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Best Practice Guidelines for Promoting Small and Businesses in Public Procurement Markets

Topics: 9th Call, Public Procurement , Publications,

Public procurement constitutes a large part of total government expenditure, generating significant economic activity.

Brazil - European Union Exchange about Food Waste

Topics: Agriculture and Rural Development, Publications, Top Down 2017,

The exchanges of experiences between the European Union and Brazil on coping with food waste contribute to mutual learning and help in designing public policies that are also aligned with the need to strengthen food security.

Photonics and Nanotechnology Innovations for Medical Devices

Topics: 9th Call, Publications,

Brazil-European Union Exchange Program to combat domestic violence

Topics: Success stories, Human Rights, Publications, Top Down 2017,

Brazil and European Union Collaboration to combat domestic violence againts women

A glimmer of light for bringing down the utility bill

Topics: Success stories, Publications,

Brazil has used the same electric utility metring and billing system for a long time now: in sum, a technician goes door-to-door every month to read the numbers on residential metres, interval clocks which, in a majority of Brazilian households have been equipped with the same technology for over thirty years. The central challenge is that this technological gap has made it nearly impossible for end consumers to manage daily consumption. Nor do the metres provide any indication as to the times and appliances that consume the most energy, for the simple reason that they are not properly equipped for this purpose.

Using satellites to manage urban chaos

Topics: Success stories, Publications,

Disorganized growth seems to be a shared tendency in urban centres around the world. Not even so-called planned cities have escaped this phenomenon. For example, Brasília, originally designed for 500,000 inhabitants, currently has a population of over 2 million and is home to the largest shantytown in Latin America.

Innovative public service?

Topics: Success stories, Publications,

“New”, “technology”, “invention”, “novelty”, “doing things differently”, “good ideas”. These are just some of the words and expressions that come to mind when we think about Innovation. To be sure, it is a complex, broad and, at times, even abstract concept, one that is as difficult to define as it is to achieve.

Nanotechnology is already a reality

Topics: Success stories, Publications,

Try to imagine 1 metre, then divide by 1 billion and you will arrive at 1 nanometre. This tiny particle is the base unit of nanotechnology, used to research and develop technologies in a diversity of scientific fields, from medicine to computer science.

The National Contingency Plan

Topics: Success stories, Publications,

Offshore platforms work 24/7 to extract oil, many of them along the great extension of the Brazilian coast, in the same biodiversity-rich sea where many people earn their livelihood and where you probably should go diving on your days off or on your summer vacation. Have you ever stopped to think about what an operation error on these platforms could entail? Fortunately, since the end of 2013, Brazil has been preparing to deal with these accidents.

Learn about the main results of the 7th Call

Topics: Publications,

In its seventh call, the EU-Brazil Sector Dialogues Support Facility, which is coordinated by the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management (MPOG) and the European Union Delegation in Brazil (Delbra), is supporting a record number of 37 actions, which received funds of approximately BRL 3.9 million to sponsor events, international missions, studies and publications on issues prioritised by Brazil and the European Union. All actions are supported in line with the priority themes chosen during the 7th EU-Brazil Summit held in February this year in Brussels, Belgium.