Banca de DEFESA: BRUNO LAYSON FERREIRA LEÃO

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STUDENT : BRUNO LAYSON FERREIRA LEÃO
DATE: 29/08/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Auditório 02 do PPGEd - NEPSA II
TITLE:

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KEY WORDS:

Internationalization. International Cooperation. Mercosur. CAPES. Higher Education.

PAGES: 304
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

This thesis focuses on the policy of promoting the internationalization of higher education carried out by the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) in relation to the Member and Associate States of the Mercado Comum do Sul(Mercosur) bloc, within the context of regional integration, and its configuration in lightof the dynamics of South-South International Cooperation. To investigate this object, thefollowing research question was posed: What configurations have CAPES’sinternationalization actions assumed with the member countries of the MercosurEducation Sector (SEM), in the consolidation of international academic cooperationwithin the South-South sphere, between 1990 and 2020? In order to answer this guiding question, the general objective of the thesis was established as follows: To investigate how CAPES’s internationalization policy has developed within the current dynamics of capitalist society, with a view to consolidating South-South international cooperationamong Mercosur member countries, from 1991 to 2020. To this end, the research adoptedhistorical-dialectical materialism as its political and epistemological framework and employed document analysis as its primary research technique. To ensure methodologicalorganization and reach data saturation, the following categories of documents wereexamined: (1) official government and state documents that comprise Brazil's postgraduate internationalization policies (stricto sensu); (2) reports and documents from national and multilateral agencies/organizations that issue recommendations regarding international academic cooperation policies, transnational regulation, and highereducation accreditation—at both international and transnational levels—with respect toMercosur and the European Union; (3) meeting minutes, decisions, strategic plans,reports, and various guiding documents issued by the Mercosur Education Sector (SEM).In addition, international cooperation flows were mapped based on data concerning faculty and student mobility (inbound and outbound), through literature review and accessto primary sources, such as meeting minutes from the Meeting of Ministers of Education(RME), the Higher Education Area Commission (CAES), the Teacher EducationWorking Group, and the Mercosur Integrated Mobility System Working Group(SIMERCOSUR); as well as through CAPES Open Data and the GeoCAPES Portal; andofficial agency documents, including management and activity reports, newsletters(InfoCAPES), and executive financial reports. From the analysis of international cooperation dynamics promoted by the SEM—considering its operational plans—and theevaluation of CAPES’s strategic actions as an active participant in deliberative forumsfor the formulation of higher education integration policies and strategies, it was concluded that the agency’s strategic actions, shaped by the orientation of each governmental administration, do not ensure the continuity of international academic relations with Mercosur Member States. Consequently, CAPES does not prioritize South South international cooperation within the Mercosur bloc as a macro-strategic policy designed to support long-term regional development

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - ALLAN SOLANO SOUZA - UERN
Externo ao Programa - 347393 - ANTONIO CABRAL NETO - nullExterno ao Programa - 1222065 - GUILHERME MENDES TOMAZ DOS SANTOS - nullExterno à Instituição - JOÃO FERREIRA DE OLIVEIRA - UFG
Presidente - 1646204 - LUCIANE TERRA DOS SANTOS GARCIA
Externo à Instituição - MARIA COSTA MOROSINI - PUCRS
Interna - 347594 - MARIA GORETTI CABRAL BARBALHO