The category of visiting professor includes professors with functional-administrative links with other institutions, Brazilian or not who are released, through formal agreement, from the activities corresponding to such link, to collaborate, for a continuous period of time and on a full-time basis, in research projects and/or teaching activities in the Program.
The performance of visiting professors in the program shall be made possible by a fixed-term employment contract with the institution or by a scholarship granted for this purpose by the institution itself or by a funding agency.