The University of São Paulo and Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, on October 23rd, signed a letter of intent to offer three fellowships to PhD students at the University and to promote research in the areas of sustainability and the environment.
The foundation was set up in 2006 and is dedicated to developing projects aimed at protecting the environment. In 2023, the institution created a branch in Latin America, located in São Paulo, to strengthen its presence in the region.
At USP, the PhD fellowships will last for three years and should be allocated, starting in 2025, to the three Study Centers created by the President’s Office to focus on sustainable development: The Center for Sustainable Amazon Studies, coordinated by professor Paulo Eduardo Artaxo Netto of the Institute of Physics (IF); the Center for Sustainable Tropical Agriculture, coordinated by professor Durval Dourado Neto of the School of Agriculture “Luiz de Queiroz” (Esalq); and the Center for Carbon Studies in Tropical Agriculture, coordinated by Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri, also a professor at the School of Agriculture “Luiz de Queiroz” (Esalq).
The ceremony, which formalized the partnership, was attended by the president of USP, Carlos Gilberto Carlotti Junior; the president of the USP Agency of National and International Cooperation (Aucani), Sérgio Proença; the honorary consul of Monaco in São Paulo and president of the foundation in Latin America, Arnoldo Wald Filho; the executive vice-president of the foundation’s subsidiary, Prince Charles Philippe d’Orléans; the foundation’s secretary, Paulo Funari; and the institution’s coordinator, José Góis Chilão.
In addition to the work carried out at the three Study Centers, the president also spoke about one of the lines of research, on Oceans, developed by researchers at the International Research Center of the CNRS (French National Center for Scientific Research), based at USP. “Sustainability is one of the areas we have emphasized in this administration. We created the Study Centers, which are interdisciplinary; we are working on the energetic transition and the production of photovoltaic energy on the campuses,” said Carlotti.
The president of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation in Latin America, Arnoldo Wald Filho, emphasized that “we are together in the cause of improving the world and it is a great satisfaction to be able to collaborate, even in a small way, with an institution as important to the world as USP”.
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