"The Jean Monnet Chair ""Sharing Values and Renewing UE-Brazil Partnership"" aims to consolidate and deepen the activities and networks successfully created from two projects already cofounded by the Erasmus+ Programme and also connect with the lines of research foreseen in the Latin America Center of European Studies. Therefore, the Chair’s objective is to analyze to what extent the effective existence of common values can impact the renewed European interest in Latin America as a strategic partner and, in particular, in Brazil due to a series of factors ranging from its economic relevance to the recent political events that occurred in this country which may put in check the sharing of certain values and threaten the strengthening of this cooperation on other areas of mutual interest. For this purpose, the Chair foresees the performance of a series of Teaching Courses that will be offered to undergraduate and postgraduate students in Law and Business at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, as well as the creation of the European Study Group for the deepening of the analysis of the proposed themes, the publication of the books as an output of the researches conducted by the Chair and the organization of Lectures and Seminars attended by Brazilian and foreign professors. In addition, the Chair serves to disseminate, both locally and globally, findings about the importance of integrating sophisticated legal approaches to complex social issues, in this case, on how to share values into an international partnership between UE and Brazil."

The Jean Monnet Network of European and Latin American universities called “Building Rights and Developing Knowledge between European Union and Latin-America – BRIDGE” promotes the study and research on European integration in Latin America in order to build bridges of dialogue and exchange best practices between regions. The project stimulates debate and reflection on the process of integration of the European Union and its relations with Latin American countries through the creation of an open access journal, the constant feeding of information in the Observatory on European Studies, the holding of an annual monograph contests for young researchers and the promotion of courses and events in the participating countries.The Journal, called “Latin American Journal of European Law and Policies”, will be specialized in European affairs and will publish scientific articles in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Access to the Journal will be open to the public, with issues and volumes available on the project’s website. The website will also feature an Observatory of European Studies where news, case law reviews and current insights on project themes will be published. The content will be produced by the researchers involved in the project, but also open for submission by other interested parties. The Network will promote five meetings between partners to hold working sessions and seminars on topics that will later be the subject of thematic dossiers of the Journal. While the Latin American meetings will promote the courses for public agents and/or intensive courses aimed at Latin American public agents who work with legal issues related to the European integration process, the meetings at European Universities will hold a Call for Papers for young researchers.In multinational level, the BRIDGE Project will enhance cooperation among partner institutions, stimulating the debate and research on European law and its connections with Latin America.

Wind as a clean and renewable alternative to fossil fuels has become an increasingly important contributor to the energy portfolio of both Europe and Brazil. At almost every stage in wind energy exploitation ranging from wind turbine design, wind resource assessment to wind farm layout and operations, the application of HPC is a must. The goal of HPCWE is to address the key open challenges in applying HPC on wind energy, including efficient use of HPC resources in wind turbine simulations, accurate integration of meso- and micro-scale simulations, and optimization. The HPCWE consortium consists of 13 partners representing the top academic institutes, HPC centres and industries in Europe and Brazil. By exploring collaborations between Europe and Brazil, this consortium will develop novel algorithms, implement them in state-of-the-art codes and test the codes in academic and industrial cases to benefit the wind energy industry and research in both Europe and Brazil.

There has been an increased interest in science and engineering education due to: (1) the shortage of professionals required in scientific and technical areas; (2) the considerable low ratio of students opting for science- and engineering-related degrees, when entering higher education; and (3) the number of dropouts exhibited in the initial years of undergraduate studies. All stakeholders have devoted a great deal of attention and concern to this problem, considering the high number of reports published about and initiatives taken in recent years. In sum, the solutions have been dealing with: raising the society awareness for such a problem (1); increasing the interest for STEM among youngsters (1 and 2); and, promoting new teaching and learning methodologies, especially student-centred ones involving the use of ICT-tools, for coping with a new generation of digital natives (3).This project targets the broad area of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and, within it, the subject of circuit theory and practice. It aims to define, develop and evaluate a set of educational modules comprising hands-on, virtual, and remote experiments, the later supported by a remote lab named Virtual Instruments Systems In Reality (VISIR). The nature of each experiment (hands-on, virtual, real-remote) has an impact on the students’ perception of circuits’ behaviour, being therefore mandatory to understand how these different learning objects can be arranged together in order to scaffold their understanding and increase their laboratory-based skills. This is the concern of the underpinning teaching and learning methodology, favouring in particular the students’ autonomy for discovering how circuits work, through an enquiry-based approach.VISIR+ brings together the power of the best remote lab for experiments with electrical and electronics circuits and the long history of collaboration among the consortium partners from Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Portugal Spain, and Sweden.

Population growth, increased prosperity and rapid urbanization are bringing global demand for natural resources to a point increasingly beyond the Earth’s carrying capacity. Together with climate change, those pressures are causing significant environmental degradation in many parts of the planet. Latin America is particularly vulnerable. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) constitute urgent calls and drivers for higher education to be part of future generations of engaged citizens aware of their role in creating fair and healthy societies.The Change the Climate project addresses three main needs: environmental management at all levels of higher education activities, integration of environmental management with sustainability strategies and institutional quality management, and customized strategies for sustainability in education. The project’s main goal is to increase Latin-American University’s contribution to Sustainable Development, through the implementation of environmental systematic practices and quality processes in alignment with the UN SDGs, improving the management and operations of higher education institutions. The project will deliver tools and guides for environmental impact analysis and SDGs mapping in campus operations and educational activities. An environmental management system will be implemented in each partner university decreasing their environmental impact; sustainability awareness will be assessed thoughout the academic communities; strategies for sustainability in higher education will be developed for curricula improvement; and a common open online course on sustainability will be created in English, Spanish and Portuguese.The project’s impact will reach stakeholders beyond the project partnership at local, regional and national levels contributing to behavioural change for sustainable futures.