The internationalization actions of the PPG-AMSA occur both in order to support the visibility of the program through the participation of professors and students in international events and publications, as well as through the adoption of internal measures that, albeit slowly, are allowing the program to receive foreign students and researchers.

In 2020, PPG was working on administrative procedures for hiring a foreign visiting professor who will be allocated exclusively to the PPG-AMSA. This was the result of an application in 2018, to a UFMG internal notice where it won an “International Professorship”. The selected candidate was Professor Sergio Villamayor Tomas (https://ictaweb.uab.cat/personal_detail.php?id=4066) of the ICTA in Barcelona who will be a visiting teacher of our PPG for a period of up to 3 years, as of 2021.

During the four-year period we received student Ivo Verhaar from the University of Avans of the Netherlands (https://www.avans.nl/international), who completed his internship under the Biobased Brazil Program. His work at the PPG-AMSA was integrated into the Long-Term Ecological Studies Program (PELD) which takes place at the Rio Doce State Park (PERD), MG. Ivo participated together with Masters, Doctoral and IC students in the development of participatory scenarios for the surroundings of the PERD.

During the four-year period, the PPG-AMSA had enrolled 7 foreign MASTER’S students:

Adolfo Andres Hincapie Garcia (Colombia)

Castigo David Augusto Machava (Mozambique)

Gustavo Adolfo Tinoco Martinez (Colombia)

Juan David Mendez Quintero (Colombia)

Miluska Blas Leon (Peru)

Thomas Lloyd Rickard (United Kingdom)

Trevor Ray Tisler (United States)

Foreigners enrolled in the DOCTORATE program during the four-year period:

Thomas Lloyd Rickard (United Kingdom)

Anacleto Marito Diogo (Angola)

In 2020, two students from the first group of the PPG-AMSA doctoral program were selected for the doctorate. Laura Bachi is currently conducting research in Germany, while Thomas Lloyd Rickard will go to the Netherlands in early 2021.