The MIT Sloan School of Management signed an agreement this week with a new technological institute in Brazil to partner on a range of academic and research initiatives focused on innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainable development, Business Wire reported.
Vale Technological Institute (ITV) was established in 2009 as a nonprofit, post-graduate research and teaching institution by Vale, the second-largest diversified mining company in the world. It will eventually open three institutes, the first in the Amazon region of the country.
The agreement will create a new exchange program for students in MIT Sloan’s Global Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Business laboratories to work on projects in partnership with ITV. ITV researchers, too, will be eligible for scholarships to study at MIT for six months. And MIT faculty will conduct two seminars each year in Brazil on themes linked to ITV efforts.
The MIT Sloan-ITV project also will enable each institution to develop closer ties with each other’s partners. For Sloan that will mean establishing ties to leading universities in Brazil.
“Our goal at MIT Sloan is to establish a network of centers for excellence and management education across the world, with us as the hub of that network,” Locke said. “We will not only interact with our partners, but they will interact with each other.”
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