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Rio de Janeiro expands AI education through university and public programmes

RegionRio de Janeiro
DateApril 13, 2026
StatusPublished
Sourcehttps://news.microsoft.com/source/latam/features/ai/microsoft-ai-courses-brazil/?lang=en

PUC-Rio offers a 12-month AI Academy certificate and an undergraduate AI degree with multidisciplinary grounding, accessible without advanced mathematics prerequisites. Microsoft’s ConectAI programme provides free AI bootcamp training to Rio residents as part of a national initiative reaching 2.5 million Brazilians, with a target of 5 million by 2027. Rio de Janeiro will also host the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) in April 2026, strengthening its position as a research hub.