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OAS, GCUB and PAHO Announce Scholarship Recipients for Master´s and Doctoral Studies in Brazil

The Organization of American States (OAS), the Coimbra Group of Brazilian Universities (GCUB), and the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), with the support of the Division of Educational Issues of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil, today published a list of the more than 450 candidates selected to receive scholarships from the Program of Alliances for Education and Training (PAEC) OEA-GCUB 2014.

The selected candidates come from 26 member countries of the OAS, and beginning in the first or second semester of 2015, will take part in Master´s or doctoral degree studies in one of the 46 participating Brazilian universities. The scholarships will cover the costs of enrollment, a monthly stipend for living expenses, Portuguese language support in the welcoming universities and a one-time grant for relocation expenses for the first 125 candidates selected.

For this fourth edition of the program, some 75 scholarships will be offered specifically for studies in the area of health, as a result of the agreement signed between the OAS and PAHO in February 2014. From its first edition to the present, the Program has delivered some one thousand scholarships for Master´s and Doctoral degree studies in more than 50 universities. From 2005 to date, the annual number of scholarships granted by the OAS has multiplied threefold, from 570 to 1,855.

The OAS-GCUB 2014 scholarship program is one of the largest and most important of the OAS. This initiative seeks to further integrate Brazilian universities with the rest of the countries of the region, as well as to promote scientific and cultural exchange, internationalization and mobilization of the students of the Americas, and the promotion of human development.

The Advisory Committee of Evaluation of the PAEC OAS-GCUB, made up of high-level Brazilian professors from different regions of the country, met at OAS headquarters in Washington DC from October 27 to 31 to evaluate and classify the thousands of applications received and to select scholarship recipients. The Committee made the final decisions keeping in mind criteria of broad and equitable geographic distribution to the benefit of all the member states and keeping in mind the greater needs of the smaller and relatively lesser developed economies, with special consideration for those from countries with low levels of human development in accordance with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), diversity of gender and potential impact of the candidate upon return home.

The opening session of the Committee featured the presence of the Interim Representative of Brazil to the OAS, Breno Dias da Costa; the Executive Secretary for Integral Development of the OAS, Sherry Tross; the Director of the Department of Human Development, Education and Employment of the OAS, Marie Levens; the Executive Director of GCUB, Rossana Valéria de Souza e Silva; and the Research Advisor on Health Systems Promotion and Strengthening of PAHO, Eleana C. Villanueva.

The list of the scholarship recipients is available here.

For more information, please visit the OAS Website at www.oas.org.

Reference: E-485/14