Agreements and Partnerships

The teaching staff linked to the Professional Master’s Degree proposed here has an extensive active network of international collaborations, carrying out the dialogue of its interdisciplinary profile through international projects financed by bodies both in Brazil and abroad, exchanges of professors, researchers and students and joint administration of disciplines with partners international. The network includes public and private research institutions, universities, various government agencies and intergovernmental organizations, promoting not only internationalization, but also interdisciplinarity and innovation in the search for solutions to complex socio-environmental problems that are often cross-border in nature.

Below are selected international collaboration activities carried out by the Master’s faculty:

International Institute for Sustainability (IIS)

Founded in 2009 by Profs. Bernardo Strassburg and Agnieszka Latawiec, IIS was one of the creators of CSRio in association with the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). The Institute is a non-profit think-and-action-tank, dedicated to transdisciplinary research in Sustainability Science, including support for public policies of the Ministry of the Environment, environmental NGOs and processes within the scope of the United Nations. The IIS recruits postdoctoral researchers in key specialties for the practice of Sustainability Science, some of whom are also professors of this Professional Master’s Degree. The IIS and the CSRio, in partnership with the MMA, are preparing projects that are being financed by the Global Fund for the Environment and the German government and that total R$ 39 million reais until 2023. Part of these resources will be destined to research grants and infrastructure for the proposed course;

Departments of Zoology and Geography, University of Cambridge (UK)

Collaboration for the development of integrated analyzes of natural and human systems, in particular in relation to the interactions between biodiversity conservation and increased demands for food. The collaboration includes projects funded by the International Climate Initiative foundation (2017-2019). It is also manifested through a project associated with a Special Visiting Professor grant (CAPES), exchange of doctoral students (financed both by grants from England and by the Sandwich Doctorate CAPES grant);

Departments of Zoology and Geography, University of Cambridge (UK)

United Nations Environment Programme, World Conservation Monitoring Center (UNEP-WCMC)

Development of research and publications in Historical Ecology and joint offering, between PUC-Rio and the Institut for Social Ecology, of the subject Bridging continents: comparing interdisciplinary environmental history in Rio de Janeiro and Vienna, (subject at postgraduate level offered in face-to-face and distance regime);

International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA)

Research projects involving integrated socio-economic systems, with application to land use (projects funded by the Moore foundation, 2013-2016, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, 2013-2016 and International Climate Initiative, 2017-2020);

Norwegian Institute of Geotechnics (Norges Geotekniske Institutt, Oslo)

Scientific activities and projects associated with sustainable land management, financed by the Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, 2013-2016), and with application for the second project under evaluation;

Department of Environmental Sciences, East Anglia University (UK)

Scientific collaboration in different ongoing projects related to sustainable land use, and exchange of students and professors (e.g. project funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, 2015-2018);

Institut for Social Ecology, Alpen-Adria University (Áustria)

Department of Specific Teaching, Facultad de Formación del Profesorado y Ensenãnza, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)

Exchange of professors and didactic activities;

University of Cambridge, University of Southampton and University of Sheffield (UK), South Asia Institute of Advanced Studies and the United Nations Environmental Program

Project “Integrating environmental and social data at global and national scales – Improving poverty indicators through the inclusion of environmental data” (Funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council, 2017-2018);

University of Cambridge, University of Southampton and University of Sheffield (UK), South Asia Institute of Advanced Studies and the United Nations Environmental Program

University of Cambridge, University of Southampton e University of Sheffield (Reino Unido), South Asia Institute of Advanced Studies e o United Nations Environmental Programme

University of Cambridge, University of Southampton and University of Sheffield (UK), South Asia Institute of Advanced Studies and the United Nations Environmental Program

Stockholm Environment Institute (Sweden)

Projects focused on sustainable land use and international food chains, and researchers’ exchanges;

Columbia University, New York (USA)

Exchange of professors and research projects (funded by FAPERJ, 2016-2017, Norad, 2016 and International Climate Initiative, 2017-2020). Line of research focused on sustainability indicators to evaluate urban restoration projects and prioritization for reforestation taking into account water resources;

University of Connecticut (USA)

Faculty exchange and projects focused on biodiversity conservation and restoration, (funded by the Norad foundation, 2016 and International Climate Initiative, 2017-2020);

World Resources Institute, Washington (USA)

Research activities and projects focused on ecological restoration; (project funded by the International Climate Initiative, 2017-2020);

Universitas Opoliensis (University of Opole)

Research projects and exchange of professors; line of research related to sustainable development and use of natural resources (project funded by the European Commission, 2016-2019);

Uniwersytet Rolniczy (University of Agriculture), Kraków (Poland)

Research projects and exchange of professors; line of research related to sustainable development and use of natural resources (project funded by the European Commission, 2016-2019);

Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS)

CSRio is the permanent venue in Latin America for the world’s largest conference on conservation;

Student Conference on Conservation Science (SCCS)

CSRio is the permanent venue in Latin America for the world’s largest conference on conservation;

Future Earth

CSRio was invited to become a synthesis center linked to Future Earth, the largest global research program in sustainability, linked to the United Nations.