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<p style="margin-top: px; margin-bottom: px;"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">It is a great pleasure to announce the second edition of the <strong>CyberBRICS Fellowship Programme</strong> to be hosted at FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro. </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: px; margin-bottom: px;"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">The programme will offer <strong>five remunerated fellowships,</strong> <strong>from February to July 2020</strong>, at FGV DIREITO RIO, to support selected scholars having relevant experience in <span>the area related to the activities of the 2020-2021 work plan of the CyberBRICS* project, namely<strong> regulation of Internet access </strong>and<strong> the digitalisation of public administrations </strong>in BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). Applicants should have relevant experience in at least one of the BRICS countries. </span></span></p>
<p style="margin-top: px; margin-bottom: px;"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">The Call for Applications is available at </span><a href="https://cyberbrics.info/call-for-applications-cyberbrics-fellowship-programme/"><span lang="EN-US">https://cyberbrics.info/call-for-applications-cyberbrics-fellowship-programme/</span></a></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Selected fellows will be expected to be based in Rio de Janeiro and will have a dedicated office within the FGV main building, in 190 praia de Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro. </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: px; margin-bottom: px;"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Further information on the CyberBRICS project can be found at <a href="https://cyberbrics.info/">https://cyberbrics.info/</a> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: px; margin-bottom: px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">Besides the fellowship programme, we are developing a <strong>Network of CyberBRICS Associated Scholars</strong>, allowing scholars interested in CyberBRICS activities and having relevant experience in the CyberBRICS avenues of research to cooperate with us. Should you be interested in this latter opportunity, please feel free to send me a personal email.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: px; margin-bottom: px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US">Please feel free to share this message thought your networks.</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: px; margin-bottom: px;"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US">Kind regards </span></p>
<p style="margin-top: px; margin-bottom: px;"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US">Luca</span></p>
<p style="margin-top: px; margin-bottom: px;"><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-US">*The CyberBRICS Project is developed in partnership with </span><span style="color: black;" lang="EN-GB">the Higher School of Economics and the Center for New Media and Society (Russia); the Centre for Internet and Society (India); the University of Hong Kong and the Fudan University (China); and Research ICT Africa and the University of Cape Town (South Africa). </span></p>
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<div><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino; font-size: 8pt;"><strong>Luca Belli</strong>, PhD </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino; font-size: 8pt;">Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation, FGV Law School, Rio de Janeiro </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino; font-size: 8pt;">Chercheur Associé, Centre de Droit Public Comparé, Université Paris 2<br /></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino; font-size: 8pt;">www.cyberbrics.info | www.internet-governance.fgv.br <br /></span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: book antiqua,palatino;"><span style="font-size: 8pt;">@1lucabelli <br /></span></span></div>
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