The University of Plymouth Brazilian Connections and Caribbean partners (UBC) facilitates and promotes collaborations between colleagues at the University of Plymouth and similar sized universities (so far) in Brazil, Venezuela and the Caribbean to develop multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary cutting-edge research to benefit our communities.
The academic staff and postgraduate exchange programme plays an important part in the internationalisation at the University of Plymouth and has a growing network which currently consists of nine disciplines within Science, Engineering and Social Sciences at Plymouth and its Brazilian partners.
So far links have been established and are continuously developed in the research areas of ecotoxicology, biochemistry, chemistry, aquaculture, geology and geography, micro-palaeontology, oceanography, remote sensing, disaster management, nanotechnology, engineering and psychology.