Lula da Silva in Matosinhos with a delegation of 75 Brazilian entrepreneurs from sectors with high innovation potential
The President of the Federative Republic of Brazil, Lula da Silva, and the Portuguese Prime Minister, António Costa, participated this Monday morning, April 24th, in the Portugal-Brazil Business Forum, which took place all day long at the Engineering and Development Centre (CEiiA), in Matosinhos, the place where the KC-390 aircraft project was developed - which began precisely when Lula da Silva was serving his previous term as president of Brazil.
The "Portugal-Brazil Business Forum: Partnerships for Innovation" was attended by a Brazilian delegation of 75 entrepreneurs from over 60 Brazilian companies, which are inserted in sectors with high innovation standards and that indicate the future of the bilateral relationship, such as technology, including a group of startups, mobility, health and energy transition. The Brazilian entrepreneurs that make up the delegation are mostly linked to these areas of activity. The seminar will consist of four panels focused on each of these sectors, in which the potential for trade partnership and bilateral investment attraction will be explored.
"Today our strategic association in the aeronautical industry is a reality and a source of pride. It will be followed by many others." CEiiA "very much represents the business cooperation we want to implement," said the president of Brazil, mentioning technologies, renewable energy, urban mobility and health as strategic areas.
Prime Minister António Costa agreed that this "is just one example of how much we can do". And if Brazil is already a major investor in Portugal, Costa noted that Portugal is only the 18th investor in Brazil, saying that "we have to raise our position". In this sense, according to the leader, "it is worth working to increase our trade relations," noting that during the third day of Lula da Silva's official visit to Portugal several agreements promoting business and economic partnerships will be signed in order to "re-launch and strengthen" relations between the two countries. The event was co-organised on the Brazilian side by ApexBrasil (Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE) and the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services (MDIC), with support from Banco do Brasil.
The Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Gomes Cravinho, attended the event, as did the Mayor of Matosinhos, Luísa Salgueiro, who was at CEiiA today at the welcome reception for Lula da Silva and António Costa, accompanied by the President of the Municipal Assembly of Matosinhos, Palmira Macedo, and by the municipal executive, namely, the Vice Mayor, Carlos Mouta, the councillors, Manuela Álvares, Fernando Rocha, António Correia Pinto and Vasco Pinho, by the Director of Matosinhos Sport, Henrique Calisto, and by the President of the Union of Matosinhos and Leça da Palmeira, Paulo Carvalho.
During the Forum, a Memorandum of Understanding was also signed between AICEP, the Portuguese counterpart of ApexBrasil, with whom the Brazilian Agency has signed a partnership for the promotion and internationalisation of start-ups and small and medium-sized companies, economic and commercial cooperation between countries of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP), as well as export promotion actions with a gender perspective.
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