UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE ITAJUBÁ

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The Federal University of Itajubá – UNIFEI, founded on November 23, 1913, under the name of the Electrotechnical and Mechanical Institute of Itajubá – IEMI, was the tenth Engineering School to be installed in Brazil on the personal initiative of lawyer Theodomiro Carneiro Santiago.

Since then, IEMI has excelled in the training of professionals specialized in energy systems, notably in the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity.

The Institute was officially recognized by the Federal Government on January 5, 1917. The course initially lasted for three years and lasted for four years in 1923 and in 1936 was reformulated and assimilated to that of the Rio Polytechnic School January and having the name of the institution changed to Instituto Eletrotécnico de Itajubá – IEI on March 15 of that same year. On January 30, 56, the IEI was federalized.

Its denomination was changed on April 16, 1968 to Federal School of Engineering of Itajubá – EFEI. The competence and renown gained in more areas of action led to the unfolding of its original course in independent courses in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering, with special emphasis on the emphasis of Electrotechnics and Full Mechanics. He began his postgraduate courses in 1968 with master’s degrees in Electrical, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, the latter being subsequently discontinued. In response to the evolution of technology and the expansion of the new areas covered by Engineering, UNIFEI expanded its emphasis in 1980, including Production in the Mechanical Engineering course and Electronics in Electric Engineering.

Continuing a policy of expansion capable of offering a broader and diversified service to the national and, above all, regional demand for the training of professionals in the technological area, the institution started with the attempt to become a Specialized University in the Technological area – UNIFEI, academic modality provided for in the new Law of Directives and Basis of National Education – LDB. This goal began to materialize from 1998 with the expansion of undergraduate courses by taking a jump from two to nine courses, through the approval of seven new ones with the proper authorization of the National Education Council (CNE).

Subsequently, two new undergraduate courses were implemented – Physics Bachelor and Physics Degree. The execution of the transformation project at the University was given on April 24, 2002, through the enactment of Law No. 10,435, by the President of the Republic, Fernando Henrique Cardoso.

The daring and enterprising spirit of its founder, Theodomiro Carneiro Santiago, made the institution its bases consolidated in the training of professionals who put their hands on the masses, through a permanent posture of inquiry and research. With the same boldness of the founder, the institution assumes its role in the formation, generation and application of technology with eminently social responsibility within a context that has become regional and that is extended to the strong international insertion, through its linked academic projects the socio-economic needs of the globalized world. In addition, UNIFEI has imbued in its mission the training of citizens committed to the generation and dissemination of knowledge that contribute to the effective quality of life of local, regional and national society.

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE MINAS GERAIS

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Considered one of the best private universities in Brazil – it was elected six times by the Student Guide, published by Editora Abril, as the best among private individuals in the country – and recognized by the Vatican’s Congregation for Catholic Education as the largest Catholic university of the world, PUC Minas is home to more than 56,000 students in its undergraduate, postgraduate and extension courses. The permanent faculty reaches almost two thousand teachers and the staff are 2,411.

There are eight campuses located in the cities of Belo Horizonte, Betim, Contagem, Arcos, Poços de Caldas, Guanhães, Serro and Uberlândia, as well as three units – Barreiro, Praça da Liberdade and São Gabriel. At the undergraduate level, 102 baccalaureate courses are offered, of which two are taught at a distance, 12 undergraduate courses and seven technical courses.

The University’s mission is the human and social development of the academic community based on ethical and solidarity formation, the production and dissemination of knowledge, art and culture. The Tripod Teaching, Research and Extension is articulated in innovative projects and aimed at the transformation of society.

With regard to internationalization, PUC Minas has a strategic policy that involves international development, orientation and promotion in the areas of teaching, research and extension. It has more than 170 agreements with higher education institutions around the world and participates in several networks of international cooperation in the area of ​​education

Understanding the need to overcome the barriers of time and space has led the University to invest heavily in advanced technologies, expanding access to higher education to thousands of students. If in 2003 there were only 288 students enrolled in five subjects offered at a distance, in 2016 that number jumped to more than 5 thousand registrations. Besides graduation, PUC Minas Virtual offers continuous training in specialization or professional updating courses.

The postgraduate program also has great advances and has 18 stricto sensu programs – masters and doctorates – in different areas. At the lato sensu postgraduate course, 363 courses bring together 10,743 students and in the stricto sensu there are 30 courses, of which 12 are doctoral students, with 1,571 students. In the triennial evaluation of the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes), of the Ministry of Education (MEC), in 2013, the university’s stricto sensu graduate programs obtained notes that reveal the excellence of PUC Minas. Among the programs, the Postgraduate Program in Law stood out, which obtained a grade 6, on a scale ranging from 1 to 7, reaching a level of excellence and international recognition.

In the area of ​​research, students, since graduation, have access to scientific initiation projects in various modalities. The extension projects of PUC Minas reach not only residents of the cities where the campuses and units are located, but of several regions of Minas Gerais and even of other states of the Country.

FACULTADE MARÍA MILZA

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The success of the Maria Milza Educational Center led to the creation, on March 18, 2004, of the Maria Milza Faculty, with three undergraduate courses: nursing, normal higher education (pedagogy) and geography.

