One of the United Nation’s Chair for Education, Science and Culture, co-created by The Federal University of Ouro Preto, and hosted by The Federal University of Viçosa, arrived in three dutch institutions: Brada University of Applied Sciences, Erasmus Rotterdam University and Tilburg Universities. These new partnerships were launched between June 12th and 15th and had the involvement of a Brazilian delegation composed by the faculty members of UFOP’s Tourism Department: professors Marcos Knupp, Carolina Lescura, and Alissandra Nazareth.
The schedule included technical visits, project presentations and research results by professors and PhD students from Dutch universities and the Brazilian team.
According to professor Marcos Knupp, they returned to Brazil with the duty accomplished feeling. About the Chair’s launch in Europe, he says “It's also a very symbolic way to show the power that it has and it is really aiming the expansion of this network for the development of public politics and creative economy at a global level.”
The network gathers researchers from 14 Brazilian universities and 4 European ones — these three Dutch and The University of Coimbra, in Portugal — from different areas, like environmental engineering, geography, economic sciences, tourism, business administration, public management and natural sciences.
In addition, the Chair has become the first network of universities with a status of Patrono Institution Association between 2023-2025. The title was won during the CultSense International conference, organized by Erasmus Rotterdam University and the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research.
The initiative, strengthened by The Research Support Foundation of The State of Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG), aimed to reinforce and expand academic collaborative ties among the institutions involved especially, in framework of the Chair, at studies about Multi‐level Governance and Sustainable Development, aligned to UN 2030 Agenda.
