During 2015-2016 academic year, 34 students from Brazil will be welcomed at Umeå University as part of the Science without Borders programme (Ciência sem Fronteiras). The number of students who have chosen Umeå University has increased significantly compared to previous years. Umeå University is now the third most popular university in Sweden among the Brazilian students.
Science without Borders is a Brazilian Government scholarship programme aiming to send 100,000 Brazilian students on undergraduate sandwich courses, PhD sandwich courses and full PhDs to study in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and creative industries at top universities around the world.
At Umeå University the students will be in enroled in one-year undergraduate level sandwich courses (or course packages). In total, 152 scholarship holders have been approved at Swedish universities.
Number of approved scholarship holders autumn 2015:
1. Lund University: 40
2. KTH Royal Institute of Technology: 35
3. Umeå University: 34
4. Karolinska Institutet: 12
5. Halmstad University: 9
6. Uppsala University: 7
7. Linköping University: 5
8. Dalarna University: 4
9. Linnaeus University: 3
10. University of Skövde: 2
11. University of Borås: 1
For the 2015-16 academic year, 34 Science without Borders scholars will be studying in the 14 different undergraduate sandwich courses, including public health, design, advanced biomedicine, plant and forest biotechnology, and architectural intervention.
This is the third year in which Brazilian students will attend Umeå University as part of the Science without Borders programme. There were 5 students in 2013-14, 7 in 2014-15 and now 34 for 2015-16 (over four times as many). The university has actively participated in several student recruitment fairs throughout Brazil, which is one reason for the impressive figures in the most recent call for scholarships.
www.umu.se/swb