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On 30th of March 2015, The Netherlands Business Support Office – NBSO Brazil, in close contact with the Consulate-General of Rio de Janeiro and the Embassy of the Kingdom of The Netherlands and partnership with the Secretariat of Science, Technology and Higher Education of the Minas Gerais state organised the RoundTable on Water Usage and […]

Minas Gerais & The Netherlands jointly organise a Round Table on Water Usage & Management. The round table will take place on Monday 30 March and is being organised by the Secretariat of Science, Technology & Higher Education of the State of Minas Gerais – SECTES and the Dutch Network in Brazil through the Netherlands […]

The state of Minas Gerais prominence in agrarian studies is a result of decades of investments in its Universities and Technical Institutes that have contributed to the better usage of the soil and new practises in its vast countryside. On the other side, The Netherlands, a country that has learned from its natural demands, has […]

  Belo Horizonte has gone over a handful of urban improvements on the past decade. If one has been to the city in 2004 and after 10 years lands again in the city the landscape change would definitely be the first thing to draw attention. Starting by the airport: in 2004, anyone who would arrive […]

Traditional commercial and educational partner of Brazil, the Netherlands is increasingly committed to stimulate scientific cooperation between the two countries. In this context, since early March, the Director General of Higher Education, Professional Education, Science and Emancipation of Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Mr. Hans Schutte is visiting Brazil. He is accompanied by a delegation […]

Porto Alegre, will host from 21- 26 June the 14th International Conference on Wind Engineering (ICWE 14, the previous edition, in 2011, was held in Amsterdam). Porto Alegre, in the South of Brazil, is the capital of Rio Grande do Sul, one of the states with a very promising potential of Wind Energy. The most […]

On 5 and 12 February NBSO Brazil held its first round of webinars. The objective of the webinars was to introduce Brazil and more specifically the regions in which the Netherlands Business Support Office Brazil operates, namely the State of Minas Gerais and the Southern region of Brazil. The presentation was directed at Dutch entrepreneurs […]

One of the opportunities in the Minas Gerais state mentioned in our first Webinar is the Aerotropolis. It foresees a handful of logistical parks and industrial plants of which are leading the state’s main airport to be one of the Latin America’s top listed air hubs. Certainly, it is a continuous project that demands leading […]

  Business Projects (descriptions) South Brazil   1 – Widening and modernization of Paranaguá Port Name of the Project: Restructuring Exports Corridor: it consists on building piers system for mooring four ships – larger than the ones currently embarking in the Port – forming a “T” perpendicular to the current quay, allowing the widening of […]

Due to on-going scarcity of rain of which has intensified the water crisis in the country’s reservoirs, Brazilian government is calling attention to energy resources other than the hydroelectrically based. Alternatively, to the dams, energy based on Biomass and Wind powered are now seen as a solid reality and therefore it implies on call for […]