Alumni meeting in Rio de Janeiro - Foundation Office Brazil
Event Reports
On Monday, October 20th former scholarship holders convened in Rio de Janeiro to exchange opinions and thoughts with employees of KAS Brazil and candidates for future scholarship participating in the assessment centre. In his welcoming speech Dr Berthold Gees, coordinator in the department of Scholarships and Cultural Activities, epmhasised the commitment of the foundation to support young Latin American academics. Consequently, Felix Dane, Head of the Brazilian office, thanked all the guests for coming and invited them to actively join the “KAS family”. Alumnus Christian Matthäus then described the trajectory of a more intensive inclusion of the alumni in the activities of the regional office Brazil of Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. During the following reception the invitees were given the opportunity to network, catch up with old friends, and debate the upcoming elections in Brazil.
Approximately 120 KAS alumni currently live in Brazil. Keeping in touch with our former scholarship holders who frequently hold important positions in Brazilian society is one of the tasks of our regional office. Although the majority of our alumni, comprising of leading figures in politics, business and science as well as the arts, live in the South and South West of the country, there are some who make their living as far out as in the Amazon region.
