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its unique contexts and characteristics. The documents SIRI is a management platform developed to support
analyzed showed that each research group carries the management of international cooperation activities.
out different activities depending on the cooperating This tool enables us to track cooperation missions
institution, but they are always aligned with the objectives from start to finish, to produce management reports
of the “Syphilis No!” Project and create synergies. The on cooperation activities, and to monitor the products
indicators reflect the project’s capacity for articulation, and artifacts created during the development of such
responsiveness, and resilience. This was important to activities.
consolidate all the objectives with international scope and The profiles available in SIRI refer to the set of
deliver good technical-scientific and sustainable results to authorizations assigned to each user to access and use the
the main stakeholder, i.e., the Brazil’s MoH. many functions of the system. These are:
As part of institutional alignment and improvement, (i) Mission Researcher: responsible for registering the
LAIS/UFRN developed the Institutional Relations System technical note proposals, viewing the technical notes
(SIRI) as part of the “Syphilis No!” Project (see https:// in which they participate, and sending individual
siri.lais.ufrn.br/). Such a move directly underpins the mission reports.
learning perspective of the performance evaluation system (ii) System Administrator: responsible for managing
developed. system parameters, including types of missions,

Figure 3. World map of international scientific and technical cooperation activities. Image created with Adobe Illustrator. Notes: Number of missions =
94; Number of participating institutions = 36. The total number of institutions refers to the sum of all the international institutions participating in the
project. Image created with Google Sheets.

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