Today, FAMAM has undergraduate, postgraduate, masters, over 1500 students and a team of 250 employees, including professors and administrative technicians. Located on Highway BR-101 – Km 215 in the municipality of Governador Mangabeira, Bahia. With a new Campus, in an area of 200 thousand m², one of the most modern in the interior of the state, with large classrooms, computer lab and research, secretarial, administrative, student service, reprography, library, cafeteria, rooms of teachers and coordinators. In addition, we have a large cultural space, located in the municipality of Cruz das Almas, with three swimming pools, poly-sports court and leisure room.

Mission
FAMAM is guided by guiding principles such as equality, quality, democratic management, freedom and valorization of the teaching profession. Based on this institutional mission and in view of the aforementioned principles, the institutional references were constructed: the ethical-political, epistemological-educational and technical referential.

These benchmarks are fundamental to consolidate social, political and economic responsibility. FAMAM is part of a region with low human development – HDI, which needs urgent action to change its secular social reality.

There are many problems that the Bahian recôncavo still presents today in the field of education and skilled labor. Thus, we will be guided by an interrelationship of knowledges whose purpose is to try to minimize the problems that are still a hindrance to regional progress. In this way, in fulfilling this mission, we will be interfering or implying in the economic, cultural, social and political future of the region

UNIVERSIDADE DE BRASÍLIA

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A transformative university, with the mission of producing, integrating and disseminating knowledge, forming citizens committed to ethics, social responsibility and sustainable development. This is the University of Brasília, whose trajectory is intertwined with the history of the capital of the country.

 

As a result of the dream and the work of educators like Darcy Ribeiro and Anísio Teixeira, UnB is, since 1962, the year of its creation, one of the main national academic references. The cultural diversity present in its four campuses is one of its outstanding characteristics. The plurality, coupled with the permanent search for innovative solutions, moves the scientific production and daily life of the institution.

 

UnB is active in all areas of knowledge, open to the main demands of Brazil and the world. With a view to the future and esteem for the path already taken, the University consolidates itself as an indispensable organ for the development of a more complete and democratic society.

Mission

To be an innovative institution, committed to academic, scientific and technological excellence, forming citizens aware of their transforming role in society, respecting ethics and valuing identities and cultures with social responsibility.

 

VISION OF THE FUTURE – Being among the best universities in Brazil, inserted internationally, with excellence in process management that strengthens teaching, research and extension.

UNIVERSIDAD CATOLICA DEL URUGUAY

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Instalada en Montevideo y en varias ciudades del interior, la Universidad Católica del Uruguay es la universidad privada más antigua del país y la más extendida geográficamente.

Fundada inicialmente en 1882 por el primer Arzobispo de Montevideo, Mons. Mariano Soler, reabierta y confiada a la Compañía de Jesús en 1985, la Universidad Católica del Uruguay es la principal obra de la Iglesia Católica en el campo de la educación superior uruguaya. Su compromiso con la excelencia académica, con el pluralismo ideológico, con el ecumenismo y el diálogo interreligioso, la han convertido en uno de los actores fundamentales en la vida cultural del país.

Desde el momento de su nacimiento, la Universidad Católica del Uruguay se impuso el reto de ser una opción diferente en la enseñanza universitaria. Eso la llevó a trabajar en áreas previamente desatendidas y a jugar un papel innovador en el desarrollo de nuevos métodos educativos y en la evangelización de la cultura. Hoy, con ocho mil estudiantes en sus aulas y varias decenas de programas académicos en ejecución, vive una etapa de consolidación y se enfrenta al desafío de dar respuesta a los nuevos requerimientos de la sociedad uruguaya.

La comunicación del saber, la formación humana y la difusión de la cultura son nuestra manera universitaria de servir.

Misión

La Universidad Católica del Uruguay es una institución de educación superior comprometida con la excelencia, la construcción de una sociedad más justa y humana y la evangelización de nuestra cultura.

En cuanto Universidad constituye una comunidad plural, abierta al mundo e innovadora, orientada a la formación de profesionales y académicos, a la generación de conocimiento transformador, a la difusión de la cultura y el servicio a la sociedad.
En cuanto Católica promueve desde la rica tradición educativa de las universidades de inspiración jesuítica, la formación integral de la persona, la apertura a la trascendencia, la búsqueda de la verdad y la justicia, la defensa de la vida y la solidaridad entre los hombres.
En cuanto del Uruguay, contribuye a través de la docencia, la investigación y el servicio al desarrollo humano sostenible de las comunidades locales, del país y de la región.

Visión

En cuatro años, la UCU será un ethos muy atractivo para los jóvenes, que querrán vivir nuestra experiencia personal y académica. Será una universidad que atraiga por su perfil innovador, de excelencia en la enseñanza y la investigación, por su agilidad institucional y por su compromiso personal, comunitario y global.

UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPUBLICA

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La Universidad de la República (Udelar) es la principal institución de educación superior y de investigación del Uruguay. En colaboración con una amplia gama de actores institucionales y sociales, realiza también múltiples actividades orientadas al uso socialmente valioso del conocimiento y a la difusión de la cultura. Es una institución pública, autónoma y cogobernada por sus docentes, estudiantes y egresados.