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In the creation of the research project “Children's rights and violence in Brazil: can the circle of violence be broken”, financially supported by the Norwegian Research council, a consortium agreement was signed by the deans of the medical/health faculties of the University of Tromsø and the Federal University of Sao Paulo. An explicit aim was that this research project should promote further scientific and educational collaboration between these two universities and countries.

Brazil with it’s 200 millon inhabitants, is in the process of turning into one of the five largest economies in the world. There is a clear understanding that successful development demands a global perspective, or as formulated by one of our Brazilian counterparts:

“The scientific and educational collaboration with Norway will strengthen the internationalization of research in Brazil, which is a priority in the country nowadays. Specifically, Brazilian researchers will benefit from the expertise of Norwegian partners on school violence and implementation of interventions to tackle violence, which will support the expansion of care for children in Brazil. Also Brazilian faculty and students will have the opportunity of exchanging experiences with the Norwegian counterparts, both by receiving them in Brazil and visiting Norway, which will contribute to their cultural and professional development.”

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Program

MH-building, AUD 6

09:00 - 09:10 Introducing the symposium. Prof. John A. Rønning UiT Norway

09:10 - 09:30 Opening the symposium. Scientific collaboration between the University of Tromsø and the Federal University of Sao Paulo. Prof/Dean Arnfinn Sundsfjord UiT Norway

09:30 - 09:50 The Norway -  Brazil strategy. Norwegian Research Council v/ Ellen S. Aa Vollebæk

10:15 - 10:45 Tackling violence and child mental health from a global mental health perspective. Prof. Jair Mari, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

10:45 - 11:15 Results from a study conducted in Puerto Rico and Bronx. Ass. Prof. Cristiane Duarte, Columbia University, New York, USA 

11:15 - 11:40 Long term outcome of school bullying. Prof. Andre Sourander University of Turku, Finland

11:40 - 12:00 Resilience in a cross-cultural perspective. Data from a Brazilian sample. Ass prof. Oddgeir Friborg, UiT, Norway

13:00 – 14:00 Presentations/posters by Phd students. Five-ten minutes presentations beside the poster

14:00 - 14:30 How to improve the mental health care of children and adolescents in Brazil: actions needed in the public sector. Ass prof. Cristiane de Paula,  Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

14:30 – 15:00Raising children and adolescents in an deprived and adverse environment. Ass prof Wagner Ribeiro, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

15:30 - 16:15 Violence and child mental health in Brazil: an educational-scientific cooperation between Norway and Brazil. Prof. Isabel Bordin, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

16:15 – 17:00 How to strengthen future scientific and educational collaboration. Roundtable debate with dean Arnfinn Sundsfjord, prof. Jon Øyvind Odland, prof. Jair Mari, prof. Isabel Bordin. Chair: Prof. John A. Rønning UiT

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	Jair de Jesus Mari Dr. Jair de Jesus Mari is the head of the post-graduation program of the Department of Psychiatry of the Federal University of São Paulo, and Honorary Visiting Professor, in the Health Services and Population Research Department, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London.
	Cristiane S. Duarte Dr. Duarte is Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Columbia University. She obtained her PhD at the Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil.
	Andre Sourander Andre Sourander, MD, professor in child psychiatry, Turku University; Head of the Research center for Child Psychiatriy, University of Turku; chief physician, Department of Child Psychiatry, Turku University Hospital; specialist in child & adolescent psychiatry
	Oddgeir Friborg Oddgeir Friborg works as an associate professor at the Department of Psychology at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Tromsø. He is concerned with research on topics related to health and clinical psychology, with a particular focus on resilience protective factors, youth development, eating disorder problems, as well as scale development and psychometrics in general.
	Cristiane Silvestre de Paula De Paula is a psychologist, with Master and PhD (concluded in 2005) from the Department of Psychiatry at Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), focused in Clinical Epidemiology.
	Wagner Silva Ribeiro Ribeiro is a psychologist with a PhD degree from the Federal University of Sao Paulo, Brazil (UNIFESP), Department of Psychiatry. As a researcher at the Department of Psychiatry of UNIFESP, he has been developing research on psychiatric epidemiology, violence and mental health services.
	Isabel Altenfelder Santos Bordin Child and adolescent psychiatrist, researcher in Clinical Epidemiology applied to Child and Adolescent Mental Health, and head of Social Psychiatry Division at the Department of Psychiatry, Federal University of São Paulo (UNIFESP), Brazil.
	John A. Rønning John A. Rønning is professor dr. philos and specialist in clinical child psychology at the University of Tromsø and University Hospital of North Norway. Presently he is involved in and/or heading several national and international research projects, the latest being the NRC funded project “Children's Rights and Violence in Brazil”.