Brazil and Italy have a close and friendly relationship like few other countries, which can be explained by present and past reasons - during the late 1800s Italians started to emigrate to Brazil and nowadays approximately 30 million people in Brazil have Italian heritage, making up the biggest community of Italian origin outside Italy.

Similarly, large communities of brazilians live or regularly travel to italy, with italian vacation destinations being very popular in Brazil - Furthermore, Italy receives a number of brazilian students through the 'science without borders' program every year and up until 2015 approximately 6000 students were sent to italian universities.