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UM to hold activities to promote Brazilian culture

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Head of the Cultural Department of the Consulate General of Brazil in Hong Kong and Macao Terezinha Bassani Campos (right) presents the cheque to UM on behalf of the Brazilian government

To promote the Portuguese language and the Brazilian culture, the government of the Federal Republic of Brazil will provide 3,000 U.S. dollars to the University of Macau (UM) for organizing academic and promotional activities. The cheque presentation ceremony was held today (26 June).

This followed the relevant decisions set out in the Joint Action Plan for the period between 2010 and 2014, signed between the governments of the Federal Republic of Brazil and the People’s Republic of China. Terezinha Bassani Campos, head of the Cultural Department of the Consulate General of Brazil in Hong Kong and Macao, Prof. Rui Martins, vice rector (research) of UM, and Prof. Yao Jingming, head of UM’s Department of Portuguese, attended the ceremony.

Relevant activities will include the creation of a Brazilian lecturer position at UM, financial donation to the First Week of the Brazilian Culture, which will take place at UM in November 2012, donation of books, and cooperation with UM’s Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities in the translation of famous Brazilian literary works. The first translation project will be a short novel by Lima Barreto.
 


26/06/2012