Young scientist will travel to the United Kingdom under a prize supported by the British Council

The young researcher, Ingrid Fonseca Casazza, was the winner of the Human and Social Sciences, Language and the Arts category of the 6th Outstanding Science Initiative of the Year Award – Science Initiation. The prize, supported by the British Council, is a trip to the United Kingdom where Ingridi will follow a programme of visits to centres of excellence in science.

The winners of the other two categories were granted a year’s subscription of a magazine in their areas of interest.

The ceremony for the winners took place during the 5th National Science Week. The winners of the three categories were: Life Sciences – Diego Dantas Almeida, Universidade do Rio Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Exact and Land Sciences and Engineering- Ricardo Baiotto, Universidade de Caxias do Sul (UCS) and Human and Social Sciences, Language and the Arts- Ingridi Fonseca Casazza.

• For further information on this prize, please visit the site of the CNPq
• Know more about the prizes in 2006 e 2007 (Portuguese only)

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