Ecological, energy and digital transitions, as well as a renewal of juridical frameworks to protect the environment, are all part of the global issues that every society on Earth will have to tackle. Science and academic education of future citizens are crucial to face today's challenges.

From technical to organizational solutions, the French and Brazilian higher education systems are fully committed to these transitions. Their innovative courses, based on cutting-edge research, aim at providing keys to new generations, in order to shape a more sustainable world.

To achieve these goals, international cooperation and the mobility of both researchers and students must incorporate the topic of transitions, both as an object of study and as a dynamic to be mobilized in concrete action.

What concrete experiences can be proposed? What tools can be used? What new partnerships can be forged between French and Brazilian higher education institutions to face tomorrow's challenges together?

Objectives and expected benefits for Workshop participants: 

This workshop will enable participants to share their observations, questions, pedagogical and scientific policies, and extensions to campus life, in relation to transitions (energy, environmental, societal). Useful information will be shared on strategies and institutional resources that can be mobilized to implement concrete international partnerships.

The workshop theme will be addressed through 4 specific discussion sessions :

- Research and innovation on transitions

- Reshaping programs and courses for transitions

- Empowering students and making campuses sustainable

- Cooperation tools to foster virtuous transitions in higher education

Location: USP / Centro MariAntonia - rua Maria Antônia, 258-294 – Vila Buarque - São Paulo/SP

Time: 2 pm to 6:30 pm. A cocktail will be held after the workshop.

French Speakers

• Christine Neau-Leduc, President, Université Paris Panthéon Sorbonne, European Alliance Una Europa - President of the Board, Campus France
• François Legué, Counsellor for Cooperation and Cultural Action, French Embassy in Brazil
• Christophe Dessaux, Head of Strategy, Expertise and Management of International Cooperation Programs, French Ministry of Higher Education and Research
• Jean-François Marchi, Vice-President in charge of international relations, Aix-Marseille Université, European Alliance CIVIS - Europe's Civic University Alliance
• Didier Gosset, Advisor to the President on International Foresight, University Ambassador
• Olivier Robineau, MCF at Université of Lille, infectiologist at Tourcoing hospital.
• Armelle Enders, Historian, full professor at the University of Paris 8-Vincennes-Saint-Denis, in charge of university cooperation with Brazil for the Presidency of Université Paris 8.
• Abdelfettah Sifeddine, Representative of the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) in Brazil
• Pierre Marraccini, Representative of the Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD) in Brazil
• Muriel Jacquelin, Associate Dean for international Relations, ESSCA School of Management
• Larissa Frozel Barros, Sciences Po, European Alliance Civica – The european university of social sciences
  

Brazilian speakers

• José Celso Freire Junior, President of Associação Brasileira de Educação Internacional (FAUBAI)
• Luiz Carlos Pereira da Silva, Professor of electrical engineering at Universidade estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), coordinator of Centro Paulista de Estudos da Transição Energetica.
• Teresa Cristina Carvalho, Professor of computer science, sustainability laboratory / Poli-USP, Universidade de São Paulo.
• Marcello Nitz, director of the engineering school of Mauau, Universidade estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP).
• Rafaela Piovesan Santiago Suarez, cursando bacharelado e licenciatura em Ciências Biológicas (USP), estagiária em Gestão de Resíduos da Prefeitura da USP, campus Butantã
• Matheus de Carvalho Hernandez, Porfessor of international relations at Universidade Federal da Grande Dourado (UFGD), director of international relations at UFGD.
• Yuri Luis Reis Leite, professor of biology at Universidade Federal do Espiritu Santo (UFES), secretary of international relations at UFES.
• Niels Olsen, professor of immunology at Universidade de São Paulo (USP).
• Jose Roberto Lima, coordinator of studies, research, dissemination and exchange of the Defense College (ESD) in Brasilia.