Academic Section
Address
Embassy of Brazil
2nd Floor
14-16 Cockspur Street
London SW1Y 5BL
academic.london@itamaraty.gov.br
Contacts
Secretary Joaquim Aurélio Correia de Araújo Neto
Head of the Academic Section
Responsibilities
The Academic Section is responsible for:
- Supporting Brazilian students in the UK, as well as UK-based students and researchers engaged with or interested in Brazil
- Promoting Brazilian education cooperation programmes in the UK.
- Supporting bilateral academic partnerships.
- Liasing with relevant entities in the UK education sector.
- Promoting the Portuguese Language in the UK.
- Coordinating the Leitorado Programme, a Brazilian culture and Portuguese language teaching programme carried out in partnership with CAPES (Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel).
- Liasing with UK universities where Portuguese is taught.
- Supporting the Rio Branco, Anisio Teixeira e Celso Furtado Chairs, funded by CAPES.