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locations, institutions, users, access profiles, and the scope of the respective cooperation. These are (i)
approval of link requests. exploratory missions, (ii) missions with signed cooperation
(iii) Institutional Relations Supervisor: responsible for agreements or work plans, and (iii) missions that include
approving access requests, managing technical notes any international cooperation activity related to the project.
(creation, editing, changes, approval, delegation Exploratory missions aim to prospect possible
management, backlogs, and export), managing work international cooperation activities to be developed
plans (creation, approval, and update), and individual within the project. Such missions are aimed at the future
mission reports (approval, product management, development of new research, joint actions, or the signing
and backlogs). General Mission Coordinator: full of new cooperation agreements and work plans. This is
and complete oversight of the management of all an essential activity to consolidate institutionalization,
technical notes, work plans, and individual mission internationalization, and cooperation between the
reports. They are the only users authorized to cancel
an approved technical note. institutions and researchers involved.
(iv) Institutional Relations Operator: responsible for Missions with signed cooperation agreements or
monitoring the individual mission reports in relation work plans are activities to carry out planned activities
to the project management reports and for the to achieve the objectives, and products agreed with the
registration and authorization of applications and partner institutions.
other administrative activities related to the mission. The missions which include other types of cooperation
(v) Mission Leader: responsible for monitoring the work plan activity comprise various cooperation efforts. They are
of the research mission, for which he/she is responsible. characterized by occasional international activities, such
(vi) Mission Staff: researchers from partner institutions as laboratory visits and the development of specific studies
who are members of the delegation, with the same related to the project’s objectives, participation in scientific
rights as the mission researcher, except for the events, conferences, and the presentation of papers, among
registration of proposals for technical notes. other technical-scientific activities.
In SIRI, the process of an international cooperation
Figure 4 shows the number of participating institutions
activity begins with the registration of a cooperation and the number of missions carried out during this period.
mission. As soon as this process is completed, a “Technical It can be seen that the number of institutions and missions
Note” is created. This document serves as a reference for carried out between 2018 and 2019 reflect the needs that
the cooperation mission, its staff, and the institutions of led to the effective launch of the “Syphilis No!” Project.
cooperation partners. The technical note contains strategic Not only was scientific research carried out but also
information to guide and account for the management fundamental negotiations for international cooperation
indicators, such as the objective, the location of the mission,
the researchers involved, the type of mission, related were also conducted, leading to master’s, doctoral, and
projects, the context, and a justification for the mission. postdoctoral studies.
At the end of the technical-scientific cooperation
mission, SIRI allows collaborators to register mission
completion reports which are accessible to each
collaborator and correspond to the hierarchical profile to
which they are assigned in SIRI and the corresponding
mission. The final reports list the results of the mission, as
defined in the technical note, as well as the products and
artifacts produced during the duration of the mission.
With the flow developed by SIRI, it is possible to
create a database on cooperations, objectives, and results
of activities carried out jointly with foreign institutions.
This promotes the exchange of knowledge, experience,
and the production of scientific material and feeds into the
indicators of the project’s international cooperation panel. Figure 4. Indicators and quantities generated in the technical-scientific
The international technical-scientific cooperation dimension. Notes: Number of missions = 94; Number of participating
institutions = 36. The total number of institutions refers to the sum of all
measures carried out as part of the “Syphilis No!” Project the international institutions participating in the project. Image created
are characterized by three types of activities within with Google Sheets.

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