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FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ

DEAN OF THE OFFICE OF GRADUATE STUDIES AND RESEARCH FRANCISCO DE ASSIS MENDONÇA FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ 1 of 190

FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ 09/05/2018 21:12

INFORMATION REGARDING THIS CALL

Call for Funding Proposals Call Acronym

The program aims to select Institutional Projects for Internationalization of Higher Education Institutions or Research Institutes that have at least four Graduate Programs (GPs) recommended by CAPES (“Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior”, the Ministry of Education’s agency responsible for graduate program quality assurance). There must be at least two doctoral programs.

CAPES-PRINT

Programs

CAPES-PRINT

REGISTRATION DETAILS

Registration Number IP

Capes-PRINT738088P 200.17.247.181

Started at Submitted on Date of receipt

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name FRANCISCO DE ASSIS MENDONCA

Mother's name ANA FERNANDES MENDONCA Father’s name JOÃO MENDONÇA

Date of birth Nationality 03/10/1960 Brazil

IDENTIFICATION DOCUMENTS OF REPRESENTATIVE OF PROPOSING INSTITUTION

CPF 377.592.991-68 ID Issuing Agency Issue Date

62914114 SSP-PR 09/05/2018

Passport Issuing Country Issue Date Expiration date

PB034208 Brazil 12/03/2018 11/03/2019

ORCID 0000-0002-3107-8519 TELEPHONE NUMBERS Type Number Main + 55 (41) 33605405

Contact + 55 (41) 984081696 FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ 2 of 190


E-MAIL ADDRESSES

Type Description

Main [email protected]

Contact [email protected]

Contact [email protected]

ADDRESSES

Type Description Dr. Faivre, Ed. Dom Pedro II, 1st floor, Centro 405 Curitiba/PR Brazil 80060140

FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ 3 of 190


STEERING COMMITTEE

BRAZILIAN MEMBERS

Name Email

ANDRE LUIZ FELIX RODACKI [email protected]

Graduate Program Affiliation Discipline/Field

PHYSICAL EDUCATION PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Name Email

ANA SOFIA CLIMACO MONTEIRO DE OLIVEIRA [email protected]


ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS SCIENCE MATERIALS

Name Email

FABIO DE OLIVEIRA PEDROSA [email protected]


SCIENCE (BIOCHEMISTRY) BIOCHEMISTRY

Name Email

DAVID ALEXANDER MITCHELL

[email protected]

Telephone 554133604333 Date of Hire 01/03/2002 12:00:00

ORCID 0000-0002-4585-497X Telephone 554133613308 Date of Hire 01/01/1996 12:00:00 ORCID 0000-0002-9736-6652

Telephone 55 4133611787 Date of Hire 01/10/1971 12:00:00

ORCID 0000-0003-3711-969X Telephone 554133611536

Graduate Program Affiliation Discipline/Field Date of Hire SCIENCE (BIOCHEMISTRY) BIOCHEMISTRY 01/10/2000 12:00:00

Date of Hire 01/10/1971 12:00:00

ORCID 0000-0001-9355-5520



BRAZILIAN MEMBERS Name Email Telephone

ANDRE DE MACEDO DUARTE

[email protected] 554133605098

Graduate Program Affiliation Discipline/Field Date of Hire

PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY 01/03/2000 12:00:00 ORCID 0000-0002-8401-0032

Name Email Telephone

CARLOS EDUARDO VIEIRA [email protected] 55 4199741499


EDUCATION EDUCATION 01/03/1999 12:00:00 ORCID 0000-0001-6168-271X


NELSON AUGUSTO ROSARIO FILHO

[email protected] 554132086500


INTERNAL MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES

PATIENT CARE

01/11/2011 12:00:00 ORCID 0000-0002-8550-8051


MARIA JOSE GNATTA DALCUCHE FOLTRAN

[email protected]

5541 33355019 5541 33355019


LETTERS LETTERS 01/01/2000 12:00:00 ORCID 0000-0003-0764-352X

Name Email Telephone 554133613275

LUCIMARA STOLZ ROMAN [email protected]


Date of Hire 01/02/1999 12:00:00 ORCID 0000-0001-6567-5920

PHYSICS PHYSICS

Name Email Telephone 554133613454

FRANCISCO DE ASSIS MENDONCA

[email protected]

Date of Hire 01/01/1999 12:00:00


GEOGRAPHY GEOGRAPHY ORCID 0000-0002-3107-8519

Name LUIZ PEREIRA RAMOS

Email [email protected]

Telephone 554199636084

Graduate Program Affiliation CHEMISTRY

Discipline/Field CHEMISTRY

Date of Hire 01/02/1992 12:00:00

ORCID 0000-0002-4349-4990



FOREIGN MEMBERS


PIETRO N. CECCATO [email protected] 18456804425

Discipline/Field Insitution of Origin ORCID

GEOSCIENCES COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 0000000179793100


António MANUEL HESPANHA [email protected] 351919609789


RIGHT UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA 000000028912133X


RAYMOND ALAN DIXON [email protected] 447900330416


MOLECULAR BIOLOGY JOHN INNES CENTRE 000000026348639X


CARLOS G. LEVI [email protected] 18058932381


MATERIALS UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA

0000000297709010

BARBARA


ARTHUR J. CARTY [email protected] 15198884567


CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO 000000026054833X



DIAGNOSTICS

Strengths

Title Excellence in internationally recognized research Rationale CAPES defines graduate programs of excellence as those awarded a score of 5 to 7, and internationally connected. UFPR has a solid internationalization of its Graduate Programs (GPs) and research, in particular within its 38 GPs that received these scores (10 GPs rated 6 and 7, and 28 GPs rated 5). The internationalization of UFPR is recognized across a wide range of disciplines, in a number of countries worldwide. In the field of Chemistry, Bioprocess Engineering and Biochemistry, proven excellence is reflected, for example, in the project "Integrated Process and Process Design for Sustainable Biorefineries", funded by the European Community and comprised of UFPR, University of Southern Denmark, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, University Campus Rio Patras, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, University of Salamanca, University College London, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Santzouk Samir & Co., Aguascalientes Institute of Technology. In the area of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, we highlight partnerships with the John Innes Center, University of Bielefeld, Center for Biotechnology - CeBiTec, University of Missouri, Helmholtz Zentrum, German Research Center for Environmental Health (GmbH) / Department Microbe-Plant Interactions, The James USDA-ARS Sugarcane Field Station, National University of Mar del Plata, Faculty of Agrarian Sciences, University of Geneva, Paul Scherrer Institut - Life Sciences, Hutton Institute, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Imperial College of London, Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Institute of Biological Investigations "Clemente Estable". UFPR has countless research groups that interact internationally in the most varied areas of knowledge, showing the recognition of its researchers, highlighting human and animal health, materials and energy engineering, cell biology, nanosciences, humanities and the environment. The UFPR has numerous Research Groups that interact internationally in various areas of knowledge, proving the recognition of its researchers, including Human and Animal Health, Materials Engineering and Energy, Cell Biology, Nanosciences, Humanities and Environment. Another aspect that reveals the international impact of UFPR's knowledge production is the institutional participation of researchers in internationally funded projects such as PARCUR in partnership with the Swedish Meteorological and Hydric Institute, and the Transmission Control of Dengue with Columbia University - all of which are indicative of the extent to which UFPR supports excellence in the sciences.

Title Manifest recognition of international academic institutions and the productive sector abroad for cooperation with the UFPR Rationale



UFPR is a university of international renown, highly sought after by several international institutions of higher education, whose faculty and students show interest in forming and strengthening research ties with us. Currently, UFPR has 250 ongoing and active academic cooperation agreements, and this number will likely grow exponentially with the research activities foreseen in the CAPES-PRINT call, especially with the various international scholars who have now accepted to become a part of UFPR research teams. These agreements are distributed by countries in Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia, in addition to the United States and Canada. Predominant are the agreements established with French, German and Spanish institutions. Another sign of UFPR's international respectability concerns partnerships with the productive and innovation sectors, either through established relations with the many foreign companies based in the Curitiba region, or through relations with companies and research laboratories based abroad, from academic interactions with foreign universities. Research projects developed in partnership with other institutions abroad exemplify the interactions mentioned here, including, for example, the AWARE (Applied Network on Automotive Research and Education) project, an academic network partnership with Technische Hochschüle Ingolstadt, DAAD, Federal University of Paraná, Federal University of Santa Catarina and AUDI; the PARCUR - Curitiba Air Quality Program, in a partnership between UFPR, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydric Institute, Curitiba City Hall and Stockholm City Hall, involving research and monitoring of air quality, within the Smart Cities Program. UFPR is the only Brazilian university to participate in a consortium involving the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (USA) and the University of Berlin, aiming to train civil servants in the metropolitan areas of Curitiba and the west of São Paulo, to formulate strategies in the areas of unconventional renewable energy and global climate change, in order to achieve the objectives of the Paris agreement. UFPR stands out among the top 10 universities in the nation, with proven excellence in a number of disciplines. The graduate programs of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Bioprocesses are of the highest national and international standards.

Title Institutionalization of the Internationalization process of UFPR

Rationale



Founded in 1912, UFPR has developed numerous interactions with institutions abroad throughout its history. The relationships established with researchers, students and international institutions have directly contributed to successful research endeavors and graduate studies at the institution, the result of which is seen in the internationalized programs we see at UFPR today. In 2009, the International Affairs Office (“ARI”) of UFPR was created and, in December 2016, became the UFPR International Agency (or “AUI - Agência UFPR Internacional”). The purpose of its creation was to give even greater systematicity and organization to the internationalization actions of UFPR, overcoming the informality that had characterized the international relations previously. In addition to the agency director, it is structured into three Coordinations: Academic Cooperation, Mobility and Language Policy. With regard to Academic Cooperation, the actions of prospection and institutionalization of Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) were streamlined, and now those documents are analysed as to their legal validity by Agency staff, who in turn use the so-called “Parecer de Referência” legal parameters, drawn up by none other than the Federal Office Attorney General itself. This greatly reduced the time of signing documents, accelerating the pathway to institutionalization. With respect to Mobility, the Agency now has a Coordinator and technicians who work on the development of open calls, public disclosure of results, contacts with foreign institutions and institutional support for outbound UFPR faculty and students and for inbound students and international faculty. The UFPR International Agency supports the reception of international scholars (students and teachers) through an information protocol written in several languages, providing systematized information for the regularization of their legal situation in the country, and other actions related to oversight and stay at our university. With the creation of the Coordination of Language Policies, it was possible to deploy several actions aimed towards the linguistic training of the University committee, with the following initiatives of particular note: a) support for research writing in English to help increase international publications; b) faculty training in English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI), to increase the number of subjects taught in English. These initiatives are developed in partnership with the Centro de Assessoria de Publicação Acadêmica (“Academic Publishing Advisory Center”), or “CAPA”.

Title Institutional Commitment to Internationalization actions of UFPR Rationale



The approval by the University’s higher councils of the Institutional Plan of Internationalization and the Institutional Development Plan of UFPR shows the commitment of the university to the organic and planned development of its internationalization. While it is true that UFPR's internationalization process is not recent, it should be noted that a number of actions have been taken since 2017 to simplify and streamline programs that are essential to this endeavor, and to cut down on the bureaucracy involved in its implementation. The key idea is to grant as much autonomy as possible to the Undergraduate and Graduate Colleges, so that they can hammer out internationalization initiatives (e.g. joint supervisions and double-degree programs) in collaboration with foreign partners, in accordance with the defined objectives in the aforementioned Plans. Once some basic conditions have been met, the actions are approved by the Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, the UFPR International Agency and also by the Office the Rector, when necessary. Resolutions were also passed aimed at attracting already established Visiting Professors and promising young talents, so that they can work together with undergraduate and graduate courses, thus favoring the expansion of the internationalization of the university. Concerning language policy, a systematic program was implemented to offer transdisciplinary subjects, both face-to-face and by live video, taught both in Portuguese and in English, on themes relevant to the internationalization of scientific production. These actions also aim to acclimate the students and faculty of the institution to the practice of teaching in a foreign language – one of our strategic initiatives that promote Internationalization at Home. The new culture of knowledge production will require new language skills, renewed capabilities in the use of sophisticated communication and research tools, and changes in traditional ways of thinking about knowledge production. It should also be noted that the Foreign Languages Department of UFPR is one of the oldest and most internationalized in the country, with courses in operation since 1939, in a constant process of renewal. On the occasion of its 70th anniversary, two new strands were created, Japanese and Polish, the latter being the only one in Latin America, due to the historical and ethnic features of the city of Curitiba and the region.

Title The institutional seal of internationalization of UFPR

Rationale



Since the 1990s UFPR has been recognized by several foreign institutions as a result of its actions of international importance. It is worth noting UNESCO's recognition of the attribution of three Chairs to UFPR in recognition of its academic, teaching, research and community outreach activities: the Chair for Sustainable Development, awarded in 1993; the Chair of Education and Culture of Peace, awarded in 1998; and the Sergio Vieira de Mello Chair, in association with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which was awarded in 2005. The UNESCO Label awarded to UFPR through these Chairs also served as a portal for the expansion and deepening of academic relations with important groups and institutions in various locations around the world. It was also an important factor in leveraging research and graduate studies in Humanities and the Environment in terms of international institutional partnerships. In addition, it is important to highlight several institutional interactions aimed at receiving students and researchers from several countries, representing organizations such as: a) CAPES-COFECUB, BRAFITEC, DAAD, BRAFAGRI, FULLBRIGHT COMMISSION; b) Program of OAS / Organization of American States Grants, in which the UFPR GPs have included a large number of students from various countries in Latin America; c) Programs PEC-G and PEC-PG, Program Students Undergraduate Agreement and Program Students Graduate Agreement, from Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil and Ministry of Education, in partnership with Brazilian universities, enabling the reception of numerous foreigner students in the institution; d) Brazil-Africa Program, developed by CAPES in an international initiative involving Itamaraty with African nations, through which UFPR received an important number of graduate students from countries such as Mozambique, Angola, Guinea Bissau, etc.; d) Coimbra Group of Universities, an institution that brings together numerous countries in the world to promote scientific exchange for the training of undergraduate and graduate students, a group of which UFPR has been a member for more than a decade; e) Grupo Montevideo, an institution that brings together Latin American countries for the promotion of academic exchange, and of which UFPR has been a member since the 1990s. These, among other actions, provide evidence for and strengthen the internationalized production of knowledge carried out institutionally at UFPR.

Weaknesses

Title Graduate programs in the process of increasing internationalization Rationale



Brazilian graduate programs aim to achieve the status of internationalized GPs, awarded by CAPES research assessment scores of 5 to 7. To that end, it is up to the majority of the Brazilian GPs rated between 3 and 4 to invest heavily in the dissemination of their scientific and technological outputs in international journals and other relevant outlets of public interest, with a view to draw students and researchers from similar institutions abroad, to increase knowledge production in partnership with researchers from institutions from other countries, etc. In this way, the vast majority of PPGs 3 and 4 should spend huge efforts in: a) the dissemination of scientific and technological production in vehicles of international dimension; b) the establishment of the exchange of students and researchers with similar institutions abroad; c) the production of knowledge in partnership with researchers from other countries, etc. At UFPR, this challenge is seen in programs with a CAPES rating of 3 (18) and 4 (32) more clearly, although it is also present in programs rated 5 (28), in which internationalization is already more evident and presents important results. In order for the GPs with grades 3 and 4 of UFPR to achieve international standards for which we strive – and the higher research assessments that come with that push – a concerted, systematic and robust effort of support to their development and strengthening is necessary, which will enable them to establish international partnerships with fruitful exchanges. Few grade 4 GPs at UFPR qualified for the CAPES-PRINT Program due to criteria that revealed their limitations, leaving them to seek out alternative means to finance international activities. Their expectation is that CAPES can continue to meet the demands of the individual funding requests (so-called “balcão”), that is, still served outside the CAPES-PRINT Program; in addition to this possibility, other ways can be seen as funding from the institution itself, from the “FAPs” - Foundations of Support to Research, CNPq - National Council of Scientific and Technological Development, with specific projects developed in partnership with groups / institutions abroad, and even projects involving CAPES financing not related to PRINT demands, such as the BRAFITEC academic mobility program. Thus, it can be said that programs rated 3 and 4 (and whose candidacy for funding is not as strong), face even greater challenges to their process of internationalization. These difficulties become more intense in an economic-political context marked by an intense crisis such as the present, that is, the challenge of internationalization is even more significant for GPs in the consolidation phase.

Title Legal bureaucracy in the process of internationalization

Rationale



International relations depend on legal and diplomatic decisions, established by each country and also within the scope of international law. Thus, in each case, the legal-bureaucratic-diplomatic procedures present particularities that must be respected both at the time of the establishment and the development of relations between individuals and institutions involving one or more foreign countries. The same applies to the field of academic cooperation, with complications and / or impediments to the full development of teaching, research, service and innovation activities involving foreign students, researchers and faculty. This situation imposes on individuals and institutions the search for solutions for the optimal routing of the processes of scientific, technological and cultural exchange. In order to reduce such problems, it is necessary for the Brazilian chancelleries to take direct action in order to streamline and simplify the mobility of people, materials and equipment related to the various domains of international academic cooperation. It is necessary, therefore, to create robust and perennial institutional mechanisms that facilitate the academic interaction between Brazil and the other countries. Such obstacles are experienced in UFPR with the demand for mobility of European and North American students, but it becomes even more evident when it comes to Asian students, a fact that has been intensified in recent decades due to ethnic-racial-economic conflicts in certain regions. In order to break with these contingencies, and in recognition of the academic impact of proposals for collaboration in advancing science, culture, technology and innovation, UFPR has acted in a preventive and proactive way, through the services of AUI - International Agency of UFPR, aiming to support outgoing faculty and students and to welcome and support foreign professors and students.

Title Language Barriers

Rationale Linguistic barriers are known factors limiting the internationalization process of Brazilian universities, in which the vast majority of classes are conducted exclusively in Portuguese. Data from CAPES (Elsevier - World of Research) show that 63% of Brazilian professors have never been abroad for any meaningful period of time for academic purposes, at any level. Added to this is the fact that Portuguese is not a language spoken in several countries, nor is it a privileged language for international scientific interactions. These factors are certainly reflected internally at UFPR, although at least one third of its teachers have had important international academic experiences. In order to tackle this problem internally, it will be necessary to count on the participation of these more experienced researchers at the international level, since they are the ones who are better able to transform university culture, opening it up to the challenges of multilingualism, respecting foreign languages that prevail in each discipline. This transformation, in turn, depends on concerted actions aimed not only at enabling these faculty to deliver classes in foreign languages at the undergraduate and graduate levels, but also in the sense of encouraging and rewarding their engagement through, for example, financial support and linguistic support for the publication of research results internationally. Only in this way will best practices of teacher and student exchange be strengthened and expanded, furthering scientific collaboration with international partners. Through a variety of consistent and articulated language policy actions described throughout the project, the advantages of teaching in a foreign language will be explored, as a precursor to good performance of research activities abroad, emphasizing the inclusive nature of these practices, since they prepare the academic community for qualified and reciprocal interactions with international partners, the absence of which comes at considerable cost.

Title



Insufficient financial resources for internationalization Rationale

Although the CAPES-PRINT Program makes considerable progress in terms of the institutional organization of internationalization process, it is limited in financial resources. At the same time, the financing of research and graduate studies in Brazil has seen a significant reduction in resources in recent years. On the other hand, the maintenance and improvement of the internationalization processes demand more and more investments. If knowledge production takes place more quickly and in greater quantity due to technological resources (which demand greater investments in materials, energy and state-of-the-art infrastructure), quality assurance requires meeting new demands in terms of support to researchers and students for their production (and, therefore, also needs major investments). It is not only a matter of the problems of the public financing of research (in the case of Brazil), since it is necessary to consider that in the contexts in which private initiative is more prominent (in the case of the United States, England and Japan, for example) the State is not deprived of its responsibility for teaching and research, even if it is in lesser proportion than that of other countries. In this context, and specifically observing the search for greater internationalization of Brazilian science, the increase in the contribution of resources to academic activities on the horizon is supported by the New Legal Framework of Science, Technology and Innovation of Brazil, recently regulated in the country. As expected, it opens up an important window for the public-private partnership in the improvement of funding that could, in the near future, bring dividends to the desired internationalization. In the scope of UFPR, these perspectives are in the process of being implemented, with a view to streamlining and securing more and new sources for research and graduate funding under the new framework, although financial support is still insufficient to meet current needs. UFPR has made efforts to ensure the international participation of students with its own resources, in internationalized processes through scholarships for internships abroad, exchanges with the Asociación de Universidades del Grupo Montevideo, Visiting Professor and Visiting Reader Professor Programs, research visits and other short-term academic exchange.

Is the institution’s mission clearly defined? Yes

Describe the mission of your Institution UFPR is a century-old institution of higher education with a multifocal profile. It exceeds in several disciplines, standing out among the top 10 universities in the country.It features excellence in various areas of knowledge, among the 10 most important in the country. Its most prominent research areas include a) Biodiversity and the Environment, b) B) Materials Engineering, c) Biosciences and Human and Animal Health, and d) Democracy, Culture and Development. Describe other relevant information about the level of internationalization of your Institution



Since its very foundation, the Federal University of Paraná has incorporated a number of aspects of internationalization in the production of knowledge. The history of the city and the region is strongly marked by the intermingling of different ethnic groups and cultures, with significant participation of immigrants from Central Eastern Europe (Germans, Italians, Poles, Ukrainians, Russians and French, not to mention Portuguese and Spanish). These diverse ethnic groups provided the personnel makeup of the university (students, administrative staff and faculty) throughout its development, and through various actions, partnerships and varied exchanges were forged with nations from the national origins of their families. More recently, especially over the last 40 years, Curitiba has garnered international attention as a center of cultural, scientific and industrial exchange, since it is favored by important factors such as: a) geographic-location facilities, since the State of Paraná possesses international borders; b) state and private entrepreneurship developed in permanent interaction with the university; c) participation in municipal, state and private programs and projects of the Third Sector, with a clear international dimension; and, d) promotion of events and attraction of investments with strong participation of foreign institutions and companies. It should also be noted that more than 60% of UFPR's faculty members have experience in international activities, such as the completion of full doctorates abroad, post-doctoral internships, international scientific events at the institution , the participation of teachers and students in scientific events abroad, the international scientific production, the reception of a considerable contingent of students and researchers in diversified programs of training and / or visiting the institution. The institutionalized establishment of international agreements of academic exchange constitutes another important dimension of the internationalization of UFPR, with more than 250 agreements currently signed and in place, which grant institutional stability to the performance of the internationalization of the graduate programs and research groups.

INSTITUTIONAL PROJECT REGISTRATION (PII)

Institution of the Project Coordinator FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ General Objective



The PDI - Institutional Development Plan - of UFPR is the basis for actions over a period of four years. Approved in the University Council, it is a construction that brings together, in a democratic way, the aims and perspectives of the university. Given the changes in the conditions of scientific and technological production, internationalization actions can no longer depend on isolated academic efforts, requiring an institutional articulation capable of proposing goals and actions submitted to the systematic and judicious monitoring of their results and impacts. Thus, the fulfilment of the UFPR mission involves the strengthening and the development of academic-scientific collaboration networks, comprised of Brazilian and foreign professors and students, as explained in the Institutional Plan for Internationalization of UFPR, approved in 2018 by its Teaching, Research and Service Council. In order to strengthen and promote the internationalization of its teaching, research and community outreach activities, UFPR has chosen these main objectives: a) To promote and to intensify the production of scientific, technological and cultural knowledge through teaching, research and service in collaboration with similar institutions abroad; b) To deepen international partnerships for the development of reciprocal exchange with renowned institutions abroad; c) The positioning of UFPR in the context of world institutions, obtaining a higher classification in the general rankings via internationalization; d) To increase the capacity to attract resources in international calls, in order to strengthen the interaction between UFPR and other international institutions; e) To expand the support to internationalization, offering tools to ensure the academic community's proficiency in foreign languages, regarding students, teachers and administrative staff; f) To expand the offer of foreign language courses in undergraduate and graduate courses to improve the linguistic proficiency of students; g) To increase the draw of students and researchers with ties to foreign institutions, with a high level of excellence and academic recognition, aiming at its continued performance in UFPR; h) To give visibility to the actions of scientific collaboration developed in UFPR in partnership with foreign researchers; i) To support the preparation of research projects, research articles, books or edited volumes in a foreign language, seeking to attract funding from international development agencies and to increase the international visibility of our scientific and academic production. Taking as a basis UFPR’s PDI-2017 and the scientific-technological-cultural production of the Institution's GPs of Excellence (those awarded 5 to 7), the PRINT-UFPR Steering Committee laid out five thematic areas of greatest importance in UFPR: 1) Biodiversity and Environment; 2) Advanced Materials; 3) Biomedicine and Health; 4) Renewable Energies and New Forms of Energy; and, 5) Democracy, Culture and Development. Brazil is one of the megadiverse countries of the planet, with two of its biomes included among the 10 hotspots of major relevance for world conservation: the Atlantic Forest and the Cerrado. These forest extensions play an important role in mitigating climate problems such as greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. In addition, the large number of plant species and microorganisms of Brazilian biodiversity (1) constitute a potential reserve for the discovery of new molecules with pharmacological and biotechnological properties. Despite its prominence, Brazil is still lacking in human resources specifically trained for the knowledge of this biodiversity and its uses. Thus, from the proposal of the Biodiversity and Environment thematic area is justified by the national and global relevance of the topic and by the need to organize and advance the research in the country on the diverse dimensions of biodiversity through the constitution of international research networks. The research area (2) in Materials is the oldest and strongest in UFPR, with researchers from different GPs that collaborate on the various aspects related to this multi-and transdisciplinary area. In 2013, researchers with a strong presence in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (N & N) created the "Central Laboratory of Nanotechnology of UFPR (LCNano)", a project that embraced the community involved with N & N around the management, operation and shared use of the available infrastructure. In 2014 LCNANO became part of the national SISNANO N & S system of federal government. The materials that are the object of this project (carbon nanostructures - nanotubes, graphene, graphene oxide, nano graphite, fullerenes, nanoparticles and metallic films, oxides and nitrides of transition metals, semiconductors, conventional and conductive polymers, lamellar and two-dimensional materials (nano) polymer composites, (nano) ceramic composites, molecular magnets, metal alloys) involve new and advanced materials, with great potential of technological application and with great scientific challenges. The work related to fundamental aspects will bring a strong scientific impact through the exchange of expertise between UFPR teams and foreign universities, fostering more robust scientific publications. The applied and technological impact is evident in the generation of important devices and multifunctional products, with high potential for generating patents and transfers to the productive sector, with a direct impact on the country's economy. Investing in research in biomedicine and health (4) is important not only because this is a universal and indispensable service, but also to ensure progress in improving the quality of life of the population. Research investments aim not only to reduce the suffering and costs associated with chronic or neglected diseases, but also to promote health and increase life expectancy, especially in developing and emerging countries. In countries with a large and aging population, continental dimensions and important health expenditures, it is essential to improve the treatment and control of chronic non-communicable diseases. New forms of prevention, diagnosis and treatment are necessary in the face of the complexity and diversity of phenomena involving advances derived from basic and applied science. UFPR has highly qualified researchers and graduate programs with high level studies that contribute to the advancement of health and related biosciences. The strengthening of partnerships and new relationships with international research centers should provide innovations and advances in the prevention, treatment and control of chronic degenerative diseases and in health promotion. The dilemmas regarding energy (4) supply, which is the subject of the renewable energies and new forms of energy project, transcend borders and require transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches. The supply of energy comes mainly from fossil fuels and nuclear (non-renewable) plants, as well as renewable sources such as hydroelectric, biomass and other forms of less environmental impact, such as solar, wind, geothermal and tidal power. The challenge is how to develop new ways to generate clean energy, increase its generation capacity and promote its consumption in a sustainable and environmentally correct way. Biofuels from renewable sources are also an excellent alternative to petroleum products due to the need to mitigate atmospheric pollution from burning fossil fuels. At UFPR, several research groups have produced excellent results in different work fronts, such as photovoltaics, the production of liquid fuels (biodiesel, ethanol, HDO and hydrocarbons) and gaseous (biogas and hydrogen) fuels, and the integration and intensification of processes. The project seeks to develop technologies for the capture and direct transformation of solar energy into electric energy and the development of integrated actions for the optimization and intensification of different chemical processes or production systems of advanced (bio) fuels and other biotechnological based inputs. The thematic area Democracy, Culture and Development (5) brings together researchers of the Human Sciences, Natural Sciences, Applied Social Sciences, Technology, Law, Arts and Education, converging around topics of high social relevance such as democracy, in its multiple forms of organization and manifestation; human rights, inclusion and diversity, with an emphasis on public policies and teacher training processes; the production and circulation of knowledge, including the study of different languages, cultures and technologies. From previous interactions between researchers of excellence, projects have been defined to analyze power relations and social asymmetries in the light of the human rights agenda, addressing areas such as law, politics, culture, economy and history; the cycle of public policies of social character, considering inherent aspects to the proposal, implementation and evaluation of the State initiatives; the problems related to economic and social development, aiming to understand phenomena related to the themes of space, society and development; the production and circulation of knowledge, in the perspective of the historical analysis of the constitution of different cultural traditions and the transformations of aesthetic, political, formative and epistemological models; processes of the development of the digital sphere, taking into account more effective ways of communicating and sharing, organizing and analyzing historical, cultural and artistic documents, data, information and research results.



SPECIFIC THEMES and OBJECTIVES of the PROJECT

Theme

BIODIVERSITY AND ENVIRONMENT

Rationale

Countries Italy; Chile; Singapore; Canada; Holland; United States; China; Mexico; Costa Rica; Hungary; Switzerland; Panama; Uruguay; Monaco; Denmark; South Africa; Germany; Ireland; Norway; France; Australia; United Kingdom; Portugal; Japan; Austria; Finland; Argentina; New Zealand; Sweden; Belgium; Polonia; Spain;

Biodiversity is a central theme of concern for humanity, since it has been destroyed at alarming rates with important reflections on global climate change and human well-being. The convention on Biological Diversity ratified by Brazil sets guidelines for the study, use and conservation of biodiversity, including global conservation strategies and also guidelines for access to genetic resources and the distribution of the benefits derived from them. Brazil is a megadiverse country, with three biomes included among the top 10 biodiversity hotspots in the world: the Atlantic Forest, the Cerrado, and the Amazon Rainforest. These biomes have an important role in the mitigation of climate problems, such as greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. On the other hand, the large number of animal species, plants and micro-organisms of Brazilian biodiversity is a potential reserve for the discovery of new molecules with pharmacological properties and biotechnology in general. The challenges Brazil faces in the expansion of knowledge and the conservation of its biodiversity are already well known, and UFPR actively faces these challenges. The theme of Biodiversity and the Environment was highlighted in the Institutional Development Plan based on the set of priorities identified by our institution, including the need to advance socially responsible research on the various facets of biodiversity, as well as the need to organize and advance, in an integrated manner, the research in the country about the various aspects of biodiversity through the establishment of international networks. The area of Biodiversity and Environment thus aims to foster international cooperative research, from an integrative, multidisciplinary perspective, covering all levels of the biological hierarchy, from molecules to ecosystems (marine and continental), as well as on the level of adaptive responses to socio-ecological systems, i.e. the interactions between society and biodiversity, and from local to global levels. The expectation is the developmento of more innovative and original ways to produce environmental knowledge, around biological diversity, covering, as a scope, the evolutionary origin of biodiversity; its management and conservation, with an emphasis on environmental monitoring and analysis and the evaluation of environmental risks to the integrity of biota, ecosystems and human populations; and the sustainable use of biodiversity and natural resources, including biotechnology and environmental and genomic bioprospection.

AIMS Objective



International Research Network on Biodiversity Evolution Description

Studies on the evolution of biodiversity involve a fairly wide range of theoretical methods, techniques and concepts, and nowadays include several areas of knowledge that go beyond the field of traditional biology. Access to more efficient and inexpensive sequencing methods and computational advances has led to unprecedented growth in this regard, and we are increasingly able to understand the aspects related to the evolution and diversity of organisms present on the planet. Such studies serve not only to understand patterns and processes themselves, but are fundamental tools for the conservation of biodiversity in all its aspects. The aim is thus to establish a research network with the objective of understanding the origin and maintenance of biodiversity, covering all levels of the biological hierarchy, from molecules to ecosystems, from an integrative and multidisciplinary approach. Close mechanisms ("how" questions) are addressed in areas such as molecular biology, physiology and genetics, while the final mechanisms ("why" questions) are generally investigated in fields such as biogeography, systematics, and evolutionary ecology. However, it is clear that a comprehensive understanding of biodiversity necessarily involves an integrative and multidisciplinary approach that goes beyond the conceptual and methodological limitations of each discipline. The themes of our research also tend to be independent of any particular history, reflecting the traditional disciplines we know as botany (plants and fungi), zoology (animals) and microbiology (bacteria, viruses, fungi,). Despite these mostly arbitrary divisions, the questions that revolve around evolutionary biology, systematics, ecology, biogeography, are essentially the same, as are the methods used to answer these questions. Therefore, the coming together of the various programs in research networks, sharing excellence in different approaches will further increase the quality of training, research and improvement of students and faculty. In this proposal we intend to lay the groundwork so that international collaborations serve both to train human resources in the various areas of biodiversity research and to include Brazil as one of the protagonists in the production of knowledge and conservation of its biodiversity.

Objective RIBIMA - Internationalization Network on Biodiversity and Environment: Threats and conservation of biodiversity Description Global biodiversity, environmental risks and projected climate change continue to be studied, still fragmented, by distinct scientific disciplines with equally distinct scientific traditions. However, conservation problems and the need for natural resource sustainability are global and their solution requires equally globalizing concepts and approaches. This proposal aims primarily at collaboration between eight different graduate courses at this University, with the expectation of developing more innovative and original ways of producing environmental knowledge, focused on biological diversity and the current risks to its preservation and conservation. This will be increasingly essential to better understand and interpret biodiversity itself, the causes of global change, and to address its consequences for ecosystems and continental and marine socio-ecological systems. The objective is to implement and consolidate an international research network aiming at a better understanding and prediction of the phenomena associated with biodiversity, conservation, management and sustainability of natural resources, from the level of individual adaptive responses to ecosystems and socioecological systems. The activities of the Brazilian members will be divided into two main lines of research: "Natural dynamics and biodiversity conservation" and "Socio-environmental dynamics and sustainability of natural resources", structured by research groups linked to the eight graduate programs involved.



