Dr. Rodrigo Schaefer teaches Portuguese and English at Instituto Federal Catarinense in Brazil; his Doctorate is in English: Linguistic and Literary Studies. His research focuses are Interculturality, Internationalization and Telecollaboration. Currently, Dr. Rodrigo Schaefer is performing research at Humboldt Universistät zu Berlin (Germany) as postdoctoral researcher by the CAPES/Humboldt Fellowship / Program.

Dr. Achour fadila is teaching at the Department of Sociology and Demography for 20 years, writing many article about sociology and development, supervising students on demography and sociology, manage a project (PRFU) on sustainable development in Algerien desert.