Universidade Federal de Goiás

UFG is a public federal institution of higher education level of teaching and research

• The implementation of several projects in different areas of knowledge have promoted the growth of the university that became a regional and national reference in 2010, when commemorating its 50th anniversary.

• The advancements achieved recently are due largely to the

strengthening of relations between UFG and government (federal, state and municipal) and the members of Parliament from Goiás.

Universidade Federal de Goiás UFG was founded on December 14, 1960

Campuses

1) UFG at Goiânia: • Colemar Natal de Silva Campus • Samambaia Campus • Aparecida de Goiânia (being implemented) • Firminópolis (extension)

2) UFG at Catalão (Catalão Campus)

3) UFG at Goiás (Goiás Campus)

4) UFG at Jataí: •Riachuelo Campus •Jatobá Campus

5) UFG at Cidade Ocidental (campus being implemented)

UFG in Goiás, Brazil

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Distance Education (DE)

• Campus Samambaia, the largest campus of the university, is located in Goiânia (the capital of the State of Goiás).

• Goiânia has approximately 1,25 million inhabitants and has a

strategic location in Midwest region of Brazil, approximately 209 km from Brasília, Brazil’s capital, which makes it a reference point for industry and telecommunications.

• Originally driven by cattle-ranching and agriculture, the

municipality’s economy is now based mainly on commerce, services, and industrial production, particularly of food, clothing, furniture and health-related products.

Goiânia, Goiás

Goiânia

Undergraduate Programs

• 147 Undergraduate Programs (+ 7 DE)

• 23,854 undergraduate students

• 2,529 faculty members

• Fields of study: Humanities Applied Social Sciences Linguistics, Arts and Letters Exact and Earth Sciences Engineering Biological Sciences Agricultural Sciences Health Sciences

Graduate Programs

• 69 Graduate Programs, including 94 Graduate courses,

27 Doctoral courses,

8 Professional Master Programs and

8 Multi-Institutional Programs.

• 3,441 post-graduate students

Graduate Programs/Fields of Study

Agricultural Sciences

Agronomy (M & D)

Agronomy (M, Jataí)

Animal Science (M & D)

Food Science and Technology (M)

Genetics and Plant Breeding (M & D)

Zootechny (M & D)

Biological Sciences

Plant Biodiversity (M)

Animal Biodiversity (M)

Biology (M & D)

Biology of the Parasite and Host Relationship (M)

Ecology and Evolution (M & D)

Genetics and Molecular Biology (M & D)

Health Sciences

Health Sciences (M & D)

Pharmaceutical Sciences (M)

Nursing (M & D)

Public Health and Tropical Medicine (M & D)

Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology

(D, multi-institutional)

Health and Nutrition (M)

Dentistry (M & D)

General Health (PM)

Sciences applied to Health (M, Jataí)

Pharmaceutical Innovation (D, multi-institutional)

Health Assistance and Evaluation (M)

Graduate Programs/Fields of Study

Exact Sciences

Computer Sciences (M)

Computer Sciences (D, multi-institutional)

Physics (M & D)

Mathematics (M & D)

Mathematics (PM, Jataí, Catalão, Goiânia, multi-institutional)

Chemistry (M & D)

Chemistry (M, Catalão)

Modeling and Optimization (M, Catalão)

Engineering

Civil Engineering (M)

Environmental Engineering (M)

Computer and Electrical Engineering (M)

Geothecnique and Civil Construction (M)

Chemistry Engineering (M)

Graduate Programs Fields of Study

Human Sciences

Social Anthropology (M)

Education (M, Catalão)

Education (M, Jataí)

Education (M & D)

Health Education (PM)

Philosophy (M & D)

Geography (M, Catalão)

Geography (M, Jataí)

Geography (M & D)

History (M & D)

History (PM, Catalão)

Sociology (M & D)

Political Science (M)

Teaching in Basic Education (PM)

Teaching in Physics (PM, Catalão, multi-institutional)

Psychology (M)

Language, Litterature and Arts

Visual Arts and Culture (M & D)

Studies of the Languages (M, Catalão)

Linguistics and Litterature (M & D)

Music (M)

Graduate Programs/Fields of Study

Social Applied Sciences

Communication (M)

Agrarian Law (M)

Business Administration (M)

Architecture: Project and City (M)

Organizational Management (PM,

Catalão)

Public Administration (PM, multi- institutional)

Multidisciplinary Programs

Agribusiness (M)

Environmental Sciences (M & D)

Mathematics and Science Education (M)

Humanitarian Law (M)

Cultural Performances (M)

Biotechnology and biodiversity (D, multi-institutional)

Physiological sciences (M & D, multi- institutional)

Graduate Programs/Fields of Study

International Level Graduate Programs

(CAPES rating of 6)

Geography (Institute of Social and Environmental Sciences)

Research topics: 1)Environmental Analysis and Treatment of the Geographic Information 2) Socio-Spatial Dynamics 3) Teaching and Learning in Geography

Ecology and Evolution (Institute of Biological Sciences)

Research topics: 1) Macroecology and Evolutionary Ecology 2) limnology 3) Molecular Ecology and Evolution 4) Biodiversity and Conservation Biology

Entrepreneurship and Innovation

• Over 1500 faculty members own a PHD

• 276 research groups registered in CNPq (70% of them interact with external institutions)

• Business Incubators Program (preparation of technological base companies)

• Junior Company Program (organization with its own civil identity of private law for academic purposes)

• Technology Park

Model – UFG Technology Park/CRTI Regional Centre for Technological Development and Innovation

• Multi-institutional and multi-user research support unit

• High-tech center for academic research and for companies and industries with demands for technological base (interaction with private sector)

• Goiás / Midwest Brazil

UFG transcends its specific

Functions contributing to

the development of the

region where it is located.

Policies to encourage university education

• Institutional Programs for Iniciation in Technological

Development and Innovation (PIBITI and PIVITI)

• Institutional Programs for Scientific Iniciation (PIBIC

and PIVIC)

• Young Talent Program

• Merit scholarship Program (PEC G)

• Milton Santos Project for Access to Higher Education

(PROMISAES)

• Institutional Program for Iniciation to Teaching (PIBID)

• Program for Research in Teaching (PROLICEN)

• Extension and Culture Programs (PROBEC and

PROVEC)

• Student Housing Project

• Food Aid Project

• Project to prevent dropout

Accessibility, Inclusion, Care for the Environment

Library

• Libraries integrated system (Sibi/UFG)

composed by 8 units, distributed in Goiânia and

other UFG campuses through a single database

(software SophiA)

• 43,000 active users

• 55,000 lendings/month

• 575,000 printed itens and 10,749 itens in e-

books collection

• UFG Journal Portal (24 eletronic journals

published by UFG)

CINE UFG

Culture and Convention Center

UFG Cultural Center

Communication • Journalisme

• Public Relations

• Institutional Publicity

• University Radio

• UFG TV

International

Undergraduate Student Mobility from 2003 to 2014

• outgoing 600

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2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 (12) (7) (8) (8) (31) (48) (92) (124)(149)(252)(400)(532)

• incoming 80

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2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 (4) (10) (10) (17) (3) (32) (26) (42) (41) (57) 63) (67)

References • ASCOM/UFG

• http://www.ascom.ufg.br/

• www.proec.ufg.br

• http://centroculturalufg.blogspot.com.br/

• http://www.ciar.ufg.br/

• http://www.incubadora.ufg.br/pages/o_programa

• www.prpi.ufg.br

• http://www.nesc.ufg.br/

• http://www.tvufg.org.br/galeria/

• International Affairs Coordination (www.cai.ufg.br)