Professor Luís Manuel Brás Bernardino, Professor at the Department of International Relations of this Autonomous University of Lisbon (UAL), participated, between 12-17 October, at the invitation of the Brazilian Army Command and General Staff School (ECEME), in an international seminar entitled “The climate emergency, natural disasters and National Defense”. During his stay in Rio de Janeiro, he participated in a series of academic activities that included a webinar in the Postgraduate Program in Military Sciences (PPGCM) on “Disaster Response Mechanism and Humanitarian Aid” and presented the book “25 Years of Defense Cooperation in the CPLP" During this period, Professor Luís Bernardino had the opportunity to give a lecture at the Escola Superior de Guerra (ESG) in the Postgraduate Programme in International Security and Defence (PPGSID) on global security, and also visited the Escola de Guerra Naval (EGN) and the Brazilian Army Library. In the hope that academic cooperation links can be established between these institutions and UAL, working meetings were scheduled with a view to establishing an Academic Cooperation Protocol in the future.