Objective Network on Environmental Monitoring and Modeling (REsMA)

Description To build an environmental monitoring and modeling network (REsMA) to promote environmental risk assessment studies for biota and human populations using chemical, physicochemical, biological and physical parameters integrated in different environmental matrices. On the basis of these studies, to build an understanding around the role of external agents on biota and relate them to the integrity of ecosystems and factors that may affect biodiversity and human well-being. This integrated approach will enable assessments of environmental and climate change through the study of diverse ecosystems and models, including experimental river basins, coastal environments, and urban systems. The network will also enable the assessment of the impact of chemical agents on different ecosystems through the chemical analysis of anthropogenic and natural pollutants in different extracts, as well as the evaluation of biomarkers of environmental contamination in different models in order to establish risks of biota and human exposure. These activities will also be supported by the use of transdisciplinary informatics and geotechnology. The integrated actions of REsMA will be fostered by the multinational exchange of researchers and students, attracting postdoctoral fellows from abroad, promoting multidisciplinary programs and courses in foreign languages, and securing financial support through national and international funding calls, bringing the network to international status.

Objective Internationalization Network in Bioprospecting, Biogeochemistry, and Environmental Biotechnology

Description



Brazil possesses megabiodiversity spread across several biomes. The large number of plant species and microorganisms of Brazilian biodiversity consists of a potential reservoir for the discovery of new molecules with pharmacological and biotechnological properties in general. Another aspect to be highlighted is the role that large areas such as the Amazon Forest and the Atlantic Forest represent for the mitigation of climatic problems such as greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. These aspects have been the subject of international scientific debate for decades in the areas of sustainable exploration and preservation of the environment. This proposal aims to build a network of internationalization around Bioprospecting, Biotechnology and Environmental Biogeochemistry, with a view to the sustainable exploitation of Brazilian biodiversity and agriculture, together with innovative technologies for environmental monitoring and analysis, covering four main strands: a) environmental and genomic bioprospection for the isolation of new molecules; b) use of modern techniques of biogeochemical and genomic analysis for environmental monitoring; c) synthetic biology for the design of environmental sensors and improvement of bacteria associated with plants and d) analysis of environmental microbiomas and genomes. Brazilian scientific researchers in the areas of environmental bioprospecting and genomics, biogeochemistry and biotechnology will be integrated with their international peers to promote an environment that drives high impact scientific production and the training of highly qualified human resources. This inbound-outbound exchange will be adopted in every project, allowing at least one doctoral student or national researcher to be sent abroad to the international institutions that will in turn send researchers to UFPR – thus ensuring solid partnerships with outputs such as publication of research articles, requests for international patents and coordination of joint projects with international partners. Local collaborations will also be established for the application of UFPR knowledge frontier platforms such as genomics Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and High Resolution Mass Spectrometry (MS) in order to innovate and expand the impact of the results of this proposal.

Theme

Advanced Materials

Rationale

Countries South Africa; China; Argentina; Canada; Australia; Spain; United States; France; Mexico; India; Portugal; Italy; Germany; United Kingdom; Sweden;



The research area in materials is one of the oldest and well-established in our university, with the community of researchers of different departments and sectors (and linked to different graduate programs) working in collaboration in the various aspects related to this multi- and transdisciplinary field. The merit of the area of Materials at UFPR in the year 2000 was formally recognized when the first "Institutional Infrastructure Development Plan" was made official, in which all research activities were prioritized and ranked into 5 broad thematic areas, with "Materials" ranked first. The Institutional Research Plan (or “Plano Instucional de Pesquisa – PIP”)" was approved by the university council in 2001 (resolution 2001/04-COUN), and the prioritization of this disciplinary field have remained in all adjustments and reviews that were conducted in the PIP, to the present day. In 2013, a substantial number of researchers with strong expertise in nanoscience and nanotechnology (N&N) grouped together to form the UFPR "Central Laboratory of Nanotechnology” (LCNANO), a project that from the very beginning adopted an innovative and participatory model that convenes the N&N community around the management, operation and use of shared infrastructure. In 2014 LCNANO became part of the national SISNANO N&N system of federal government. It is thus natural that this important contingent of UFPR researchers, who already work together, join the institutional process of internationalization with high experience in internationalized research teams. This is a theme that lies on the frontier of science, conducted by reputable UFPR researchers with several international partnerships with universities or institutes of research and development. The theme covers fundamental aspects, which will bring a strong scientific impact, natural exchange of expertise between teams from UFPR and foreign universities, with a positive effect on high-impact research outputs. On the other hand, the highly applied character and technological impact can be seen in the creation of multifunctional devices and products with high potential for generating patents and transfer to the production sector, with direct impact on the economy of the country.

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Objective (Nano) advanced materials: preparation, characterization, modeling, study of properties and applications Description



The scope of the aim permeates the entire knowledge chain related to Materials: preparation, processing, characterization, modeling, study of properties, application and development of devices, products and processes. Materials that are the subject of study include (nanostructures of carbon - nanotubes, graphene, graphene oxide, nano graphite, fullerenes; nanoparticles and metallic films; oxides and nitrides of transition metals; semiconductors; conventional and conductive polymers; lamellar and bi-dimensional materials; (nano) polymeric and (nano) ceramic composites; molecular magnets, metal alloys) refer to new and advanced materials, with great potential for technological application, and with great scientific challenges. It is, therefore, a frontier theme within science, conducted by renowned UFPR researchers in partnership with researchers from 43 well-respected universities or research and development institutes worldwide. The work phase related to fundamental aspects of materials will bring about a strong scientific impact, expected from the of the merge of expertise from UFPR and foreign university teams, which will lead to high impact research publications; the technological impact and potential for industrial application are evident in the creation of multifunctional devices and products, with high potential to produce patents and knowledge transfer to the production sector, with direct impact on the economy of the country. Finally, the great number of courses and mini-courses run by UFPR team and foreign researchers within the scope of 7 graduate programs, which, in addition to fostering the integration of graduate students and young researchers, generates a strong social impact through the training of highly-qualified and skilled personnel, itself a stimulus of economic growth and the reduction of social inequalities.

Theme Countries Mexico; Spain; New Zealand; Denmark; Germany; United Kingdom; Argentina; Holland;

BIOSCIENCES AND HEALTH China; Australia; Sweden; Uruguay; Italy; Finland; India; Switzerland; United States; France; Canada; Belgium;

Rationale UFPR has always been a key protagonist in health sciences, with high-impact contributions on topics such as bone marrow transplant, corneal transplantation, respiratory allergy control, control of communicable diseases, among others. This has been made possible due to the importance of our research in biosciences and health, contributing to the promotion of health and life expectancy, especially important in developing and emerging countries. In this context, investment in research of life sciences and health research contributes to a universal and indispensable service and enable advances that impact directly on improving the quality of life of our society. In countries with larger populations, and important national health expenditures, as is the case of Brazil, the investment in research to improve treatment and control of chronic non-communicable diseases is essential. New forms of prevention, diagnosis and treatment are necessary in face of complexity and diversity of the phenomena involving advances derived from basic and applied science. In this sense, the Federal University of Paraná boasts a group of researchers and graduate programs that are highly qualified to develop high-level studies that can contribute to the advancement of health and related life science. The strengthening of partnerships and the establishment of new relations with international research centers can provide innovations and advances in the prevention, control and treatment of degenerative chronic diseases and the promotion of health.



AIMS Objective Basic and Applied Cancer Research

Description Cancer research is of great importance to human society, with several research centers in Brazil and in the world. The Federal University of Paraná has several researchers working in isolation on this theme and there is a strong need to increase interaction with international high-profile active researchers with strong publication records to strengthen research on this subject at UFPR. The present proposal aims to strengthen and increase internationalization of graduate programs involved, bringing more innovation to thesis and dissertation projects, improving the training of human resources and, ultimately, increasing UFPR's international visibility. Work and study visits abroad will also be an opportunity to enhance participants' knowledge and writing skills in English. We will make the publication of results obtained through research collaboration a priority, in particular in flagship international discipline-related journals, in order to increase integration of UFPR in the greater international research community. The social and economic importance is justified by the advancement of the quality of human health in the face of a disease that affects thousands of people in the world. New forms of prevention, diagnosis and treatment are still necessary taking into account the great complexity and diversity of cancers, which is a worldwide public health problem of an important translational nature, of basic science into clinical treatment. Researchers from the following graduate programs are effectively involved in this objective: Sciences (Biochemistry) (rated a maximum 7 in the latest research assessment); Chemistry (also rated 7); Physics (rated 6); Physical Education (rated 6); Cell Biology (rated 5); Microbiology, Parasitology and Pathology (rated 5); Nursing (rated 5); Genetics (rated 4).

Objective Systems Biology and Omics Sciences Applied to Biosciences and Health

Description



This project aims to establish an international cross-disciplinary, multi-institutional research network in frontier areas of knowledge in the area of Biosciences and Health. The Graduate Programs of UFPR participate with research lines in the various areas of Biosciences including Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Biochemistry and Ophic Sciences, aiming at creating an international research environment and increasing the quality of scientific production of UFPR. In this way, UFPR should become an important international scientific hub in different areas of knowledge of Biosciences in due course. The research network will be built based on existing well-established international partnerships, serving as a departure point for further expansion with new collaborations between UFPR faculty members and leading foreign researchers in different bioscience fields. The uniting theme will be the use of omics to understand complex biological processes that require integration of experimental data and computational analysis. We seek the development of microorganism-eukaryotic cell interaction studies (animal or plant), of microbial communities and interaction with their environment, development of animal models of genetic diseases, involving structural and functional genomic analysis (transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics) and introduction of new methods for metabolomics and mathematical analysis. This approach should contribute to the understanding of mechanisms involved in beneficial and pathogenic interactions between microorganisms and hosts, and identification and modeling of molecular interaction networks in the investigated systems. International partners include Germany, Argentina, Sweden, United States, France, Spain, the Netherlands, China, and United Kingdom, with world-renowned researchers from the most reputable universities and research institutes around the world. International actions and interactions will allow the exchange of knowledge, techniques and data to qualitatively improve not only the scientific production of the associated laboratories, but also the generation of specialized human resources in frontier areas of knowledge. In addition, collaborations with foreign institutions will enable the development of innovative processes and products that will impact not only the academic world, but also society as a whole.

Objective Diagnosis, therapy, and molecular basis of chronic and neglected diseases.

Description



There is a paradox in Brazilian public health in which two patterns of health problems can be identified, both associated with inequality of income distribution in some regions of the country (which present completely different demands in terms of public policies and resource application) as well as the attraction of funds for prevention, diagnosis and treatment. Geographically speaking, states in southern and southeastern Brazil have a higher incidence of chronic diseases, which are the main cause of death (72%) and incapacitation, most notably four groups of causes of death highlighted by the World Health Organization (WHO): cardiovascular disease; cancer; respiratory ailments; and diabetes. On the other hand, the northern and northeastern states, historically the regions with the lowest HDI (Human Development Index), suffer from neglected diseases, with an incidence of 10 cases per 10,000 according to WHO. Such diseases are caused by infectious or parasitic agents, typical of developing countries or regions and frequently endemic to low-income populations and have a substantial economic and social impact on Brazil. Traditional methods for the treatment of these chronic or neglected diseases usually involve pharmacological treatment, which presents low effectiveness, toxicity, and development of resistance to treatment or demand for therapeutic alternatives. One strategy would be to combine drugs for the treatment of diseases with the support for new therapies, based on the identification of new molecular markers with emphasis on natural or synthetic molecules. One way to improve drug-therapeutic performance is to use nanotechnology tools that aim to reduce toxicity and overcome resistance to multiple drugs. Thus, we intend to develop new strategies, reflecting the state of the art, prospecting for biomarkers, standardization of monitoring methodologies, as well as development of new pharmacological agents with a nanotechnological scope for a spectrum of chronic and neglected diseases that affect Brazilian population. To achieve these objectives, the fields of the Exact, Biological and Health Sciences were brought together, involving 27 researchers from graduate programs in Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Sciences; Biochemistry; Bioprocess Engineering and Biotechnology; Microbiology, Parasitology and Pathology; Physiology and Genetics, with the competences of 30 foreign researchers from 27 universities / institutes from 5 continents.

Theme Countries

RENEWABLE ENERGY AND NEW ENERGY

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Denmark; India; Argentina; Czech Republic; Germany; United Kingdom; Canada; Ireland; Sweden; Australia; Spain; United States; Austria; Switzerland; France;

Rationale FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ 25 of 190


The current dilemmas of scientific and technological development transcend borders and therefore require cross-cutting and multidisciplinary approaches. To that end, concrete actions of internationalization are absolutely necessary to generate knowledge, innovation and leadership in the solution of the problems of the modern world. Energy supply is among the most important needs of our society. The demand is close to 20 Terawatts (TW) per year, and the supply comes largely from fossil fuels and nuclear power plants (non-renewable), in addition to renewable sources like hydroelectric, biomass and other forms of less environmental impact, such as solar, wind, geothermal and tidal. We thus face major challenges including the development of new ways of generating clean energy, increase our capacity to do so, and promote its responsible and environmentally sustainable use. Biofuels from renewable sources also represent an excellent alternative to petroleum products due to the need to mitigate air pollution from the burning of fossil fuels. Renewable energy sources are among the main themes at UFPR almost since the preparation of its first strategic plan and, since then, several research groups have produced excellent results in different fronts, such as in photovoltaic energy, in the production of liquid biofuels (biodiesel, ethanol, HDO, hydrocarbons, biogas and hydrogen) and in the integration and intensification of process engineering. All these studies are based on high levels of innovation and originality, a fact easily confirmed by a highly qualified scientific production and the body of intellectual protection applications we hold with the National Industrial Property Institute (“Instituto Nacional da Propriedade Industrial”, or INPI). This project has several research fronts involving the development of technologies to capture and directly transform solar energy into electrical energy, to integrate actions for optimization and intensification of different chemical processes and to develop production systems of advanced (bio)fuels based on thermochemical and biotechnological approaches. These fronts are covered in three sub-themes, which were defined as “Aims” and later presented as internationalization projects. It is also worthy of note that all actions included here have outside financial backing, both public and private, and all of which have their origins in existing bilateral partnerships and collaboration.

AIMS

Objective Efficiency in the capture, production and distribution of photovoltaic energy or other renewable energy sources. Description



Currently, there is a global race for the development of energy provision based on clean sources. Countries such as China, the United States, Germany, India, Japan and Brazil have made great strides in this direction. In particular, according to the International Energy Agency, solar energy converted into electricity (photovoltaic) reached 74 GW in 2016, with clear growth trends for the future. However, for photovoltaic energy, a major bottleneck is making the conversion process even more efficient. Regarding its destination, photovoltaic energy can be produced in small scales, where a dedicated device is intended to operate, for example, a single piece of equipment. On the other hand, solar panels (installed in buildings) can give rise to a relatively large amount of energy, which must then be collected and distributed. The conventional technologies for handling electric energy are oriented to large scale operations such as hydroelectric power plants. However, because of the diversity, dispersion and relatively small production scale of renewable energy (photovoltaic, wind, etc.), storage, transmission and even its very use imposes several technical bottlenecks. This project thus addresses three key fronts in terms of renewable energy production and use: (i) improvement in photovoltaic energy conversion processes; (ii) adequacy and planning of the efficient capture of sunlight in the urban environment for later conversion; (iii) planning of intelligent electricity distribution systems, with the inclusion of microgrids, that will enable the the efficient capture of electricity from renewable sources. Research actions will be carried out through the interaction between professors and students of UFPR (of 6 postgraduate programs) with researchers from 13 institutions from 8 different countries. The idea is to join efforts to solve the technical/scientific problems mentioned above, train highly qualified professionals and make UFPR a center of international excellence in these crucial topics in renewable energy.

Objective Renewable fuels obtained by chemical transformation processes Description



The world scientific community has been mobilized to develop suitable, versatile and efficient methods to produce biodiesel and drop-in biofuels preferably from unedible feedstocks, agro-industrial wastes and rendered materials. This project, which focuses on intensifying processes for the production of advanced fuels and developing systems for the production of renewable energy from waste materials, has the participation of 16 researchers from at least 5 different graduate programs of UFPR. From the implementation of the proposal, we intend to bring in researchers from institutes and universities from Germany, Austria, Australia, Canada, Denmark, USA, Spain, England and Switzerland, all active in their respective fields and worldwide references in the renewable energies research area, with emphasis on fuel production processes. The project predicts: 20 academic visits of foreign researchers to teach and lecture at UFPR, reinforcing collaborations with national participants; 16 academic visits of UFPR faculties abroad with similar objectives; 8 internships for UFPR visiting scholars (Senior and Junior) abroad; and 17 scholarships for PhD students to undertake doctoral sandwich linked with graduate programs abroad. Among the topics to be addressed in its implementation, the following stand out: (i) to develop innovative catalytic processes for the production of biofuels and electrocatalytic systems for the generation of clean energy; (ii) to produce advanced fuels (biogasoline, green diesel, biokerosene) from lignocellulosic materials employing fast pyrolysis; (iii) to develop thermodynamic modeling for process optimization and intensification; (iv) to capture CO2 for the production of microalgae biomass, which will serve as raw material for the production of ethanol, hydrocarbons and other chemicals of industrial interest; and (v) to produce additives and advanced fuels from the chemical modification of low value added oleaginous materials. As a result, we expect to increase our output in research articles and patents involving Brazilian and foreign researchers, the interaction with important industrial players in the area of (bio)fuels and the internationalization profile of UFPR in the thematic area in question.

Objective Biotechnological processes for the production of advanced biofuels (BioADD) Description



The objective of this project is to consolidate the internationalization of the 3 level 7 graduate programs of UFPR, as well as contribute to the development of related graduate programs and accelerate the implementation of an International Doctoral Program in Bioenergy (BIOEN), which in fact has already been conceptually structured in conjunction with international partners. The theme of the project is focused on the promotion of biomass for the production of advanced biofuels and other biotechnology-based inputs. This is a strategic topic for Brazil, and one in which UFPR researchers already have international experience. About 10% of the energy consumed worldwide is derived from agricultural and agroforestry biomasses, with a trend of strong growth due to the need to replace fossil fuels with renewable alternates. Our objective is to improve the energy efficiency of conventional ethanol and biodiesel production technologies through the production of advanced biofuels of 2nd and 3rd generation via integrated bioprocesses involving the deconstruction of the plant cell wall architecture into monomeric sugars and the subsequent conversion of C5 (pentoses) and C6 (hexoses) in biofuels. BioADD, through its collaborative activities, will empower Brazilian researchers to solve technological bottlenecks in tasks organized in the form of research topics for graduate students and young post-doctoral fellows. The project directly integrates 4 UFPR graduate programs, with the participation of 16 researchers from Brazil, 14 foreigners, 19 graduate students on academic visits in Brazil or abroad and about 30 students under joint supervision schemes, linking UFPR with over 23 highly regarded research institutions in the area of biofuels and biorefining. This collaboration network also involves 7 graduate programs in Paraná and 12 in Brazil, located in 10 different institutions. BioADD has a strong component in human resource training, providing short-to-mid-term career-related placements for doctoral students and early-career research faculty, as well as prospective visits for the strengthening of network projects by senior researchers. It also includes the annual offer of courses, at the graduate level, in face-to-face or semi-face-to-face modes of delivery, which should be partially incorporated into the BIOEN program. The project also provides for an increase in research output of the graduate programs involved, in the form of articles and patents.

Theme Countries

Italy; Holland; Germany; Paraguay; Morocco; Singapore; Chile; Uruguay; Israel; Switzerland; Argentina; Canada; United

DEMOCRACY, CULTURE, DEVELOPMENT Kingdom; Portugal; Australia; United States; Sweden; New Zealand; South Africa; Spain; Japan; Colombia; France; Mexico; Cameroon;

Rationale



The theme of Democracy, Culture and Development represents the convergence of two structural axes of research set out in the Plan of Institutional Development of UFPR, namely Democracy, Human Rights, Diversity and Social Inclusion in society, culture and language. The bringing together of the axes in the light of convergence of research interests they espouse, such as: Democracy (as conceived in its multiple forms of organization and demonstration); Human Rights; Inclusion and Diversity (with an emphasis on the analysis of public policies); Education (especially teacher training processes); and the production and circulation of knowledge, including the study of different languages and technologies. The theme brings together five projects that complement each other and include research in the disciplines of Humanities, Applied Social Sciences, and Technology, Law, Exact Sciences, Arts and Education: a) "Power Relations, Inequalities and Human Rights" focuses on the analysis of multiple power relations and social imbalances, whether or not the figure of the state as a reference, since both cover various domains, however related, such as Law, Politics, Culture, Economics and History; b) "Public Policy and Social Change" includes studies related to the cycle of public policies, particularly the social character, considering aspects inherent in the proposal, implementation and evaluation of state initiatives; c) "Space, Society and Development: Contemporary Perspectives", aims to understand phenomena linked to the themes of Space, Society and Development, relevant to the understanding of the social world in a context of spatial inequities; d) "Production and Circulation of Knowledge" aims to analyze how multicultural experiences are fundamental to the debate about displacements, cultural productions and transformations of aesthetic, political, training models and the epistemological; and) "Smartminds: Internationalization of the Humanities in the Digital Sphere" intends to investigate the processes of formation of the public, cultural and artistic sphere, with a view to more effective ways of communicating and sharing, organization and analysis of documents, data , information and research results. We expect to reach these goals through systematic reciprocal interactions and networking with foreign partners, which will result in the increase in the planned process of internationalization of the university community of UFPR.

AIMS

Objective Public Policies and Social Change

Description



The purpose of this project is to deepen the academic-institutional ties of researchers in public policies and social changes of UFPR with its international partners, to consolidate already developed actions and, at the same time, to propose the development of innovative processes of comparative analysis and development methodologies, evaluations and proposals for the implementation of public policies, in particular those of a social nature. Methodologically, the project aims at the exchange of experiences on the plane of empirical research, comparing different realities and the cooperative production of analytical models; in the epistemological field, it seeks the consolidation of explanatory theories that allow the articulation of the complexity of the relations between state, market and organized civil society, in the context of globalization. As a transdisciplinary proposal, it is based on the experience accumulated by researchers from seven graduate programs and international partners, with the general objective of promoting and deepening changes in postgraduate practices, both by establishing new internal dynamics through networking and by sharing of actions that promote collective gains of internationalization. More specifically we aim to 1) Map the "state of the art" of public policies at the national and international level, within the scope of the general objective; 2) Strengthen the trans- and cross-disciplinarity of research into public policies; 3) Qualify production through shared work among the teams involved; 4) Offer transdisciplinary and foreign language courses, for greater interaction of the programs involved, academic collaboration and optimization of financial resources; 5) Improve the teaching and student qualification through the exchange of the UFPR team with the partner universities; 6) Develop comparative methodologies of analysis, monitoring and evaluation, in order to place UFPR as a point of reference in the field of public policies;7) Produce studies that improve the understanding of decision-making processes, disseminating them to the beneficiary groups of government actions. Outputs expected include: publications and scientific dissemination of international recognition more broadly, qualification of the faculty, internationalization of the student body, transfer of knowledge to society using public policies, strengthening of accountability processes and new forms of governance.

Objective Production and Circulation of Knowledge

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In today's world, marked by the intensification of mobility and of deterritorialization, as well as by new insertions in increasingly plural cultural universes, it becomes urgent to think about the limits of academic concepts and knowledge and discuss the challenges of the new epistemological fields. The objective of the project is to investigate the production, circulation and historical appropriation of diverse knowledge, considering pluricultural experiences for a detailed debate about displacements, productions and transformations of aesthetic, political, formative and epistemological models. The project brings together UFPR researchers from Law, History, Philosophy, Literature, Education and Economics around an original and innovative proposal, based on dialogues already underway, or at least partly in progress. These dialogues will be stepped up and strengthened through networking with renowned international partners such as Barbara Cassin, Claus Zittel, Ray Laurence, Wilfred Dolfsma and Anne-Marie Châtelet, among others. Methodologically, the project involves the recognition and analysis of different theoretical and empirical records from which exemplary cultural artifacts have been produced, in the form of various works, texts, and other forms of discourses. It also addresses the theme of its circulation, transmission and appropriation-assimilation as means of formation of cultural traditions, systems of thought and cultural and educational practices. We want to understand how distinct traditions of thought and systems of representation were constructed, giving equal attention to the work of the writing, translation, transmission and appropriation of knowledge. Respecting theoretical and methodological differences as to how distinct forms of knowledge constituted specific traditions of thought, the project encompasses investigations that connect historically and thematically to each other in fields of knowledge related to research in the History of Law, Philosophy, Education, Economics and Literature. The aim of the project is to 1) strengthen the transdisciplinarity and the international character of investigations already under way; 2) to develop the academic outputs of teachers and students through shared work among the teams involved; 3) to offer cross-cutting and foreign language courses, for greater interaction of the programs involved, academic collaboration and optimization of financial resources.

Objective Space, society and development: contemporary challenges

Description



Grounded in cross-disciplinary dialogue, this project addresses the challenges that present themselves to the knowledge and interpretation of the contemporary world, related, in particular, to the spatial, economic and social dimensions of reality, in order to understand how these modifications alter contents and social practices. We look at new views and questions about what is called development, taken here as a process. The objective is developed around two complementary axes: (i) one, of a more academic nature, is related to the development of a research agenda about the contemporary challenges that permeate the understanding of space, society and development and (ii) with a more applied bias, it is related to the implementation of actions that promote the increase of the international insertion of researchers, prioritizing the formation of human resources. The former focuses on the contemporary challenges and is justified by the growing need to transform the interpretive references of reality, in its most varied dimensions: social, technical, methodological, legal, economic, environmental, cultural, geo-information, permeated by global determinations which, for the most part, relegate local / regional experiences to the background. The goal is to provide a relevant reading of the ongoing transformations in the current world, enhanced by interaction with the foreign team, resulting in substantial gains for all the universities involved. The latter, in response to the specific demand for internationalization, aims at the approximation between the production of knowledge and the reference points of research and training vis-à-vis what happens in Brazil and abroad. It is understood that the dialogue between the areas should trigger new possibilities to understand reality and intervene in favor of the demands of our society. Thus, the theme will be tackled from the perspectives of geography, of law, of economic development, of Geodetic Sciences, public policy and sociology. In its own way and with its own instruments, each area will turn to the period recognized as the third modernity or third urban revolution, in which the speed of transformations related to the way of living produces new artifacts related to the materiality of social life.

Objective Power relations, inequalities and human rights

Description

FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ 33 to 190


Neoliberal globalization and the crisis of social democracies produce imbalances in power relations, widening class inequalities and social asymmetries, as well as depriving populations of human rights and other assets of citizenship. Violence against gender, sexual orientation, ethnic-racial, age and religious violence is also on the rise. The objective of the project is to discuss power relations and social asymmetries in the counterpoint of the human rights agenda. We thus subsume 1) conceptual investigations into the historical formation of political-juridical structures that rendered current normative models of organization of the democratic State of law; 2) the various facets of the contemporary crisis of the rule of law and social democracy; 3) the historical constitution of social asymmetries and inequalities by analyzing their respective socio-normative and linguistic bases; 4) field research on public policies aimed at broadening the scope of rights in our country. The network partnership between UFPR researchers, together with renowned researchers such as Judith Butler, Christian Laval, Frédéric Gros, Teun Van Dijk, François Kervegan and Chantal Mouff, will allow us to share and deepen ongoing dialogues and research on: (i) the genesis of the idea of subject of law and of the notion of autonomy; (ii) comparative approaches to constitutional law on the formation of the doctrine of human rights, the rule of law and democratic political institutions; (iii) the historical constitution of social normativity in relation to processes of inclusion / exclusion of subjects; (iv) power relations and asymmetries of gender, race and sexual diversity; (v) formative processes and forms of resistance of historically vulnerable populations;(vi) migratory movements of people and language policies for their university and social integration; (viii) the contemporary crisis of work under the aegis of neoliberalism and legal deregulation. The project intends to 1) map the "state of the art" at national and international levels on the subject; 2) to strengthen the transdisciplinary and international nature of investigations already under way; 3) Develop the academic production of students and teachers through work shared among the teams involved; 4) Offer transdisciplinary and foreign language courses, for greater interaction of the programs involved, academic collaboration and optimization of financial resources.

Objective SmartMinds: internationalization of the humanities in the digital public sphere

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The objective is to integrate internationalized teams from UFPR and partners abroad to consolidate and expand research practices based on methods, forms of work, instruments and digital environments. With the training of researchers for technological, linguistic and cultural activities in new scientific practices, UFPR is a center of reference for humanities innovation, as well as new collections, research sources and knowledge linked to Brazil, but great integration in the international scene and made available in a digital environment. With the international dissemination of information and knowledge about the Brazilian reality, we intend to increase the attractiveness of the local scene to foreign researchers. In addition, the project aims to connect UFPR to already institutionalized digital research environments - such as the European network DARIAH-EU, which will host UFPR and its outputs, as well as the digital resource platform for research in CLARIN-ERIC languages - and then extend this connectivity to other institutions that disseminate similar research and documentation practices, such as the National Library Foundation, also a partner in this project. By integrating the production of knowledge into the constitution, organization, annotation and permanent sharing of information, in work networks integrated by the interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities, the project develops structuring actions of internationalization, understood here as a permanent and ongoing practice, a sine qua non of scientific endeavor. With the strong support of the Exact Sciences and interaction with libraries and archives, the project is dedicated to investigate, in an international and plurilingual environment: (a) processes of formation of the public, cultural and artistic sphere in Brazil in an international context (through the presentation and analysis of documents and cultural and artistic assets that mediate and record the circulation of practices and ideas, such as the hundreds of still unexplored periodicals published in foreign languages in Brazil); (b) processes of transmission and transformation of knowledge, arts, sciences and social and communicational practices, whether in formal dynamics or in educational institutions, or in processes of unsystematic mobility and interaction, such as migratory movements; and (c) processes of social cultural development, currently searchable only through analysis of archaeological artifacts.

Graduate Program Participants

Theme BIODIVERSITY AND ENVIRONMENT

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 6



The Graduate Program in Economic Development (PPGDE) has been focusing, for about 30 years, on the training of students and on carrying out studies and research that have an emphasis on economic development. The development process is complex by nature, causing interdisciplinary views of this phenomenon to become essential. In this perspective, the graduate program is included in the proposal of UFPR for PRINT-CAPES linked to the Biodiversity and Environment Theme, in which PPGDE participates in the project "Network of internationalization in biodiversity and environment: threats and conservation of biodiversity". There are 9 graduate faculty members included in these projects and all have prominent internationalization activities. The advancement of environmental issues, especially the loss of biodiversity, and its close relationship with social and economic dynamics represent an important networking research opportunity for PPGDE in the international debate. It should be noted that the economic and social interface, related to the threats and conservation of biodiversity, requires a more thorough treatment in Economic Science given the inherent complexity of the development-environment binomial. Thus, the project "Internationalization Network on Biodiversity and Environment: Threats and Conservation of Biodiversity" gives the PPGDE an opportunity to broaden research on this theme that is of pressing relevance to social progress and has multiple possibilities for interaction with researchers and institutions multilateral organizations.


GENETICS 4

Rationale The Graduate Program in Genetics is linked to PrInt in the theme of Biodiversity and Environment, under the project "Internationalization Network in Bioprospecting, Biogeochemistry and Environmental Biotechnology", which is justified by the fact that several researchers who are part of the program are active in initiatives and projects related to the theme. Professor Chirlei Glienke, PhD., has been working since 2001 in the prospection of natural products produced by endophytic microorganisms isolated from medicinal plants of Brazilian biomes, especially from the Pantanal and South Cerrado in Mato Grosso. During this period more than 3,000 strains of fungi and Actinobacteria were isolated and are currently held in the culture collections of UFPR. The bioprospection of natural products for the control of human and plant pathogens has contributed to research outputs of a very high standard, as reflected by the articles published in scientific journals such as Scientific Reports of the group Nature, Frontiers in Microbiology, Studies in Mycology and Persoonia. This project includes important international collaborators, such as Dr. Jurgen Rohr and Jon Thorson of the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Kentucky in the United States and Dr. Pedro Crous from the CBS-Fungal Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands. In addition, it includes the collaboration of UFPR professors, Edvaldo Trindade (Cell Biology), Guilherme Sassaki, Emanuel Mantelpi de Souza, Marcelo M. Santos (Biochemistry), Jaqueline Oliveira, Daniela Gradia (Genetics) and Anderson Barisson (Chemistry). These national and international collaborations have allowed the exchange of students both for the United States (Daiani Savi and Aliandra Medeiros) and the Netherlands (Renata Gomes) - fundamental to increase the impact factor of the publications of the group with the PPGGEN. Thus, the linking of our Graduate Program in Genetics to this PRINT-CAPES project aims at strengthening these important collaborations.


SCIENCE (BIOCHEMISTRY) 7



The Graduate Program in Sciences (Biochemistry) (referred to as PPG-Bq), created in 1965, was the first to be instituted in the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), and is thus one of the oldest in Biological Sciences II (rated 7 by CAPES). PPG-Bq has 4 main research lines: 1 - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Microrganisms; 2 - Pharmacological Biochemistry and Cellular Metabolism, 3 - Enzymology and Biotechnology; and 4 - Carbohydrate Chemistry. All these Research Lines have interactions with several international groups, and have as well promoted academic mobility of faculty and students, research products in partnership with foreign researchers and well-established production of knowledge in flagship journals of international visibility. The participation of PPG-Bq in CAPES-PrInt will be essential to consolidate and increase its profile of excellence. Participation in the area of Biodiversity and Environment involves permanent faculty from all PPG-Bq research lines. The actions of this area aim mainly at environmental and genomic bioprospection and isolation of new molecules, the use of modern techniques of biogeochemical and genomic analysis for environmental monitoring, and synthetic biology for the design of environmental sensors and the improvement of bacteria associated with plants. Other actions include research in evolutionary biology and related areas. The integration of international partners with wide experience in their fields will provide a significant leap in the lines of research covered by this proposal. Relevant scientific issues and access to state-of-the-art technologies are recurring requirements to achieve the level of results published in high impact journals in the areas of bioprospecting, biogeochemistry and biotechnology. The international partnerships established by this network will bring both the intellectual contribution of experienced researchers, as well as access to cutting-edge technology parks and training of faculty and doctoral students. In technological terms, we hope to implement innovative strategies for the analysis of environmental samples through NMR and high-resolution mass spectrometry, innovative techniques for genetically modifying microorganisms of environmental relevance, new biotechnological applications of enzymes, polysaccharides, low-mass molecules and phytor- macons, and integrate the bioprospecting and environmental stressor analysis groups.


ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION 6



The graduate program in Ecology (PPG-ECO) has, by nature, a multidisciplinary character, which allows its involvement in different objectives of the Theme Biodiversity and Environment. The mission of all PPG-ECO research lines ("Ecology of Populations and Communities", "Conservation" and "Ecotoxicology and Environmental Quality") is related to the understanding of how biodiversity is distributed in space and time, and how the relationships between species to each other and to the physical environment work. Research involves several biological groups and analytical approaches, from experiments; data collected in the field; mathematical modeling; review and synthesis of secondary data. Therefore, interaction with researchers from abroad is essential for graduate program research to have greater scientific merit and to be published in internationally recognized journals. In this sense, the teaching staff has a high international standing considering its scientific-academic performance. Most faculty members have an H index higher than expected by the CAPES Biodiversity evaluation area; a high percentage of articles published with renowned foreign researchers; a high degree of attraction of researchers and students from abroad; and act as reviewers of international journals. In addition, some faculty are editors of high impact international journals and well qualified in the area of evaluation Biodiversity from CAPES. This is only made possible due to the internationalization of PPG-ECO. In fact, the studies we carry out frequently consider the relationship of knowledge generated in Brazilian ecosystems with ecosystems in different parts of the world. Some examples are projects conducted by researchers that involve studies of organisms from environments other than those found in Brazil, such as a project involving Antarctic fish and others involving global trends in biodiversity. It is also worth mentioning the participation of graduate professors in international research groups, some participating in research networks to understand global patterns in biodiversity and impacts of humanity on the environment such as climate change, habitat fragmentation and biological encroachment. As a result, PPG-ECO is one of the leading and most highly rated graduate programs in the area of Biodiversity, according to the CAPES research assessment exercise. This causes many foreign students to seek us out (7 foreign students enrolled in 2017), making our program a centerpiece for UFPR's internationalization strategies.


CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 5



The graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology is linked to the objective / project proposed in the thematic area Biodiversity and Environment, within the scope of the internationalization project of UFPR (PRINT / CAPES). This Graduate Program has been active for some 39 years in the theme of Biodiversity. Since its inception in 1979, the work of the researchers within the program, as well as the lines of research developed, are firmly grounded in this area. Currently, we can highlight this link with the area of Biodiversity, in the research lines Biology of Cellular Processes and Cell Toxicology. Specifically, the subprojects of PRINT / UFPR (a) "Internationalization Network in Bioprospecting, Biogeochemistry and Environmental Biotechnology", in which Professors Edvaldo da Silva Trindade and Fernanda F. Simas participate; (b) "Internationalization Network on Biodiversity and the Environment: Threats and Conservation", in which Professor Lucélia Donatti participates; and (c) "Monitoring and Environmental Modeling", in which Professors Ciro Alberto de Oliveira Ribeiro and Maritana Mela Prodócimo participate, are fundamental for the development of projects related to the respective lines of research of these researchers, and are important for improving the quality of publications (i.e. journals with a high impact factor). To wit, we note recent publications of the Program in these themes, with student and faculty collaboration (cited above), in addition to international participation: (i) Yamamoto et al., 2017 (Qualis A1 / CBII), Chemosphere, 186: 88-99. (doi: 10.1016 / j.chemosphere.2017.07.111); (ii) Rank et al., 2017 (Qualis B1 / CBII) Toxicology in Vitro, v. 40, p. 134-143, 2017. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tiv.2017.01.003); (iii) Piechnik et al., 2017 (Qualis A / CBII), Journal of Proteomics (Print), v. 151, p. 145-161. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jprot.2016.04.036). The connection of our Program with the Biodiversity field is evident when analyzing the research products of the faculty involved in these subprojects and of the Program as a whole. In addition, the internationalization project will contribute to the training of students, who will be able to experience the scientific and academic environment outside Brazil. The development of highly qualified professional is among the primary objectives of our Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology.

Graduate Program WATER RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Rationale

Score of quadrennial research assessment rating 5



Global changes, population growth, urbanization and energy demand create increasing pressure on water cycles, natural resources and ecosystems as well as on health infrastructure. The major challenges that result are: (i)Security and protection of water resources in quantity and quality for the production of drinking water, energy and food, as well as for the conservation of ecosystems; (ii) Prediction and quantification of the consequences of natural climatic variations and global anthropogenic changes in the water cycle and water-dominated cycles of materials in order to understand and reduce both their impacts on the availability of water resources and the quality of ecosystems, and the risks of natural disasters; (iii) Adaptation of distribution, infrastructure and water technologies to new environmental conditions and uses with respect to social demands, especially in urban environments; (iv) Efficient use of water in the electricity sector with reduced environmental impacts for energy production, energy storage and cooling processes. Developing innovative solutions to these challenges requires a new and stronger collaboration and interaction in academic research between the natural, social, and engineering sciences. In this context, the implementation of engineering solutions in practice requires intensive cooperation with national and international institutions (though not necessarily academic) to promote the sustainability of water resources and the environment. It should be noted that the Graduate Program in Water Resources and Environmental Engineering (PPGERHA) has well established foundations for scientific competence by incorporating fundamental and broad competence in all processes of the water cycle, modeling of ecosystems and energy processes and development of technologies for mitigation. In this context, the insertion of PPGERHA in BIODIVERSITY and ENVIRONMENT is a natural stage of its expertise developed over the last 20 years and with experience in international activities and therefore, to the challenges to be consolidated in the PRINT-UFPR program.


BOTANY 4

Rationale The Graduate Program in Botany (PPGBOT) has, by nature, a multidisciplinary character, working in areas of knowledge ranging from studies on the evolution of biodiversity and ecological relations, to processes of plant propagation and biotechnology. Among these, studies on the evolution of biodiversity and plant ecology represent two important lines of research of our Graduate Program. Historically, PPG-BOT has collaborated with several International institutions, especially with Natural History Museums, Botanical Gardens and Universities. Thus, the expansion of these collaborations will be a great opportunity to move forward in this direction. PPG-BOT is also included in the subproject "Internationalization Network in Bioprospecting, Biogeochemistry and Environmental Biotechnology". Among the planned activities is the development of the topic of synthetic biology applied to plant growth-promoting bacteria. Through the activities of its accredited professors enrolled in the subproject it will be possible to develop of in vitro studies of plants inoculated with these bacteria for the production of phytohormones. This study aims to make plant-bacterial communication more efficient and directed by secondary metabolites of plants. To this end, the laboratory infrastructure provided by the PPG-BOT faculty is essential for the development of these activities, which are central to the success of this project.


Environmental Engineering 4

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The Graduate Program in Environmental Engineering (PPGEA) is now in the expansion phase and the faculty experience is shown in its publications and in its international collaborations. These collaborations are the fruits of the high-quality research outputs of its faculty and of their internationalization initiatives with doctorates abroad, postdoctoral studies and academic exchange that they promote or on which they provide graduate and postgraduate supervision. PRINT is the opportunity to strengthen these initiatives in a continuous and ongoing way, by stimulating and supporting the mobility of researchers and students. In the thematic area of Biodiversity and Environment, PPGEA stands out in research that integrates monitoring and modeling, seeking to carry out the environmental diagnosis and prognosis through scenarios of environmental change or impact analysis. The alliance of these concepts is reflected in its uniqueness in terms of the design and proposal of the program, which includes lines of research in the areas of applied ecology, meteorology, environmental chemistry, air quality, reservoir management and coastal engineering - among others. Our research on the interface of measurement and modeling seeks to understand and explain the environmental processes, be they physical, chemical or biological, in a transdisciplinary analysis involving engineering and the approaches to the conservation of natural resources, in a quest for sustainable development. There is no way to deal with nature and human development by establishing research and interactions that are limited by geopolitical boundaries. Just like a river, the fauna and the winds that cross borders, research in these themes also so demand that it carry out integrated analyses with generalizable results.


PHYSIOLOGY 4

Rationale The graduate program in Physiology of UFPR (PPG-Physiology) is linked to the thematic area Biodiversity and Environment, whose main objective is to establish and consolidate international networks of research on the phenomena associated with biodiversity, including the evaluation of the environmental risks to biota and human beings. In this context, PPG-Physiology will contribute to the strengthening of research groups and networks involved in the identification and assessment of chemical risks to living organisms, including humans; through the analysis of physiological markers of dysfunctions induced by environmental pollutants such as industrial chemical residues, pesticides, plasticizers and drugs. In particular, PPG-Physiology will contribute to the analysis of parameters related to endocrine and reproductive changes induced by environmental chemical agents. The physiological parameters and markers used will be evaluated in experimental models in vitro and in vivo, using the structure and experience of the laboratories of the PPG-Physiology and through a multidisciplinary approach, with the participation of other graduate programs and international collaborators. This multidisciplinary and collaborative approach aims at the design of strategies for the integrated evaluation of multiple molecular, cellular and functional biomarkers of chemical exposure.


GEODESIC SCIENCES 5



The Graduate Program in Geodesic Sciences (PPGCG) is traditional in Brazil and has a 40-year-old history at UFPR. Geodesic Sciences have as a main objective the determination of the shape, dimensions and field of the external gravity of the Earth, as well as its temporal variations, its topographic measurement and its cartographic representation, besides the analysis of the information regarding the surface of the Earth using different mathematical methods and information technology. With this knowledge the program will contribute to the area of Biodiversity and Environment in the subarea of environmental quality, risks and climatic changes, with actions that include the "Environmental Monitoring and Modeling" as a central activity to promote the joint work of all the areas involved in the project. In the project. In this way, PPGCG is participating in the strategic network in the area of Environmental Monitoring (REsMA - UFPR) and will also provide duly interpreted and evaluated data, which together with physicochemical, biological and chemical parameters, will promote risk assessment for the biota and human populations. Also, the aim is to understand, through prior knowledge of these risks, the role of external agents on Biota and environmental systems, and the identification of the variables for the understanding of the mechanisms through which Biodiversity may be compromised. With the participation of this program in this project we foresee pronounced growth since we are immersed in a global context of information exchange in the search for knowledge, beyond intensifying the internationalization of the program.


Animal Science 4

Rationale The Graduate Program in Animal Science (PPGCA) has 17 associated faculty members and 35 students all running projects in the area of health / animal production, and most of them have an interface in public and human health. It is known that additional demands generated by the exploratory character typical of some experimental protocols require an additional support of resources and technical knowledge to ensure a more qualified scientific training of our graduate students. Our participation in the Capes-Print funding call in the theme Biosciences and Health can thus be seen as timely and perfectly fits the needs of the PPGCA. Recently, one faculty member of our program, Dr. Aline de Marco Viott, had the experience of a technical visit to the University of Cordoba, Spain (UCO), thus providing the opportunity to strengthen relations with a group of researchers who develop projects within the area of respiratory diseases of pigs. Respiratory diseases are one of the main causes of economic loss in Brazilian pig farms. In spite of its great economic and sanitary impact, this subject has been under-investigated in Brazil. However, several global research centers such as the UCO have been actively exploring the subject with a solid line of research with international recognition and publications in high impact journal. The development of a line of research and similar research at UFPR would enable the development of projects in partnership with the UCO, exchange of technologies and knowledge, and the possibility of training graduate students at the master and doctoral levels, involving a total of five program faculty. In the technological scope, the development of diagnostic techniques would allow the correct control of this disease in the production of pigs and would avoid the indiscriminate use of antibiotics that impact in bacterial resistance in both animals and humans. With respect to the PPGCA program more specifically, it is expected that the allocation of resources will allow: the visit of two senior professors and a UCO Junior Visiting professor who will run graduate courses and engage in research activities, the establishment of a postdoctoral fellowship for one of the professors involved, sandwich PhD, in addition to four master degree students, international joint supervision and several research assistantships. Finally, it is expected that at least six research articles in journals ranked A1 and A2 by CAPES and dissemination in national and international congresses.




BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES (ENTOMOLOGY) 5

Rationale Biodiversity patterns observed in nature are the product of a series of evolutionary processes. Considering that this is the unifying concept of Biology, Sciences such as Systematics and, more fundamentally, Taxonomy play an essential role, since the species is the basic unit of biological systems. Biological diversity has been estimated to consist of around 10 million species of eukaryotes, of which fewer than 2 million have been formally described. On the other hand, the speed and negative impact of anthropogenic effects on the environment are unprecedented in history, which surely means a loss of evolutionary units even before their formal recognition and ecosystem potential. Thus, there is an urgent need to delimit, describe and understand the variations in these evolutionary units as the initial basis for understanding the processes that generate and maintain biodiversity. It is in this context of the study of the origin, evolution and preservation of Biodiversity that the Postgraduate Program in Entomology has been operating in the last 20 years, mainly in the lines related to Systematics and its aspects, using theoretical frameworks derived from comparative biology, biogeography, molecular biology and ecology. With this multidisciplinary perspective of scientific production, the integration with researchers from Brazil and other countries, for the mobility of students and professors, provides a unique opportunity to consolidate a network of international studies in Entomology, further stimulating scientific collaborations, workshops and courses, while at the same time consolidating the traditional and recognized lines already existing in our Program.


INFORMATICS 5

Rationale The Graduate Program in Informatics (PPGInf) is linked to two thematic areas from the CAPES-Print call. Scholars are involved in the Environmental Monitoring and Modelling project, which is related to the theme of Biodiversity and Environment, from the Environmental Quality/Climate Change area. This project proposes integrated actions that will allow the understanding of the risks of exposing the biota to external agents, in addition to establishing parameters for the discussion of Biodiversity integrity. The data set originated from the parameters that constitute the project base will be the target of the work conducted by the scholars of the Graduate Program in Informatics (PPGInf). They will focus on data optimization and distribution, adaptation of distribution algorithms to large-scale systems, both heterogeneous and dynamic, and application of complex data models and graphs, including computational neuroscience and statistical approaches. Regarding the thematic area Democracy, Culture and Development, from the Digital Humanities area, there is the SmartMinds: Internationalization of Humanities in the Digital Public Sphere project, of which the faculty members of the Graduate Program in Informatics are part of. They developed research in the area of pattern recognition in historical documents and computational infrastructure for support of activities related to storage, processing, analysis, translation and research of historical documents. Still connected to the theme of Democracy, Culture and Development, the faculty members of the Graduate Program in Informatics (PPGInf) will participate in the project entitled Public Policy. They will be conducting research and the development of innovative solutions in the use of high-speed networks for the transmission, processing and availability of large amounts of data, in order to support the implementation, strengthening and assessment of public policies regarding digital inclusion, health, education, and transparency. These actions require an integrated process from the data acquisition until its display.


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Rationale The Graduate Program in Geography (PPGGEO) is linked to the Capes PrInt-UFPR through the projects / objectives of the thematic areas Biodiversity and Environment and Democracy, Culture, Development. due to the adhesion and coherence of the projects of research currently under development, as well as the researchers involved. The projects in the area of Biodiversity and Environment are directly linked to the research line of Landscape and Environmental Analysis, while the project of the thematic area Democracy, Culture and Development is related to the research line Production of Space and Culture, and both have linkage with the PPGGEO focus areas.


ZOOLOGY 5

Rationale Since its foundation in 1974, the Graduate Program in Zoology of the UFPR (PGZoo) has played a central role in the training of researchers in the field of Zoology in Brazil, being the fourth oldest graduate program in the area of biodiversity in the country. Due to this pioneering character and its excellence in Zoology research, the research groups established by graduates of the PGZoo program is a reality in universities and research centers in virtually every State in the country. Currently the PGZoo is divided into three areas: Evolution and Systematics, Animal Biology and Applied Zoology. By their nature, all these areas are closely linked to the study of patterns and processes related to the origin and maintenance of biodiversity, with a main focus on Brazilian biomes, justifying their connection to the theme Biodiversity and Environment.


CHEMISTRY 7



Several research groups of the Postgraduate Program in Chemistry (PPGQ) of UFPR are involved in the identification, purification, characterization and derivatization of molecular compounds extracted from renewable natural sources, which range from low molecular weight metabolites to enzymes and polysaccharides whose potential for economic exploitation is high. It is common knowledge, for example, that many commercial drugs originate from natural sources. This fact stresses the importance of bioprospecting in the pharmaceutical sector, and beyond, since bio (macro) molecules are also relevant in the control of agricultural and urban pests, in the food industry, in stimulating plant growth and in (bio) catalysis of reactions of industrial interest. It is in this context that the PPGQ is part of the "Internationalization Network in Bioprospecting, Biogeochemistry and Environmental Biotechnology" of PrInt-UFPR. Our researchers' experience in refined structural analysis techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and mass spectrometry, and interaction with partners from other countries will enable the training of students and faculty through study and work visits abroad, teaching of courses, participation in international events and seminars planned in the project. This joint action will take place in the development of new pharmaceutical products, in the monitoring of molecular markers of environmental stress and pollution, and in the identification of compounds that act on organisms transmitting diseases or deleterious to plant production. On another front, researchers from PPGQ and foreign partners will mine genomic and metagenomic libraries to identify new enzymes whose activity constitutes a biotechnological alternative for the use of agroindustrial residues, the synthesis of industrial inputs and the sustainable exploitation of abundant biomass in the country. Finally, in the project "Monitoring and Environmental Modeling" a unique opportunity for the interaction of PPGQ with internationally renowned specialists in Unilateral NMR is brought to fruition. This will allow the training of human resources in low-field NMR capable of detecting, for example, structural changes in dams and restraints in lakes, reservoirs and power plants, for the prevention of high-impact environmental accidents such as those that occurred recently in Minas Gerais and Pará.


COASTAL AND OCEANIC SYSTEMS 5



The graduate program in Coastal and Oceanic Systems (PGSISCO) has been directly linked to the Biodiversity area (previously named Ecology and Environment) since its inception in 2006. The multidisciplinary competence of its faculty allows for the high-standard training of human resources and the development of research outputs with cross-cutting themes in all areas of Social, Exact, Earth and Life Sciences together with statistical techniques and experimental approaches that permit researchers to infer the processes that originate, regulate and maintain biological diversity in coastal and oceanic systems. As a result, research on oceanic and coastal dynamics, biogeochemistry and marine pollution, biology and ecology and integrated management at PGSISCO achieved a high rating among the Marine Sciences groups, elevating the program to a score 5 of CAPES in a short time. In this proposal, we will use the multidisciplinary profile of the teaching staff and the consolidated academic experience to advance the investigation of the role of biodiversity in the maintenance and productivity of marine ecosystems, considering scientific and technological aspects that contribute to the discussion of the policy of global changes and human impacts on marine environments on a local, regional and global scale. The efficiency and improvement of our graduates and the leading research to be developed by PGSISCO in the coming years depends on their inclusion in internationalization programs on a multidisciplinary scale. This will involve improving PGSISCO's capacity to respond qualitatively and quantitatively to the incentives for cutting-edge scientific production and to gain the cutting-edge know-how of the institutions selected to receive our students and faculty. The CAPES-Print initiative is therefore expected to be the starting point for a future research assessment upgrade and can contribute to the implementation of projects of real estimates of the Biodiversity, as well as the biotic role in maintaining ecosystems health, especially in coastal environments with high levels of chemical stressors.


MICROBIOLOGY, PARASITOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY 5

Rationale The Graduate Program in Microbiology, Parasitology and Pathology (PPGMPPa) was created in 2003 and the PhD program began in 2009. With more than 200 dissertations and theses defended up to 2017, PPGMPPa has professors who work with basic and applied research in human health. Currently with a grade of 5 (CAPES), an increase to 6 is envisaged in the next evaluation in view of the scientific production focused on publication in highly-ranked journals (e.g. A1-A2) in the first year of the four-year period. Furthermore, 47% of the Faculty consists of CNPq Researchers, nine of whom are level 2, two level 1D and one level 1A. Around 40% of the articles have been published in journals ranked A1, A2 and B1 by Qualis. The scientific profile of the Program makes it possible to train masters and doctors, in areas such as Biological Sciences, Pharmacy, Biomedicine, Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, Nutrition, Bioprocess Engineering, Chemistry, Physiotherapy and Nursing in the areas of Life Sciences. This multidisciplinarity enables the production and exchange of knowledge recognized for excellence in the area of scientific development. The justification for including Professor Marcelo Molento in this project concerns his interaction with the group of researchers involved in the production of molecules that would be selected for use in controlling parasitic diseases such as Leishmaniasis. Therefore, Dr. Molento intends to propose agroecological strategies of parasitic treatment, ones that are environmentally sustainable, and thus have complete relevance and adherence to the biodiversity area.


AGRONOMY (CROP PRODUCTION) 5



The Graduate Program in Agronomy - Crop Production is part of the PrInt-UFPR call under the theme Biodiversity and Environment, linked to the project “Internationalization Network in Bioprospecting, Biogeochemistry and Environmental Biotechnology”. The PPG Agronomy-Crop Production program has its line of research focused on epidemiological studies and integrated management of diseases that cause damage to plants, resulting in losses to the agricultural sector. Within this theme, it develops studies on the variability in the population of important pathogens in temperate fruits (apple, grape, peach, etc.) and in the soybean crop, with the participation of professor Louise Larissa May De Mio. With each passing year, the selection pressure of fungicides on pathogens increases and populations with resistance to fungicides arise, causing disease control failure. The development of new assets for sustainable management and with less impact to the environment could avoid economic losses generating new options for management. In this project, Professor Louise May De Mio will be responsible, together with her external partners (Universities of California, University of Florida and Clemson University), to test and validate products developed by the research group for the various pathogens (action studies) and their respective diseases (definition of control strategies). The project involves interaction within the university and will promote the exchange of students and faculty, and international collaboration more broadly. Professor Louise May De Mio has several international publications and over the course of her career has participated in various international events and sandwich PhD (PDSE) programs.

Theme Advanced Materials


MECHANICAL ENGINEERING 5

Rationale The Graduate Program in Mechanical Engineering (PG-Mec) was created on March 15, 2000 and since 2005 has been rated as 5 within the CAPES scheme for evaluating graduate programs. The professors accredited in the Program have scientific partnerships with researchers from other universities in Brazil and abroad (Germany, Argentina, France, USA and Italy). The key motivation for the adhesion of PG-Mec to PRINT is the desire to increase its rating to 6 in the next evaluations by CAPES, which will only be possible through the improvement of the internationalization indicators of the program. PG-Mec has three key research lines. Two research lines fall within the thematic area of Advanced Materials. The first is a research line in the production of new materials by plasma treatments, with most work having been done with low-temperature thermochemical treatments of stainless steels. These treatments lead to the formation of metastable phases, known as expanded phases, at the surface of the material. These expanded phases have very particular and very interesting properties from the point of view of resistance to corrosion and wear. The research into these advanced materials covers both scientific aspects, linked to the understanding of the formation and stability of these phases, and evaluation of the potential of technological applications. The second research line in the area of Advanced Materials is the dynamic characterization of viscoelastic materials for use in vibration and noise control. The third research line, transport phenomena, falls within the area of Renewable Energy and New Energy Sources. In this research line, work is being undertaken with an incineration plant for municipal solid waste (MSW) and with CO2 capture by microalgae in photobioreactors with products and energy generation.




ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS SCIENCE 5 Rationale The Graduate Program in Materials Engineering and Science (called “PIPE”) stands out within UFPR, not only due to its multidisciplinary nature, which is inherent in the Materials area, but also because it is not linked to an undergraduate program nor to a Department of Materials Engineering and Science. The faculty of PIPE comprises professors of UFPR from the Departments of Physics, Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Environmental Engineering. These researchers have well-established scientific partnerships with researchers from other universities in Brazil and abroad (mainly from France, Germany and USA), and also with researchers from Brazilian institutions such as LACTEC and EMBRAPA. These unique characteristics make PIPE a core of excellence in the area of Materials and a pole of attraction for researchers in areas linked to the Advanced Materials Theme. PIPE has three main research lines in the thematic area of Advanced Materials: 1) Engineering of materials, which studies and develops metallic, ceramic, polymeric and composite materials for applications in diverse areas including mechanical, electrical, magnetic, optical thermal, chemical, morphological and structural properties; the mechanisms of degradation of materials an area of development in this reserch line 2) Simulation and modeling of materials, where theoretical models and computational methods are used to simulate and optimize physical systems of interest, ranging from the nanostructured materials to devices and processes; 3) Surface, film and interface technology, which involves the experimental production of surfaces and thin films with potential applications in engineering, with subsequent characterization of their physical and chemical properties, as well as the study of the interaction between materials and interfacial phenomena. Participation in CAPES-PrInt will allow PIPE to bring foreign researchers who are prominent in their research areas to deliver minicourses, workshops and seminars, not only to the PIPE community but also to other participating graduate programs. In addition, PIPE will receive young talents and international postdoctoral research fellows. Program faculty will have the opportunity to engage in academic visits abroad as visiting professors; students of the Program will also benefit from sandwich placements with prominent overseas research groups during their PhDs.


CHEMISTRY 7



Since its expansion into a Program with master's and doctoral degrees 18 years ago, the Graduate Program in Chemistry (PPGQ) of UFPR has "Chemistry of Materials" as one of its lines of research. In fact, various of the research groups in PPGQ work directly or indirectly in this area, which covers all the major areas of Chemistry: Inorganic, Organic, Analytical and Physical Chemistry, also the interaction including its interfaces with other areas of the knowledge. Not surprisingly, the Materials research line is one of the most productive of PPGQ, in terms of the indicators used by CAPES to evaluate graduate programs, and has been responsible for a large exchange of students from various research groups of the Program with different universities. In this context, the insertion of the PPGQ researchers in the project "(Nano) Advanced Materials: Preparation, Characterization, Modeling, Properties and Applications” is natural since this project is directly related to scientific activities of PPGQ. In fact, it reflects the scientific evolution of PPGQ over the last 18 years: PPGQ reached the maximum CAPES rating of 7 in the last quadrennial evaluation in parallel with the improvement of the instrumental park of the Department of Chemistry (DQUI/UFPR) through the creation of multi-user laboratories (to which PPEQ researchers contributed through projects funded by FINEP/CT-INFRA and CAPES/Pró-Equipamentos). Several multiuser devices were acquired (Raman spectrophotometer, X-ray diffractometers of monocrystals and powders, scanning electron microscope, transmission electron microscope accessories, atomic force microscope, consoles for NMR spectrometers, EPR spectrometer, among others) and are constantly under demand. The PPGQ/UFPR research groups are aligned with keyplayers within the Advanced Materials project of PrInt/UFPR, particularly with respect to the preparation, characterization and processing of different materials developed in DQUI, and the study of their properties and applications. The international cooperation activities covered by the project will contribute to the consolidation and expansion of existing partnerships with renowned institutions in several countries.


PHYSICS 6



The Graduate Program in Physics (PPGFísica) has 10 permanent faculty members (researchers) participating in the thematic area of Advanced Materials in the CAPES-PrInt call. These researchers are highly competent in different experimental and theoretical subjects that fit within the larger area of Advanced Materials, and will play an important role in the execution of the "(Nano) Advanced Materials” project. PPGFísica received a rating of 6 in the most recent CAPES evaluation. To obtain a rating of 7 in the next quadrennial evaluation, it will be necessary to invest in internationalization. PPGFísica considers that participation in the "(Nano) Advanced Materials” project is essential to its development and will be beneficial in many ways, both for faculty and for graduate students. Within UFPR, the "(Nano) Advanced Materials” project gives an opportunity to expand beyond existing collaborations, with the establishment of new collaborations with researchers from the other graduate programs that are contributing to this project. In relation to internationalization, renowned international researchers will visit PPGFísica regularly, delivering seminars and symposia to the graduate programs participating in the project. Simultaneously, researchers will have the possibility to participate in workshops promoted by other graduate programs of UFPR within the framework of CAPES-PrInt and to receive international young talents and postdoctoral fellows from overseas. Additionally, the faculty of PPGFísica will have the opportunity to make academic visits to internationally renowned research groups and to participate in visiting scholar programs abroad. Various graduate students of PPGFísica will benefit from sandwich placements with international groups during their doctorates. These interactions will not only develop the professional skills of researchers and students, but also improve the overall quality of the research output of PPGFísica, enabling it to increase its impact on the international stage.



Rationale The Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology (PPGBCM) is linked to the project proposed in the thematic area Advanced Materials through its research into the Biology of Cellular Processes. Specifically, participation in the "(Nano) advanced materials” project will give a boost to the research lines of Professors Carolina Camargo de Oliveira and Fernanda F. Simas, enabling them to improve the quality of their publications and to publish in journals with higher impact factors. We stress that this is a new research line in PPGBCM. A doctoral student is currently developing her thesis project in this area and will undertake a sandwich placement (PDSE) in 2018 in Germany. The linking of PPGBCM with the Advanced Materials area is recent, but opportune: It arises from the new area of biomedical applications of metallic nanoparticles and polymeric nanocomposites in the treatment of tumors. PPGBCM has the cellular biology expertise that is required to evaluate these new materials in the biological context. Participation in the CAPES-PrInt project will allow PPGBCM students to receive invaluable scientific and academic training in prominent overseas research groups, thereby fulfilling one of the primary objectives of our Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology, namely the development of highly qualified researchers in cellular and molecular biology.


ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 4



The Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering (PPGEE) is linked to the CAPES-PrInt project in Advanced Materials through the applications that various materials have within electrical engineering: The electrical, magnetic, optical, mechanical and chemical characterizations of these materials is critical. PPGEE focuses its research in three areas: Energy Systems, Electronic Systems and Telecommunications. With respect to materials science and engineering, the key area is Electronic Systems, with a focus on conductive materials, insulators and semiconductors. Semiconductor materials are of fundamental importance for the integrated circuits industry and a diverse range of other devices used in information technology. The development and characterization of different semiconductor materials and combinations is, therefore, critical. PPGEE therefore has a natural interest in participating in the “(Nano) Advanced Materials” project, specifically in the study of semiconductors. One of PPGEE’s research lines in the area of Electronic Systems is that of Circuits and Electronic Instrumentation, which seeks to understand the physical foundations of electronic devices at the micro and nano scale, as well as their application in complex systems. These studies range from the study of the transport of nanoscale load carriers and their applications in devices for spintronics and photovoltaic conversion, to the development of circuits and electronic systems with low power consumption in the segments of analog electronics and radiofrequency (RF). In all these cases, the properties of the materials are critical and the study of these properties is, therefore, essential. CAPES gave PPGEE a rating of 4 in the 2013-2016 evaluation. Through its participation in the CAPES-PrInt project, PPGEE aims to improve its rating and boost its indicators of internationalization. Three PPGEE researchers are to the project within the Advanced Materials line, namely André Augusto Mariano, César Augusto Dartora and Oscar da Costa Gouveia Filho.


CIVIL CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING 5



The Graduate Program in Civil Construction Engineering (PPGECC) is one of the oldest programs in Civil Engineering in Brazil. It has participated actively in the development of Curitiba, Paraná State and Brazil, and also spread knowledge well beyond these borders. PPGECC is divided into three focus areas: (1) materials and structures; (2) geotechnics; and (3) built environment and management. The inclusion of PPGECC within the thematic area "Advanced Materials" is directly related to focus area (1). This area currently has 16 researchers, three of whom are participating in the CAPES-PrInt project, namely professors Marcelo H. F. de Medeiros, Ricardo Pieralisi and Ronaldo Alves de Medeiros Jr. All three are active participants in the area, having published 133 articles in journals, 9 chapters in books and 145 articles in Conference proceedings. The participation of PPGECC in this project is related to additives and waterproofing substances for the self-sealing of cementitious composites, carbon nanotubes, and metal and synthetic fibers to control cracking in concrete structures. PPGECC has a long history of partnerships with international institutions, with professors participating in international co-supervision programs, co-authoring articles with foreign researchers and presenting in international events. Finally, PPGECC has constantly progressed in terms of CAPES’ evaluation. Most recently, PPGECC received a rating of 5, and aims at a rating of 6 for the next assessment. A key requirement for a rating of 6 is to improve internationalization, making the participation of PPGECC in the CAPES-PrInt project highly strategic.

Theme BIOSCIENCES AND HEALTH


Bioprocess and Biotechnology Engineering 7

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The graduate program in bioprocess and biotechnology engineering (PPGEBB) aims to educate technical professionals and high-level managers in order to participate in the industrial market of biotechnology actively and in an interdisciplinary way. These professionals are specialized to deal with research and creation of new products, developing research in the areas of industrial biotechnology and biofuels, agri-food biotechnology, and biotechnology in human and animal health. Professors and students develop projects aimed at adding value to primary agricultural commodities produced in the state of Paraná and in Brazil, as well as exploiting microbial biodiversity to obtain products of higher commercial value. Additionally, they significantly act to the development of diagnostic kits and vaccines. High quality and internationalization have been goals of the program, since it has recently achieved the highest ranking (grade 7) by CAPES’ research assessment rating. However, to consolidate internationalization, increase the improve quality of publications, develop networked projects with foreign researchers, and nationalize technology, the program needs resources that are being requested through the CAPES-PRINT call. Biotechnology is a dynamic and competitive area, which demands a consistent internationalization and networking. Within the thematic area “Biosciences and Health” of CAPES-PRINT call, our program will feature direct participation of two permanent faculty in subprojects associated with three thesis (with doctoral students participating in a Sandwich Doctorate Abroad Program – PDSE), and one dissertation in the area of agroindustrial biotechnology, along with human and animal health. Such area should bring various visiting scholars to Brazil, one of them under direct responsibility of PPGEBB. These scholars will be involved in research and human formation activities through co-supervision and offer of courses. This action will benefit all graduate students of PPGEBB, in particular, the researchers working with carbohydrates and nanobiotechnology. Furthermore, researchers are planning to make two visits abroad to facilitate networking, partnerships and joint supervisions, which should have an impact on the technical and scientific production of the program. The actions of the program will thoroughly benefit through CAPES-PRINT call, aligning with the strategic plans of the PPGEBB and with the goals of scientific and technical research for the four-year research assessment period.


