The Symposium "Inclusive Education Policies and Practices: Brazil and Portugal in Dialogue", organized by Vindas Educação Internacional and the Rodrigo Mendes Institute, in partnership with the Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies for Education and Development (CeiED), Lusófona University and the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), took place on November 27.

The speakers were David Rodrigues (National Education Advisor and Vindas Educação Internacional), Décio Nascimento Guimarães (Directorate for Special Policies and Education from an Inclusive Perspective, SECADI, Ministry of Education, Brazil) - remotely from Brasilia - Pedro Cunha (General Directorate of Education, Ministry of Education, Portugal), António Teodoro (Director of CeiED and the Institute of Education at Lusófona University), Rodrigo Hübner Mendes (CEO of the Rodrigo Mendes Institute) and Luzia Lima-Rodrigues (CeiED researcher, professor at Lusófona University and director of Vindas Educação Internacional).

Professors Fátima Duarte (CRI /CERCI Lisboa), Filomena Rodrigues (Information and Communication Technology Resource Center for Special Education (CRTIC de Santarém), Dídia Lourenço (Associação Bengala Mágica) and Margarida Loureiro (Associação Nacional de Docentes de Educação Especial - PRÓ-Inclusão) also contributed to this symposium. Researchers from CeiED and lecturers from Lusófona University, Rosa Serradas Duarte, Maria Odete Emygdio da Silva and Margarida Belchior.

The Symposium was also attended by doctoral and master's students in the field of Inclusive Education and guests from Lusófona University and other educational institutions in Portugal.

This symposium took place as part of the Exchange of Experiences in Inclusive Education Brazil Portugal, which ran from November 26 to 30 in Lisbon, promoted by Vindas, Educação Internacional and Instituto Rodrigo Mendes, in collaboration with other Brazilian partners such as the Alana Foundation, Instituto Unibanco and Instituto Incluir. In order to get to know the Portuguese reality and better understand it in terms of public policies on Inclusive Education in Portugal, the group visited the Boa Água School Group, Almada Town Hall, Carcavelos School Group and the Sintra Includes + project, run by Sintra Town Hall and the Parents in Network Association.

It was a week of an immersive, intense and very inspiring program for all those who took part. The event ended with the approval of a proposal letter for the adoption of more inclusive public policies for Brazil.