CNPq MAI/DAI — Industry-University Innovation Fellowships
Funds industry-university fellowships linking graduate students with company teams to strengthen real-world implementation.
The CNPq MAI/DAI program — Mestrado e Doutorado Acadêmico para Inovação — is an industry-university fellowship program that places enrolled graduate and undergraduate students inside Brazilian companies to conduct R&D aligned with real industrial demand. Each fellow has both an academic advisor at the host university and a designated company-side co-supervisor. The most recently announced call off…
Industry-embedded graduate research fellowships placing Masters, doctoral, postdoctoral, and undergraduate students inside Brazilian companies to conduct R&D aligned with real industrial demand, requiring a formal university–company partnership.
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