MICROBIOLOGY, PARASITOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY 5



The graduate program in microbiology, parasitology and pathology (PPGMPPa) was created in 2003 and the doctorate program began in 2009. With more than 200 dissertations and thesis presented up to 2017, PPGMPPa has faculty who work with basic and applied research in human health. Forty-seven percent of the faculty are CNPq researchers: nine at level 2, two at level 1D and one at level 1A. Around 40% of the articles have been published in journals ranked A1, A2 and B1 by Qualis. The program allows the development of graduate students in different areas of education of life sciences. Such multidisciplinary vein allows for the exchange of knowledge, and contributes to the production of new scientific knowledge notorious in the area of scientific development. Moreover, we emphasize the social relevance of the program: our researchers offer knowledge and assistance to the community and engage in research to find answers concerning issues that involve neglected, emerging and re-emerging diseases. In microbiology, our researching professors Vania Vicente and Flavio Q. Telles have established an international collaboration with professor Sybren Hoog, one of the world's leading researchers in mycology who works at the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, in the Netherlands. A joint research on the global influence of black yeasts, established a library of all existing fungi, a consolidation of invaluable knowledge and commercial value. In parasitology, researchers Magda C. Ribeiro and Marcel Ramirez investigate neglected parasitological diseases, such as leishmaniasis and Chagas disease. In pathology, some lines of research have been highly fruitful, namely: chronic kidney disease (researched by investigators Andrea Stinghen and Lia Nakao), studies on cancer (by professors Giseli Klassen, Thaman Cavalieri and Lucia de Noronha), infectious diseases such as syphilis and Hansen's disease (by professor Juliana de Moura), as well as diagnosis and treatment of accidents with venomous animals (by researching professor Larissa Alvarenga). Such research yielded the possibility of improving diagnosis via SUS and the production of important patents. Additionally, we have biologic material that involves several issues related to human health, which encompasses several related lines of our program research.


PHYSICS 6

Rationale The graduate program in physics (PPGFísica) has two permanent professors involved in the CAPES-PRINT UFPR/PRPPG call n. 01/2018 in the thematic area “Biosciences and Health”. These professors work in theoretical lines of research within this thematic area and will have an important role to the implementation of the project. The PPGFísica has recently been awarded a grade of 6 in CAPES’ research assessment rating. To obtain a grade of 7 in the next quadrennial rating, it will be necessary to invest in internationalization. In this way, the participation of our program in this project is essential to its development and will be beneficial in many ways, both for faculty and for graduate students. Regarding the advantages to the institution, several graduate programs of our university are involved in the thematic area “Biosciences and Health”, which favors the consolidation of both existing and new collaborations between the professors of these programs. In relation to internationalization, we will have renowned international researchers visit our program regularly in order to deliver seminars and symposia to the graduate programs participating in the project. Simultaneously, they will have the possibility to participate in workshops promoted by UFPR graduate programs and to receive international young talents and postdoctoral fellows. Additionally, the faculty of the program will have the opportunity to make academic visits and to participate in visiting scholar programs abroad. The PPGFísica graduate students may also benefit from sandwich doctorates abroad. As a result, we expect professors and students to improve their professional qualification. The program itself should improve its overall quality and aspire to achieve a higher research impact.




CHEMISTRY 7

Rationale The faculty of the graduate program in chemistry (PPGQ) have already established international collaborations in the thematic area “Biosciences and Health”, which will be strengthened and expanded in the duration of the CAPES-PRINT call. Projects being developed by our program involve areas such as biotechnology, molecular biology, microbiology, biochemistry, pharmacy and the omic sciences (genomic, transcriptomic, proteomic and metabolomics). Research activities emphasize the development, isolation and characterization of potential new drugs, in addition to biological and medical issues related to diseases caused by various pathogens. In response to the CAPES-PRINT call, our proposal of internationalization intends to contribute, with the support of partner institutions from abroad, to diagnostic medicine, to the understanding of the molecular bases and to the treatment of chronic and neglected diseases and cancer in its different stages (prevention, initiation, propagation and regression). With regard to potential new drugs, our program considers the isolation and characterization of natural products, as well as the synthesis of new organic composts and of coordination containing transition metals and/or lanthanides, aiming at evaluation of interaction with specific biological targets. Nanocarriers and organic-inorganic hybrid materials will be developed to assist in improving the bioavailability and the controlling of drug delivery kinetics, as well as, enzymes will be immobilized or isolated for the biosynthesis of molecules of pharmacological interest. The characterization of the potential new drugs and the nanocarrier systems will be made by a variety of techniques: diffractometry, spectroscopy, microscopy and thermal analysis. These techniques are available in the laboratories of the UFPR and the foreign institutions included in the project, which will feature the expertise of researchers who are willing to collaborate with the research groups of the PPGQ and contribute to the formation of human resources in the program. The opportunity of development of analytical methods for separation and characterization of various products is also highlighted, including “-omics” techniques, as well as methodologies for the statistical treatment of data. From the technological point of view, the studied systems will be able to generate products of industrial and commercial interest, especially in the context of the pharmaceutical industry.


PHYSICAL EDUCATION 6

Rationale The PPG in Physical Education participates in the PRINT-UFPR in the thematic areas of Biosciences and Health and Democracy, Culture, and Development. The structure of the PPGEDF in its research lines “Physical Activity and Health: Analysis of aspects of physical activity related to factors that influence and determine the behavior, lifestyle and health” and “Sport, Leisure and Society: Studies and research on the expressions of sport and leisure from historical, sociological, educational, political and cultural perspectives” is intrinsically related to the thematic areas of the PRINT. It is worth noting that the Faculty involved in the PRINT has high scientific production in international journals with impact factor at JCR and also a high level of internationalization through partnerships with lecturers and foreign institutions in the development of scientific projects. This international cooperation has provided academic mobility of students both at graduation as the graduate with inter-university exchanges in MSC and Ph.D. and also in qualifying training of students through co-supervisions and participation in foreign lecturers examining boards of dissertations and theses from PPGEDF. The involvement in PRINT projects aims to strengthen the internationalization work as well as the lecturer and student training. These projects are already developed in the PPGEDF, providing tools and an environment of excellence in research.




GENETICS 4

Rationale The graduate course in genetics of UFPR has researchers with extensive experience in important projects in the area of biosciences and health. It is of great importance to PPG to have the PPG in Genetics linked to the thematic area of Bioscience and Health in the internationalization project. Bringing researchers for delivering courses and sending students to undertake part of their work in renowned laboratories with cutting-edge technologies are essential to the project. As a result, the collaboration and increase of the exchange of international experience to our program are ensured. Internationalisation is essential so we can improve the impact of the projects which are developed in the program, thus, assisting the entire PPG. More specifically, the PPG Genetics was inserted into the project under the heading “Basic and applied research in Cancer” and proposes to study the genetic bases involved in the tumor development. Studies on the genetic basis of cancer are essential for understanding the biology of neoplastic cells, as well as searching for new prognostic markers and potential therapeutic targets. The participation of genetics within the subject area is strongly justified. This is due to the existence of researchers and current projects on the subject that include researchers and several students linked to this GP.


PHYSIOLOGY 4

Rationale The Graduate Program in Physiology of UFPR (PPG-FISIO) is linked to the Biosciences and Health thematic area, whose main objective is to form international research networks dedicated to the study of diagnostic, therapeutic and investigative aspects of the molecular bases of chronic and neglected diseases. In this context, the PPG-FISIO will contribute to the strengthening of research groups and networks, involved in the development of new strategies for the early diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, through the investigation of metabolomic markers. Parameters and physiological markers will be evaluated through experimental models of Parkinson’s disease and in volunteers with this disease, using the structure and experience from PPG-FISIO laboratories and, as well as a multidisciplinary approach, with the participation of other GPs and international collaborators. This multidisciplinary and collaborative approach aims at the design of strategies for the integrated evaluation of multiple early stage molecular biomarkers, with the perspective of developing an innovative strategy for early diagnosis.


NURSING 5



In the framework of the internationalization proposal of Federal University of Paraná, PPG-ENF justifies its connection to CAPES-PRINT in the thematic areas Democracy, Culture to Development and Biosciences and Health, because they are related to the following research lines of the program Management of Health Services and Nursing; Policies and Practices of Education, Health, Nursing; Process of Caring in Health and Nursing In the thematic area Democracy, Culture and Development, PPG-ENF faculty comprise the project called Public Policies and Social Change. This project proposes the development of innovative processes of comparative analysis, development of methodologies, evaluations and proposals for the implementation of public policies, in particular those of a social nature. Methodologically, the proposal indicates an exchange of experiences on the plane of empirical research, comparing different contexts; cooperative production of analytical models; in the epistemological field, in the consolidation of explanatory theories that allow to articulate the complexity of the relations among State, market and organized civil society in the context of globalization, especially considering the contributory elements of the development of democracy and culture, such as Education. Due to its collective construction process along with six other GPs of varied disciplines, the project favors interdisciplinary advances that PPG-ENF has sought. In the thematic area Biosciences and Health, PPG-ENF`s connection is justified by the participation in the construction of the proposal Basic and Applied to Cancer Research. The current scenario is of institutional researchers working alone in cancer research. Hence, the project seeks to increase institutional interaction with international researchers to strengthen the research in UFPR in an integrated way. New forms of prevention, diagnosis and treatment, with the application of basic science in patient care are necessary in face of the complexity and diversity of cancers, which is a global public health problem. The contribution by PPG-ENF focuses its activities on English and Italian languages, mainly in the contents: Epidemiology of Occupational Cancer, Occupational Cancer Registry, Monitoring and Occupational Cancer Patients Quality of Life.





The Graduate Program in Sciences (Biochemistry) (PPG-Bq), created in 1965, was the first to be implanted in the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), being one of the oldest in Biological Sciences II. research assessment rating of 7. PPG-Bq has a single focus area: BIOCHEMISTRY. Moreover, it has 4 lines of research: 1 - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Microrganisms; 2 - Pharmacological Biochemistry and Cellular Metabolism, 3 - Enzymology and Biotechnology; and 4 - Carbohydrate Chemistry. All the Research Lines have interaction with several groups abroad, academic mobility of professors and students, production in partnership with foreign researchers and consolidated insertion in the production of knowledge in magazines of international visibility. The participation of PPG-Bq in CAPES-PRINT will be essential to strengthen and increase its profile of excellence. Participation in the Biosciences and Health area involves permanent professors of all lines of research from PPG-BQ. Actions will be directed to i) Biology of Systems and Omic Sciences; ii) Diagnosis, therapeutics and molecular basis of chronic and neglected diseases; and iii) Basic and applied research to cancer. Approaching omics is important to understand complex biological processes that require the integration of experimental data and computational analysis. Participants will be involved in the development of studies involving structural and functional genomic analysis (transcriptômica, proteomics, and metabolomics). Another set of actions includes the development of new drugs and advanced methodologies for bioanalytical testing for diagnosis and monitoring of disease therapeutics. There will also be PPG-BQ faculty members associated with cancer research aimed at strengthening innovation in thesis and dissertation projects, improving the human resources development and the visibility of PPG-BQ in this area.


PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES 5



The graduate program in Pharmaceutical Sciences (PPGCF) supports two subprojects in the thematic area of Biosciences and Health: (1) Diagnosis, therapeutics and molecular basis of chronic and neglected diseases and (2) Biology of Systems and Applied Omic Sciences in Biosciences and health. The PPGCF has lines of research that cover the scientific objectives proposed, including all stages related to pharmaceutical aspects intended for the discovery of the thematic area Biosciences and Health, such as new biomarkers for early diagnosis of chronic diseases, as well as new strategies for pharmacological treatment, permeating the steps of synthesis of new compounds or obtention through natural products, leading to biological tests and pharmaceutical formulations. The researchers of the Program that participated in the construction of the two proposals were Rilton Alves de Freitas, Alan Guilherme Gonçalves, Fabiane Gomes de Moraes Rego, Geraldo Picheth, Fabio Seigi Murakami, Glaucio Valdameri, Roberto Pontarolo, Wesley Mauricio de Souza, Francinete Ramos Campos and Iara J. T. Messiah-Reason. These researchers have proven internationalization since they have published more than 90 articles with international co-authors throughout their careers. We emphasize that only between the years 2012 to 2017, this group of advisors sent 12 doctoral students to do PhD internships abroad and published 74 Qualis A Articles, confirming the gain in the quality of the published works with international collaborators. In addition, the PPGCF researchers have 13 projects in progress with international collaborators, which can be maintained and promoted through the participation of the Program in CAPES PRINT. In order to obtain the scientific objectives of the proposal, due to its complexity, competences attributed to the research lines developed in the PPGCF and registered in the Sucupira platform were associated with: Biomarkers, molecular biology and bioinformatics in Diabetes mellitus; Development and production of natural and synthetic drugs in solid, semi-solid and liquid forms; Determinants of control and evaluation of outcomes of health interventions in patients with chronic diseases; Synthesis and evaluation of biological properties of glycoporphyrin derivatives and proteomic study to identify markers in metabolic diseases.



Rationale The Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology (PPGBM) is linked to the objective / project proposed in the thematic area Biosciences and Health, within the scope of the internationalization project of UFPR (PRINT/ CAPES). This Program has 39 years of activity regarding Bioscience and Health. Since its creation in 1979, the work of professors in the program, as well as the lines of research developed, are in this area. Currently, we can highlight this link with the Biosciences and Health area, in the research lines Biology of Cellular Processes and Cellular Toxicology. Specifically the sub-project of the PRINT/UFPR Basic and applied research to cancer, whose Teachers Carolina c. de Oliveira, Fernanda F. Seamus, Edvaldo da Silva Trinity, Francisco f. Neto and Andrea Sen Ribeiro participate, is fundamental to the development of the projects related to the respective lines of research of these researchers, being important for improving the quality of publications (academic journals with high impact factor). We highlight here two publications (A1 / CBII) of the Program in this subject, by students and professors, along with international participation: (i) Biscaia et al., 2017, Carbohydrate Polymers, v. 178, p. 95-104 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbpol.2017.08.117); (ii) Boia-Ferreira et al. 2017, British Journal of Cancer 117 (5), 656-665 (DOI: 10.1038 / bjc.2017.230). The connection between the GP and the subject area is evident when analysing the intellectual production of professors involved in the subproject and of the Program as a whole. In addition, the internationalization project will contribute to the training of our students, who will be able to experience the scientific and academic environment abroad. The formation of a qualified professional is among the primary objectives of PPGBM.




VETERINARY SCIENCES 5

Rationale The Graduate Program in Veterinary Science (PPGCV) integrates the PRINT-UFPR project in the theme Biosciences and Health, inserted in the objective / project Biology of Systems and Applied Omics Sciences in Biosciences and Health. The PPGCV is specifically linked to the subproject Genomic research of animal models of hereditary ocular diseases analogous to humans, whose objective is to genetically characterize a form of progressive retinal atrophy that affects dogs, a disease with characteristics similar to human pigmentary retinitis, and that has direct relation to the thematic area and of research.

Theme RENEWABLE ENERGY AND NEW ENERGY SOURCES


PHYSICS 6

Rationale The Postgraduate Program in Physics (PPGFísica) has 5 permanent professors applying for Call 01/2018 UFPR / PRPPG CAPES-PRINT, in the thematic area of Renewable Energies and New Energy Sources. All these professors have competence in different lines of experimental and / or theoretical research that fit within the broad area of Renewable Energy and New Energy Sources, and will play an important role in the execution of the project. PPGFísica currently has research assessment rating of 6 and, in order to reach 7 in the next CAPES four-year evaluation, it is necessary to invest in its internationalization. In this way, the participation of PPGFísica in this project is fundamental for its evolution and will be beneficial in several aspects, for both professors and students of the program. With regard to the advantages within UFPR, the fact that several GPs in our university comprise the broad area of Renewable Energies and New Energy Sources allows the strengthening of existing collaborations, as well as the beginning of new ones among professors of these programs. With respect to internationalization, we will have the possibility of regular visits, during the term of this project, of renowned foreign researchers to present mini-courses, seminars for the GPs community and other GPs participating in the project, attendance of workshops promoted by the GPs, of receiving young talents and doctors from abroad. In addition, professors in the program will have the opportunity to carry out scientific missions abroad and to participate in a visiting professor program abroad. Students of the program will benefit from the completion of a doctorate sandwich abroad. As a result, we expect an improvement in the qualification of professors and students from PPGFísica, a significant increase in its impact concerning scientific publications and a significant improvement in quality.



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The Postgraduate Program in Sciences (Biochemistry) (PPG-Bq), created in 1965, was the firstto be implanted in the Federal University of Paraná (UFPR), being one of the oldest in Biological Sciences II. research assessment rating of 7. PPG-Bq has a single focus area: BIOCHEMISTRY. Moreover, it has 4 lines of research: 1- Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Microrganisms; 2 - Pharmacological Biochemistry and Cellular Metabolism, 3 - Enzymology and Biotechnology and 4 - Carbohydrate Chemistry. All the Research Lines have interaction with several groups abroad, academic mobility of professors and students, production in partnership with foreign researchers and consolidated insertion in the production of knowledge in magazines of international visibility. The participation of PPG-Bq in CAPES-PRINT will be essential to strengthen and increase its profile of excellence. Participation in the theme Renewable Energies and New Energy Sources will involve the direct involvement of 2 of its professors from the permanent nucleus of the Line of Carbohydrates Chemistry, in subprojects associated with the valuing of residual biomass in the processes. This discipline should attract to Brazil several visiting researchers from abroad, one of them under the direct responsibility of the Program, who will be involved in human research and training activities through co-orientation and offering of courses. They will benefit PPGBioq students and researchers working with carbohydrates and nanobiotechnology. There are two missions of researchers of the Program abroad, for networking, prospecting partnerships and co-orientation, which should have a direct impact on its technical and scientific production. One of these researches will also participate in a course.


CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 4

Rationale Since the implementation of the Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering in 2007, the PPGEQ / UFPR has strongly contributed to the development of chemical processes, with strong performance by the teaching staff in projects directly involving the production of renewable fuels, in thermodynamic models and process optimization aiming at the technical and economic feasibility of processes for the production of renewable energies. The PPGEQ has sought a greater and effective contribution in this area from the improvement of the disciplines offered in order to enable the solid training of its graduates, both in basic disciplines and in applied disciplines, in harmony with the research lines of the program, which are: i) Engineering of chemical and biochemical processes and ii) Applied thermodynamics and process engineering separation. Furthermore, within these lines of research the development and optimization of processes for the production of advanced fuels has permeated many of the projects developed in the program. It should also be noted that, throughout its history, PPGEQ has established projects in partnership not only with Paraná institutions, but also with national companies, as well as integrated international cooperation projects focused on research and development of processes that have characteristics of innovation and which may result in transfer of technology to the industrial sector. In addition, the faculty of the PPGEQ is composed of approximately 70% of the CNPq’s productivity grants (levels 2 to 1B), several of the faculty have experience abroad, qualified scientific production with researchers abroad, participation in overseas research projects, acting as a member of the PhD bank abroad, seminars and courses abroad, which demonstrates the high competence and qualified scientific production of the researchers. In this sense, the integration of PPGEQ brings an important component to the proposal that is the action along with other researchers for a consonant effort to study productive processes in all their elements, from basic science to their final engineering. Lastly, the participation of PPGEQ in an integrated action with other well-established courses of national excellence will provide elements for the maturation and strengthening of this GP from UFPR.




Environmental Engineering 4

Rationale The PPGEA is now in the expansion phase and the faculty experience is verified in both the scientific publication and international collaborations. These collaborations result from the scientific highlights of professors and of their internationalization initiatives with doctorates abroad, postdoctoral studies and academic exchange that they either promote or guide. PRINT is the opportunity to strengthen these initiatives in a permanent and continuous way, by stimulating and supporting the mobility of researchers and students. In the thematic area of Renewable Energies and New Energy Sources, PPGEA has representation in the research line Infrastructure and Energy. This line of research approaches the environment from a broad point of view, which includes interactions with humans, environmental planning, environmental management and, therefore, the reconciliation of economic growth and human development with the environment. In it, the integrated planning and management of natural resources are studied, aiming not only to diagnose the main environmental problems related to the existing infrastructure, but also to order growth and plan the implementation of an infrastructure whose environmental impacts are minimized. According to the vocation of research group, the focus is on energy-environmental sustainability, seeking to explore ways to increase the efficiency of secondary energy use, the primary conversion of energy resources with efficiency and low emissions, in studies for rationalization and potential impacts of the use of all primary renewable sources. These problems involve knowledge of transport phenomena and thermodynamics, mathematical modeling and computational simulations, and experimental measurements in laboratory and in situ. Research and challenges in the energy and environment area involve different scales, especially large scales. And the scale of the problematic should not be restricted to the geopolitical scale, thus demanding international interactions.


CHEMISTRY 7



The PPGQ (research assessment rating of 7) has a historical tradition in the development of R&D in renewable energies. Several of its researchers manage projects related to the production of clean energy and the conversion of renewable resources into biofuels, as well as additives for automotive use. The team involved in this theme is comprised of 10 researchers, including 7 PQ fellows from CNPq (3 PQ1B, 1 PQ1C, 3 PQ2), all with well established laboratories and involved in research projects, extension and undergraduate and postgraduate teaching. The work of this team is strongly multidisciplinary and its achievements have contributed greatly to the consolidation of the PPGQ, as well as to the intensification of partnerships with national and international research centers and industries in the productive sector (paper and pulp, textiles, photovoltaic energy, hydrogen, ethanol, biogas, biodiesel and hydrocarbons of varying specifications). The PPGQ research groups involved in this proposal have received funding from FINAEP / CT-INFRA, from other national sources (PRONEX / CNPq / Araucária Foundation, INCT / CNPq, Edital Universal / CNPq, Transverse Orders / FINEP, Economic Subsidy / FINEP, among others) and international (COFECUB / CAPES, MinCyT / CAPES, PROBRAL / CAPES, TWAS, FP7 and H2020 / European Community, among others) and private initiative. This experience in the management of R&D projects is supported by high impact scientific production, patents deposited in National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI), high H factor and high levels of internationalization of the team's main researchers. Currently, the group's work focuses on the development of fuel cells, refrigeration systems for thermal management, technologies for the production of biodiesel from waste oils and microalgae, systems and devices that increase efficiency in the capture, production and distribution of photovoltaic energy, as well as possible other renewable sources of energy, the production of green diesel and bio-kerosene from the pyrolysis of biomass, heterogeneous catalytic systems for the conversion of biomass, the production of cellulosic ethanol from agro-industrial and agro- and solutions to the problem of interconnection of distributed generation from renewable energies with the electric grid, among others. All these actions present great potential for the development of HR and the generation of highly qualified bibliographic and / or technological products.


ENGINEERING AND MATERIALS SCIENCE 5



The Postgraduate Program in Materials Engineering and Science (PIPE) stands out in UFPR for its multidisciplinary nature, inherent in the Materials area and because it is not linked to a graduation course or Department of Materials Engineering and Science. Faculty from PIPE is comprised of professors of UFPR in the departments of Physics, Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Environmental Engineering, in addition to having scientific partnerships with researchers from other universities in Brazil and abroad (mainly from France, Germany and USA) and institutions such as LACTEC and EMBRAPA, making PIPE a core of excellence in the Materials area and a pole of attraction for research in fields of knowledge related to the thematic area c) Renewable Energy and New Energy Sources. There is a specific research line in the Program, Renewable and Non-Renewable Energy, whose objective is the development of materials for different energy sectors, focusing on fuel cells, batteries, various components and processes in the oil and biodiesel sector and in materials that aim at the use of solar energy and biomass, as well as the relationship between the different processes of energy generation and the materials that allow to meet the requirements of each process. At CAPES, the PIPE was assessed with research rating of 5 in the quadrennium 2013-2016. As motivation for the adhesion of the PIPE to the PRINT is the search to improve its concept to 6 or 7 in the next assessment, which is only possible through the consolidation of the program in internationalization indicators. With respect to internationalization, the participation of teachers linked to PIPE will allow the creation of a schedule of regular visits by prominent foreign researchers in their areas of activity, to present courses and seminars for the PIPE community and other GPs participating in the project. In addition, it will enable the realization of workshops in UFPR, as well as to receive young talents and doctors from abroad. In another sense, professors in the program will have the opportunity to carry out scientific missions abroad, such as visiting professor. Moreover, students of the Program may be benefited by the completion of sandwich doctoral internships abroad. Three PIPE professors were linked to the project / objective of the theme, namely: Fernando Wypych, José Viriato Coelho Vargas and Shirley Nakagaki.


Bioprocess and Biotechnology Engineering 7

Rationale FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ 64 to 190


PPGEBB aims to train high-level technical professionals and managers with the skills and competences to actively and interdisciplinarily participate in the activities of the industrial biotechnology market. These professionals are specialized in researching and developing new products, developing research in the areas of Industrial Biotechnology and Biofuels, Agro-Food Biotechnology, and Biotechnology in Human and Animal Health. Scholars and students develop projects aimed at adding value to agricultural raw materials (commodities) produced in the State of Paraná and Brazil, as well as the exploitation of microbial biodiversity in order to obtain products of high commercial value. They also act significantly in the development of diagnostic kits and vaccines. The program is aiming for a high level of quality and internationalization, having recently progressed to a research assessment rating of 7. To strengthen its internationalization, increase the quality of publications, develop networking projects with foreign researchers and nationalize technology, the program needs resources that are being requested through PRINT. Biotechnology is dynamic and competitive, and PPGEBB works at the frontier of knowledge - which requires sustained internationalization and networking. Within PRINT-UFPR Renewable Energies area, PPGEBB will have the direct participation of 9 of its permanent core professors, in several secondary projects associated with 12 theses (with PhD students participating in the PDSE stage) and 10 dissertations in the concentration area of Industrial Biotechnology and Biofuels. This discipline should bring dozens of visiting researchers from abroad to Brazil, 14 of which are under the responsibility of the Program and who will be involved in research and human training activities through co-orientation and offering courses. Because they are active in many areas, they will benefit all PPGEBB students. There are also 32 missions or internships of Brazilian researchers from the Program abroad, for training, networking, prospecting of partnerships and co-orientation of foreigners, which should have a direct impact on technical and scientific production. The training actions of the program will immensely benefit from PRINT, aligning itself with PPGEBB's strategic planning and the scientific and technical production goals for the four-year period.


CIVIL CONSTRUCTION ENGINEERING 5

Rationale The Graduate Program in Civil Construction Engineering (PPGECC) is linked to the PRINT-CAPES Project on Renewable Energies of New Energy Sources. Its objective is "Efficiency in the capture, production and distribution of photovoltaic energy, as well as other possible renewable sources of energy " for the following reasons: - Recent data show that the built environment is responsible for the use of 62% of final energy and is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions (55%). Aiming at sustainably balancing this demand in the future makes the development of high-efficiency technologies based on the use of non-conventional sources of alternative and renewable energy of utmost importance; - Several research projects at PPGECC seek to identify viable alternatives for the improvement of existing technologies and the development of other new technologies with greater efficiency in the capture, production and distribution of photovoltaic energy in order to respond to the growing concern about the marked imbalance between forecasts of consumption and the current supply of energy. Moreover, in relation to the need to reduce environmental effects, efficient use of available energy, regardless of source, should be added to energy strategies to ensure greater sustainability of the built environment. A contribution in this sense could possibly be achieved by the development and / or improvement of technologies better suited to the use of energy from a wide range of alternative and / or renewable sources and which may also eventually recover residual energy (waste thermal energy).



Graduate Program WATER RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING Rationale

Score of quadrennial research assessment rating 5

Global change, population growth, urbanization and energy demand create increasing pressure on water cycles, natural resources, ecosystems and health infrastructure. The major challenges that result are: (i) Security and protection of water resources in quantity and quality for the production of drinking water, energy and food, as well as for the conservation of ecosystems; (ii) Prediction and quantification of the consequences of natural climatic variations and global anthropogenic changes in the water cycle and water-dominated cycles of materials in order to understand and reduce both their impacts on the availability of water resources and the quality of ecosystems, and the risks of natural disasters (iii) Adaptation of distribution, infrastructure and water technologies to new environmental conditions and uses with respect to social demands, especially in urban environments. (iv) Efficient use of water in the electricity sector with reduced environmental impacts for energy production, energy storage and cooling processes. Therefore, developing innovative solutions to these challenges requires a new and stronger collaboration and interaction in academic research among the natural, social, and engineering sciences. In this context, the implementation of engineering solutions, in practice, requires intense cooperation with national and international institutions, not necessarily academic, to promote the sustainability of water resources and the environment. It should be noted that the Postgraduate Program in Water and Environmental Engineering (PPGERHA) has consolidated a space for scientific competence by adding fundamental and broad competence in all processes of the water cycle, modeling of ecosystems and energy processes and development of technologies for mitigation. In this context, the insertion of PPGERHA in the thematic area RENEWABLE ENERGIES and NEW ENERGY SOURCES is a natural stage of its expertise developed in the last 20 years and with experience in international activities, and therefore, for the challenges to be strengthened in the PRINT-UFPR program.


ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING 4



The Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering (PPGEE) binds to CAPES-PRINT-CAPES on the theme "Renewable Energy from New Sources of Energy", project "Efficiency in the capture, production and distribution of photovoltaics, as well as any other renewable sources of energy " for the reasons listed ahead. PPGEE has three focus areas, which include Energy Systems area. The objectives of this focus area converge to develop new mathematical models capable of operating and better planning the power system (SEP) considering the constant technological changes. The great technological change that is present in the SEP today is the increasing presence of renewable energies. The conventional power system, based on large thermoelectric and hydroelectric power plants, located generally far from load centers, is gradually being replaced or complemented by a decentralized (distributed) generation based on renewable sources: solar photovoltaic generation, wind power and other sources renewable energy sources. The wind generation and the group where the solar generation is located account for 8% of the country's electricity generation. The growing presence of these sources is also significant. In order to allow this, efficient and sustainable forms are needed in the capture, production and distribution of energy from renewable sources. Studying these issues has been the focus of PPGEE. They are present in PPGEE research projects such as "Development of Minor Networks with Non-Conventional Renewable Energy Sources", "Integrated Planning of Energy Purchase and Expansion in Distribution Systems in the Presence of Distributed Generation", "Applications of Computational Intelligence for Power and Smart Grids", "Analysis in Permanent Regime of Transmission and Distribution Systems in the new context of the Electric Sector", among others. By the foregoing, several PPGEE professors, specifically the participants of this PRINT-CAPES project, have been working, researching, publishing, advising students of masters and doctorates in subjects related to efficiency in the capture, production and distribution of photovoltaic energy, as well as possible other renewable sources of energy.

Theme DEMOCRACY, CULTURE, DEVELOPMENT


SOCIOLOGY 5



Faculty from the Graduate Program in Sociology are involved in research projects in the thematic area Democracy, culture and development. These projects are articulated around three transdisciplinary axes addressed in their lines of research: Human rights of refugees, work and epistemologies of care, gender relations and diversity. Research on human rights of refugees, migrants, and stateless persons addresses the mechanisms of power that underpin governmental action and support discourses of political parties, civil society actors, and religious institutions at the local, state, and federal levels. Research on labor relations shows the slow and fragile structuring of the labor market in the country, hampering the formation of a wage society along the lines of European countries during the 20th century. Thus, labor rights did not reach a large part of the Brazilian population, maintained in precarious living and working conditions, although they are crucial elements for defining citizenship conditions. It is therefore a question of understanding the dynamics and dimension of asymmetries in labor relations, its normative regulation, which intertwines with the drifts of power relations in the broad sense. Gender and diversity studies constituted a context of critical reflection on Western thought and culture from the second half of the twentieth century, with organized movements such as feminism, the black movement and ethnic minorities as one of its strong supporters and the denaturalization of ways of doing research to overcome social asymmetries and the production of knowledge. The issue of care poses challenges to theories and practices, both nationally and internationally, regarding the deconstruction of norms and power relations linked to the invisibilization of rights. In this theme, there is interaction among the processes of inclusion / exclusion of subjects, their protection, violence due to lack of recognition of care needs and lack of conditions for their exercise, mainly because it is based on a deep process of feminization of their contents.


HISTORY 5



The Graduation Program in History is linked to the thematic area Democracy, Culture and Development with the participation of professors in three objectives. First, Production and Circulation of Knowledge, which aims to investigate the production, circulation and historical appropriation of diverse knowledge, considering pluricultural experiences for a detailed debate about displacements, productions and transformations of aesthetic, political, formative and epistemological models. This is justified to the extent that the circulation and reception of the ancient and medieval literature have been part of their theoretical and methodological preoccupations for a long time, and counts on researchers linked to the Lines of Research Intersubjectivity and Plurality and Space and Sociability, which will contribute to the qualification of academic teaching and student production through shared work among the teams involved. Secondly, Power Relations, Asymmetries and Human Rights, which is the fruit of the interest of teachers who work in the lines of research and Culture and Power and Intersubjectivity and Plurality with extensive experience in theoretical discussions about power relations and social asymmetries, and it is worth highlighting the performance of some of these Researchers in the development of the Citizenship, Violence and Human Rights project which, with the support of the CNPq, is dedicated to the study of the resonances of violence practiced in governments and authoritarian systems that have affected and still affect the segments of the so-called vulnerable society regarding the acquisition of citizenship assets, in dialogue with Argentine researchers. Finally, Smartminds, which aims to consolidate and expand research practices based on methods, work forms, instruments and digital environments, is justified by the academic profile of teachers who integrate the lines of research Intersubjectivity and Plurality and Space and Sociability, focused in particular on the and have extensive experience with database creation and maintenance. It should be noted that CEDOPE, a documentation center where several professors from the Space and Sociability line work, is a reference for different types of documents for the history of the project. Brazil of the colonial and imperial period. The participation of this Graduate Program on the theme will contribute to the development of structuring actions of internationalization. It will also strengthen transdisciplinarity and the international character of the investigations already in progress, as well as the capacitation of scholars for technological, linguistic and cultural input in new scientific practices.


