The Special Visiting Researcher Scholarship of the Science without Borders Program for network theory

This article examines the Special Visitor Researcher (PVE) fellowship granted by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) by the Science without Borders Program (CsF) considering the Network Theory. The granted fellowships were identified and considered as projects of cooperative research. The relations established among institutions were considered as a network.. More than 800 institutions were analyzed. The article concludes that the resulting network is little dense, characterized by bilateral relations and highlighting USP, UFRJ and Fiocruz, in Brazil, and University of Coimbra, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, University of Minho, University of Aveiros and University of California, abroad, as the most influential institutes in the network. It was observed that the network reinforced the Brazilian technological and scientific international cooperation with potential for formation of new connections within it.