COBRUF awarded with Google and TechSoup partnership

Google exclusive business tools allows COBRUF to bring modern online infrastructure to its competitions and cooperations.

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Associação COBRUF

2 min readAug 15, 2019

Google and TechSoup are the new institucional partners of COBRUF Association, through Google For Nonprofits program. Access to a worldwide network of Google partners, state-of-the-art cloud infrastructure and business tools boost quality and profissionalism to COBRUF Aerospace Competitions and COBRUF Technological Cooperation. The partnership was awarded due to close evaluation of COBRUF Association profile, goals, results and social impact.

“COBRUF continuously reach for greater social impact and to democratize space exploration access. This partnership allow us to make our competitions and cooperations more stable and secure, while otimizing our project management. Together with Google and TechSoup technology, COBRUF can make distances smaller and flights higher.” — celebrates Fernanda Cyrne, deputy CAO of COBRUF Association.

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Google for Non-Profits

Google for Nonprofits is a Google program that provides free tools to selected nonprofit organizations. This Google program allow institutions to work more quickly and efficiently, reach a wider audience, spur more supporters to take action, and tell their story in a more compelling way. Google for Nonprofits solutions allows to collaborate, iterate, and innovate together, from anywhere, in real time with Google’s cloud-based productivity suite and other benefits.

TechSoup

TechSoup is a nonprofit international network of non-governmental organizations that provides technical support and technological tools to other nonprofits. TechSoup mission is to build a dynamic bridge that enables design and implementation of technology solutions for a more equitable plane. TechSoup provides Google for Nonprofit solutions.

COBRUF Association

COBRUF Association is one of the most influential private NewSpace initiatives in Brazilian aerospace education, has international experience and industry recognition. Since 2015, COBRUF coordinated several rocket launch operations at Brazil’s most experienced federal space launch center, promoted several educational aerospace competitions and cooperations, driven the technical expertise of students at the highest international levels and brought together innovative technological concepts to contribute to peaceful space exploration.