International experience in my training allowed the expansion of knowledge that go beyond the character of great cultural richness of this experience. I realized the Doctoral Internship at Universität Innsbruck, located in the Austrian city of Innsbruck, Tyrol's state capital. Before making the choice of this university, he had been considered and made contact with the University of Vancouver, Canada, and the University of Newcastle, UK locations with large researchers able to supervise me in the research agenda proposed by the Internship Project abroad. However, to have contact with the vast experience in the investigation of the spatial development and characteristics of the peripheral countries, developed by Prof. Dr. Martin Coy, Austria, realized the relevance and a great possibility. Submitted scholarship application for Doctoral Training Abroad CAPES, after having had a favorable opinion Prof. supervision Coy.

Austria was one year, linked to Arbeitsgruppe Entwicklungs-und Nachhaltigkeitsforschung - AGEF (Working Group and Research on Sustainable Development) of the Institut für Geographie, a group that performs. I remain still bound as a visiting researcher this group. The fruits of this experience are immeasurable. Besides reaffirming the taste for classical music, in which the Austrians are icons of humanity, learning with members AGEF, the exchange of experiences, knowledge sharing, contact with new literature and methodologies of the area researching as well contact with other researchers from around the world agremiados the Innsbruck group are some aspects of the legacy of this experience that I recommend to every student and researcher.

The experience was very rich in professional level, personal and cultural. In addition to improve their English, I was initiated to the German getting good results. In the survey, participated in numerous actions of the broad agenda of AGEF me aside a few visits to neighboring countries.

Life in Innsbruck in full Alps, provided new perspectives on the adaptation of man to nature which, in various forms, is inhospitable. The historical value of the Tyrol region has a strategic aspect and this is very strong in daily life that gave me benchmarks with the region in which we are inserted, the Cariri Cearense. The marks left at various stages of historical, social and economic formation are always remembered. Located in one of the few paths pass between the mountains linking southern Europe of the Roman Empire to the northernmost regions, the domain this way and consequently the city of Innsbruck was strategic. Such paths are consolidated with the coming of the east goods through the port of Venice towards the Leagues Hanseatic making the city an important commercial center about to be one of the venues of the Austro-Hungarian Habsburg in the Modern Age, sharing with Vienna this paper .

The foundation of the University of Innsbruck date of 1699, as one of the great legacies of the Habsburg house that creates between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries other major universities in Austria and Hungary, among them the University of Vienna, the University of Graz and the University of Salzburg.