universities to work with host UB faculty through a funding program of the government of Brazil. In early 2025, President Satish K. Tripathi formalized the agreement with Brazil’s Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education; CAPES, as it is known, is an agency of Brazil’s Ministry of Education designed to improve the quality of university faculty and graduate students in Brazil through grant programs.

In August 2025,  CAPES issued a call for proposals to select up to ten senior faculty and ten junior faculty researchers from universities across Brazil to do collaborative research at UB for one or two semesters during academic year 2026-27, in coordination with host units at UB and the Office of International Education. This is the first phase of the UB program with CAPES that will eventually include opportunities for Brazilian PhD students as well. The CAPES agreement enables up to 10 PhD students and 20 faculty members from Brazil, typically for a semester but as long as an academic year. The CAPES agreement creates opportunities for up to 10 UB faculty members a year to visit Brazil for collaborative research, utilizing their own research grant funding.

Brazilian faculty planning to apply will contact prospective UB faculty in August-September 2025 for their endorsement. The CAPES selection process will occur this fall, and UB will have the final say about researchers approved to come to UB, starting in August 2026.

Please refer to the August 14 memo for more information.