The Brazilian Association for International Education, FAUBAI, held its 36th conference at the end of April in São Paulo.  The organisation, which brings together executives and heads of international affairs from Brazilian higher education institutions, also opens its conference to foreign participants.

At the end of March 2024, with the aim of bringing institutions closer to other Latin American countries, the Scientific Director of the Brazil Centre, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Hellingrath, and the Director of the São Paulo Office, Laura Redondo, took part in the conference "The challenges of the university system and internationalisation", held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The two phases of the Postdoc Workshop 2024, which took place on 16 April in Rio de Janeiro and 20 April in São Paulo, brought together people interested in a postdoc in Germany with German universities and institutions

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) recently launched a brand-new program aimed at deepening and expanding cooperation between Brazilian and German research groups: Propar, the Germany-Paraná Research Program.

PROPASP aims to strengthen research collaborations between German and Brazilian universities and research institutions in São Paulo, especially long-term partnerships.

"Collaboration Talks on Glycobiology" are organised by Prof. Dr Martin Götte, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at the University of Münster (UM), and Dr Jessica Onyeisi, postdoctoral fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH).

The PROBRAL programme, a cooperation between the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education (CAPES), has opened a new call.

Since 2016, a consortium of German universities has been organising an information symposium in Brazil and Argentina for young researchers interested in a postdoctoral research stay in Germany.

On 27 March 2024, Professor Dr Dr h. c. Hans-Uwe Erichsen, former Rector of the University of Münster and Professor Emeritus of Public Law, European Law and Administrative Law, was honoured for his extraordinary services to German-Brazilian relations at the Brazilian Embassy in Berlin.

The winning team of the 2nd German-Brazilian EdTech Hackathon, held in 2023 in São Paulo, received a 2,000 euro travel grant to enable one of its members to travel to Germany. The purpose of the trip was to visit the organising universities - the University of Münster, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Free University of Berlin - as well as their start-up and incubator support and acceleration centres.

The GLOSUS project – "The Global Geographies of Sustainability: Local Knowledge, Everyday Practices, and non-professional Forms of Living and Housing" is an initiative funded by DAAD and CAPES, which marks a very significant collaboration between the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo (FAU-USP) and the Institute of Geography at the University of Münster (UM).