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Description
The University of Kentucky (UK) is currently engaged in an intense institutional
process of internationalization. The key is to identify and overcome institutional barriers
to internationalization (language, sustainability, institutional culture). This project will
address several of these barriers. Project goals include facilitating intensive bi-directional
research experiences for faculty and students in the US and Brazil, increasing
agribusiness collaborations and professional development opportunities through sustained
interactions with producers and processors in both countries, and developing an
institutional model for expanding international partnerships from the departmental level
to the university. It is our goal to produce a self sustaining exchange program between
UK and Brazilian institutions. Our objective is to strengthen faculty and student awareness of the global
dimensions of food, fiber, and energy production by capitalizing upon academic and
professional opportunities for collaborations between two of the most important countries
in these fields. Maximum benefits can be achieved by satisfying the following objectives:
I. Expand and enhance international research opportunities for faculty and students.
2. Promote new agribusiness collaborations to expand professional engineering study and work opportunities
for both US and Brazilian students.
3. Strengthen and expand the international education opportunities between UK and partner institutions in
Brazil (especially UFY) by identifying and addressing critical institutional barriers, thereby developing a model for
sustainability based upon the construction of university-wide initiatives from departmental ones.
It is hoped that the solutions developed and tested as part ofthis project will serve as a model for university-wide
initiatives at other institutions.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 9/1/08 → 7/31/13 |
Funding
- Cooperative State Research Education and Extension: $100,000.00
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