in 2010 the two countries signed the canada-Brazil framework agreement for cooperation on science, technology and innovation - the agreement is a framework for partnerships between the two countries to collaborate on research and development, seminars and workshops related to science, exchanging of knowledge and student mobility.

on an academic level both countries are working to foster the exchange of students and information - thousands of brazilian students have been welcomed into canadian universities at a variety of post graduate levels as part of brasil's science without borders program.