Graduate Students in Dentistry Defend Doctoral Dissertations in the Netherlands
Last July 11-12, doctoral students Jovito Skupien, Françoise Van de Sande Milk and Anelise Montagnethe defended their doctoral work in the city of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Such academic accomplishment resulted from the partnership between UFPel Graduate Program in Dentistry (PPGO) and the Dentistry Department of Radboud University Medical Center, the Netherlands.
This partnership began in 2010 with financial support from development agencies of the Netherlands (NUFFIC) and Brazil (CAPES), as well as with financial support from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and a CNPq Special Visiting Professor scholarship. From 2011 to the present day there has been several working missions involving UFPel professors from the Graduate Program in Dentistry in the Netherlands and Dutch professors in Pelotas. There was also the exchange of doctoral students between the two countries, developing research activities in Nijmegen for 1 year. The students defended their doctorate dissertations in our graduate program in 2012, 2013 and 2014 and earned a double degree by also defending their dissertations in the Netherlands.
These defenses consolidate an academic partnership, which gave birth to scientific papers published in some of the most important scientific journals in the field of dentistry. It was also key for UFPel PPGO’s internationalization process. The partnership contributed for the program to earn the concept of international excellence with grade 6 by CAPES, paving the way for the consolidation of its leadership in the international scene and increasing international integration.
On the Dutch side, this partnership is considered the most important milestone for their department over the past 10 years, and has contributed scientifically to the growth of that institution. UFPel’s PPGO congratulates the new doctors by Radboud University, who defended their dissertations brilliantly and as a result earned their degree from that prestigious institution. The partnership continues to develop with several doctoral students and joint defenses going on over the next few years.
