Tech and Science Conference begins today - 26th May Brazil

4th National Technology, Science and Innovation Conference (4ª CNCTI) has in the agenda sustainable development as the main issue. Today, at the Golden Tulip Alvorada - Brasília (DF), the country's business and scientific elite are gathering together to try to firm a national pact towards an unison agreement between educational and scientific institutions and local and national governments and to evaluate the result of the similar plan made in 2007, named PACTI 2007-2010.

The current agreement they are discussing isn't yet clear but the last time this conference took place, in 2005, two important laws emerged: "Lei de Inovação" e a "Lei do Bem". Its objective seems to be to stabilize and standardise long term policies for financial support that favour the national research fund.

In 2008 Canada and Brazil have signed a scientific and social experiments exchange agreement for the development of ideas that might generate economic growth for both countries. Today Canadian representatives are there, in this conference, to participate and help give an "outsider's touch" to the debate.