ZA VLADO FEDERATIVNE REPUBLIKE BRAZILIJE Hadil da Rocha Vianna l.r.
and
The Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil
(hereinafter referred to as "Parties"),
Guided by their desire to develop and strengthen the existing ties of friendship between the two countries;
Desiring to deepen their relations in the field of education,
Have agreed as follows:
Article I
1. The Parties shall promote and implement the cooperation in the field of education and to this aim, shall:
a) Encourage and facilitate closer ties between their respective educational institutions and professionals;
b) Encourage participation of their nationals in training courses and studies tours offered by the other Party;
c) Encourage the establishment of partnerships and networks involving higher education institutions, research and technology centres, and governmental agencies;
d) Seek to develop contacts, cooperation and exchange between professors, researchers, readers, students and educational administrators from both countries, including by sending academic missions and offering scholarships;
e) Promote the participation of representatives of each Party in congresses, seminars, symposia and other academic and scientific events offered by the other Party, as well as the joint organization of events;
f) Promote participation of Brazilian citizens in the Young
Researchers Programme managed by the Slovenian Research
Agency;
g) Promote participation of Brazilian citizens in the programmes
of the International Centre for Promotion of Enterprises
(ICPE) in Ljubljana;
h) Encourage the exchange of information and visits
of specialists in educational systems, statistics and policies,
curriculum, teaching methods, scientific, pedagogical and
methodological literature, as well as experiences and specific
programmes;
i) Encourage the exchange of information on certification
and recognition of diplomas and academic degrees, in order
to facilitate the comparison and the evaluation of equivalence
among certificates from elementary and secondary education,
as well as among technical, scientific, university and technological
degrees, certificates and diplomas;
j) Promote joint scientific and educational publications;
k) Promote the joint development of educational material.
Article II
1. The Parties identify the following areas as priorities in
bilateral cooperation:
a) Brazilian studies in Slovenia and Slovenian studies in
Brazil, including the teaching of Portuguese and Slovene;
b) Graduate and postgraduate studies, including joint
degrees, co-supervision of theses and procedures for master,
doctoral – also in the sandwich modality – and post-doctoral
programmes;
c) Information and communication technologies applied
to education;
d) Educational and vocational and technical training;
e) School management, including teacher training and
exchange of information about educational standards, assessment
and indicators;
f) Social inclusion in education, particularly through programmes
focused on children from disadvantaged social-economic
contexts, as well as youth and adult literacy, continued
education, and rural and environmental education;
g) Innovation and good practices in education.
2. The Parties may agree to identify new areas for joint
activities other than those mentioned in this Article.
Article III
1. For purposes of implementing this Agreement, a Brazilian-
Slovene Educational Commission shall be created. This
Commission shall meet alternately in Brazil and Slovenia to
define the details of cooperation programmes, including their
financial aspects.
2. The date, place and agenda for the meetings of the
Brazilian-Slovene Education Commission shall be established
through diplomatic channels.
3. The execution of cooperation programmes agreed
upon by the Commission shall be negotiated by the Parties
through diplomatic channels.
Article IV
1. The Parties shall provide appropriate legal means for
effective protection of intellectual property rights of all materials
obtained under this instrument, in accordance with their respective
national laws and regulations.
2. The intellectual property rights obtained as a result of
joint activities shall be determined by mutually agreed conditions
and laid down in contracts and agreements separately.
3. Neither Party shall transmit any information obtained
within the implementation of this agreement to any third party
without the prior written consent of the other Party.
Article V
1. Cost of activities under this Agreement shall be covered
under terms mutually agreed by the Parties. Their execution
shall be subject to the availability of the appropriate financial
resources in each country.
2. All activities to be performed under this instrument shall
be in accordance with the laws and regulations of the country
where they are executed.
Article VI
1. Disputes related to the interpretation or the implementation
of the present Agreement shall be solved by direct
negotiations between the Parties, through diplomatic channels.
2. This Agreement may be amended by mutual consent
of the Parties, through diplomatic channels. Amendments shall
enter into force in accordance with paragraph 3 of the present
Article.
3. This Agreement shall enter into force on the date of
the second notification by which one Party informs the other,
through diplomatic channels, of the fulfilment of its respective
legal requirements for the entry into force of the present
Agreement.
4. This Agreement shall remain in force for five (5) years
and shall be automatically renewed for periods of five (5) years
unless one of the Parties notifies the other in writing, through
diplomatic channels, of its decision to terminate it. The termination
of this Agreement shall not affect the conclusion of ongoing
projects and programmes, unless the Parties agree otherwise.
Signed at Ljubljana, on the 20th September 2011, in two
originals, in the Slovene, Portuguese and English languages,
all texts being equally authentic. In case of divergence of interpretation,
the English text shall prevail.
FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA Igor Lukšič (s)
FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE FEDERATIVE REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL Hadil da Rocha Vianna (s)