The universities have an international cooperation agreement since 2018
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Professor and researcher from the School of Health and Life Sciences Rafael Reimann Baptista visited in November the Università Degli Studi di Milano (UniMi), in Italy, on a work mission abroad through PUCRS’s CAPES-PrInt Program. With this opportunity, the professor was able to get to know the Italian partner institution’s research structures in the fields of physical education, dentistry, and innovation and strengthen ties for future projects.
Baptista developed projects in cooperation with UniMi professor Chiarella Sforza, internationally renowned for her studies on electromyography. They created articles, gave collaborative classes and organized a special issue for the scientific magazine Frontiers in Physiology. This partnership enabled his mission in November, where he was able to take part in meetings with the laboratory which studies human movement (biomechanics) and give a workshop on Motion Capture.
PUCRS and Università Degli Studi di Milano have an international cooperation agreement, since 2018, but they have actions in partnership since 2014. With researcher Baptista’s work in Italy, the PUCRS professor also anticipates new projects in partnership, as well as student mobility and sandwich doctorate initiatives. At another time, he also met with representatives from UniMi’s Open Innovation sector.
“The contact between scientists, being inside the laboratory, the exchange of experiences on how a group gathers or analyzes data, it’s all highly enriching as a way to enhance scientific collaboration. The partnership with professor Chiarella Sforza will be very productive and will bring multiple opportunities to develop studies in different areas of knowledge and, thus, to benefit several researchers and graduate students from our University,” concludes the professor.
