A delegation from the Arab country will be in Brazilian territory next week to exchange experiences with locals. The trip is part of the preparations for the upcoming WorldSkills competition, in São Paulo.
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The decision to apportion 4% to 6% of Gross Domestic Product to the area was made at the World Education Forum this week in South Korea. Over 150 nations made the pledge, Brazil included.
The Federal University of São Carlos issued an admission directive for each one of its courses. The goal is to facilitate the access of refugees to higher education. Enem is now used for the selection approval.
Students from five universities in the country are participating in the finals of the ACM-ICPC programming competition on May 20th, in Marrakesh. The contest has 128 teams from around the world competing.
Red Cross exhibition opens May 28th with photos of hospitals and conflict lines in these countries. Images by photographer André Liohn warn about the risks that medics and patients go through in these situations.
Such is the expectation of the Brazilian agency Tunísia Tur, which has taken travel agents from tour operator CVC this week to see major destinations in the North African country.
Cartoonist Riad Sattouf will be one of the 39 guest writers for this year’s edition of the literary meeting held in the city of Paraty, in Rio de Janeiro.
The event will run from May 22nd to 24th featuring three productions shot in Arab countries or set in the Middle East. The Saudi film ‘Wadjda’s Dream’ tells the story of a girl who dreamt of riding a bicycle.
Ligia Amadio is conducting the Lebanese Philharmonic Orchestra for a concert next Friday in Lebanon’s capital. The repertoire will include a piece by Brazil’s Villa-Lobos.
The event will take place from May 14th to 23rd, in the city of Tripoli. Brazil is one of the participating countries. Among the attractions are samba and capoeira workshops, film screenings and Brazilian storytelling.
The Brazilian company already sells packages to the North African country, but says the trip is a way to prepare the professionals to sell the destination. Tunisia Tur and Royal Air Maroc are partners in the project.
Curiosities in the exhibition now showing at Santos’ Museu do Café include accounts of the product’s origins in North Africa and of the site of the world’s first cafeteria: Mecca, in Saudi Arabia.
The photo show was already seen by São Paulo and will open in the federal capital next Thursday, with the presence of Pierre Krähenbühl, commissioner-general of Unrwa. It’s his first visit to the country.
Approximately 15 million people visited the city. Of those, 30% travelled for the FIFA World Cup. Brazilians accounted for 85% of visitors, followed by Americans, Argentinians, Germans and Chileans.