EDUCATION 6



Research from the Graduate Program in Education (PPG-E) is developed based on themes related to culture and school, educational policies, educational and psychological processes, social diversity and inequality, cognition and learning, and history of school education. This foundation justifies the inclusion of such research in all projects of the thematic area Democracy, Culture and Development. In the Public Policies and Social Changes project, Education Policy faculty members develop actions related to the development of innovative processes of comparative analysis, as well as to the development of methodologies, assessment procedures, and public policy proposals, especially regarding education. The faculty of History and Historiography of Education are part of a project entitled Production and Circulation of Knowledge. Their field of research investigates the production, circulation and historical appropriation of knowledge, especially concerning school education. The effort is focused on the analysis of: a) production and circulation of proposals; b) models and knowledge in history; c) culture and school materiality; d) practices and representations of childhood education processes, both historically and contemporaneously. In the SmartMinds project there are faculty members from several lines of research involved, such as Cognition, Human Learning and Development, Culture, School and Didactics, History and Historiography of Education. Considering the proposal of the project that aims at internationalizing humanities in the digital public sphere, the scholars of the Graduate Program in Education (PPG-E) intend to consolidate and expand research practices based on methods, forms of work, and digital tools and environments, especially regarding school education. Scholars from the line of research “Education: Diversity, Social Difference and Inequality, and Psychological Processes in Educational Contexts” are involved in the project entitled Power Relations, Asymmetry and Human Rights. This project wishes to debate the historical formation of the political and legal structures that allowed the creation of the normative models responsible for the Democratic State of Law, as well as the historical constitution of asymmetries and inequalities among varied social agents. It also aims at analyzing different social movements, whether contemporary or previous ones, regarding their struggles for the attainment of rights, especially concerning education. The faculty members of the Graduate Program in Education (PPG-E) are experienced and responsible for developing internationalization actions that would be enhanced by international partnerships.


INFORMATICS 5



The Graduate Program in Informatics (PPGInf) is linked to two thematic areas from the CAPES-Print call. Regarding the thematic area Democracy, Culture and Development, from the Digital Humanities area, there is the SmartMinds: Internationalization of Humanities in the Digital Public Sphere project, of which the faculty members of the Graduate Program in Informatics are part of. They developed research in the area of pattern recognition in historical documents and computational infrastructure for support of activities related to storage, processing, analysis, translation and research of historical documents. Still connected to the theme of Democracy, Culture and Development, the faculty members of the Graduate Program in Informatics (PPGInf) will participate in the project entitled Public Policy. They will be conducting research and the development of innovative solutions in the use of high-speed networks for the transmission, processing and availability of large amounts of data, in order to support the implementation, strengthening and assessment of public policies regarding digital inclusion, health, education, and transparency. These actions require an integrated process from the data acquisition until its display. Scholars are involved in the Environmental Monitoring and Modelling project, which is related to the theme of Biodiversity and Environment, from the Environmental Quality/Climate Change area. This project proposes integrated actions that will allow the understanding of the risks of exposing the biota to external agents, in addition to establishing parameters for the discussion of Biodiversity integrity. The data set originated from the parameters that constitute the project base will be the target of the work conducted by the scholars of the Graduate Program in Informatics (PPGInf). They will focus on data optimization and distribution, adaptation of distribution algorithms to large-scale systems, both heterogeneous and dynamic, and application of complex data models and graphs, including computational neuroscience and statistical approaches.


PHILOSOPHY 5

Rationale The Graduate Program in Philosophy adhered to the Capes PRINT UFPR project motivated by several faculty members who participate in two specific projects linked to the thematic area number 5. Those projects are Democracy, Culture and Development; Power Relations, Asymmetry and Human Rights; and Production and Circulation of Knowledge. The faculty members who are part of the research team of the project Power Relations, Asymmetry and Human Rights, which has as its aim the discussion of power relations and social asymmetries in opposition to the human rights agenda, are also involved in the line of research “Ethics and Political Philosophy”. This line of research prioritizes the investigation of themes and problems derived from ethical and political thinking, mutually integrating them by taking them into their specificity. It combines the clarification of concepts and the fundamental problems of ethics and political philosophy with the historical interest regarding the reconstitution of the contexts and of the philosophies in which these concepts and problems acquired their meanings. The project entitled Production and Circulation of Knowledge aims at investigating the production, circulation and historical appropriation of knowledge, taking into consideration pluricultural experiences in order to create a detailed discussion about displacements, productions and transformations of aesthetic, political, formative and epistemological models. The faculty members who participate in this project are also involved with the lines of research “History of Philosophy” and “Metaphysics and Epistemology”. The research line “History of Philosophy” favours the works of the main classical authors, but not in a dogmatic or excluding sense, since it also benefits from historiographic improvements, from reception studies regarding both the thinkers and their objects of study, and from analyses that use different instruments, such as logical analysis, rhetorical analysis, or analysis that use the argumentative content of a text in the light of a specific philosophical problem. The research line “Metaphysics and Epistemology” aims at welcoming and providing investigations related to metaphysics, theory of knowledge, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics. It seeks to explore the conceptual connections among fundamental notions, as well as to understand their evolution throughout the history of philosophy. Graduate Program Score of quadrennial research assessment rating



ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 6 Rationale The Graduate Program in Economic Development (PPGDE) has been focusing, for about 30 years, on the training of students and on carrying out studies and research that have an emphasis on economic development. The development process is complex by nature, causing interdisciplinary views of this phenomenon to become essential. Thus, this Graduate Program is inserted in two projects/objectives that are linked to the theme Democracy, Culture and Development of the PRINT-UFPR. There are 9 faculty members of the Graduate Program in Economic Development involved in the projects, all of whom have remarkable internationalization activities. Even though some social progress has occurred in several countries amidst technological, economic and political transformations during the last century, patterns of inequality persist in contemporary societies. They can be identified through the existing disparities among social groups and through the spatial distribution of these groups. The understanding, critical analysis and identification of intervention actions that can mitigate this phenomenon constitute a relevant research agenda both in national and international contexts. Therefore, the participation of the Graduate Program in Economic Development in the project entitled Space, Society and Development: Contemporary Challenges represents an opportunity to discuss these issues in a multidisciplinary perspective and to project the knowledge and experiences associated with the national reality with international scholars and networks. It should be noticed that knowledge accumulation in various fields of science is relevant to the understanding of the cultural and historical processes that shaped, and are still reshaping, the dynamics involved in the development of societies. Thus, the participation of the Graduate Program in Economic Development in the project Production and Circulation of Knowledge is aligned with the investigation process about how cultural legacies relate to each other, while retaining their different modes of expression, especially in the perspective of the role of Economy and of Law as fields of knowledge that dialogue with the constitution of rules and behaviors that condition the development of societies. Within the scope of this project, it is understood that the study of cultural and historical contexts fosters the dialogue with international scholars in the humanities area.


PHYSICAL EDUCATION 6

Rationale The Graduate Program in Physical Education (PPGEDF) participates in the PRINT-UFPR in the thematic areas of Bioscience and Health, and Democracy, Culture and Development. The lines of research of the Graduate Program in Physical Education are intrinsically related to the thematic areas of PRINT. They are: "Physical Activity and Health: Analysis of Physical Activity Aspects Related to Factors that Influence and Determine Behavior, Lifestyle and Health", and “Sport, Leisure and Society: Studies and Research on Manifestations of Sport and Leisure from the Historical, Sociological, Educational, Political and Cultural perspectives”. It is worth noting that the faculty involved in the PRINT call has high scientific production in international journals with high JCR impact factors, and also a high level of internationalization in partnerships with foreign faculties and institutions in the development of scientific projects. This international cooperation has enabled the academic mobility of students both in undergraduate and graduate programs, providing the ones in the latter group with sandwich doctorates and masters. It has also resulted in internationalized research training of students through: a) joint supervisions; and b) participation of international faculty in examining boards. The involvement in PRINT projects aims to strengthen the work of internationalization and training of faculty and students that already takes places in the Graduate Program in Physical Education, providing tools and an environment of excellence in research.


MUSIC 4



The Graduate Program in Music (PPGMúsica) is connected to the PRINT/UFPR call by the thematic area Democracy, Culture and Development, with the project SmartMinds: Internationalization of Humanities in the Digital Public Sphere. The connection of the Graduate Program in Music with this thematic area is given by the very nature of such area, which has a multi and interdisciplinary approach towards Humanities, Letters and Arts, in partnership with other fields of knowledge. The participation in the SmartMinds project is motivated by the identification of the project with the internationalization initiatives that already exist in the Graduate Program in Music. International research based on the use of digital technologies/media has strengthened research and partnerships that have reinforced productions and funding in the Graduate Program in Music since 2010. The participation of the Graduate Program in Music in the thematic area Democracy, Culture and Development is also justified by the scope of the SmartMinds project, which aims at investigating: “a) the formation process of Brazilian public, cultural and artistic sphere in the international context; b) processes of transmission and transformation of knowledge, arts, science, and social and communication practices in formal dynamics, such as in scientific and educational institutions; c) processes of long-term social, cultural and material formation, through the analysis of specific archaeological or ethnological vestiges" (project data).


PUBLIC POLICY 4

Rationale The Graduate Program in Public Policies adhered to the Capes PRINT-UFPR project motivated by the participation of its faculty in a project/objective related to the thematic area Democracy, Culture and Development, entitled Space, Society and Development: Contemporary Challenges. The theme demands interaction among the disciplines of the project (geography, law, economic development, geodetic sciences, sociology, and public policy), but within the scope of Public Policy, the State, as a material condensation of power relations, is also a fundamental category to understand the articulation among space, society and development. Some themes of research that may contribute to the understanding of space production processes are: a) international opportunities and limitations to national planning and development, related to globalization processes and to the role of both national and international institutions; b) economic and social policies, and their relation to development; c) social problems caused by conflicts of interest; d) the limitations and the scales of State intervention; and e) public policies and their spatial, social, and economic conditioning. In addition, the contradictions of urban space production are responsible for transforming the urban space in both setting and object of social movements These contradictions are expressed by material or power differences, by the existing inequalities among social groups and classes, by the tensions between the commodification of land and the conditions of labor reproduction, and by the different levels of exercise (or denial) of the right to the city. One of the specific objectives of the project is to understand the emergence and the dynamics of urban social conflicts (who are their agents, what do they claim, how are they distributed spatially and temporally, and what are their repertoires of manifestation), as well as their unfolding and the relations they establish with the production processes of space and with urban policies. The project will develop integrated actions that will include faculty members and students (both national and international) of the UFPR programs, as well as scholars from foreign institutions. These actions will aim at structuring a training base focused on human resources development and scientific knowledge that will enable the understanding of contemporary phenomena and challenges related to space, society and development, which are relevant for the promotion of social progress in the context of spatial heterogeneities.


NURSING 5 FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ 73 of 190


Rationale In the framework of the internationalization proposal of the Federal University of Paraná, the Graduate Program in Nursing (PPGENF) justifies its relation to the CAPES-Print project based on the thematic areas Democracy, Culture and Development, and Biosciences and Health. These areas are intimately related to the lines of research of the Program, which are: “Management of Health Services and Nursing”; “Policies and Practices of Education, Health, and Nursing”; and “The Caring Process in Health and Nursing”. In the thematic area Democracy, Culture and Development, the faculty members of the Graduate Program in Nursing are part of the project entitled Public Policies and Social Changes. This project proposes actions related to the development of innovative processes of comparative analysis, as well as to the development of methodologies, assessment procedures, and public policy proposals, especially those of social nature. Methodologically, the proposal indicates some specific actions, such as: a) exchange of empirical research experiences through the comparison of different realities; b) cooperative production of analytical models; c) regarding the epistemological field, consolidation explanatory theories that allow the articulation of the complex relations among State, market, and a globalized civil society, with a special consideration to elements that contribute to the development of democracy and culture, such as education. Due to the collective construction process that took place with another six Graduate Programs of varied disciplines, the project promotes interdisciplinary advances that have been sought by the Graduate Program in Nursing. The relation between the thematic area Biosciences and Health and the Graduate Program in Nursing is justified by the participation of the Program in the construction of the proposal “Basic and Applied Research to Cancer”. In the current scenario, institutional scholars are working alone in cancer research. The project intends to increase interaction among both institutional and international scholars in order to strengthen research in UFPR in an integrated way. New forms of prevention, diagnosis and treatment, with the application of basic science in clinical treatment, are necessary in the face of the complexity and diversity of cancer, which is a global public health problem. The activities of the Graduate Program in Nursing are carried out in English and Italian and are focused on the following contents: a) Epidemiology of Occupational Cancer; b) Registry and Monitoring of Occupational Cancer; and c) Life Quality of Patients with Occupational Cancer.


GEODESIC SCIENCES 5



The Graduate Program in Geodesic Sciences relates to the theme Democracy, Culture and Development through the participation of its faculty in the project/objective Space, Society and Development: Contemporary Challenges. The main objective of this project is to understand the challenges related to the knowledge and interpretation of the contemporary world, especially the ones concerning spatial, economic and social dimensions, and how those challenges modify social contents and practices and suggest new perspectives on various matters and on the very meaning of development as a process. Due to this, the participation of faculty members of the Graduate Program in Geodetic Sciences will be fundamental to develop methods of sampling and of analyses and representation of geospatial data, which will contribute, through the use of new communication and information technologies, to public and management policies, especially considering collaborative mapping aimed at urban mobility. In addition, it is the discipline that enables the development of analytical methods and models that are used to identify socio-spatial patterns, and also simulate the effects of territorial development policies. The main focus is the acquisition and analysis of geospatial data. Therefore, the discipline contribution for the understanding of space is in the development of technologies and tools that enable interaction with the territory and the obtainment of updated social, infrastructure and legal information. These actions will allow society, including inhabitants and managers, to better understand their living space, and to create and assess public policies for development. Thus, by using space visualization as a management tool, this discipline can relate to all other aspects of the project and can also help finding solutions for the project’s other objectives. Considering that one of the purposes of the project is to contribute with spatial analysis, the construction of a platform based on a geographic information system will allow a comprehensive view of the spatial dimension of the analyzed processes and the products of the research, as well as the networks, in addition to providing access to spatial data produced in different locations.


LETTERS 6

Rationale



The Graduate Program in Letters is related to the PrInt-UFPR call through the thematic area Democracy, Culture and Development. Its faculty members are part of three objectives/projects. The first one is entitled Power Relations, Asymmetry and Human Rights, which has as its aim the discussion of power relations and social asymmetries in opposition to the human rights agenda. The participation of the faculty of the Graduate Program in Letters in this project originated from the lines of research of the Linguistic Studies focus area, in which studies of language as a social instrument of integration or exclusion are prioritized, making it possible for them to work with themes such as the description of Brazilian Portuguese, the development of methodologies for teaching Portuguese as a foreign language, and the linguistic and cultural reception of migrant populations. This project is aligned with another project already in progress in UFPR entitled Humanitarian Migration, a partnership among Law, Sociology, Letters, and others. Connected to this project, Letters has been developing since 2014 the PBMIH Outreach Project (Brazilian Portuguese for Humanitarian Migration). The Production and Circulation of Knowledge project — which aims at investigating the production, circulation and historical appropriation of knowledge, taking into consideration pluricultural experiences in order to create a detailed discussion about displacements, productions and transformations of aesthetic, political, formative and epistemological models — relates to the Literary Studies focus area, which has as its objective the critical, theoretical and historiographical study of literature in relation to other discursive forms and languages, as well as the study of literature as a place of relation among cultures, societies and poetic systems. Thus, having the literary discourse as point of support, the scholars follow a dynamic approach in which the relationship among the objects of study is privileged, something essential to a project that focuses on the circulation of knowledge. There is also the project entitled SmartMinds: Internationalization of Humanities in the Digital Public Sphere, which considers that the use of digital platforms will open new perspectives of research and teaching. This will also enable the investigation of the formation process of Brazilian public, cultural and artistic sphere, as well as the investigation of the processes of transmission and transformation of knowledge, arts, science, and social and communication practices, and the processes of long-term social, cultural and material formation. This project is aligned with the Digital Humanities project that is already in progress in UFPR. This project has been successful in raising funds to acquire high quality equipment and software, which are available to the entire university community.


GEOGRAPHY 6

Rationale The Graduate Program in Geography (PPGGEO) is linked to the Capes PrInt-UFPR through the projects / objectives of the thematic areas Biodiversity and Environment and Democracy, Culture, Development, due to the adhesion and coherence of the projects of research currently under development, as well as the researchers involved. The projects in the area of Biodiversity and Environment are directly linked to the research line of Landscape and Environmental Analysis, while the project of the thematic area Democracy, Culture and Development is related to the research line Production of Space and Culture, and both have linkage with the PPGGEO focus areas.


PHYSICS 6



The Graduate Program in Physics (PPGFísica) has two permanent faculty members participating in the UFPR/PRPPG CAPES-PrInt call, number 01/2018, in the thematic area Democracy, Culture and Development. These faculty members have competence in different lines of research that are aligned the thematic area of Democracy, Culture and Development, and will play an important role in the project execution. Currently, the Graduate Program in Physics has CAPES research assessment rating 6. In order to obtain research assessment rating 7 in the next CAPES four-year research assessment period, it is necessary to invest in the program’s internationalization. Thus, the participation of the Graduate Program in Physics in this project is fundamental for its evolution and will be beneficial in several aspects, for both faculty and students of the program. Considering the advantages within UFPR, the fact that several Graduate Programs from our university are involved in the thematic area Democracy, Culture and Development enables the consolidation of existing collaborations, as well as the beginning of new ones among the faculty of these programs. Regarding internationalization, we will have the possibility of regular visits, during this project, of renowned foreign scholars to present courses and seminars for both the Graduate Program in Physics and other Graduate Programs participating in the project, as well as to attend workshops promoted by the programs. We will also have the possibility of receiving young talents and post-doctors from abroad. In addition, the faculty of the program will have the opportunity to carry out overseas research visits and to participate in visiting scholar programs abroad. The students of the program will benefit from sandwich doctorates abroad. As a result, we expect an improvement in the qualification of both the faculty and the student body of the Graduate Program in Physics and in the quality of the program as a whole, as well as a significant increase in the impact of its scientific publications.


LAW 6



The Graduate Program in Law (PPGD) relates to the PrInt-UFPR call through the thematic area Democracy, Culture and Development, and it takes part in four objectives/projects: a) Power Relations, Asymmetry and Human Rights. Law concerns itself with the legal instrumentalization of power relations, therefore it is the legal space of the constructive tension among law, society and politics. Modern Law was structured to limit/organize power and guarantee rights, while rested on the democratic formula of the liberal state. This is where lies the connection with the PRINT call regarding asymmetries, since there are profound differences among this model, the effective implementation of rights and the consolidation of substantial democracy; b) Public Policies and Social Changes. The Welfare State in Brazil incorporated individual rights and guarantees of liberal nature, and also assumed constitutional commitments to promote social justice and protection of citizens and of vulnerable groups, as well as to overcome regional and material inequalities. These commitments impose on the State the fulfillment of such rights, whereas the rights and guarantees of classical liberalism require of the State only the non-intrusion into the private sphere of citizens. Public policies are instruments for the State to fulfill these objectives and constitutional commitments in a participatory and democratic manner; c) Space, Society and Development. The Graduate Program in Law has focus areas in which the three subjects of the project are approached in a interconnected way. Whether from a perspective derived from civil society and its particular relations, or from a regulatory action of behavior, or even from a transdisciplinary approach of the subject, the participation of Law scholars is essential to elaborate and to implement the public policies that will face the challenges brought by the theme; d) Production and Circulation of Knowledge. The relationship between this project and The Graduate Program in Law is based on the main object of study of the history of law, which studies the reception, translation and circulation of the legal culture between Europe and Brazil, whether during the colonial period in relation to local multiculturalism and Portuguese elements, or during the period of the Empire of Brazil, or even during the end of the XIX century, regarding the reception of European legal culture and its Brazilian translation in a process of modernization that was established in the trading of cultural activities.


POLITICAL SCIENCE 5



The Graduate Program in Political Science (PPGCP) relates to the PrInt call through the thematic area Democracy, Culture and Development. Among the projects of the faculty of this program associated with this theme, the most relevant one is entitled Entrepreneurs, Politics and Corruption: the case of Operation Car Wash. The objective of this project is to analyze the views of the entrepreneurs involved in the investigations of the Operation Car Wash about the current Brazilian political system, political scenario and democracy. By dealing with how these important economic factors describe the particularities of a relationship with politics clearly marked by illegality and misconduct, new perspectives are brought to the study of the relationship between entrepreneurs and democracy, usually characterized by the analysis of legal and public practices. In addition, this research is linked to the project Corporate Crime and Systemic Corruption in Brazil, which resulted from a partnership between the University of Heidelberg and the University of São Paulo, and currently under evaluation by FAPESP. This project involves scholars from the fields of Sociology, Political Science and Law, and analyzes the recent changes in Brazilian anti-corruption policies, in comparison with other countries contemplated by the research. The study of recent experiences of fight against corruption, especially of the Operation Car Wash, seeks to understand the functioning of the political and economic corruption system, as well as to analyze institutional changes aimed at combating corruption and corporate crime in Brazil. The project contemplates the organization of corruption in companies and political parties and the logics of campaign financing, as well as the mentalities of those involved. Internationalization experiences: In 2008, the academic partnership with Professor Markus Pohlmann and the scholar Elizangela Valarini of the Max Weber Institute of Sociology of the University of Heidelberg (Germany) began. Such partnership involved several visits to the University of Heidelberg, as well as visits from the German scholars to Brazil. Both locations held research meetings and open events. Between 2012 and 2015, the International Management Studies project was carried out. Through interviews with the CEOs of large industries of several countries, including Brazil and Argentina, the project analysed the "new spirit of capitalism". These activities were, and still are, related to research projects of the CNPq Productivity Scholarship since 2009.


ANTHROPOLOGY 4

Rationale The Graduate Program in Anthropology (PPGA) relates to the PrInt call through the thematic area Democracy, Culture and Development. The participation of the Graduate Program in Anthropology provides not only exchange actions for students and faculty, but also projects of digitalization, dissemination and democratization of access to archives and museum collections. These actions will broaden the reach of the archives of two laboratories linked to the Graduate Program in Anthropology to an international level by making them available to the international public - the Center for Archaeological Studies and Research (CEPA) and the Museum of Archeology and Ethnology (MAE). This will benefit all the lines of research of the program, especially the "Material Culture, Cultural Dynamics and Landscape" one. In addition, the planned actions seek to facilitate the access of scholars of the Graduate Program in Anthropology to archives, museums and libraries linked to partner institutions, which also favors all lines of research, especially the one entitled "Frontiers and Intercultural Relations". We highlight, among the planned actions, those aimed at strengthening relations already established with institutions in Morocco, favoring "south-south" exchanges, as well as "north-south" initiatives with Italy, the United Kingdom and France.



ACTIONS

Theme BIODIVERSITY AND ENVIRONMENT Objective Internationalization Network on Biodiversity Evolution

Action 1. Provide students with experience in foreign research institutions and/or participation in courses taught in English. Description

Start date 11/2018

Finish date 07/2022

This activity is expected to send students to carry out sandwich doctorate internship, in 6-months periods. In scientific research, the organizational culture developed in each laboratory, graduate program and institution has quantitative and qualitative reflexes in its results. Living in different research environments and cultures strengthens the researchers training, as it relativizes values, creates awareness of the importance and of the reflection of the social environment in research, therefore creating better scientists. Communication in English, which is the dominant language in current Science, is fundamental to enable exchange experiences, as well as communication with foreigners in Brazil. It facilitates the writing of articles in English and the presentation of papers in international congresses. In addition to these aspects, the internship abroad also aims at the learning of modern techniques and analysis used in research that are not yet implemented in UFPR and that may be further multiplied locally and in the country. In the specific case of taxonomy projects, the opportunity to revise specimens in museums is a determining factor in increasing the quality of the research, by comparing large amounts of material and expanding the geographic scope of the research. This action will also allow students to have the opportunity to start their own networks with national and foreign collaborators.

Action Indicators

Type Indicator Current Situation 2nd year goal Final goal

Qualitative Number of students in sandwich doctoral programs

/year 26 15

Improvement of 1 level to 20% of the beneficiaries

Middle-level Qualis

Qualitative B2

articles of the beneficiaries

Quantitative Number of articles published in English by the benefited students

237 6

Quantitative Number of articles written in co-authorship with foreign authors published by students

65 6

33

Improvement of 1 level to 80% of the beneficiaries 15 15

Quantitative Number of articles with JCR published by students

176 6 15



Action 2. Provide faculty members at UFPR with the opportunity to further qualify, create links for scientific collaboration, maintain and expand the links already established. Description

Start date 11/2018

Finish date 07/2022

It envisages the sending of faculty members to international partner institutions for short academic visits of seven days and for internships of a month. The short visits aim at strengthening the already existing links, establishing interaction schedules with the foreign scholars. These schedules include the planning for sending PhD students to carry out sandwich training, the planning of collaborative research projects and the planning for the arrival of researchers and of their activities to be performed at UFPR such as courses, lectures, workshops etc. The seven-day visit will also have the purposes of finishing articles that are in an advanced stage of development, holding work meetings that are considered necessary due to thee stablished collaborations, and participating in international scientific events of relevance and/or workshops focused on biodiversity. The one-month internship should be carried out in an institution of excellence in the project area, and should be conducted in partnership with a scholar of relevance to the proposed area. Preferably, post-doctoral internship should provide learning of new technologies and/or methods of analysis in order to enable their implementation at UFPR, and should also result in articles of impact in the biodiversity area. This activity will be aimed at young scholars with the objective of establishing new international collaborations and expand their own network of international collaboration.

Action Indicators

Type Indicator Current Situation 2nd Year Goal Final Goal

Quantitative Number of faculty members sent abroad for a one-month internship

5 8 14

Quantitative Number of international agreements or collaborative projects

96 10 20

Quantitative Number of articles published in English by the benefited faculty members

596 12 24

Quantitative Number of presentations in international events done by the beneficiaries

45 10 15

Quantitative Number of projects financed with foreign resources 31 5 10

Quantitative Number of faculty members sent abroad for 7-day visits 47 17 22

Qualitative Middle-level Qualis of articles written by beneficiaries during one-month internships

B1

Improvement from of 1 level to 50% of the beneficiaries

Improvement from of 1 level to 80% of the beneficiaries

Quantitative

Number of articles written in co-authorship with foreign authors by the benefited faculty members

220 10 20



Action 4. Organize meetings to evaluate the project and update on themes of common interest Description

Start date 11/2018

Finish date 07/2022

In order to follow up the project, at least two workshops shall be organized, one at the end of the second year and the other at the end of the project. These workshops may be thematic, emphasizing some theoretical or methodological aspect of the project, with the participation not only of students and faculty members of the programs involved, but also of other programs outside the UFPR. These workshops will count on the participation of foreign collaborators, and will be carried out simultaneously with a discipline from the CAPES-sponsored international faculty and researcher exchange program. In these workshops, lectures by students and post-doctors benefited by the project will also be held, as well as presentations of ongoing research and completed articles. The workshops will be recorded and streamed online, broadening the audience.

Action Indicators

Type Indicator Current Situation

2nd Year Goal

Final Goal

Quantitative Workshop in English 2 1 2

Quantitative Number of students participating in “Escolas de Altos Estudos” (CAPES-sponsored international faculty and reseracher exchange program)

0 50 100

Quantitative Number of students participating in workshops

40 100 200

Quantitative “Escolas de Altos Estudos” (CAPES-sponsored international faculty and researcher exchange program)

0 1 2

Quantitative

Number of scholars participating in workshops

20

4 8

Quantitative

Number of scholars participating in “Escolas de Altos Estudos” (CAPES-sponsored international faculty and researcher exchange program)

0

30 60

Quantitative

Number of presentations/lectures in English by faculty and students

91 30 60

Quantitative

Number of videos in English released on the internet

1 30 60



Action Start date Finish date

3. To stimulate and provide faculty and students with access to the modern techniques and methods in studies on the evolution of biodiversity (especially the ones related to molecular biology)

11/2018 07/2022

Description

Actions 1 and 2 will involve a limited number of students and faculty due to their high cost. Therefore, in order to expand the group of people benefiting from the high qualification provided by the contact with leading researchers and with new techniques and methodologies, we intend to work on two fronts: 1) bringing leading international researchers for short periods of 15 days, young researchers for periods of 4 months, as well as Brazilian or foreign post-doctoral fellows who have held their PhD (or part of it) abroad to work in the GPs for a period of 1 year. We hope that these researchers will be able to participate in the courses taught in English, give lectures, interact with students and professors of the GPs, participate in collaborative research projects and/or assist in the organization of international events and/or courses. If possible, these researchers will also participate as co-supervisors of Brazilian students, acting more directly on their academic development.

Action Indicators

Type Indicator Current 2nd year Final

Situation Goal Goal

Quantitative Number of visiting researchers for 15 days 19 8 15

Quantitative Number of young visiting researchers for 4 months

0 0 2

Quantitative Courses taught in English 11 6 12

Quantitative Number of post-doctoral fellows for 1 year 9 6 12

Qualitative Percentage of articles of external collaborators with scholars and students of programs at Qualis A level

40% 50% 80%

Quantitative Number of publications of collaborators with scholars and students of the programs

220 10 20

Quantitative Lectures given in English 24 14 25



Objective RIBIMA - Internationalization Network on Biodiversity and Environment: Threats and conservation of biodiversity Action

1. To create and consolidate RIBIMA – Internationalization network on Biodiversity and Environment (RIBIMA) Description

Start date Finish date 11/2018 07/2022

It consists of the progressive construction and strengthening of an internationalized research and training network, mobilizing and promoting the unification of some of the UFPR’s most active groups in the areas of zoology, entomology, cell biology, ecology, oceanography, geography and economic development, many of them already working in border areas of science and in strategic areas for the sustainable development of the country. These groups maintain reasonably consistent interactions with researchers from other centers of excellence or have great potential for broadening and strengthening this international cooperation. The 26 UFPR researching professors involved in the proposal will strengthen research and training ties with at least 75 international researchers, who are already partners or have already been contacted for cooperation over the next four years. The action aims to meet general and specific demands, of technical-scientific and academic matter, of two major fields of research and training of human resources, through the implementation of integrative or mirrored activities, namely: a) natural dynamics and biodiversity conservation (GPs in ecology and conservation, entomology, zoology, cell biology, botany and coastal and ocean systems): biological indicators and conservation ecology; biological invasions and biotic homogenization; ecology of communities and adaptive processes; and b)socio-environmental dynamics and sustainability of natural resources (GPs in geography, ecology and conservation, coastal and oceanic systems and botany): landscape analysis, territorial planning and conservation; ecosystem approaches to resource sustainability. The primary activities of this action are those defined in CAPES-PRINT call: to promote bilateral or multilateral scientific missions, aiming at transdisciplinary interests or demands of the graduate degree programs and research groups; to promote workshops within the networks and with networks involving the other thematic areas of UFPR; to promote international courses among the GPs participating in the proposal; to offer courses common to the GPs, with national and international researchers; to attract students and international researchers to Brazilian GPs; to attract high-level graduate students, Brazilian or international, to UFPR`s GPs; to facilitate the qualification of Brazilian doctoral students through sandwich doctorate in international centers of excellence. Action Indicators


2nd year Goal

Final Goal

Quantitative International research visits of UFPR scholars for network consolidation and draft of international agreements

26 30 40

Quantitative Sandwich doctorate abroad 24 30 40

Quantitative Courses offered by visiting scholars in collaboration with professors at UFPR

13 9 18

Quantitative Number of publications in partnership with international researchers

250 52 120

Quantitative Visiting scholars in Brazil Quantitative Workshop within RIBIMA

Quantitative Workshop with networks of the biodiversity and environment area of UFPR

25 25 40

0 2 4

0 1 1




2. To increase the international visibility of UFPR and its potential for attracting researchers and students from abroad

11/2018 07/2022

Description

The action aims to increase the international visibility of eight UFPR graduate degree programs, by qualifying its research, broadening international collaborations, gradually incorporating English as the most relevant academic language in our programs and courses and offering higher-level courses, designed as summer schools, with easy access for Brazilian and foreign students. The purpose is to develop in our scientific and pedagogical practices a scientific culture that is more original, in order to conceive science as less descriptive and correlative, but more predictive, more sensitive to the demands of the contemporary science and therefore more appealing to the international community. Changes in the way of conducting research and in the perception of its social relevance will be followed by new styles and strategies of educating people. We will seek to prioritize training strategies that emphasize innovation and creativity more than the accumulation or simple uncritical reproduction of knowledge through summer schools or courses shared among the graduate programs and the international partners. We will encourage our students to not be content with projects of an incremental nature and to challenge themselves scientifically, even if there is risk of failure. Although we include quantitative indicators in the table below, the main impacts we visualize are of qualitative nature. In this sense, the mere increment of the available financial resources may not be the only, or the best, solution to improve the quality of the research we conduct. The injection of more funds will not work while the paradigm of incremental science is not broken. In addition to a possible improvement in the quantitative indicators and the progression of the country in the world scientometric ranking, we will try to promote a quality shock in the research conducted in our university, as an essential basis for dealing with our current problems of development and for increasing the visibility of the knowledge we produce. This quality shock will only happen if we encourage thinking and human resources training that are more innovative and pragmatic. We will implement strategies to stimulate scientists who have diverse interests and institutional bindings to gather around the same topics of research.

Action Indicators Type Indicator Current

Situation 2nd Year Year

Final Goal

Quantitative Courses taught in English 3 5 8 Qualitative Funding via public calls and

international calls N Increase of

25% Increase of 50%

Quantitative RIBIMA graduate programs winners of international calls

4 6 8 Quantitative Cotutelle doctoral dissertations 4 8 16 Quantitative International summer schools 0 4 8 Quantitative Participation of visiting scholars in the

co-supervision of graduate programs 14 18 36

Objective

Network on Environmental Monitoring and Modeling (REsMA) Action Start date Finish date

2. To promote collaborative studies of multidisciplinary assessment of environmental risks

11/2018 07/2022



DescriptionTo promote collaborative studies of environmental risk assessment through integrated analysis of chemical, physical-chemical, biological and physical parameters in different contexts and matrices, enabling greater consistency in the analysis of environmental data. This integrated approach will enable the design of multidisciplinary research projects that investigate environmental and climatic changes through the study of varied types of ecosystems and models, including experimental watersheds, coastal environments, urban systems and geotechnology tools and mathematical models. The network will also allow the design of projects aimed at assessing the impact of chemical agents on different ecosystems by doing chemical analysis of anthropogenic and natural pollutants in different extracts, such as water, sediment, air, soil and biological matrices, including also technologies for sewage treatment, water quality and sustainability. The chemical analysis, in turn, will be supported by the evaluation of molecular, cellular and functional biomarkers of environmental contamination in different experimental models, including fish, rodents and cells, in order to establish the risks of exposure to biota and humans. To this end, REsMA will encourage collaborative projects with international centers of excellence, garnering financial support from national and international calls. These actions will be supported by the exchange activities described in action 1, including a wider contribution of international researchers in theses and dissertations, human resources development abroad and academic visits abroad, with a consequent increase in the quantity and quality of the scientific publications of the network.

