On August 29, 2016, the BRICS Policy Center fellow Daniela Guzmán Peña oversaw the seminar “UN 2030 Agenda: Brazilian society and non-governmental initiatives for sustainable development”. Daniela’s period in the BPC arose through the partnership with UNDP's...
UNDP Rio+, with support of the BRICS Policy Center, organized two technical meetings on August 29th and 30th, 2016. The event was realized at BPC´s office in Botafogo and its objective was to discuss methodological innovations that support the...
The Director-General of the BRICS Policy Center, Prof. Paulo Esteves, was interviewed by journalist Kaitlin Lavinder of The Cipher Brief. In the interview, Prof. Esteves commented on Brazil’s current political scenario and gave possible solutions for the financial,...
The BPC Newsletter is now available. It was designed for you to find out about the Centre's new publications, news with BRICS related content and information on events held at...
On July 29th, 2016, PUC-Rio, represented by the Vice-Dean Ivern Simó, Professor Danilo Marcondes (member of the General Commission of PUC-Rio´s Philosophy Department) and Professor Sergio Veloso (BRICS Policy Center/Institute of International Relations) received a delegation...
On August 4th the Director of the BRICS Policy Center, Professor Paulo Esteves, and researcher Geovana Zoccal attended the event “Nutrition for Growth”. The initiative arose from the scope of the “Scaling Up Nutrition” movement, and had its first...
With the objective of deepening the ties of cooperation between Brazil and India, the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Kerala. The indian...
Organized by the Global South Unit for Mediation (GSUM), the third edition of the Winter School took place last July. It happened in a two-week intensive academic and training program on international mediation, with...
The Global South Unit for Mediation (GSUM) is glad to announce that this year’s Winter School will be organizing three roundtables which are open to the general public, in addition to an opening speech...
BRICS Policy Center and the Institute of International Relations (IRI PUC-Rio) just sign a cooperation deal with the Higher School of Economics of Russia. Negotiations started in September 2015, at a reception organized by the International Cooperation...