Executive Secretary of Science, Technology and Innovation Visits the College of Humanities – UFMS

The Executive Secretary for Science, Technology and Innovation of the State Secretariat for Environment, Development, Science, Technology and Innovation (SEMADESC), Riccardo Sena, paid a visit to the Faculty of Humanities (Fach) of UFMS. The meeting was held on Tuesday 13th with professors and students with the aim of strengthening relations and presenting cutting-edge research in the field of humanities.

“We need this union so that we can understand what the state expects from the university, because here are the think tanks, here we are able to do scientific research and we do research in the field of humanities,” says FASH director, Vivina Dias Sol Queiroz.

Ricardo Sena, a graduate of the Institute, visited the laboratories of interdisciplinary studies on antiquity, coordinated by Professor Carlos Eduardo da Costa Campos, and the laboratories of bioanthropology and forensic medicine, coordinated by Professor Priscilla Lenni. He also had contact with the research Garden in the Village: Peri-Urban Agriculture and Sustainable Agriculturedeveloped by Professors Vanderlea Paes Leite Musi and André Dione Fonseca, Diagnosing material and symbolic inequalities in Mato Grosso do SulIt was developed by professors Guilherme Rodriguez Pasamani, Daniel Estevao Ramos de Miranda and Victor Garcia Miranda.

Professor and coordinator of the Objectivity, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis Research Group, Winnie César Freitas Pinto, accompanied the Executive Secretary on his visit and highlighted the importance of the convergence between the State’s policy in the field of science, technology and innovation and the research carried out at the University. “This relationship and this institutional proximity between us, the Faculty of Humanities and the Executive Secretariat for Science, Technology and Innovation, serves us to draw attention to the research work we do, and the demand for investment, which is fundamental for research work in the humanities,” he explains. “You cannot think of development without thinking about the impacts of science, technology and innovation on social life,” he adds.

On this occasion, Ricardo Sena gave the lecture. State policy in the field of science, technology and innovation In the Marçal de Souza Tupā-Y Hall, located in the Cidade Universitária, and broadcast live on State Forum of Philosophy and Human Sciences Channel of Mato Grosso do SulThis activity is part of the conference cycle that precedes the First State Humanities Conference of Mato Grosso do Sul, which will be held on November 21 and 22 at the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD). In the coming months, the forum will promote lectures by the President of the Council of Rectors of State Higher Education Institutions and President of UFGD, Jones Darry Gottert; by the Director and President of the Foundation for the Support of the Development of Education, Science and Technology of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Márcio de Araujo Pereira; and by researchers in the humanities from the country.

In his lecture, Ricardo Sena emphasized the role that science, technology and innovation play in the sustainable development process of the State. “The development process that we want, in a very intensive way, uses the knowledge that is produced in the scientific community to analyze our development process beyond the economic, so that it can be a development that considers other aspects of the human dimensions, the social, the environmental aspects and all those things that are important so that we can achieve the full development of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul,” highlights Ricardo Sena.

Text: Thalia Zortia

Photos: College of Humanities