1. CEAv CENTRO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS DA UNICAMP The Center for Advanced Studies Unicamp Renato H. L. Pedrosa Deputy Head, Center of Advanced Studies Coordinator, Group of Studies in Higher Education April/2012 Workshop on Equity in Higher Education: the International Perspective Higher School of Economics Moscow, April 19-20, 2012

2. CEAv CENTRO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS DA UNICAMP Brief history, objectives, structure  Established in March/2010  Section in the President’s Office  To foster interdisciplinary research  Organized via research groups  No permanent members  Small staff

3. CEAv CENTRO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS DA UNICAMP  Group of Studies in Higher Education  Group of Studies in Sports  Group of Brazil-China Studies  Group of Contemporary Studies Present research groups

4. CEAv CENTRO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS DA UNICAMP Group of Studies in Higher Education - GSHE Coordinator: Renato H. L. Pedrosa The GSHE is a permanent CAS group dedicated to research and other activities on regarding Higher Education, focusing on policy issues at the national level as well as on international comparative studies. Main interests: Curriculum and academic structure (tradition and innovation) Institutional diversity (academic, management and financial aspects) Access policies (equity in access and affirmative action policies) Quality assurance (assessment of learning outcomes) Internacionalization (perspectives for the Brazilian research universities)

5. CEAv CENTRO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS DA UNICAMP Group of Studies in Sports - GSS Coordinator: Paulo César Montagner The GSS is dedicated to research on Sports as a social phenomenon, including its personal and educational perspectives as well. Main interests: Humanities and sports Science and sports Management and sports Large sport events (World Cup, Olympics)

6. CEAv CENTRO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS DA UNICAMP Group of Brazil-China Studies - GBCS Coordinator: Leila The GBCS has as its main objective the deep understanding of the role China plays in the contemporary world as a whole, with focus on the Brazil-China interactions. Main interests: To promote the understanding of China in a global comparative perspective To foster the academic cooperation between Unicamp and its Chinese counterparts To expand Unicamp’s relationships with Brazilian institutions (government or not) that have interactions with China To help spread the knowledge and information on China around campus and to incentive the learning of Mandarin among Unicamp’s students.

7. CEAv CENTRO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS DA UNICAMP Group of Contemporary Studies – GCS (in formation) Coordinator: Alcir Pécora The GCS gathers a group of specialists in the Arts, the Sciences and the Humanities who are interested in the study of the various notions of crisis (in culture, in the humanities, of paradigms, of representation, of criticism, etc.) as a privileged form of debating the challenges, in both historical and theoretical perspectives, facing societies in the 21st Century world. Main interests and objectives: To look for a common vocabulary among the various areas to allow for a proper understanding of the meaning of crisis in the contemporary world To use the notion of crisis to question the notion of the coontemporary To provide subsidies to projects that involve the debate of contemporary issues

8. CEAv CENTRO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS DA UNICAMP Activities 2010-2012 National and international events Publications Fellows

9. CEAv CENTRO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS DA UNICAMP The CAS/Unicamp in numbers 2010-2012 Activities Events (seminars, workshops, conferences)38 National events17 International events21 Journal issues published (Unicamp HEd J.)5 Papers/articles14 Fellows10 Unicamp audience752 Out-of-Unicamp audience130 Total audience882

10. CEAv CENTRO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS DA UNICAMP Group of Studies in Higher Education – GSHE What’s coming Starting with the current issue, Unicamp HEd J. includes the Portuguese version of Internation Higher Education, originally published by the Center of International Higher Education (Boston College, Philip Altbach) In July, the CEAv and the Pro-rectorate ofr Undergraduate Studies will promote the 1st “Zeferino Vaz” School of Higher Education, with the participation of Jamil Salmi (formerly World Bank), Philip Altbach (BC), Phil Baty (THE), Liz Reisberg (BC), Peter Dourmashkin (MIT), Pedro Rosso (Catholic U., Chile), Simon Shwartzman (IEDI/Brazil) and others. In November, CEAv will organize a seminar on HE and the emerging economies, with the purpose of debating the contents of a book that will be published by Springer and Unicamp next year, under the editorship of Simon Schwartzman, Romulo Pinheiro and Pundy Pillay. Various joint projects, among them: CSHE/Berkeley (SERU), a Master Plan for the University of São Paulo (USP) and, hopefully, with HSE/Moscow.

11. CEAv CENTRO DE ESTUDOS AVANÇADOS DA UNICAMP Thank you! Renato Pedrosa renato.pedrosa@reitoria.unicamp.br http://www.gr.unicamp.br/ceav/english/index.php http://www.revistaensinosuperior.gr.unicamp.br/ CAS – Center for Advanced Studies Unicamp - Cidade Universitária "Zeferino Vaz” CP 6194 Barão Geraldo 13083-872 Campinas SP Brazil e-mail: ceav@reitoria.unicamp.br