The Graduate Program Plant Cell and Molecular Biology (PPG-IBCMP) is an International Graduate Program with three institutions: The University of São Paulo (USP), in Brazil and two American universities, Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey and The Ohio State University (OSU). The student mobility is linked to language and culture training specially prepared to this initiative, which provide to the Program a strong international interaction, and provide to the qualified and prepared participants to be exposed to different academic environment inside of a tripartite organization.  It is expected that the graduated students from this excellence Program to have a global vision and be capable to nuclear competences of most higher level of academic, scientific and technological leadership in their area of expertise.