Scholarship holders from the Mais Ciência program present 54 projects at XVI Confict – Campos 24 Horas

06/13/2024 at 3:26 PM, Photo: Disclosure.

In total, 54 projects from the Mais Ciência program are presented during the 16th Fluminense Scientific and Technological Start-up Conference (Conflict), promoted by the State University of Norte Fluminense d’Arcy Ribeiro (Uenf), the Instituto Federal Fluminense (IFF) and the Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF) to date. Friday (14). The event, which is being held at the Uenf Convention Centre, ran from 2pm to 6pm, on Monday (10). (Read more below)

One of the participating professors is UFF marine geographer, Eduardo Bolhuis. For him, Mais Ciência has reached an important level of maturity. “We have reached a point where the program has come to know what actually improves municipal requirements. We will always be ready to participate. We won, as we were able to train our students in practical work, and the city hall, which has a trained workforce, won,” he said. “Well done and available to discuss topics the city needs.”

He stressed that every year he seeks to bring an applied perspective of academic studies and knowledge to solve and improve the operations of City Hall in relation to its daily problems (read more below).

“The specific work of today’s consultants concerns coastal erosion affecting the outskirts of the municipality of Farol de São Tomé, which is a very complex topic, and the civil defense needs additional expertise, which is why we are creating the information base to act more decisively in municipal defense actions,” informed the professor. (Read more below).

Eduardo’s advisor is the student Fernanda Correa Ciccio: “It is always interesting to see that the City Council is very interested in supporting students and also in the work that we can provide for them, in this contribution that we make and in this path that we can work together to get better solutions and achieve better results in the issue Corrosion. Civil Defense was also a great partner and commented: “I just have to thank the Ministry of Education for the Mais Ciência program (read more below).

UFF Social Sciences course professor, Jacqueline Deolindo, spoke about the partnership: “From the moment the program presents a list of project possibilities, it has been able to attract researchers who are experts in these topics and their students. “The results of this research have great potential to support the work of the City Council and public policies to address the city’s problems in a more direct and efficient way, based on the data collected in this research,” he commented. (Read more below)

University student Arthur Henrique Batista dos Santos and Professor Jacqueline Deolindo presented the project “Saber & Verso: a podcast with educational content for the Public Education Network of Campos dos Goytacazes”, which is made in partnership with the Sub-Secretariat for Racial Equality and Human Rights. Read more below)

“It is a very important topic for our society, I feel like I am in a position where every passing day I learn more and more in a very different and diverse way. “It is necessary to see that our problems, that is, the issues of society, can be solved through study and education,” declared Arthur (read more below) .

Mais Ciência coordinator, Leonora Tinoco, noted that the program has been ongoing since 2018 and this is the fourth call for proposals. “In collaboration with Mais Ciência, we have three other scholarship programmes: More Science in School, Start-ups and Creative Economy. This represents an investment of more than two and a half million reais, including the four programmes. With each notice, the projects are developing better and more In connection with the reality of the municipality, Leonora explained: “Our perspective is to launch a new notice in the second half of this year.”

The conference aims to present research developed in scientific initiation programs and graduate programs at universities and to discuss topics related to science in a regional event of great importance. Lectures, oral presentations and banners are planned, in addition to cultural activities. In this edition, the work is presented in four thematic themes based on the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.