Training South-American future scientists*

An important role of the ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR) in São Paulo is to train the next generation of physicists in South America. In addition to organizing workshops for juinor and senior researchers, this training involves two-week international schools in English for graduate students in advanced topics related to theoretical physics and its applications, as well as courses in Portuguese and Spanish for high-school teachers and high-school students on aspects of modern physics that can be taught in the classroom.