Action Indicators


2nd Year Goal

Final Goal

Quantitative Funding via public calls and international calls (R$)

1640000.00 1500000.00 3000000.00

Quantitative REsMA graduate programs winning of international calls

7 7 9

Quantitative Number of publications in partnerships with international professors at UFPR

131 18 36

Action 3. To develop transdisciplinary actions using computer tools and geotechnology in the environmental monitoring and modeling Description

Start date 11/2018

Finish date 07/2022



To develop transdisciplinary actions using computer tools and geotechnology in order to assess environmental risks caused by external agents on the biota and on the integrity of ecosystems. Also, to determine the factors that cause biodiversity imbalance and risks to humans. These actions illustrate the innovative nature of REsMA, enabling the development of research projects with an integrated multidisciplinary approach. To this end, geotechnology tools will be used, including special positioning and navigation techniques, marine geodesy, hydrological and hidrogeomorphological modeling, monitoring and dynamics of erosive processes, spatial analysis and geostatistical analysis. Such tools will be used in REsMA’s environmental monitoring and modeling projects, particularly in studies of climate change, urban climate, health and risks of exposure to stressors, hillside processes, landscape dynamics and environmental planning. These activities will also have the support of transdisciplinary computing actions aimed at optimizing and distributing data, adapting distribution algorithms to large-scale systems, heterogeneous and dynamic, as well as applying complex data and graphical models including computational neuroscience and statistical tools. The transdisciplinary actions of geotechnology and information technology will be reinforced and expanded through international cooperation and international exchanges (described in action 1).

Action Indicators


2nd Year Goal Final Goal

Innovation through projects that integrate aspects of physical-chemical-biological compounds with components of information technology and geotechnology applied to environmental risk management

Partial Strengthening Strengthened

Qualitative

Qualitative Number of transdisciplinary research projects with international funding

Not estimated

9 18


1. To establish a Network on Environmental Monitoring and Modeling (REsMA) and encourage internationalization actions

11/2018 07/2022

Description



To create a multidisciplinary network of national and international researchers, focusing on studies of environmental quality, risks and climate change. REsMA is an institutional proposal that will bring together researchers from different UFPR graduate programs involved in activities related to environmental monitoring, specially in strategic impacted areas, who still work without exploring interfaces with other research groups that work in the same thematic area. In total, REsMA will be composed of nine UFPR graduate programs: cellular and molecular biology, ecology and conservation, physiology, coastal and oceanic systems, environmental engineering, informatics, geography, geodetic sciences and water resources engineering. This network will be stimulated by activities and collaborative research projects supported on internationalization. In this sense, the network will work with a multinational academic exchange, with emphasis on actions that promote multidisciplinary aspects, such as offering integrative courses taught in a foreign language, seeking to meet the demands of several graduate programs. Thus, we will be promoting the strengthening of the current and future international cooperation through multinational exchanges, including overseas research visits, sandwich doctorate scholarships, senior visiting scholars abroad, post-doctoral fellows and visiting scholars from abroad, co-supervision graduate students by visiting scholars and promotion of multidisciplinary courses taught in a foreign language. These activities aim to increase the network's collaborations with the international centers of excellence thus increasing the likelihood of funding via national and international calls. The exchange programs will also broaden human resources development with international experience and will promote greater integration among the graduate programs involved, enabling REsMA to become more strengthened, which will confer the network an institutional solid status with a strong international insertion. The outcomes of the visits and exchanges as well as the analysis of REsMA production indicators will be evaluated in local and international workshops at UFPR. Action Indicators Type Indicator Current

Situation 2nd Year Goal Final Goal

Quantitative International visits 23 18 27

Quantitative Senior visiting scholars Brazilian researcher

20 14 18

Quantitative Sandwich doctorate abroad Quantitative

20 9 18

Quantitative Visiting scholars in Brazil 13 9 18

Quantitative Courses taught in a foreign language

9 10 20

Quantitative

Researchers from abroad doing post doctorate in Brazil

0 0 6

Quantitative

Participation of visiting scholars in the co-supervision of graduate students

14

18 36

Quantitative REsMA National workshop 0 1 1

Quantitative REsMA International Workshop 0 1 1

Qualitative Establishment of REsMA as a regional, national and international environmental network

Not Strengthened

Partially Strengthened

Strengthened

Quantitative Courses offered by visiting scholars

13 9 18

Objective



Internationalization Network in Bioprospecting, Biogeochemistry, and Environmental Biotechnology Action 5. To promote the monitoring of the project development Description


For the monitoring of the project development, annual symposia on the network’s theme will be organized at UFPR according to the schedule of the visiting researchers. At least 3 international researchers should participate in the talks. In order to disseminate the scientific advances of the network, a website will be built to give access to the repository of the raw genomic and spectroscopic data already published. The data not used in UFPR Big Data will also be available in the website to the international scientific community. The data will have a digital identification certificate. Another website will be built to communicate the activities of the network widely. It will be updated with information about publications, technical visits, scientific visits and scientific news from related areas to the project. In addition, to disseminate the network nationally and stimulate collaborations, at least 2 workshops will be organized by the Brazilian participants with the support of some of the international participants at the end of the second and fourth year of the project. The workshops will be organized in partnership with the other subprojects in the thematic area, aiming to increase internationalization and impact in the national community of researchers. Meetings will also be held to present scientific results and to evaluate internationalization goals. At least 2 articles per doctoral thesis by each sandwich doctoral student are estimated to be published in high-impact journals. Additionally, each postdoctoral fellow should publish at least one article with the results obtained (or complemented) abroad. The estimation is that at least 40 scientific articles will be published in journals of high impact and relevance to their respective areas.

Action Indicators


Situation Goal Goal

Quantitative Number of scientific presentations in foreign languages 24 4

Quantitative Number of publications in partnership with international researchers 125 15

Quantitative Number of postdoctoral fellows (of the faculty) abroad 12 4

Quantitative Organization of workshops to promote the Network and encourage collaborations 0 1

Quantitative General meetings about the project 0 4

Quantitative Creation and launch of a website to disseminate the scientific advances of the network 0 1

10

40

10

2 8 1

Action 4. To promote the exchange of faculty and students with international research groups participating in the project


Description



To qualify UFPR advanced studies and techniques, faculty will be sent to 6-month postdoctoral internships to develop project steps, initiate new collaborations and bring to Brazil modern technologies for continuous implementation and development at UFPR to serve national partners in the whole country. Additionally, doctoral students will attend sandwich doctorate internships for a minimum of 6 months. These internships will have as purposes: to train human resources in international institutions of high scientific quality; to allow experimental stages that employ border techniques of scientific knowledge; and to transfer technology to UFPR through techniques whose access or technical knowledge is limited to the network. This way, the Network will send abroad a total of 27 doctoral sandwich students for a period of 6 months. Each student will have supervisors in both domestic and international institutions – in a co-tutelage agreement –, leading to an estimated 27 theses defended by the end of the term. The Network will also send 9 senior visiting scholars abroad and 1 junior visiting scholar abroad, with the objective of initiating new collaborations and bringing modern technologies for implementation and continuous development in UFPR, so that national partners in all parts of Brazil are served, too. Similarly, Brazilian researchers of the project will be sent to the international collaborating institutions to present the project progress, promote UFPR research, and establish new international collaborations. In total, 38 visits abroad, 7 days each, will be arranged with the focus on scientific planning, recognition of potential partnerships and promotion of UFPR.

Action Indicators

Type Indicator

Current 2nd Year Final

Situation Year Goal

Quantitative Number of scientific visits 32 17 38

Number of Brazilian researcher postdoctoral fellows abroad

Quantitative 12 4 10

Quantitative Number of sandwich doctorate students 20 13 27


2. To host international researchers activities in the areas of the project for scientific exchange at UFPR

11/2018

07/2022

Description



To receive international researchers in 15-day visits which have as purposes: to plan experimental strategies together with the faculty, teach courses in graduate programs, present seminars, analyze data together and enable future collaborations. The areas of environmental and genomic bioprospecting will host 17 international researchers. Twelve of them are specialists in environmental bioprospecting for isolation of new molecules, in structural chemistry of biomolecules, in toxicological and pharmacological tests of in vitro molecules by 2D tests and biological pest control. The other 5 are specialists in metagenomics for bioprospecting, genomic bioprospecting, metabolic engineering and enzyme application in bioremediation and biocatalysis. We will have the visit of 7 researchers from the area of biogeochemistry and environmental pollutants analysis, and 2 researchers in the area of synthetic biology of bacteria associated with plants. Below are the visits of the international partners divided by GP. Graduate Programe in Science-Biochemistry (PPGBQ) will host the following researchers: Marco Guerrini (Ronzoni, Italy), Marguerite Rinaudo (Grenoble, France), Vince Ördög (Hungary), André Simpson (Toronto, Canada), Peter Richard (Espoo, Finland), Jorge Alberto Rodríguez-González (Guadalajara, Mexico), Martin Buck (London, United Kingdom), Vittorio Venturi (Trieste, Italy) and Silas Granato Villas-Boas (Auckland, New Zealand). Graduate Program in Chemistry (PPGQ) will host the following researchers: Maria Lujan Fernandez (Bahia Blanca, Argentina), Pierre Villeneuve (Montpellier, France), Bernd Schneider (Jena, Germany) and Guido Frank Pauli (Chicago, USA). Graduate Program in Botany (PPGB) will host the following researchers: Paloma Moncaleán (Spain), Taras Pasternak (Germany), Klaus Palme (Germany) and Victor Jimenez (Spain). Graduate Program in Environmental Engineering (PPGEA) will host the following researchers: Bettina Weber (Germany), Susan E. Trumbore (Germany), José Manuel Castro (Spain) and Cinta (Spain). Graduate Program in Coastal and Ocean Systems (PPG-SISCO) will host the following researchers: Neil Rose (United Kingdom), Gesine Mollenhauer (Germany) and Peter DeMenocal (USA). Graduate Program in Agronomy-Plant Production (PPGPV) will host the researchers Natalia Perez (USA) and Themis Michailides (USA). Graduate Program in Genetics (PPGG) will receive researchers Bennard van Ravenzwaay (Netherlands), Jürgen Rohr (USA). Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology (PPG-Biocel) will host the researcher Elaine Faustman (USA).

Action Indicators


Quantitative Number of qualifying visiting scholars per year 15

2nd Year Final Year Goal 13 26


3. To offer courses taught in English in graduate programs participating in the project

11/2018 07/2022

Description



The internationalization network together with the international partners will offer 13 courses taught in English. International partners will teach courses in English on advanced topics in their research areas, allowing for an up-to-date qualification not only for the students participating in the project but also for the general student community of the graduate programs at UFPR, who work in areas related the project. The Graduate Program in Science-Biochemistry (PPG-BQ), together with international partners, will offer courses in English on the following themes: Industrial Biotechnology and Bioremediation (Scholars: Nadia Krieger and Jorge Alberto Rodriguez Gonzalez), Structural Chemistry and NMR (William Sassaki and Marco Guerrini), Polysaccharides: relationship between chemical structure and the environment (Jeanne Léa Meira Silveira and Marguerite Rinaudo), Plant Regulators and Biostimulants (Miguel Daniel Noseda and Vince Ördög), Metabolic Engineering (David Mitchell and Peter Richard), and Fundamentals and Applications of Synthetic Biology (Marcelo Müller dos Santos and Vittorio Venturi). The Graduate Program in Chemistry (PPGQ), together with international partners, will offer courses in English on the themes: Environmental Analysis with NMR and Mass Spectrometry (Andersson Barison and Andrew Simpson) and Biocatalysis (Nadia Krieger and Pierre Villeneuve). The Graduate Program in Cellular and Molecular Biology (PPG-Biocel) will offer a course in English on Toxicological Safety of Bioactive Compounds of Brazilian Biodiversity (Fernanda Fogagnoli Simas and Bennard van Ravenzwaay). The Graduate Program in Agronomy (PPG-Agro) will offer a course in English on Integrated Management of Plant Diseases and Use of Biocontrollers (Louise Larissa May de Mio and Themis Michailides). Graduate Program in Coastal and Ocean Systems (PPG-SISCO) will offer two courses in English on the field of Biogeochemistry and Environmental Pollution (César de Castro Martins, Neil Rose and Gesine Mollenhauer). The Graduate Program in Botany (PPGB) will offer a course in English on Plant Micropropagation and Plant Hormones Interaction in Plant Development (Hugo Fraga and Paloma Moncaleán).

Action Indicators

Type Indicator Current

Situation

Number of courses taught in a foreign language in graduate programs

Quantitative 12

Action

Start date

1. To establish an internationalization network On Bioprospecting, Biotechnology and Environmental Biogeochemistry in Sustainable Exploitation of Brazilian Biodiversity

11/2018

Description

2nd Year Final Year Goal

6 13

Finish date 07/2022



To establish an international network on Bioprospecting, Biotechnology and Environmental Biogeochemistry in Sustainable Exploitation of Brazilian Biodiversity, involving scientific actions arranged in 3 main areas: 1. Environmental and Genomic Bioprospecting in the Isolation of New Molecules with Biotechnological and Pharmaceutical Applications: two fields of bioprospecting will be explored by the international network: (i) bioprospecting of isolated plants and microorganisms and (ii) bioprospecting by data mining of genomes and metagenomes deposited in UFPR. Bioactive molecules (low-mass molecules and polysaccharides) will be extracted through plant and microbial bioprospecting which, after purification and structural characterization, will have applications with biotechnogical and pharmacological purposes. The bioprospecting of genomes and metagenomes will be employed for the screening and identification of genes that encode enzymes or metabolic pathways of biotechnological interest; 2. Use of Modern Techniques of Biogeochemistry and Genomic Analysis for Environmental Monitoring: the activities aim to strengthen previous international collaborations to improve methods of NMR analysis and mass spectrometry of environmental samples to (i) quantify metabolites in living organisms when exposed to pollutants and climate change, (ii) to monitor pollutants in samples of the Amazon Rainforest that are difficult to access (ATTO Tower), (iii) to monitor pollutants present in Paranaguá Bay and (iv) to analyze the impact of extreme environments on microbial biodiversity by genomic sequencing of genetic markers of the microbiome; 3. Synthetic Biology for Engineering of Plant Associative Bacteria and Sustainable Application in Agriculture and Plant Propagation in vitro: the activities aim to build genetic circuits for the production of phytohormones in plant associative bacteria. Also, to build transferable genetic circuits for bacteria that are associated to plants that have their expression controlled by plant metabolites such as naringenin, quercetin and N-acyl-homoserine lactones.

Action Indicators

Type Indicator Current 2nd Year Final

Situation Year Goal

Quantitative Number of JCR publications 262 15 40

Quantitative

Number of publications in foreign

218 15 40

professors at UFPR

Quantitative

Quantitative

Number of publications in partnership with foreign researchers Academic production of visiting professors in collaboration with scholars from UFPR GPs.

125 125

15 40 15 40

Theme Advanced Materials Objective (Nano)advanced materials: preparation, characterization, modeling, study of properties and applications Action Start date Finish date

2. Increase of academic 11/2018 07/2022

mobility

Description



Faculty and students are encouraged to engage in academic mobility, regardless of the GP and the hosting institution – they can be either Brazilian researchers going abroad or researchers coming from other countries. The participation of scholars in these short exchange periods aims to discuss and submit research papers, lecture of academic courses or minicourses, academic and professional training. Additionally, the purpose is the co-supervision of students, work in specialized laboratories (with synchrotron sources, neutron reactors, high-energy accelerators etc), attend scientific meetings, participate in international scientific committees, formulate research and international exchange calls as well as, formally represent the institution. Particularly, one of the main objectives is to intensify academic mobility through planning and organicity that optimize the use of financial resources to increase the impact of academic and scientific production of the GPs involved in this project. Pre-existing effective international collaborations, previously without financially supported, will boost with this program together with the growth of more timid collaborations, leading to an increase on the number of foreign partner institutions. As expected, this specific action will have a major impact on the internationalization of GP and research teams. It is possible to estimate a quantitative increase on the academic mobility assuming that a minimum of: one work assignment for each member of the international team in the four-year research assessment period; one minicourse for each foreign visitor; and a linear increase in the number of theses supervised in cotutelle and students in sandwich doctorate abroad during the 1st and 2nd stages of the two-year research assessment period.

Action Indicators

Type Indicator


Situation Year Goal

Quantitative

Number of courses taught by

6 33 60

foreigners/year

Quantitative

Number of visiting international researchers

17 44 71

/year

Quantitative

Number of theses in cotutelle and

23 48 73

Students in sandwich doctorate/year


1. To improve intellectual 11/2018

07/2022

production and formative capacity

Description



The access of research team and students from UFPR to the research infrastructure of foreign partners will complement and enhance activities related to the preparation, processing, characterization of properties of materials and devices, as well as, develop their modeling and simulation. Major gains can be achieved in the preparation, processing and funcionalization (additive manufacture using transferred arc plasma, sol-gel, spin-coating, casting, Langmuir-Blodgett, evapoartion, molecular beam epitaxy etc) of carbon nanostructures; organic and biohybrid materials; polymeric and ceramic nanocomposites, lamellar systems with immobilized enzymes, nanoparticles and films of metal and magnetic metals alloys; topological insulators, molecular magnets etc. Different achievements are also expected in the characterization of structural, electronic, magnetic, optical, catalytic and electrochemical properties through various techniques (in English: XRD, TEM/SEM, EPR/NMR, XPS/UPS, TGA/DSC/DTA, AFM/STM/MFM, FT-IR/UV-Vis, Raman Spectroscopy, ellipsometry, conductivity and photoconductivity, magnetotransport, magnetometry, electrochemical techniques, synchrotron sources, etc). The same can be said for activities involving calculations of electronic structure using open and closed codes based on density functional theory (DFT), modeling of interactions between molecules and solids, graphene-based field effect transientors (FET) and organic materials; organic photovoltaic cells and simulations of Rydberg networks for controlled energy storage. This activity will be monitored by quantitative indicators whose evolution is indicated by the average of the doctorate student in an internship abroad by a faculty member of the national team proposing for four years and at least one intellectual production per doctorate per year over the four-year period. The increase in intellectual production also requires at least one research product, for each postdoctoral fellow of the GP, per year over the four-year research assessment period. Finally, it is expected a cumulative increase of 10% in Qualis A1, A2 and B1 publications for each CAPES area of the GPs involved per biennium.

Action Indicators


Situation Year Goal

Quantitative

Intellectual productions (journals, 1337 1362 1387

the annals/books)/year

Quantitative Theses and Dissertations (M + D)/year 181 199 217

Qualitative Average of Qualis

65% 75% 85%

A1, A2 and B1 publications/year

Action 3. To strengthen the entrepreneurship and innovation process Description




An expansion in partnerships and cooperations with major international centers of research and technological development is expected. Consequently, there will be greater access to technological platforms of successful, that allow to sucessful support pro-active groups together with the management of initiatives to implement new businesses or changes in companies This benefit will facilitate knowledge transfer resulting on new applications and developments of devices or products and processes. Particularly, the UFPR research team works on materials applications of catalysts in different types of reactions; on active layers for photovoltaic electric power generation; on transparent and flexible electrodes of photocells, batteries and supercapacitors; on electrochemical, electrical, optical and spintronic sensors; protective layers and anticorrosive coatings; on biomedical application in the treatment of tumors through photothermal effect and optimization of self-healing cementitious composites. Development of devices, products and processes such as flexible batteries; organic and flexible solar cells; magnetic and spintronic devices for the electric vehicle industry; magneto-mechanical transducers; graphene-based transistors, organic transistors and devices; memory devices; sensor and electrical and magnetic transduction devices. Quantifying this action is a challenge. It typically involves risks inherent to the industrial sector, such as frequent changes in economic expectations and dynamics of the national and international markets. Additionally, the time length associate with technology maturation and patent registration of products and procedures play a role on the knowledge transfer process. For this activity an increase of 10% and 20% in the overall technical production capacity and in the patents of the GPs is expected respectively in the 1st and 2nd biennium.

Action Indicators

Type Indicator


Situation Year Goal

Quantitative

Number of patents (registered and

13 14 15

granted)/year

Quantitative

Number of technical productions (products

3 4 5

and processes)/year

Theme

BIOSCIENCES AND HEALTH

Objective

Basic and Applied Cancer Research


2. To strengthen the internationalization of Graduate Programs (PPGs) through exchange with Centers of Excellence abroad, promotion of multidisciplinary activities and collaboration among researchers.

11/2018

07/2022

Description



It is intended to consolidate the internationalization of Graduate Programs (PPGs) by sending scholars and students abroad to Centers of Excellence, publishing articles in collaboration with the foreign team and promoting multidisciplinary activities (graduate and symposium disciplines) involving Brazilian and foreign teams. To offer English language courses with and without the participation of visiting scholars will allow students to experience the main language in scientific communication in the world. Many of these disciplines currently presented in Portuguese, and after this restructuring, which are formulated jointly with collaborators from abroad, these classes should be kept in the same format in the future. Sandwich internships abroad, as well as visiting scholars and UFPR faculty conducting technical visits or attending congresses abroad, will promote a scientific and cultural exchange among the various participating countries, enhancing the professional and personal training of participants. In addition, they will be essential for the discussion of results and preparation of scientific articles of international importance, as well as for the application for patents. Action Indicators

Type Indicator Current Final Final

Situation Goal Goal

Quantitative Post Doctorate Abroad 0 3 6 Quantitative Number of international visits 5 16 32

Quantitative Number of informative videos produced

0 8 18

in foreign languages or in Portuguese for professors at UFPR Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Number of scientific presentations in foreign languages Number of research projects with international funding Number of publications in foreign languages

10 24 50

3 5 9

64 100 300

Quantitative Number of research agreements Quantitative Amount of students in sandwich

doctorate program Quantitative Number of post-doctoral fellows Quantitative Number of theses and master’s dissertations in

joint supervision Quantitative Courses taught by visiting scholars Quantitative Number of students welcomed at UFPR

6 12 25

2 15 32

0 1 2 2 3 5 2 13 25 5 10 20

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Number of subjects taught in foreign languages in Graduate programs Number of publications in partnership with foreign researchers Number of qualifying visiting scholars

5 16 20

21 50 100

5 17 29


1. To promote interaction among researchers at the Federal University of Paraná with different competencies in cancer and health, and also with excellent foreign groups in cancer and health research

11/2018 07/2022

Description



The aim is to promote interaction between UFPR researchers with different competencies in cancer and health, and also with foreign groups of excellence in cancer and health research, so that cross-cutting approaches are possible in order to produce publications at the frontier of knowledge. Research on cancer has national and worldwide importance, and several research centers in Brazil are dedicated to this topic. UFPR has several researchers working alone on this theme, and the main objective of this proposal is to bring together international researchers with production and visibility to strengthen the research of this topic in UFPR in an integrated way. The investment will focus on the training of doctoral students developing part of their theses abroad, as well as work visits to discuss the progress of the Project and participation in important events in the area. Thus, scientific articles in international journals of high impact are expected, as well as attendance to international congresses. This will contribute to the training of doctors of high level and competence. Students will be able to experience a scientific environment of excellence. Action Indicators Type Indicator Current

Situation 2nd year Goal

Final Goal

Quantitative Courses taught by visiting scholars 2 13 25 Quantitative Number of international visits 5 16 32 Quantitative Number of post-doctoral fellows 0 1 2 Quantitative Number of informative videos produced

in foreign languages or in Portuguese for professors at UFPR

0 8 18

Quantitative Number of publications in partnership with foreign

researchers 21 50 100

Quantitative Number of qualifying visiting scholars 5 17 29 Quantitative Post-Doctoral Degree Abroad 0 3 6 Quantitative Number of theses and master’s dissertations in

joint supervision 2 3 5

Quantitative Number of students received at UFPR 5 10 20 Quantitative

Number of subjects taught in foreign languages in Graduate programs

5 16 20

Quantitative Number of publications in foreign languages 64 100 300 Quantitative Number of scientific presentations in foreign

languages 10 24 50

Quantitative Amount of students in sandwich doctorate program 2 15 32 Quantitative Number of research agreements 6 12 25 Quantitative Number of research projects with international 3 5 9

Action 3. To promote breakthroughs in the research of new forms of treatment and diagnosis of cancer, and to strengthen the development of translational research through the collaboration and exchange of researchers.

Start date 11/2018

Finish date 07/2022



Description A contextualized justification is presented to promote a better understanding of some of the proposed aspects: Redox processes are capable of mediating physiological or pathological signaling circuits, as well as lesions to various cellular constituents. A large volume of studies has examined the role of mechanisms dependent on redox processes in a wide variety of diseases of different natures. The study of redox processes has a strategic position regarding the design and development of new and relevant cellular and genetic therapeutic interventions, interacting essentially with all fields of interest in the biomedical area; The process of tumor reversal is not yet fully understood, and studies in this area will not only provide greater molecular knowledge of the process, but will also allow the establishment of new therapeutic and diagnostic strategies for tumors; Modulation of the expression of non-coding RNAs has been described in recent years, describing their performance at both transcriptional and post-transcriptional levels, including modulators of chromatin structure, co-activators of transcription factors, control of mRNA decays, among others, evidencing its role as marker in the tumorigenic process; In the form of scattering shock sections for electron and positron collisions by molecules of biological importance. Theoretical calculations and experimental measurements will be performed. The chosen molecular systems allow the performance of relatively sophisticated calculations, and can be compared directly with the experimental data; Characterization of extracellular vesicles of cancer cells to identify prognostic markers of the disease, as well as factors that may have a phenotypic effect on receptor cells; The production of novel polysaccharide hybrid molecules has an innovative character, representing a new class of compounds with potential application as antitumor agents, with great possibility to generate patents; Application of the Mesothelioma Registry questionnaire in Brazilian patients at the Oncology Hospital in Brazil, and to evaluate the quality of mortality records in important oncology hospitals; Strategies aimed at improving the quality of life of patients, such as the use of physical activities provided through interactive virtual reality games.

Action Indicators FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ 99 of 190




Final Goal

Quantitative Post-doctoral Research Abroad 0 3 6 Quantitative Number of international visits 5 16 32 Quantitative Number of informative videos produced 0 8 18

in foreign languages or in Portuguese for professors at UFPR Quantitative number of theses and master’s dissertations in

joint supervision 2 3 5

Quantitative Number of qualifying visiting scholars 5 17 29 Quantitative Amount of students in sandwich doctorate

program 2 15 32

Quantitative number of students received at UFPR 5 10 20 Quantitative

Number of subjects taught in foreign languages in Graduate programs

5 16 20

Quantitative

Number of publications in partnership with foreign researchers

21 50 100

Quantitative

Number of publications in foreign languages 64 100 300

Quantitative Number of research projects with international funding

3 5 9

Quantitative Number of research agreements 6 12 25 Quantitative courses taught by visiting scholars 2 13 25 Quantitative number of post doctoral fellows 0 1 2 Quantitative Number of scientific presentations in foreign

languages 10 24 50

Objective Systems Biology and Omics Sciences Applied to Biosciences and Health Action Start date Finish date

1. Interaction between Bacteria that promote 11/2018 07/2022 Plant growth and Host Plants

Description



Since the beginning of the green revolution in the 1960s, the use of nitrogen fertilizers has contributed to increasing agricultural productivity. However, the environmental impacts of nitrogen fertilization make this practice unsustainable due to much of the nitrogen applied to the soil being leached, contaminating bodies of water, and causing eutrophication and the appearance of so-called “dead zones”. Contamination of drinking water with nitrate impacts human health and is associated with increased incidence of cancer. In addition, part of the nitrogen fertilizer applied to the soil is converted to N2O, a gas 300 times more potent than CO2 regarding global warming. A sustainable alternative to chemical fertilization is the use of nitrogen-fixing bacteria, which associate themselves to plants of agricultural interest. Nitrogen- fixing microorganisms are able to convert the abundant N2 atmospheric gas into ammonium, directly transferring the fixed nitrogen to the associated plant. Grasses such as rice, wheat, maize and sugarcane are colonized by the nitrogen-fixing bacteria Azospirillum brasilense and Herbaspirillum seropedicae. These bacteria promote growth and increase the productivity of the associated plant by contributing with fixed nitrogen, phytohormone production, solubilizing nutrients and competing pathogens. This project aims to clarify, at the molecular level, the process of communication and interaction between nitrogen fixing bacteria A. brasilense and H. seropedicae with grasses. In order to do this, modern techniques of genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and metabolomics will be employed allowing a holistic view of the molecular communication between the plant and the bacterium. These data will be of vital importance to develop new bacterial formulations and to improve inoculant technologies in the field, maximizing the biofertilizing potential of these microorganisms. A second strand of this project aims to dissect, at the molecular level, the process that regulates the fixation and assimilation of nitrogen in bacteria. The data obtained will allow the production of new strains of nitrogen superfixing bacteria that will allow the substitution of chemical nitrogen fertilizers in the crops, making agriculture a much more sustainable process. In this project of internationalization are involved foreign researchers of renown in the area, with whom the UFPR group already interacts.

Action Indicators



Type Indicator

Quantitative Number of research projects with international funding

Quantitative Young Talent

Quantitative Number of scientific presentations in foreign languages

Quantitative Number of International Workshops hosted

Quantitative Post Doctoral Degree abroad Number of promotional videos produced

Quantitative in foreign languages or in Portuguese for professors at UFPR

Quantitative Number of publications in foreign languages

Quantitative Number of international academic visits

Quantitative Number of students in Sandwich doctorate programs per year

Quantitative Number of international Visiting Scholars per year

Quantitative Senior Visiting Scholar Quantitative number of theses and master’s dissertations in joint supervision

Quantitative Number of subjects taught in foreign languages in Graduate programs

Qualitative Number of publications in partnership with foreign researchers Quantitative

Number of research agreements

Action Start date 3. Assessment of the potential for virulence 11/2018 and biodegradation of black yeast of the Herpotrichiellacea family

Description

Current 2nd year Final Situation Goal Goal

1 1 3

0 2 6

2 3 6

0 2 4

1 1 3

1 1 1

24 50 100

2 6 9

3 6 11

4 6 16

0 1 1

1 3 6

0 9 18

5 15 30

1 2 4 Finish date 07/2022

This action aims to use new tools for the study of black yeasts belonging to the Herpotrichiellaceae family. These agents cause diseases in humans and animals that are difficult to treat, and the mechanisms involved in the establishment and development of the pathological process are unknown. The results will represent an advance in the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of diseases caused by these agents. The objectives will be achieved through the development of a model of the disease in the laboratory, analysis of the differential gene expression in vitro and in situ, genomic characterization of the causative agents of diseases in human and animal hosts, comparing them with those from environmental sources. These data will allow inferences about genes and metabolic pathways and discriminate species and/or lineages with biotechnological potential from those pathogenic to humans and animals. State-of-the-art sequencing methods will be used for comparative structural and functional genomic and transcriptomic analysis, with the objective of identifying the main structural gene differences and differentially expressed genes of environmental, human and animal pathogens, generating relevant information on the pathogenicity, virulence and biology of these agents, as well as identifying species with biotechnological potential.



Action Indicators


Situation

Goal Goal

Quantitative


19

40 80

professors at UFPR

Quantitative

Number of International Workshops

0

2 4

carried out

Quantitative

Number of qualifying visiting scholars

0

1 3

per year

Quantitative Number of publications in partnership with 4 12 24

international researchers

Quantitative

Number of sandwich doctorate

1

1 4

Sandwich doctorate programs per year

Quantitative Number of international visits 0 1 2


2. Development of methods of statistical analysis and simulation of Plasmodium's concrete mechanisms of movement 11/2018 07/2022 during penetration of the host’s vessels Description The process of human infection by malaria parasites (Plasmodium) goes through several stages, from inoculation into the dermis, through anopheles mosquito bites, to its insertion into the bloodstream and fixation in different organs. The process by which the parasite is able to penetrate and reach blood vessels is not well known. This is a key step in the entire cycle of infection. By analyzing the plasmodium’s behavior while searching for vessels, analyzed in a laboratory, our objective is to develop methods of statistical analysis as well as simulation of the concrete mechanisms of movement of the microorganism, in order to describe the whole process of search and penetration of vessels. Thus, the project involves microscopy and image analysis (which use softwares that are state of the art in motion image processing). Statistical analysis of the data, for reliable statistical inferences, and finally computational modeling using diffusive (and superdiffusive) processes and random search models, in an attempt to understand the patterns of parasite displacement in human tissue.

Action Indicators




Situation Goal Goal

Quantitative


0 1 2

per year

Quantitative Number of international workshops conducted 0 2 4

Quantitative


1 1 2


Quantitative Number of courses taught in a foreign

0 2 4

language in the Graduate program Quantitative Number of international academic visits Qualitative Number of publications in partnership

with international researchers Quantitative Number of publications in foreign

languages

0 1 2

2 8 16

10 20 40

Action 7. Influence of intestinal Microbioma in inflammatory bowel disease Description


Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD) usually present serious complications resulting in surgical procedures, invasive exams such as colonoscopies, prolonged hospital stays, and high-cost for the government in drugs, such as in biological therapy. The intestinal microbiome has the ability to interfere in the various biological mechanisms and consequently in the health and disease of the host. The intestinal microbiome acts by regulating the homeostasis of the intestinal epithelial barrier, modulating the inflammatory response and metabolic processes and activating the immune system against infectious agents. This microbiome may undergo changes resulting from certain pathologies, diet composition and gastrointestinal disorders. Its functional stability is constantly challenged by several factors, such as: the intestinal epithelium and mucus layer renew rapidly, the peristaltic activity that exposes the various segments of the intestine to a variety of allochthonous bacteria, dietary macromolecules and gastric, pancreatic and biliary secretions, among others. Many studies have shown the importance of the microbiome in a pathological context, where the composition of intestinal microorganisms changes drastically. This change is called dysbiosis. It is not yet established whether dysbiosis is the cause or consequence of the pathology. However, specific changes in microflora can be typically associated with disease. For example, neoplastic colon epithelium produces the polysaccharide D-galactose (1-3) -N-acetyl-D-galactosamine, which is recognized by a lectin from the surface of Fusobacterium nucleatum, causing enrichment of this bacterium. This approach is used with a high success rate (>95% cure) for treatment of pseudomembranous ulcerative colitis, often triggered by the use of antibiotics leading to dysbiosis and Clostridium dificile proliferation (Meighani et al., 2017). This action involves the study of fecal microbioma in IBD in several stages. The results should contribute to the development of a diagnostic and prognostic tool for IBD, aiming to reduce the mortality of patients with IBD such as Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Retrocolitis. Interaction with the group of Prof. Mike Sadowski will be able to provide, in the medium term, the establishment of the fecal material transplantation technique in the State of Paraná, as well as the molecular analysis tools to follow the process.

