Actions in Brazil

  • Social Protection

    Sharing of EU experiences on the use of AI to tackle fraud in social security

    America Brazil
    Start activities
    11/06/2025
    End activities
    24/04/2026
    Partner Institution
    Ministry of Social Security of Brazil
    Type of Assistance
    Information management systems
    Code
    2025-01
    Description
    SOCIEUX+ supported Brazil’s Ministry of Social Security (MPS) in strengthening its capacity to prevent and combat social security fraud through the use of artificial intelligence and data analytics. The action focused on transferring European expertise & practices, building analytical skills, and strengthening the Strategic Research Laboratory (LAPE) within the General Coordination of Social Security Intelligence (CGINP). It aimed to enhance the Ministry’s knowledge of AI applications and to develop a conceptual fraud detection model based on risk analysis, in response to increasingly complex fraud schemes and large-scale data challenges. The action combined knowledge exchange and technical support through workshops, a study visit to France, and hands-on model development. These activities provided insights into EU practices (from France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and Belgium), emphasized the importance of data sharing, methodological integration, and ethical governance, and led to concrete outputs such as recommendations, terms of references and the technological environment/infrastructure of LAPE, and a risk-based fraud detection model with defined indicators and datasets. Overall, the initiative contributes to modernising anti-fraud systems, strengthening institutional capacity, and improving transparency and trust in Brazil’s social security system.

  • Capacity building for the improvement of the Brazilian second pillar pension governance and supervision of the legal and regulatory framework

    South America Brazil
    Start activities
    21-02-2022
    End activities
    21-10-2022
    Partner Institution
    Cearense Association of Economists Pensioners and Retirees (ACEA)
    Type of Assistance
    Individual capacity building (human resources development)
    Code
    2021-23
    Description
    The Associação Cearense dos Economiários Aposentados e Pensionistas (ACEA) reached out to SOCIEUX+ in order to provide capacity building, in the form of e-learning courses, to members of Brazilian organizations defending the rights of pensioners. ACEA noticed a clear need for members of such organizations to gain more extensive knowledge on governance, management, and supervision of occupational pension funds, in order to detect shortfalls in the system, apply due diligence, and prevent mismanagement and fraudulent behaviors. The e-learnings, crafted by Portuguese, Spanish, German, and French expertise covered topics such as basic knowledge of the functioning of second pillar pension funds, best practices for regulation and supervision of funds, legal and regulatory frameworks governing second pillar pension funds. This successful e-learnings were followed by hundreds of participants from various parts of Brazil.