In the search for international parameters AVAPE has exchanged experiences and established project development partnerships with organizations in several countries, so as to remain up to date and aligned with the main trends and innovations on a global scale.

Against this background, the organization works with the principal world networks that support persons with disabilities, and is affiliated to Rehabilitation International, The Resource Foundation and Workability Americas - USA. 

Six terms of technical cooperation have been signed with Melwood, Trans Cen, Penn Mar and AIR - American Institutes for Research, US organizations headquartered in the states of Maryland and Washington, as well as with the CRPG – the Gaia Center for Professional Rehabilitation and the Centro Polifunzionalle Don Calábria, European organizations headquartered, respectively, in Gaia, Portugal, and Verona, Italy. 

AVAPE is currently working on four important projects with the support of international organizations, among them:

• The International Technical Cooperation Program, in partnership with the IDB – Interamerican Development Bank – which has created the conditions for sustainable enterprises on two large fronts: the expansion of the Social Network (diffusion of the AVAPE program methodology) and AVAPE NET (contact center market solutions). Both initiatives present aggressive targets for the inclusion of persons with disabilities throughout Brazil.

• Training Project with the Alcatel Lucent Foundation, which aims to prepare 150 young women with disabilities and/or those in socially vulnerable situations in the field of Information Technology and Communication – Call Centers, creating more effective placement opportunities in the job market, principally with the emphasis on their first employment.

Training Project with IBM and SAP, with the aim of implementing informatics laboratories and new assistive technologies, including teaching-learning software.

Promoting events has been an area to which the International Relations area has given emphasis, and under this directive, every two years the organization holds the AVAPE International Congress on Rehabilitation and Inclusion, which will have its third edition in November 2009.

Participations in seminars, workshops and encounters abroad have also enabled presentation of institutional work and new fronts in the field of diversity and inclusion, projecting and strengthening AVAPE’s image. 

In February 2009, AVAPE was invited to participate in the Workability Americas Conference, in Austin, Texas, so as to introduce business models which align social entrepreneurship and sustainability.

In May 2009, the Association’s work was highlighted in Bogotá, Colombia, during the “Rompiendo Limites” International Congress. The Executive President of AVAPE, Sylvia Cury, opened the event, presenting the management model and the network system developed by AVAPE.