GCUB 2017 Meeting of The Coimbra Group of Brazilian Universities, Alfenas, Brazil.

Campaign for Meeting of The Coimbra Group of Brazilian Universities (GCUB07), Alfenas, Brazil, 2017

MOL2NET conference is working together with Universidade Federal de Alfenas (UNIFAL) to launch the GCUB 2017 Meeting of The Coimbra Group of Brazilian Universities (GCUB).

GCUB was formally established as an association of university leaders on November 27, 2008, during the academic ceremony at the Great Hall of the Rectory of the University of Coimbra. The GCUB consists of national universities - federal, state, religious and community. Some of the most important Brazilian universities today make up the group of 72  institutions associated with 51  federal universities, 15  state universities and 6  Community and confessional universities.

The current president of GCUB is Prof. Paulo Márcio de Faria e Silva, Rector of Federal University of Alfenas, Brasil. The GCUB welcomes more than one million students enrolled in undergraduate; Furthermore, it holds more than 90% of sense-strict Graduate programs and research groups consolidated in the country. It is the only organization of its kind that brings together, in a predominantly academic forum, a representative set of knowledge institutions in Brazil can claim, legitimately, the historical-institutional status University. Despite its short existence, the GCUB is responsible for programs for internationalization of Brazilian universities with countries like Mexico, France, Portugal, Switzerland, Canada, Colombia, Peru, among others.

The GCUB has partners, sponsors and collaborators, among them: Brazilian government agencies such as: The Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC). Higher Education Personnel Improvement Coordination (CAPES). National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE); International organizations - Organization of American States (OAS), IESALC / UNESCO. As well as, university networks like the   National Association of Universities and Instituciones de Educación Superior (ANUIES),   Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie (AUF),  Colombian Association of Universities (ASCUN),  Coimbra Group (CG), Univerdades of Unión de America Latina y el Caribe (UDUAL) and   National Rectores Asamblea (ANR). This year, as part of a more general strategy for the internationalization of the GCUB meeting, the MOL2NET Conference Series on Multidisciplinary Sciences will act as the online host conference of the GCUB 2016. MOL2NET is an International Conference Series to Foster Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Sciences with emphasis on Experimental Chemistry (all branches), Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Medicine, and Healthcare, along with Data Analysis, Computer Sciences, Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, and Complex Networks Sciences. The conference series per se, is the result of the synergy between IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Sciences, the Departmentof Organic ChemistryII,Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Basque CountryUPV/EHU, and the Faculty of Informatics, University of Coruña (UDC).

MOL2NET-01, the first edition of this conference series, was held in Dec 2015 (http://sciforum.net/conference/mol2net-1). This first conference attracted more than 100 papers and 300+ authors and/or committee members representing 30+ universities of 20+ countries. Some of the world top universities and centers represented in the lists of committee members and/or authors were: Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; Stanford School of Medicine, USA; Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), USA; University of Minnesota Duluth, MN, USA; Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, CNAM París, France; University of Pennsylvania, USA; Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, USA; EMBL-EBI European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK; CAS Chinese Academy of Science, China; ZJU Zhejiang University, China.

NOTES: The conference is Totally Online; no physical presence is needed saving traveling costs. We accept experimental works, theoretical works, or experimental-theoretic works in the areas mentioned. Proceedings will be Published Online, Open Access, and Totally Free of Charges (no cost). Please, see the following instructions: (1) Read call for papers [Link], (2) Read instructions to authors and download template .doc file [Link], (3) Submit short communications (2-3 pages), reviews, papers, or videos: [Link]. Consequently, this section serve as both: (1) publication media for communications, posters, or plenary conferences (videos) of GCUB 2016 and also (2) online discussion media to post comments, questions, and answers about GCUB 2016. The authors of GCUB meeting should send their papers using the same central online system and selecting section G for their papers, posters, or videos, please, click here to submit: MOL2NET-GCUB Submission.

GCUB 2017 Meeting Chairman

Prof. Dr. Ihosvany Camps

Universidade Federal de Alfenas, Unifal-MG, Alfenas, MG, Brasil.

GCUB 2017 Honor Chairman

Prof. Paulo Márcio de Faria e Silva,

Rector of Universidade Federal de Alfenas. Unifal-MG, Alfenas, MG. Brasil  

GCUB 2017 Advisory Chairman

Prof. Humberto González-Díaz,

IKERBASQUE Prof., Ph.D., Pharm.Lic., (1) Department of Organic Chemistry II, University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Campus Bizkaia, Basque Country, Spain. (2) IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao, Bizkaia, Basque Country, Spain.