The Embassy of Brazil in the Dominican has announced that its scholarship program has awarded three scholarships to students of architecture and civil engineering. Dominicans have studied medicine, plastic surgery, dentistry and sciences in Brazilian universities over the years. This year three students from the Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo, Universidad Catolica Technologica del Cibao received the scholarships. The winners were Stephanie Sanchez Peralta, Diana Carolina Byron del Rio and Pedro Manuel Batista Susana.
Last year six students from UASD, INTEC and UNIBE won the scholarships. The previous year’s winners are now completing their studies.
The Brazilian embassy says that the main goal of the cooperation agreement is not in the funding made available for the two-year scholarships, but in the transfer of knowledge and that with access to more advanced technologies the beneficiaries can begin to implement solutions that strengthen development in the Dominican Republic, according to Brazilian ambassador Jose Marcus Vinicius de Sousa.