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A Tripatite Idea
A TRIPARTITE IDEAInternational Graduate Program in Cell and Molecular Biology of Plants
Three major research institutions--Rutgers University, the University of São Paulo (Brazil) and Ohio State University--agreed in September 2004 to develop a Tripartite International Graduate Program in Cell and Molecular Biology of Plants, IGP-CMBP. The program builds on a long-term collaboration that includes undergraduate scholars, graduate students, and faculty research programs.
The qualifications of these institutions and the expertise that the researchers already shared was the motivation to do something more, and by taking advantage of this international synergism, to create an outstanding program of human resource training at the Ph. D. level in a truly international academic environment.
This unique program seeks to award Doctoral degrees (PhDs) in Plant Sciences with international scope through the active participation of the professors from these institutions. In addition, it is intended to become a model to integrate both professors and students in international programs.
This program has several special ingredients that allow the participants to use the local expertise and the partners’ specific or unique qualifications. Graduate students participating in the program would have the opportunity to qualify for a Ph.D. degree from two or three of the partner institutions. Students enrolled in the program would be expected to demonstrate language proficiency in both English and Portuguese.
The program will be composed of a national and an international module. Both modules will embrace the campuses of USP, Rutgers and OSU. Students will be required to take the basic courses in their home
institution during the first year of the program. Only students who complete the national module will be allowed to enter the international module. In this module, classes will be taught by (i) simultaneous seminars through video-conferences involving the three institutions and (ii) two-week, concentrated courses provided by any of the three institutions, taking advantage of the teachers' international mobility.
All students enrolled in this Graduate Program must develop part of their thesis work in another International Education Institution (IEI), guided by a co-adviser from the host institution. Brazilian scientific agencies will sponsor Brazilian students participating in this module, who will be allowed to stay from six months to one year in any of the IEI, characterizing the students' international mobility. The involvement of the co-adviser in the development of the research is highly recommended. The international modules will be accomplished collaboratively, as agreed by the three participating institutions according to their needs, countersigned by both the institutions involved and the supporting agencies.
The program is in place at Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz – USP, approved by CAPES as Internacional - Biologia Celular e Molecular Vegetal Researchers formed with this international approach and specialized training by IGP-CMBP will be qualified to establish and develop new areas of expertise. In addition, they will be able to provide international leadership in their academic, scientific and technological areas of expertise.
Raul Machado Neto – Universidade de São Paulo
Author(s):
Raul Machado Neto
USP
Brazil