Action Indicators FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ 104 of 190



Situation Goal Goal

Quantitative

Number of courses taught in a foreign language

0 2 4

in Graduate studies

Quantitative

Number of International Workshops

0 2 4

carried out

Quantitative


0 1 2

per year

Quantitative

Number of publications in partnership with

0 2 6



Quantitative Number of international academic visits Quantitative Number of students in


1 8 16

0 1 2

1 1 2

Action 4. Diagnostic tools for the Swine Respiratory Complex as a strategy to reduce the use of antimicrobials in modern pig production systems Description

Start date 11/2018

Finish date 07/2022

In order to carry out this action, two well-differentiated health states of farms will be established: (1) Respiratory and Reproductive Swine Virus (PRRSV) and M. hyopneumoniae free, with Swine Circovirus type II (PCV2) and Swine Influenza (SIV) vaccinations, without detection of clinical symptoms; and (2) low-positive M. hyopneumoniae farm, with or without vaccination against PCV2 and SIV, but with clinical detection in the last 6-12 months, with participation of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, Haemophilus parasuis and/or Pasteurella multocida. The following activities will be carried out: a) Sampling of blood, saliva and swab to determine the circulation of the main microorganisms involved in the Swine Respiratory Complex (SRC). This phase will involve two fellowships in the country for a UCO scholar from abroad, for a period of two months, to assist in the standardization of collection and PCR techniques, training and lectures, and classes in the Graduate program on Swine Respiratory Diseases; b) monitoring animals in the nursery and fattening phases for slaughterhouse, and selection of samples to be taken for microbiological, molecular and histopathological studies, after determining the lesions observed are in agreement with the detection of agents and different pathological and etiological patterns of SRC. Genetic variability will be evaluated through sequencing of the main pathogens identified in SRC. A post-doctoral fellow from abroad will be involved for 6 months to process qPCR analyzes, and sequencing; c) identification and validation of biomarkers of interest that allow differentiation of bacterial or viral participation. TRAIL, IP-10, CRP, Hp and sCD163 will be analyzed, correlation and association tests will be performed with the type of lesion and pathogens identified in the lungs collected, and blood sampling using commercial kits to determine which biomarker or combination of biomarkers allows to obtain the best correlation with the type of process, bacterial or viral, that is occurring in each individual. This stage will involve a scholarship abroad for a sandwich doctorate and resources for presentation of research results in international congresses and events, along with maintenance of specific actions of the project in international cooperation. Presentation of research results in international congresses and events and for the maintenance of specific actions of the project under international cooperation.



Action Indicators


Situation Goal Goal

Quantitative

Number of courses taught in a foreign

2 2 4

language in the Graduate program

Quantitative


0 1 1


Quantitative Number of Senior visiting Scholar 0 0 1

Quantitative Amount of research agreements 0 1 1


Quantitative Number of students received at UFPR Quantitative Postdoctoral fellowship abroad

Quantitative Number of theses and dissertations in joint Quantitative Number of international visits

1 2 2

0 1 1

0 1 1

2 2 4

0 2 2 Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Number of publications in foreign languages Number of scientific presentations in foreign languages Number of International Workshops hosted Number of publications in partnership with foreign researchers

6 4 8

0 6 10

0 2 4

0 4 8


5. Development of Metallodrugs 11/2018 07/2022

based on transition metals

Description



Interest in medicinal applications of compounds containing vanadium has increased significantly in recent years due to their good performance as antidiabetic, antibacterial and antitumor agents. In this context, the class of polyoxovanadates, especially the decavanadate anions, [HnVV10O28] 6-n, has stood out due to its interaction with different biological targets accessible both in the intra- and extracellular environment. Recently, our research group reported the use of mixed valence polyoxovanadates, such as [V15O36 (Cl)] 6-, in the protection of genetic material against the action of potentially carcinogenic agents, with up to 70% of chemoprotection of plasmid DNA pUC19 and 40% protection in prokaryotic cells1. The present proposal aims to increase the number of polyoxovanadates evaluated in these studies, which may contribute to the understanding of its mechanism of action, through the characterization of the chemical species formed in solution and the study of their interaction with biological targets such as DNA and membrane proteins. For this study, plasmidial DNA and cell lines, both eukaryotic and prokaryotic, will be used as model systems. The most promising systems will also be evaluated as possible potentiators of the action of oncolytic viruses in tumor cells. In a second line of work, the potential antibiotic action of polyoxovanadates in Gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli and mycobacteria like Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Koch’s bacillus) will be evaluated. The chemical species present in solution will be analyzed through spectroscopic techniques such as 51V NMR, RPE and UV-vis-NIR. Biological assays will be conducted both at UFPR and the University of Colorado, USA, under the supervision of Professor Debbie Catharina Crans, who has extensive experience in the study of vanadium compounds in biological environment and in their interaction with model membrane systems, which could contribute greatly to the success of the proposal. As internationalization actions, it has been planned for two students to carry out sandwich doctorate fellowships at the University of Colorado (for 12 months in each case), as well as a visit from Professor Crans to UFPR for a period of 15 to 30 days. During this visit, Professor Crans will offer a course in English for the students of the Graduate Programs involved in the proposal.

Action Indicators


Situation Goal Goal

Quantitative


4 12 30



Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Qualitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Number of publications in foreign languages Number of research projects with international funding Number of International Workshops hosted Number of international visits Number of students in Sandwich Doctorate programs per year Number of international Visiting Scholars per year Number of subjects taught in foreign languages in Graduate programs Number of scientific presentations in foreign languages

6

0

0 0 0

0

0

1

16 40

1 2 2 4 1 2 1 3 1 2 1 2 38

Action Start date Finish date FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ 107 of 190


6. Genomic Research on animal models of hereditary eye diseases similar to those of humans – emphasis on Whippet breed dogs showing progressive retinal atrophy

11/2018 07/2022

Description One of the main purposes of the action is to promote interaction between UFPR (Graduate Program in Veterinary Sciences) and Prof. Dr. Simon Petersen-Jones, DVET MED, PHD, DECVO Myers-Dunlap Endowed Chair in Canine Health. Small Animal Clinical Sciences of the Comparative Ophthalmology Lab of Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing Michigan, United States of America. The background for this interaction is the realization of a scientific project in the area of genomics, with the objective of identifying the gene responsible for a disease in dogs (progressive retinal atrophy) that is analogous to another disease observed in humans (retinosis pigmentar). The UFPR team performed a characterization of a new form of progressive atrophy in Whippet dogs. This study comprised several aspects of this un-reported genetic disease, including clinical and electrophysiological characteristics. It also developed an innovative diagnostic imaging research, using coherence tomography. These findings were helpful in establishing a hypothesis about how the gene defect possibly impairs visual function, how the disease is inherited, and what are the adverse consequences for vision and the tissues of the retina. These results can be found in the following publication: Somma AT, Moreno JCD, Sato MT, Rodrigues BD, Bacellar-Galdino M, Occelli LM, Petersen-Jones SM, Montiani-Ferreira F. Characterization of a novel form of progressive retinal atrophy in Whippet dogs: a clinical, electroretinographic, and breeding study. Vet Ophthalmol. 2017 Sep;20(5):450-459. The objective of the present project is to detect the defective gene responsible for this disease and, thus, develop treatment protocols for animals and humans.

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Action Start date Finish date 8. Omic tools applied to the recognition of potential biomarkers on the diagnosis of celiac disease, 11/2018 07/2022 lactose intolerance and irritable bowel syndrome Description



Celiac disease (CD), lactose intolerance (LI) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) are common gastrointestinal diseases, often misdiagnosed as each other. Although they show similar symptoms such as diarrhea, weight loss, anemia, etc., their pathophysiology differs. CD is an autoimmune disease that, after the ingestion of gluten, causes chronic inflammation in the small intestine of genetically susceptible patients. LI is caused by the deficiency of the lactase enzyme, responsible for the hydrolysis of lactose into glucose and galactose, which then get absorbed into the body. The laboratory diagnosis of CD is made through immunoassays, and of LI through absorption tests. However, these exams are expensive and their results prone to being misled by other pathologies, in addition to not being performed in routine exams unless requested by the doctor. The pathophysiology of IBS remains unknown, being diagnosed exclusively through the manifested symptoms and by dismissing other possible diagnoses. Furthermore, in the aspect of chronic neurological diseases, metabolomic and proteomic analyses based on analytical tools such as mass spectrometry (MS), along with the animal model of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), are advantageous in the search for possible biomarkers of the pathophysiological and drug resistance mechanisms of epilepsy. In this sense, the characterization of biochemical profiles and the identification of biomarkers through metabolomic methods has proven valuable to the development of research on these diseases. It is necessary to further the investigation of these biomarkers in order to develop rapid and less evasive exams, improving the diagnosis and treatment of patients with CD, LI and IBS, as well as chronic neurological disorder. Untargeted metabolomic technologies have been successfully employed in the identification of biochemical profiles, as well as in discerning profiles that carry the disease from those of healthy patients. In this context, the present action proposes the application of the mass spectrometry technique, combined with chemometrics, as tools for metabolomic and genomic analyses of population samples that manifest complex diseases.

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Quantitative Number of qualifying visiting scholars 1 2 4

per year

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foreign languages

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9. Metabolomic studies of plants and animals through NMR combined with chemometrics

11/2018 07/2022

Description The present action aims to expose the modifications observed in the chemical composition of the samples as product of genomic alterations in the body. The results will be used to develop methods of recognizing organism alterations caused by pathophysiological stimuli. The development of rapid and non-invasive methodologies, based on metabolomic analysis, which may be utilized to measure alterations in the chemical composition of patients, is fundamental to improve diagnosis methods and advance the defense mechanisms of plants.

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Quantitative Number of research projects with international 2 4 8

funding



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programs per year Quantitative Senior Visiting Scholar

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30 60

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professors at UFPR

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professors at UFPR

Action 10. Structural and Functional Genomic Analysis of Trypanosomatids Description

Start date 11/2018

Finish date 07/2022



Genomic, transcriptomic and proteomic sequencing data of the pathogen Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiological agent of Chagas’ disease, has allowed great progress inside functional studies in the last decades. With the use of omic technologies, available in several research centers in Brazil, including UFPR, it is possible to quickly identify a genome sequence and the regions that exhibit different biological conditions. Despite advances in structural and transcriptomic genomic studies, the amount of data about functional genomics has not progressed proportionately. In T. cruzi, this fact was aggravated by the absence of gene silencing mechanisms. Therefore, the aim of this action is to develop and apply two strategies in large scale: First, named TcOvl (t. CRUZI OVEREXPRESSION LIBRARY), with the creation of a genomic overexpression library of fragments and strains; second, the support of CRISPR-Cas9 (TcGeDis – T.cruzi GENE DISRUPTION) in advancing genome engineering technology. Towards TcOvl technology, a new strategy is drawn based on the construction of genomic libraries of a virulent strain of T. cruzi (CL Brener – TcVI), which carries them through a vector to low virulence strains (strain G –TcI), since T. cruzi is capable of holding the episomal form of plasmids. In order to test the strategy, the team has designed an overexpression library, adapted to the Gateway platform, for which we have received ~3400 cloned open-reading frames (ORFs) (donated by Krieger, Preti and Probst). The libraries constructed in a vector adapted to TARGET SEQUENCING will be overexpressed, and the PHENOTYPIC MODIFICATION of the clones in different conditions will be measured through massive sequencing. The strategy was based on the approaches used in T.brucei, processes like quorum sensing, drug resistance and cell differentiation. In TcGeDis, SaCas9 has been utilized to interrupt T.cruzi genes (in press), and we have recently created plasmids for cloning and describing random single-guide RNA (sgRNA), which will be used to damage multiple genes in a single process, followed by phenotypic analyses. The knowledge produced by this research may result in the development of more efficient drugs and treatments against Chagas’ disease. Additionally, it aids the training and formation of functional genomic and bioinformatics professionals.

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Objective Diagnosis, therapy, and molecular basis of chronic and neglected diseases.


6. Study of the interaction of Aegypti vector in order to uncover the mechanisms related to infection, replication and transmission.

11/2018 07/2022

Description

A. aegypti is currently the mosquito that most concerns Brazilians, because it is the primary carrier of dengue, zika, chikungunya, and urban yellow fever in the country. Dengue, highlighted among these arboviruses, is considered endemic in more than 100 countries. It is an infectious disease caused by the retrovirus of genus Flavivirus, family Flaviviridae, with four known serotypes (DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3 e DENV-4). Human contamination with the dengue arbovirus can range from asymptomatic to severe symptomatic infections that can result in death, even on the first exposure. In Brazil, several factors have contributed to the increase in the number of cases and of the manifestation of the most severe types of dengue (DENV). Of these factors, we can highlight: wide dispersion of A. aegypti, intensification of uncontrolled urban growth, inefficient control measures, high migration flows (migration, immigration and emigration) and the co-circulation of the four dengue virus serotypes. Considering that the prevention of infections caused by these arboviruses is still a challenge centered on the main vector, A. aegypti, studies that evaluate the parasite-vector interaction are essential and necessary in the elucidation of the mechanisms related to the infection, replication and transmission of these arboviruses. The proposal for collaboration with the Pasteur Institute/Paris will be based on the extensive experience of Dr. Anna Bella Failloux, the lead researcher of the "Arbovirus and Insect vectors" laboratory (https://research.pasteur.fr/en/team/arboviruses-and-insect-vectors/). She has a vast experience in this area and a great interest in collaborations with UFPR. In 2003 it was possible to do part of her doctoral thesis, which resulted in three published articles, all developed in this Institute. The possibility of international academic visits and the realization of scientific meetings and workshops will further consolidate this collaboration. Two grants were requested for the 2nd and 4th years of this action. It was also requested an overseas research visit for its 3rd year and also an international researcher grant for the 3rd year of the project. There will also be a course taught in English and an international workshop in Brazil.

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a foreign language in graduate programs

Action 1. Improvement of pharmaco-therapeutic performance Description



FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ 09/05/2018 21:12 This action comprehends activities involving drug-therapeutic performance. It is intended: a) to assess the potential antidiabetic action of vanadium (IV, V) and mixed valence (IV/V) oxocompounds associated with organic cations derived from Vitamin B3. The aim is also to synthesize new vanadium oxocompounds functionalized with chelating alcohols and/or carboxylates with known biological function, which may potentiate the insulin-mimetic action of vanadium. Therefore, it is sought to contribute to the development of potential metal-based drugs that present a greater biostability and an improved vanadium absorption in relation to other complexes reported in the literature, aiming for a more efficient and safe clinical use; b) To promote the rational planning, synthesis and the photophysical and photodynamic evaluation of new glycoprophinins and related compounds, which may provide a potential target-selective action within Photodynamic Therapy (PDT). PDT is a type of therapeutic intervention that uses a photosensitizer, visible-band radiation and tissue oxygen for target-selective destruction of unwanted tissue or cells. PDT is particularly useful in the treatment of various types of cancer. Recognition of the glycine moiety by such receptors can trigger the internalization of porphyrins by tumor cells by pinocytosis; c) To study polysaccharide biomaterials with potential application in the areas of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering. One of the strategies proposed for the obtention of biomaterials will be the polyelectrolytic complexation between sulfated polysaccharides from macroalgae and the cationic polysaccharide chitosan. Other strategies for the obtentian of polysaccharide biomaterials with different physicochemical characteristics will also be tested; d) There are several factors related to chemotherapy treatment, but the main one is the overexpression of ABC transporters in cancer cells. The use of inhibitors to reverse the resistance phenotype is a strategy in the clinical phase since 2001. It is intended to expand previously developed actions focusing on the identification of new, more potent inhibitors, as well as to characterize the mechanism of inhibition and to validate its use in an in vivo model.

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0 5 8

visiting faculty


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Action 7. Establish a methodology for HLA genotyping by NGS (next generation sequencing) in the context of transplants with potential benefits to the donor/patient pair. Description

Start date 11/2018

Finish date 07/2022



Despite advances in organ transplants resulting from technical expertise, more specific immunosuppressive drugs, the search for the compatible HLA pair, increased monitoring of alloreactivity and of the specific HLA donor antibodies (DSAs) directed against HLA antigen targets expressed in donor tissues, rejection still occur and constitute troubling and challenging events for the transplantation team. This fact results, among other factors, from the lack of knowledge of other tissue incompatibilities that have not yet been monitored. In this perspective, polymorphisms present in the MICA gene have been associated with differential expression of MICA in the target cells and also with the differential binding with the NKG2D receptor. For this reason, there is great interest in the MICA gene (MHC class-I related chain A), considering that its gene product may also be the target of both immune recognition and rejection, which may result in allograft failure or loss. In addition, intracellular signaling pathways activated in renal graft endothelial cells by anti-HLA-DR and anti-HLA-DQ antibodies need to be better researched. The main objectives of the present study were: 1) to evaluate polymorphisms in the MICA gene, focusing on its three immunological aspects: high and low expression of MICA in relation to its receptor NKG2D, epitopes derived from MICA antibodies and MICA epitopes derived from T cells; 2) In vitro study to investigate intracellular signaling pathways activated in endothelial cells by anti-HLA-DR and anti-HLA-DQ antibodies. A collaborative study will be carried out in Brazil and at the University Medical Center in Utrecht-NL with at least 170 transplant patients. Based on the MICA genotypes in combination with software (HLA Matchmaker) that evaluate alloreactivity or presence of antibodies and the PIRCHE-I and PIRCHE-II Model adapted to evaluate target T-helper lymphocyte epitopes aiming at the MICA molecule with the objective of evaluating clinic associations between these epitopes as well as graft survival and the impact of this potential alorreativity with post-transplant intercurrences. In order to obtain these objectives, funding for two sandwich doctorates were requested in the 3rd and 4th years of the project, an overseas research visit in year 4 of the project, as well as a grant for a foreign researcher for a period of 20 days in our country. In addition, there will be 4 courses taught in English in this action, as well as an international workshop in Brazil.

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Action 4. Promote the development of new pharmacological agents Description




This action aims at the development of pharmaceutical nanotechnological formulations involving 4 main strategies: 1) biopolymers will be modified by oxidation selective to aldehydes with TEMPO catalyst and meta-periodate with subsequent reductive amination reaction, with formation of nanoaggregates and nanoemulsions for encapsulation of idebenone; 2) liposomes will be coated with poly (acrylic acid) and poly (meta acrylic) as a way to vector drugs such as chalcones and antimony derivatives in macrophage parasitoid vacuoles that act as natural vessels of amastigotes forms of Leishmania sp. 3) they will be intercalated into double lamellar hydroxides and hydroxi salts L-DOPA and L-DOPA decarboxylase inhibitors to control the release kinetics of the drug in the digestive tract for treatment of Parkinson's disease. 4) Micro and nanoemulsified systems, including Pickering emulsions, will be generated using as stabilizing agents in water-water or water-oil emulsions also for the purpose of dermal delivery of antioxidant, leishmanicidal, antiparkinsonian and antitumor drugs. Mass spectrometry methods will be developed and applied to evaluate the pharmacokinetics of new drug candidates through in vitro metabolism assays and investigation of possible metabolites. Therapeutic monitoring, in turn, allows the adjustment of individualization of pharmacological treatments, reducing the risk of toxicity and increasing effectiveness. In order to evaluate the metabolism of new drug candidate molecules, LC-MS methods for the quantification of metabolic stability in microsomal or cellular systems will be developed, allowing the extrapolation to in vivo models as well as the comparison with model molecules. In addition, incubation experiments with these systems will be used to investigate possible phase I liver metabolites in microsomes and phase I and phase II in hepatocytes. This investigation of metabolites will be conducted with the aid of high resolution mass spectrometry, a high-level technique used by several research centers in the world. Thus, the development of new methods for the therapeutic monitoring of drugs used in the treatment of type 2 mellitus diabetes and also for chronic myeloid leukemia will be carried out.

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11/2018 5. Validate and implement molecular

07/2022

immunodiagnostic methods

of evaluation of antifungal resistance and

contribute to knowledge on neglected

endemic mycoses.

Description



The incidence of fungal diseases in healthy and immunocompromised individuals is a worldwide health problem, leading to high rates of mortality and morbidity. The chronic characteristic of the disease, with extensive cutaneous lesions, leads to the necessity of association of prolonged pharmacological treatments, often associated with physical therapies for the removal of the lesions. In most cases, they are neglected diseases, such as Chromoblastomycosis and Cryptococcosis. Thus, the search for alternative treatments methods is of great relevance. The present study proposes to investigate the virulence of potential agents of fungal diseases of chronic character and/or neglected, aiming the understanding of the pathogenesis and epidemiology of these diseases, including inference regarding clinical data and treatment protocols; in vitro virulence and therapeutics tests, application of markers for diagnosis and characterization of clinical isolates from endemic regions, aiming to implement new diagnostic methods of neglected fungal diseases in the laboratory routine of a public tertiary hospital, aiming to evaluate the occurrence of emerging fungi that are agents of invasive mycoses. The present research group aims to investigate the virulence of potential agents of chronic and/or neglected fungal diseases aiming at understanding the pathogenesis and epidemiology of these diseases, including inference about clinical data and treatment protocols; in vitro virulence and therapeutic tests, application of markers for diagnosis and characterization of clinical isolates from endemic regions. This core research has as its main goal to deploy new diagnostic methods in fungal diseases neglected, as Paracoccidioidomycosis, histoplasmosis and Cryptococcosis, as well as the identification and molecular Genomics of the main fungal infections regional endemic with the goal of establishing in the routine of public tertiary hospital laboratory methods to evaluate the occurrence of emerging fungi invasive mycoses agents. Three grants were requested, two in the 1st year and one in the 3rd year, as well as two academic visits abroad, one in the 1st and the other in the 2nd year, and two visiting researchers in the 4th year of the project. Three courses will be taught in English, in addition to an international workshop in Brazil.

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15 20 25


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3 4 4

from international resources

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Action 2. Promote the standardization of monitoring methodologies Description




In this action, the goal is: a) to investigate the mechanism of catalysis of important therapeutic targets to assist in the development of antimicrobials, besides producing glycosintases and glycosidases that can be used in the synthesis of oligosaccharides and polysaccharides with potential technological and pharmaceutical application; b) Both inhibition and activation of the Complement System (CS) may be relevant therapeutics. Different analytical techniques (chromatographic, spectroscopic and spectrophotometric) will be used for purification and chemical characterization. To evaluate the activity of the molecules on CS modulation, the hemolytic assay, also known as complement fixation test, will be used; c) to perform in vitro and in vivo assays to evaluate the role of the microbiota in the treatment of various types of breast cancer. It is also sought to identify potential metabiotics that may be used as adjuvants in the treatment of this disease; d) to engineer and apply antibodies with therapeutic and diagnostic potential in human and animal health: Immunobiological treatments (in vitro monoclonal and/or recombinant antibodies) may be an alternative to the currently used treatments, since the monoclonal antibodies are more specific, have high affinity and are easy to produce with regard to reproducibility; e) to understand the role of receptors involved in cell proliferation and cancer: we intend to understand how deubiquitinase USP2 regulates EGF receptor activity through the use of the dominant-negative USP2a (C276A), the transient silencing of usp2a by siRNA and the genomic edition of usp2a through CRISPR / Cas9; f) To evaluate the extracellular vesicles of Trypanosoma cruzi, a protozoan that causes Chagas' disease. It is proposed to understand how microvesicles alter the complement system, increase the invasion of eukaryotic cells and modulate the immune response; g) To evaluate the effect of alpha-galactosidase enzyme (α-GAL) deficiency associated with Fabrye's disease (FD) on its replacement in endothelial dysfunction - the pathophysiological mechanisms of FD have not yet been fully understood. In addition, the clinical manifestations of the disease are diverse and nonspecific. The better understanding of pathophysiology and the identification of early markers of tissue damage in FD are fundamental to change this scenario.

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0 2 3


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Action 3. Develop new biomarkers screening strategies Description




In this action, we intend to develop HPLC methods for biomarker and drug studies in culture medium and to study how QSOX1 stimulates the migration of smooth muscle cells (SMC) in accelerated atherosclerosis and to evaluate the contribution of the uremic environment to atherogenesis. We aim to study how the QSOX1 stimulates the migration of the SMCs in accelerated atherosclerosis, focusing on the cofilin complex and its slingshot phosphatase. Moreover, it is believed that the uremic environment contributes to atherogenesis, although the molecular mechanisms are not clear. Therefore, we also intend to evaluate the role of the uremic environment in accelerated atherosclerosis associated with DRC, evaluating the autophagic dysfunction, the processes of mitofagia and senescence induced by the incorporation of uremic toxins to vascular cells. We also seek the identification of early stage biomarkers of Parkinson's disease including metabolomic aspects and changes in sleep patterns in animal models and to detect a correlation between molecular and behavioral biomarkers of the early stages of Parkinson's disease in animal models. To identify a collection of molecules, present in the peripheral circulation that have high accuracy, sensitivity and specificity as markers of early stages of Parkinson's disease. In addition, we propose to associate approaches such as the study of metabolome with sleep disorders, a typical prodromal marker of Parkinsonism, which will also allow a greater pathophysiological understanding of the disease. We also propose the study of serum biomarkers and variations in DNA related to Diabetes mellitus (DM) in their different types and multiple complications. The emphasis of the current study is on the association of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with different forms of diabetes in the search for risk/protection markers associated with the pathology. The expansion of the use of bioinformatics tools, an essential element for the adequate treatment and handling of the high information load obtained in the proposed platforms. The process of internationalization, linked to the exchange of experiences with more advanced centers, is essential to reach a higher level in science - at the speed that the world of science imposes on us - for our research group, for our graduate studies, for the institution and certainly for our country.

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0 1 9

visiting faculty

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Theme RENEWABLE ENERGY AND NEW ENERGY SOURCES Objective Efficiency in the capture, production and distribution of photovoltaic energy or other renewable energy sources. Action 3. Planning of intelligent systems of electric power distribution with the inclusion of micro-networks to capture electricity from renewable sources: interaction with multidisciplinary foreign teams Description

Start date

11/2018

Finish date

07/2022



The conventional energy distribution system, based on large power plants as non-renewable sources, is gradually being replaced by a non-centralized power generation based on renewable sources. The concept that integrates this modernization of the electric sector is called Smart Grids. These networks should integrate the Distributed Generation (DG) connected with renewable energies and Energy Storage Systems (ESS), not forgeting other needs such as their automation, self-healing, etc. The connection of these new elements to the Distribution System (DS) generates major technical challenges. One strategy to deal with such challenges is to use smaller power systems, called Small Grids (SG), which function independently or, where appropriate, integrated into the network. SG allows the use of renewable sources, high control capacity and increased reliability and power quality, as well as reducing electrical losses due to the transmission system. Therefore, SG are a strategy to solve environmental problems involved in electric energy systems. Distribution networks without distributed generation units are passive since electricity is supplied by the national grid system to the customers incorporated in the distribution networks. Distribution networks become active when the units of generation, distributed storage, electric vehicles, SG, demand-response and self-healing, among other aspects, are added to the distribution system in the context of Smart Grids. In this way, the present action aims to plan the expansion of electricity (from renewable sources) distribution systems in the context of Smart Grids and SG and to develop computational models to model (a) the uncertainties of wind and solar photovoltaic energy generation and the demand, (b) the traditional power grid and thus formulate the optimization approach that minimizes the cost of investment and operation of the coupled microgrids, considering uncertain generation and demand, and (c) the reliability of the proposed architecture in distribution networks with the addition of distributed generation. There will also be the visit of exponents of the sector like Dr. A. Conejo (USA), leader in demand optimization models (energy efficiency) and M. L. V. Rascon (Canada), specialist in large power grids and environmental management.

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Quantitative UFPR students with short duration training abroad 0 1 4

Quantitative UFPR faculty presenting papers at international congresses 0 2 3

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0 0 1

UFPR

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Quantitative Articles published in scientific journals of international circulation 9 1 4

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1. Improvement of photovoltaic energy conversion processes: optimization of the construction stages of devices through collaboration with international groups specializing in each one of these stages

11/2018 07/2022

Description



This action will focus on the development of bulk heterojunction organic solar cells (OSC) (which have low cost and are flexible), as well as storage devices (supercapacitors and batteries). To this end, materials based on carbon nanostructures (nanotubes and graphene) will be used, in the form of thin films deposited on different substrates (including plastics). This action encompasses the following activities: effective preparation of materials, characterization of their properties (both experimentally and theoretically) and assembly of final devices based on carbon nanostructures (nanotubes and graphene), in the form of thin films deposited on different substrates, for application on power generation (photovoltaic) and storage (supercapacitors and batteries) devices. A crucial efficiency factor in OCSs is related with the significant energy difference between the forbidden bands of acceptors (A) and donors (D), which limits the separation of excitons at the D/A interface. Almost nothing is known about the mechanisms responsible for the rapid charge transfer between the photo-excited polymer and the acceptor molecules. Neither do we know how to describe the morphology of blends involving small acceptor molecules and conjugated polymers. It is intended to propose models that explain these processes adequately, using experimental data (available within the team) on photovoltaic devices manufactured with small acceptor molecules. An innovative aspect of the project will be to use electron scattering modeling to help unravel the virtual electronic states of the acceptor molecules that may eventually contribute to the photo-stimulated charge transfer process. For this goal, we will rely on the experience of the DINE-UFPR laboratory, pioneer in Brazil in the manufacture of photovoltaic devices using small acceptor molecules. Such laboratories will provide experimental data to be confronted with the results of the assessment of the resonant states of the molecules (identified by electron scattering). Interaction with international leaders in each of the stages will give UFPR a rare global excellence, even when compared to international standards. Of these leaders we highlight D. Mackenzie (USA) and R. Dryfe (UK) in active materials, A. Sellinger (USA) and O. Inganas (Sweden) on devices and C. M. G. Araujo (Sweden) in modeling.

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Qualitative UFPR faculty presenting papers at international congresses 10 3 6

Action 2. Adequate and plan the efficient capture of sunlight in an urban environment for later conversion: use of constructional theory in partnership with two leading international centers in the area Description

Start date

11/2018

Finish date

07/2022



More efficient technologies for photovoltaic panels and wind generators as well as for the use of other energy sources need to be developed to balance future consumption forecasts and the energy supply. The efficient use of available energy, regardless of the source that originated it, must be added to the energy strategies to guarantee greater sustainability to the current economic development. This would be possible through the improvement of current technologies and the development of new technologies suitable for the use of the available energy that could eventually recover residual energy (waste thermal energy, waste pressure energy). Aiming at sustainably balancing the future energy demand, there have been some initiatives for the development of high-efficiency technologies for obtaining and utilization of non-conventional sources of renewable energy. This action focuses on the capture and use of renewable energy in urban areas through the planned use of constructional theory: (a) to quantify, by measuring real meteorological and photovoltaic conversion conditions with the use of various technologies, the influence of deviations on the orientation and inclination of roofs and other elements of the envelope of the buildings on those considered ideal values for solar irradiance; (b) to catalog good practices in more advanced countries in the subject for the architectural integration of photovoltaic panels and to adapt them to Brazilian conditions; (c) to adapt national construction technologies to maximize energy efficiency in photovoltaic panels through evaporative thermal control and the use of Vortex Tube technology to produce hydrogen, meeting the most diverse demands. The Vortex Tube is an easy-to-operate, non-moving device capable of simultaneously producing heating and cooling by the expansion of a gas whose principle is less polluting, cheaper, more efficient and has a longer service life. Also, optimum geometric configurations of networks of soil-water exchangers for multiple buildings will be proposed, as well as investigating the use of the thermal inertial of the subsoil (geothermal) in individual building scale and complex district arrangements. The collaboration will be carried out, among others, with the Technical University of Munich, world leader in constructal theory, and with Dr. A. Bejan (USA, factor H = 87), one of the most cited authors in engineering in the world.

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Quantitative Thematic Seminar organized with researchers from abroad 1 1 2


Objective Renewable fuels obtained by chemical transformation processes Action 1. Attract international talents for the development of a center of excellence in catalysis with an emphasis on innovative (electro)catalytic processes for the production of biofuels and clean energy Description

Start date

11/2018

Finish date

07/2022



The main technological path for biodiesel production is the transesterification in homogeneous alkaline medium using vegetable oils with low acidity and water content that can also be used for food purposes. However, bifunctional heterogeneous phase catalysts, containing Brönsted and/or Lewis acidity, are capable of promoting esterification and transesterification reactions that allow for the use of raw materials of high acidity and low cost for this purpose, such as frying oils, soap stocks and rendered materials. In addition, catalytic solids can generate fractions rich in fatty monoesters (biodiesel) and higher purity glycerol. Brönsted catalysts, such as HX zeolites and sulfonic resins, are capable of protonating the carbonyl of acylglycerides and AGLs, thereby increasing the electrophilicity of carbonyl carbon and facilitating attack by poor nucleophiles, such as the oxygen of short-chain alcohols. The catalytic activity of Lewis’ solids is usually attributed to the coordination of the carbonyl oxygen of acylglycerides and AGLs with the acid site of the catalyst, thus increasing the electrophilicity of the carbonyl carbon. Several solids have shown excellent catalytic activity for this purpose, such as inorganic oxides, nanostructured oxides obtained from the calcination of layered double hydroxides, metal carboxylates, zeolites and coordination compounds, and the researchers involved in this project have extensive experience in the synthesis, characterization and use of these catalysts. In addition, electrocatalytic solids have also been developed with great success in the construction of various energy storage devices, such as supercapacitors and batteries, as well as fuel cells. The nanostructured surface of hybrid materials, formed by the combination of two or more distinct compounds, offers several advantages in the miniaturization of these devices and in the physico-chemical studies of new electrocatalytic interfacial behavior. Our intention is to take advantage of the experience of our international partners to broaden the horizons of our research, seeking the creation of an international (electro)catalysis center dedicated to the development of renewable energy and the construction of devices that generate and store electricity. This Center will act as a facilitator to the interaction with the chemical industry in general and birthplace of innovative solutions for the energy sector.

