15 - Guest lectures
THE BENEFIT OF BILATERAL RESEARCH NETWORKS - THE SARC AND BARINET INITIATIVES AND THE BRAZILIAN SWEDISH COLLABORATION IN AERONAUTICS
E. Villani, Aeronautics Institute of Technology (ITA), Brazil; P. Krus, Linköping University, Sweden; V.J. de Negri, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil; L. Pereira, Federal University of ABC (UFABC), Brazil; G. Caurin, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil
In this paper the creation and maintenance of a bilateral network is presented. Sweden and Brazil have a long standing relation stretching far beyond aeronautics. However, it was intensified with the acquisition of the Swedish Saab Gripen combat aircraft for the Brazilian Air force. This led to an intense build-up of industrial collaboration and in the wake of this, also a bilateral academic network was formed to both take advantage of this, as well as support the process and encourage spin-off effects to other parts of society. To be sustainable it is argued that a network needs the right support and encouragement to be able to grow organically in a sustainable way, based on personal relations. Once this is in place, an academic bilateral network can be formed that can be maintained effectively over time at a low cost.