Prof. Rui Martins, vice rector (research) of the University of Macau (UM), recently represented UM at the 23th Annual Meeting of the Association of Portuguese Speaking Universities (AULP). It was unanimously approved at AULP’s Board of Administrators Meeting that the 24th annual meeting of AULP will be held in Macao in June 2014.

AULP is an association whose members are from approximately 150 universities around the world, including Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guiné-Bissau, Macao, Mozambique, São Tomé e Príncipe and East Timor. This year’s annual meeting was held at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), one of the top five universities in Brazil, in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Prof. Rui Martins chaired a conference/roundtable, within the programme, entitled "Academic Impacts of International Exchanges and Their Financial Support". Panelists included Secretary of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education of Brazil, Prof. Paulo Speller; Rector of the Federal University of Mato Grosso, Brazil, Prof. Maria Lúcia Cavalli Neder; and Vice Rector of the New University of Lisbon, Prof. José Esteves Pereira.

Prof. Rui Martins also represented UM as one of the vice presidents of AULP, at its Board of Administrators Meeting, as well as at the General Assembly of the association, where he presented a bid from Macao, in the form of a joint proposal from Macao’s three main public higher education institutions, namely, UM, the Macao Polytechnic Institute and the Institute for Tourism Studies, for the organisation of the 24th annual meeting of AULP in June 2014, in Macao, on the new UM campus. The proposal was approved unanimously by the Board of Administrators and was later confirmed at the General Assembly of AULP. With this approval, it will be the fifth time that the AULP’s annual meeting is held in Macao, following previous sessions in Macao in 1998, 2003, 2006 and 2010.


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