As part of it’s long term strategy for building international cooperation, the BIC project is setting up an in-country Extended Working Group (EWG) in Brazil comprised of key members of the Brazilian research community engaged in research in all areas related to Trustworthy ICT and international cooperation.
The launch meeting of the Brazil EWG will be held on 22nd October, 2013, held at the Instituto de Tecnologia de Software (ITS) in São Paulo, Brazil. A flyer for the event can be found by clicking here –> BIC_Flyer_22Oct2013
The BIC EWG launch meeting is being held in conjunction with the Research Brazil-Ireland (RBI) launch and showcase event being held on 21st Oct. 2013 at the University of São Paulo (USP).
On a related topic, the BIC Coordinator, Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), was successful in being the number one choice and attracting the largest number of students from Brazil for the 2013 school year. See the following article for more details.