The Magalhães Network is composed of a number of leading schools and universities in Science, Technology and Architecture in Latin American, Caribbean and European countries, devoted to Higher Education and scientific mobility initiatives.

Based on the successful experience of the EU Socrates/Erasmus programme, The MAGALHÃES network has created the SMILE programme to allow the mobility between Latin American, Caribbean and European students.

The admission process for prospective students is similar to that followed in the SOCRATES-ERASMUS programme.