Action Indicators


Situation 2nd year Goal Goal

Quantitative Sending UFPR students for a sandwich Graduate program abroad 3 4 9


Quantitative

Development of a centre of excellence in catalyze with emphasis on

0 0 1

catalytic processes (via chemical reactions) and innovative electrocatalytic processes

for the production of biofuels and clean energy

Quantitative Sending of UFPR faculty on academic visits abroad 0 3 5

Quantitative Sending of UFPR faculty to make graduate program studies abroad 0 2 4


Quantitative Book chapters published together with foreign researchers 0 2 4

Quantitative Reception of foreign researchers on academic visits

1 4 10

at UFPR

Quantitative Offer of courses in other languages 0 5 11

Quantitative Thematic seminar organized with the participation of international 2 4 10

abroad

Action 2. Establish international partnerships for the production of advanced fuels (biogasoline, green diesel, bioquerosene) from the rapid pyrolysis of lignocellulosic materials Description

Start date

11/2018

Finish date

07/2022



The Brazilian Government launched in 2017 the RenovaBio Program, which seeks to boost the expansion of renewable fuels in the Brazilian energy matrix in a sustainable way, in response to the Paris Climate Agreement. RenovaBio sets national targets for emissions reduction for a period of 10 years, which will require, among other things, doubling of the country’s annual production of biofuels. The main platforms for the development of biofuels, according to the International Energy Agency, correspond to technological paths involving the thermo-chemical conversion (pyrolysis, liquefaction or gasification, as well as combustion and torrefaction) and biochemical conversion, although the importance of innovative chemical processes that also contemplate society’s aspirations for technical and environmental sustainability in the development of modern industry is also acknowledged. These trends are highly internationalized and the groups involved in this project have excelled in the search for both incremental and disruptive innovation for elements that improve the competitiveness of renewable energy in relation to petroleum derivatives that, even though present in our economy, have their consumption still dependant on regulatory frameworks that establish mandatory use of biofuels in the industrial and transport sectors. The activities included in Action 2 of Objective 2 of this project will focus on the use of fast pyrolysis for the production of advanced biofuels such as biogasoline, bio-kerosene and green diesel, using a range of raw materials such as agricultural and agroforestry residues, microalgae biomass, technical lignins and waste oils and fats. As is well known, lignin pyrolysis derivatives and also derivates of other types of biomass need to undergo additional treatments, which give them greater oxidative stability, homogeneity and better fuel properties. In this regard, techniques such as reactive distillation and hydrodeoxygenation will be investigated for contributing to the increased quality of these new fuels. In all these cases, the professionals involved have a transversal knowledge of the area in which they operate, offering valuable opportunities for integration with the local community, with other IFES (FURB and UFSC) and with companies such as Fibria and FPInnovations (Canada). The necessary infrastructure already exists and the project has a PRONEX funding (2018-2022, R$ 400,000) from CNPq/Araucária Foundation. Action Indicators


Situation 2nd year Goal Goal

Quantitative Reception of foreign researchers on academic visits 2 2 2

at UFPR






Quantitative Thematic seminar organized with the participation of international

0 2 2

abroad


Quantitative Book chapters published together with foreign

0 1 2

researchers


3. Attract international expertise and strengthen local expertise in the area of thermodynamic modeling and process modeling to intensify industrial units aimed at the use of renewable raw materials

11/2018 07/2022

Description The implementation of integrated industrial units for the production of biofuels represents an engineering challenge due to the high complexity of the raw materials involved and of the products of interest. Moreover, the high level of competitiveness, environmental needs and socioeconomic aspects make the optimization of the industrial units (preparation of raw materials, reactors, processes of separation and purification, storage and distribution of products) an important factor for their successfull implementation and operation. Thus, the development of this area necessarily requires the use of robust and reliable thermodynamic models. This action of the project aims at gathering property information, evaluating and selecting thermodynamic models for application in the production process of renewable fuels. Among the modern thermodynamic models used in the production process are those based on the equations of state belonging to the SAFT (Statistical Associating-Fluid Theory) family. These models have the advantage of accurately representing the thermodynamic properties of different fluid phases, in both low and high pressure, covering the critical region of pure components and their mixtures. Our researchers have been active in the gathering of property information and in the thermodynamic modeling of systems of interest to the biofuels industry. As a result, the European Commission-funded project (Integrated Process and Process Design for Sustainable Biorefineries, funded by H2020-MSCA-RISE-2017) and a project approved by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) (Development of Hybrid Catalytic Systems for Biodiesel Production from Acid Oils) were launched, in which the objectives are to develop efficient and sustainable processes for the production of renewable fuels. Therefore, the main activities of this project will be: (a) to conduct experiments to measure thermodynamic properties of systems of interest; (b) to propose the thermodynamic modeling of these systems using classical models based on activity coefficients and SAFT equations of state; (c) to implement and evaluate the competence of SAFT equations of state in process modeling, simulation and optimization; (d) to expand the offering of majors and courses in English for the academic community; and (e) to host the scholars Walter Chapman, world reference researcher in statistical thermodynamics and SAFT equations, and Massimiliano Enrico, renowned researcher in the area of multi-objective optimization of processes and industrial plants.



Action Indicators


Situation Goal Goal



Quantitative Strengthening of an excellence center in modeling and simulation of

0 0 1

processes for the production of renewable fuels and the use

of biomass.



0 2 3

Brazilian researcher



Quantitative Book chapters published together with foreign researchers 2 1 2


0 2 3

at UFPR

Action 5. Establish international level expertise to produce additives and advanced fuels from the chemical modification of low added value oleaginous raw materials Description

Start date

11/2018

Finish date

07/2022

The choice of using low-sulfur diesel oil has contributed to improving the quality of atmospheric air. However, this low-lubricity fuel causes problems in the operation of the pumps and in the injection system of the engines, since these are lubricated by the fuel itself. Therefore, in order to correct lubricity, it is necessary to use additives. The lubricity of compounds that contain sulfur is lower than the lubricity of those that contain oxygen or nitrogen. Thus, it can be said that the reason for the lubricity decrease in the diesel oil is not exactly the removal of the sulfur compounds, considered as contaminants, but the reduction, together with the sulfur compounds, of oxygenated and nitrogenous substances. Another measure that has been extensively adopted is the partial substitution of diesel oil for biodiesel produced from the alcoholysis of oils and fats deriving from plants or animals. Raw materials of lower added value usually do not have suitable physicochemical properties for the production of biodiesel via alcoholysis, however, they can be transformed by catalytic conversion into hydrocarbons with similar chemical composition of diesel oil, denominated HVO (hydrotreated vegetable oils). The adjustment of the production methods of biodiesel and HVO to these new raw materials will contribute to the expansion of the Brazilian energy matrix. In contrast, the availability of glycerin in the international market has significantly increased due to the expansion of the biodiesel industry. This glycerin can be converted into oligo(glycerols) which, by transesterification with fatty acid methyl esters, lead to the formation of biolubricants to correct the lubricity of diesel oil and HVO. These oligo(glycerols) can also be used as nucleophiles in the opening of epoxide rings, previously obtained from fatty acid methyl esters, in which the lubricity is better than in the hydrocarbons present in diesel or HVO; thus, the use of these fatty esters in the formulation of new biolubricants takes advantage of the natural lubricity of biodiesel. As a way to forward the actions discussed in this stage, one of the major researchers in the area of oleochemistry (Dr. Martin Mittelbach) will come to UFPR to offer courses and interact with local researchers. In addition, UFPR students and faculty members will visit the partner institution for a sandwich doctorate and postdoctoral internship. Action Indicators


Situation Year Goal






0 0 1

at UFPR

Quantitative Book chapters published together with foreign

0 0 1




0 0 1



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4. Strengthen an excellence center in CO2 capture To produce microalgae biomass, which will serve as the raw material for the production of advanced biofuels Description This action proposes the development of a modular pilot unit of microalgae cultivation to capture CO2 coming from urban solid waste incinerators (RSU), using innovative technology to create products of commercial interest and electrical energy. For this purpose, an industrial incinerator is already available with a processing capacity of 50 kg h-1 and the heat of the emissions will be used to power an electricity plant capable of generating 20 kW of energy. In a groundbreaking process, the emissions generated by the incinerator will be used for the cultivation of microalgae in compact vertical tubular photobioreactors, promoting CO2 capture via photosynthesis. The culture medium of the microalgae will be obtained from the effluent of an anaerobic digester, which treats waste from swine or organic origin, thus eliminating the cost of acquiring nutrients for the process. Afterwards, the collected biomass will be used to obtain chemicals of commercial interest, with emphasis on biofuels. Mathematical models will be used to make possible the simulation, design, control and optimization of these systems, including Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). The system’s modular feature will enable the elaboration and the commercialization of complete or separate systems, on demand. The project includes the following activities: (a) energy recovery of waste to generate electrical power in a 20 kW thermoelectric miniplant operating in Rankine cycle, having water as a working fluid; (b) development an implementation of a CO2 capture unit by microalgae cultivation in 5 photobioreactors of 12,000 L already existent in UFPR; (c) development of strategies to increase the efficiency of microalgae in the CO2 capture and other pollutant gases; (d) development of innovative processes for the production of byproducts of commercial interest originated from the biomass produced, such as its extraction and/or conversion to biofuels using a continuous microwave-assisted system; and (e) mathematical modeling and thermodynamic optimization of processes. An energetic analysis will be added to the model to calculate the entropy production in each component of the system and identify the losses undergone in the process, in order to reduce them. The group maintains close relations with international researchers who will visit UFPR to develop internationalization activities, according to the progress indicators estimated as a result of this action.

Action Indicators


Situation Goal Goal

Quantitative Patents filled with foreign researchers 0 2

Quantitative Book chapters published together with foreign researchers 0 1


0 2

at UFPR

Quantitative Strengthening of an excellence center in CO2 capture for

0 0

the production of microalgae biomass, which will serve as the raw material

for the production of advanced biofuels

4 2 4

1





0 2 4



Objective Biotechnological processes for the production of advanced biofuels (BioADD) Action 2. Encourage actions with international partners in the isolation, selection and improvement of yeasts for the production of second-generation ethanol and lipids from lignocellulosic hydrolysates Description

Start date

11/2018

Finish date

07/2022



This action is part of a well-established research activity already existing in the Graduate Programs (PPGs) that are included in this proposal, which have relied on the financial support of Vale and CNPq through the Biopalma (R$ 1,450,000, 2014-2020) and Universal 01/2016 (R$ 112,000, 2017-2022) projects. The goals are the use of hydrolysates from lignocellulosic residues, rich in C5 and C6, for the production of second-generation ethanol and microbial lipids for biofuel applications. Initially, oleaginous and/or ethanol-producing microbes from different biological systems will be analyzed through the sequencing of rRNA genes on the NGS Illumina platform. This platform will also be used in a functional metagenomic approach to evaluate the presence of genes originated from the breakdown of C5 compounds. Based on the data traced by the sequencing, the yeasts will be isolated in group-specific culture media. The recovered isolates will be grouped by their genetic characteristics according to the rep-PCR technique and identified according to the Sanger method. The isolates that produce lipids and second-generation ethanol will be classified in terms of productivity by chromatographic methods. Methods of classical genetics (mutations through chemical and physical agents and sexual hybridization) and genetic engineering will be adopted with the goal of increasing the yield of selected yeasts. The targeted improvement will be performed by genome editing using the CRISPR/Cas9 system. Guide RNAs will be designed with targets for genes of adjacent routes to perform the biosynthesis of cellular fatty acids and ethanol. Thus, a higher production rate of lipids and ethanol is expected through the genetic reorganization of yeast. Recombinant DNA technology will be applied for insertion of C5-breaking functional genes into the selected yeasts. Inactivation of the adjacent routes and the production of lipids and/or ethanol by the engineered yeasts will be monitored by enzymatic and chromatographic methods. The main visiting researchers involved in these R&D activities will be: Dr. Ashok Pandey will strongly contribute to the fermentative processes developed at UFPR; Drs. Pedro Coutinho and Craig Faulds will bring experience in the field of lineage transformation; Dr. Philippe Michaud and Guillermo Castro will contribute to the evaluation of the transformed microorganisms. All of these researchers will welcome students and researchers from UFPR in internationalization activities.

Action Indicators




Quantitative Sending UFPR faculty to conduct academic 8 8 10

visit abroad

Quantitative Doctoral theses concluded within the duration of the Project 0 0 4

Quantitative

Sending UFPR students to conduct sandwich doctorate

0 2 3

research at international institutions

Qualitative Increasing the quality of student publications

Good Good Excellent

of the GPs involved

Quantitative

Quantitative

Hosting of international students to conduct a sandwich doctorate at UFPR Articles published in internationally recognized scientific journals - with 50% participation of international researchers of THE AREA

1

24

0 1

710

Quantitative

Quantitative

Qualitative

Qualitative

Qualitative

Book chapters published together with foreign researchers Books or reviews edited together with international scholars Strengthening the ability of faculty to teach in English Increasing the internationalization level in publications by GPs involved in PrInt Strengthening the preexisting international partnerships between the Brazilian proponents and international scholars

3 1 Acceptable About 30%

Good

4 3 0 1 Good Excellent More than 33% More than

35%

Excellent Excellent

Quantitative Doctoral thesis within the duration of the Project Quantitative Hosting of international scholars to conduct academic

visit abroad at UFPR Quantitative Hosting of international scholars to conduct post

doctoral research at UFPR Quantitative Patents filed Quantitative Thematic seminar organized with contribution of

international scholars Quantitative Courses offered in a foreign language

0 3 1 2 3 5

4 4 5 7 3 3 1 3 0 1 65

Quantitative

Projecting and Consolidating international partnerships

7 5 5

preexisting

Quantitative Implementing an international doctorate in

0 1 1

Bioenergy

Quantitative

Qualitative

Qualitative

Qualitative

Qualitative

Joint supervision of master’s dissertations completed within the duration of the Project Increasing the average h-index of the researching professor of the GPs involved Increasing the contribution of Brazilian scholars of the Project in international calls for projects Projecting new international partnerships between UFPR and international institutions Strengthening UFPR internal research network, with regard to the GPs directly and indirectly involved

0 0 3

Approximately More than 22 More than 24

19

Little contribution More Excellent

contribution contribution

Good Excellent Superior

Good Excellent Excellent

Action 1. Enhancing actions with international partners on pretreatment, hydrolysis and detoxification of lignocellulosic materials for the production of second generation carbohydrates Description

Start date

11/2018

Finish date

07/2022



The teams from UFPR programs have been conducting research on pretreatment of lignocellulosic materials for over 27 years. They have built an excellent infrastructure based on high pressure reactors that have already processed several by-products of the Brazilian agribusiness including sugarcane bagasse, soybean hulls, citrus pulp, cassava bagasse, empty palm fruit bunches, and others. Recently, the group coordinates a network project entitled Biorefineries Integrated on the Sustainable Processing of Palm – Biological Route, which involves scholars from EPFL (Switzerland) and UFPR, UFPA and UFT, with the financial support (R$ 3,050,329.17) of Vale S/A since 2014. Three doctoral and seven master fellows graduated throughout these years and over 30 articles and book chapters were published. The book Green Fuels Technology, edited by Drs. Soccol, Brar, Faulds, and Ramos, compiles numerous studies conducted by the group regarding this theme. Lignocellulose is a naturally recalcitrant material. Therefore, to obtain a hydrolysate of high second-generation carbohydrate content, in the form of pentoses (C5) and hexoses (C6), it is necessary to overcome the plant cell wall resistance to bioconversion. Thus, pretreatment is a key stage of the process since it reduces the impact of structural factors that hinder the accessibility to lignocellulosic materials. Conversely, the severity of the pretreatment processes can lead to a high accumulation of fermentation inhibitors, such as furfural, hydroxymethylfurfural, organic acids, and phenolic compounds. Therefore, the pretreatment type and conditions must be specific for each type of biomass, since different matrices may present different levels of recalcitrance. In this proposal, we intend to perform the chemical/physical/enzymatic pretreatment of waste from the processing of palm, sugar cane, and wood such as pine and eucalyptus. The hydrolysates obtained will undergo detoxification to eliminate inhibitor compounds by employing processes such as neutralization, overliming, adsorption, ion exchange, and use of enzymes. The following visiting scholars, who are highly qualified in the fields of biomass pretreatment, hydrolysis and fermentation, will share their experience with the local team: Rafał Łukasik, Eulogio Galiano, and Jack Saddler, among others. All of these scholars will receive students or UFPR scholars in internationalization activities and will send postdocs or students to interact with our group.

Action Indicators




Quantitative

Articles published in scientific journals

24 8 12

internationally recognized – 50% within international contribution

IN THE AREA

Quantitative Development of hydrolysis processes of

0 2 2

multibiomass

Quantitative Hosting of international students to conduct a sandwich doctorate at UFPR

Quantitative Books or reviews edited together with international scholars

Quantitative Thematic seminar organized with contribution of international scholars

Quantitative Courses offered in a foreign language

1 1 3 5

1 2 0 1 1 1 3 5

Quantitative Implementing an international doctorate in

0 1 1

Bioenergy

Quantitative Doctoral theses concluded within the duration of the Project 0 0 3

Qualitative

Qualitative

Qualitative

Quantitative

Qualitative

Qualitative

Strengthening the ability of faculty to teach in English Increasing the quality of student publications of the GPs involved Increasing the contribution of Brazilian scholars of the Project in international calls for projects Joint supervision of master’s dissertations completed within the duration of the Project Increasing the average h-index of the researching professor of the GPs involved Strengthening the preexisting international partnerships between the Brazilian proponents and international scholars

Acceptable Good Excellent

Good Good Excellent



0 2 4


19


Quantitative Hosting of international scholars to conduct academic

visit abroad at UFPR Quantitative Book chapters published together with foreign

researchers Quantitative Patents filed Quantitative Sending of UFPR faculty on academic visits abroad Quantitative Projecting the preexisting partnerships and

consolidating the international ones Quantitative Doctoral theses in

progress within the duration of the Project

3 3 2 8 7 0

6 7 2 3 2 2 5 6 2 5 33

Qualitative Increasing the international level in

About 30% More than 33% More than 35%

publications by GPs involved in PrInt

Qualitative Strengthening UFPR internal research network, Good Excellent Excellent

with regard to the GPs directly and indirectly involved

Qualitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Projecting new international partnerships between UFPR and international institutions Development of detoxification of hydrolysates technology Sending UFPR students for a sandwich Graduate program abroad Sending of UFPR faculty to make graduate program studies abroad Hosting of international scholars to conduct post doctoral research at UFPR

Good 0 0 0 1

Excellent Superior 0 1 2 3 0 2 23

Action 3. Enhancing actions together with international partners on the isolation, selection and improvement of microorganisms for the production of biohydrogen and biobutanol

Start date

11/2018

Finish date

07/2022



Description UFPR teams have been conducting research on this topic since 2011. Detoxified hydrolysates derived from palm and sugar cane, as well as liquid residues from the production of oleaginous biomass, will be transformed into biohydrogen and biobutanol by anaerobic fermentation. The group already has experience in the area (12 recent articles) with technologies developed (PI10052151) in international partnerships (Université Blaise Pascal and BioGEPP system, France) with the financial support of Vale. High-efficiency processes have already been developed using liquid wastes, which arise from the ethanol and vegetable oils industrial production, to convert part of their energy content into biohydrogen. Doctoral students will participate in PrInt missions to identify the process dynamics and improve the microorganisms performance to produce biohydrogen. The identity of microorganisms will be analyzed using the Qiime program for rDNA16S sequence data, which were generated using the Illumina Hi Seq and Mi Seq platforms. The biohydrogen production will be evaluated by volumetry and GC-TCD, and the waste fatty acids by LC-MS. To product biobutanol, which is a fuel of high energy density, hydrolysates and wastes from other fermentation strategies will be used. Microorganisms isolated from biohydrogen production consortia will be compared to Clostridium beijerinkii. The biobutanol production will be evaluated by headspace GC-FID and by a spectrophotometric method developed by the group. The best lineages will be transformed by random mutagenesis using UV, HNO2, EMS, and directed genetic manipulation using CRISPR/Cas9. Strategies for nutrient supply and inert gas recycling will be used based on studies published by the group. The following actions will be performed to evaluate the process parameters for process upgrading and scale-up: a) metagenomic evaluation of biotopes and isolation of lineages; b) generation of candidates for mutant strains; c) identification of promising lineages between isolated and mutated strains for pilot scale testing to produce biofuels in 10 and 50 L systems. Dr. Satinder K. Brar, Dr. Samir Khanal, and Dr. Christian Larroche, specialists in biohydrogen/biobutanol production, are the main international scholars who will participate in this action, reinforcing the preexisting partnerships with UFPR. All of these scholars will receive students or UFPR scholars for training activities at international institutions.

Action Indicators




Quantitative Sending UFPR faculty to conduct post

0 1 2

doctoral research at international institutions

Quantitative Projecting and Consolidating international partnerships 7 1 3

preexisting

Quantitative

Sending UFPR students to conduct sandwich doctorate

0 2 3

research at international institutions

Quantitative Book chapters published together with

3 3 3

international scholars

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Thematic seminar organized with contribution of international scholars Hosting of international scholars to conduct post doctoral research at UFPR Hosting of international scholars to conduct academic visit abroad at UFPR Sending of UFPR faculty on academic visits abroad Hosting of international students to conduct a sandwich doctorate at UFPR Articles published in scientific journals internationally recognized – 50% within international contribution IN THE AREA

3 1 3 8 1

24

0 1 0 0 2 8 1 3 1 1

5 13

Quantitative Books or reviews edited together with international scholars

Quantitative Patents filed Quantitative Courses offered in a foreign language Quantitative Implementing an international doctorate in

Bioenergy

Quantitative Joint supervision of Project master’s

dissertations completed within the duration of the Quantitative Master’s dissertations in progress within the duration of the Project Quantitative Doctoral thesis within the duration of the Project

Qualitative Strengthening the ability of faculty to teach

in English

Qualitative Increasing the quality of student publications

of the GPs involved

Qualitative Increasing the average h-index of the researching

professor of the GPs involved

Qualitative Increasing the international level in

publications by GPs involved in PrInt

Qualitative Increasing the contribution of Brazilian scholars

of the Propose in international

calls for projects

Qualitative

Strengthening the preexisting international partnerships

between the Brazilian proponents and international

scholars

Qualitative Strengthening UFPR internal research network, with regard to the GPs directly and indirectly involved

Qualitative Projecting new international partnerships between UFPR and international institutions

1 0 0

2 1 2

5 2 3

0 1 1

0 1 2

0 2 2

0 0 2


Good Good Excellent


19

About 30% More than 33% More than 35%





Good Excellent Superior

Action 4. Enhancing actions with international partners on the evaluation of the production of advanced biofuels in bench and pilot scale from the economic and bioprocess engineering point of view Description

Start date

11/2018

Finish date

07/2022



UFPR teams have been conducting research on this topic since 1997. In this action, optimized processes for the production of ethanol, microbial lipids, biodiesel, biobutanol, and biohydrogen will be evaluated in 8 L (bench) and 100 L (pilot) bioreactors. Local facilities include equipment for pretreatment and separation, such as centrifuges, extractors and evaporators (bench and pilot), distributed on a platform of 400 m², as well as analytical structure distributed on 350 m² of peripheral laboratories. Scale-up studies already developed bu the group include the ethanol production from soy molasses, which was optimized in the laboratory and transferred to industrial scale of 10,000 L/day of hydrated ethanol (IMCOPA-FUNPAR Company Project, financed in the amount of R$ 480,000.00 since 2005), and the biodiesel production from microbial oil derived from cane juice fermentation at an 1,000 L scale (MCTI/FINEP in partnership of UFPR with the OuroFino Company, financed in the amount of R$ 1,931,284.00 since 2008). These results were published in high-impact journals and the process was patented (PI 0406347-3 deposit) and granted by INPI in 2014. Data obtained in bench and pilot scale will serve as the basis for modeling and simulation of isolated and integrated processes. Simulation and optimization softwares, such as Aspen, SuperPro, or MatLab (Simulink module), will be used to identify critical points, cost-benefit and parameters for sensitivity analysis. With the aid of specialized softwares (SimaPro), the sustainability of the proposed processes will be evaluated by Life Cycle Assessment through databases, such as EcoInvent and Brazilian National Life Cycle Inventories Database. By means of scale-up and technical-economical-environmental analyses, relevant information for the development of bioprocesses will be obtained within the concept of bioeconomy, which is still emerging in Brazil. This is already defined as a national strategy in countries like Germany, France, and the United States, with several of their institutions/scholars aligned in partnership with this project. The main visiting scholars in this action will be: Dr. Nicolaus Dahmen, in the area of bioeconomics; Dr. Poonam Nigam, in the development of enlarged scale processes; and Dr. Claude G. Dussap, in the area of modeling. These scholars will receive students or UFPR scholars for international activities during the entire length of this project.

Action Indicators




Quantitative Sending UFPR faculty to conduct academic 8 2 6

visit abroad

Quantitative Hosting of international students to conduct

1 0 1

a sandwich doctorate at UFPR

Quantitative Sending UFPR faculty to conduct post

0 1 3

doctoral research at international institutions

Quantitative Hosting of international scholars to

1 0 1

conduct post doctoral research at UFPR

Quantitative Book chapters published together with

3 2 3


Quantitative Patents filed 2 1 2

Quantitative Courses offered in a foreign language

5 4 3 Quantitative

Qualitative

Qualitative

Qualitative

Qualitative

Qualitative

Projecting and Consolidating preexisting international partnerships Increasing the quality of student publications of the GPs involved Strengthening the ability of faculty to teach in English Increasing the internationalization level in publications by GPs involved in PrInt Increasing the contribution of Brazilian scholars of the Project in international calls for projects Strengthening UFPR internal research network, with regard to the GPs directly and indirectly involved

7 2 3

Good Good Excellent


About 30% More than 33%

More than 35%




Qualitative Projecting new international partnerships between

UFPR and international institutions

Quantitative Doctoral theses concluded within the duration of the Project

Articles published in scientific journals Quantitative internationally recognized – 50% within international contribution

IN THE AREA

Good 0 24

Excellent Superior 0 3 515

Quantitative Sending UFPR students for a sandwich Graduate program abroad

Quantitative Doctoral thesis within the duration of the Project Quantitative Books or reviews edited together with international

scholars

0 0 1

2 3 3 3 0 1

Qualitative Increasing the average h-index of the researching Approximately

More than 22 More than 24

professor of the GPs involved 19

Qualitative

Strengthening the preexisting international partnerships


between the Brazilian proponents and international

scholars

Quantitative Hosting of international scholars to 3 2 9

conduct academic visit abroad at UFPR

Quantitative Thematic seminar organized with contribution 3 1 1


Quantitative

Quantitative

Implementing an international doctorate in Bioenergy Joint supervision of master’s dissertations completed within the duration of the Project

0 1 1

0 1 1

Theme DEMOCRACY, CULTURE, DEVELOPMENT

Objective Public Policy and Social Change


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3. Mapping nationally and internationally the state of art of public policy and developing comparative methods for

analysis, monitoring and evaluation Description Producing, maintaining and constantly updating a balance of national and international bibliographical research on comparative analyses, research methods and evaluations of social public policy, in order to build a broad panorama of this research and support the research production of UFPR groups involved in this goal. Developing methods for analysis, monitoring and evaluation within the progress of the research, in order to turn UFPR into a reference in the field of research regarding public policy. Action Indicators



Situation

Quantitative Publication of Report with

0 1 2

a list of all papers

reviewed

Training of doctoral and master Partially

Qualitative students for the

Incipient Trained

production of mapping of trained

bibliographical research

Presentation of the reports at

Quantitative

scientific events of

10 20 30

nationally and internationally reference

to present the research

Qualitative Development of comparative methods

Incipient Partially Developed

and

research methods isolated developed

Quantitative

Quantitative

Publication of Articles with the analyses results according to discipline (of the GPs involved in the action) and simultaneously in modern foreign language Organization of events to present the research results involving the GPs and international partners

10 0

20 30 1 2


4. Producing research to improve the understanding of decision-making processes in public policy and strengthening the processes of society social control over the governments (accountability)

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Description



Producing research that improve the transparency of decision-making processes and presenting the research to the governmental actions’ beneficiary groups in order to better understand the constitution of these processes. From the presentation of the research results, collaborating with the democratization, the transparency of public information, and the strengthening of the processes of society social control over the governments (accountability).

Action Indicators



Situation

Qualitative Development of research on decision-making processes in public policy

Incipient and isolated

Partially Developed

developed

Quantitative Production of report with the research final results 0 0 1

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Production of web portal with sites anchored to UFPR and references to associated and external research centers to present all the research data developed within this goal Production of articles to present and dissiminate knowledge in non-academic channels Presentation of the research results by means of lectures and mini courses in non-academic spaces

0 3 0

1 1 7 14 7 14

Action Start date Finish date 01/2019 07/2022

2. Improving qualification of faculty and students by means of exchange between UFPR team and partner universities Description Promoting conditions to improve the qualification of faculty and students of the UFPR GPs involved in this objective, by means of academic visit abroad, postdoctoral fellowships, senior research fellowships, and sandwich doctorate.

Action Indicators


Situation Year Goal

Quantitative

Conducting sandwich doctoral 7

24 48

internship

Quantitative

Conducting postdoctoral fellowship at

1

4 8

International institutions by UFPR faculty (visting

scholar and senior)

Quantitative Conducting senior fellowship on research 1 4 8

Quantitative Conducting academic visit abroad 4 20 40




1. To qualify the production of studies which are

shared between the participating teams

and international researchers, 01/2019 07/2022

and to strength the transdisciplinary and

intersectoral character of research in public policies Description To promote the strengthening of research and dissemination of knowledge in an intersectoral manner, with the aim of reducing the distances between the specialized fields of knowledge which deal with public policies, while innovating in the construction and use of theoretical and methodological references which enhance the transdisciplinarity among the fields of knowledge involved in this objective. Another objective is to expand the quantity and quality of the intellectual production by students and faculty members, with the production of studies and the publishing of their results in papers, books and chapters of books, and in reference events in their areas, along with international partners. Moreover, the GPs involved in this objective intend to offer courses taught in foreign languages, aided by international partners, using technological resources of information and communication, and dealing with cross-cutting themes in the research in public policies. Action Indicators

Type Indicator Current 2nd Year Goal Final

Situation Goal Expansion of the submission of papers

written in co-authorship with international authors in conferences and events of reference in the area

30% Qualitative 9 15% more

more Quantitative Organization of event for propagating 0 1 2

the results of the research involving the GPs and international partners Fostering the exchange of faculty members

among the GPs involved in this action, by offering courses and participating in research, dissemination of knowledge and examining boards

Qualitative Incipient Partially Full

Qualitative

Expansion of the production of papers written with international co-authors

12 15% more 30% more

Qualitative

Fostering the exchange of students among the GPs involved in this action, attending classes, and participating in research and disseminating knowledge

Incipient Partially Full

Qualitative

Expansion of the submission of papers by students of the GPs involved in this action at conferences and events of reference in the field

25 15% more 30% more

Quantitative

Production of book with research results in collaboration with international authors, presenting an overview of the research conducted in the various areas involved in this objective

0 0 1 1

Quantitative

Offer of cross-cutting courses in a modern foreign language, with the collaboration of international researchers

0 4 8



Action Start date Finish date 01/2019 07/2022 5. To host foreign visiting researchers at UFPR and increase the securing of foreign graduate students Description To host, at UFPR, leading foreign researchers in the field, in order to expand the scope of research and to ensure that the students and faculty members of UFPR experience new knowledge and approaches. To disseminate, among the foreign partners and in other channels, the profiles of the research groups involved in this objective. To be available to host at UFPR foreign master’s students, doctoral students and post-doctoral students who work with research in public policies.

Action Indicators


Situation Goal Goal

Quantitative Lectures/Conferences to be delivred by 4 12 24

international visiting professors

Quantitative

Hosting international visiting

2 4 8

professors at UFPR

Quantitative

To host international doctoral students at UFPR

1 4 8

(sandwich or full-time doctorate)

Quantitative To host international master’s students at UFPR 2 4 6

Quantitative To host international postdoctoral students at UFPR 1 2 4

Quantitative

Courses or short courses delivered by

3 4 8

international visiting professors


6. To expand the international funding for research and graduate programs

01/2019 07/2022

Description

To present proposals for fundings and to participate in funding calls and international calls, in order to expand the alternatives for funding research and graduate programs.

Action Indicators


Situation

GPs qualified in funding calls and

Quantitative 2

international calls

Objective Production and Circulation of Knowledge

Action Start date 2. Creation of a network of permanent seminars between the UFPR and higher education institutions in Mexico, France and Switzerland, about the History of School Architecture

2nd Year Final Year Goal 3 4

Finish date 11/2018 07/2022



Description With the increase, in the last decades, of research in History of School Architecture developed by historians and architects, the versatility and complexity of this theme when incorporating categories of school material culture have been highlighted. Currently, the architecture spaces of schools are a breeding ground for interdisciplinary research because they encompass architecture, education, history, and anthropology points of view, with different objectives, sources and methodological guidelines. For the development of this action, on the one hand, researching professors and doctoral students shall be sent to the international institutions that are linked to this project and, on the other hand, foreign researching professors shall be hosted at UFPR to offer academic activities, aiming at refining and straightening the link between the institutions.

Action Indicators

Type Indicator


Situation Year Goal

Quantitative Conducting postdoctoral research abroad 0 1 2

Quantitative Course given by visitor in Brazil 0 1 2

Quantitative Course given in a foreign language 0 1 1

Quantitative

Overseas technical visit of 0

1 2



1. To create an international network for the 11/2018

07/2022

discussion and research of the History of

Original Institutionalism and related topics.

Description Sending doctoral students and researchers to international universities, in which leading researchers of the History of Original Institutionalism or related themes develop their activities, in oder to conduct sandwich doctorate and technical visits, or postdoctoral research. Hosting these international researchers to technical visits, in which research will be conducted and courses will be given in partnership with these international researchers.

Action Indicators



Situation

Quantitative

Course given by visitor 0 1 2

in Brazil

Quantitative

Conducting postdoctoral research

0 1 2

researcher

Quantitative Publications with JCR 3 5 7

Quantitative

Course given in a foreign

0 1 2

language

Qualitative

Quantitative

Improve the synergy with international researchers Overseas technical visit of Brazilian researcher

Low Synergy Synergy

partially

synergy established

established

0 1 2



Action 3. Creation of a network that comprises UFPR’s researchers and international researchers of Literatures in Portuguese Language. Description

Start date 11/2018

Finish date 07/2022

There is a diversity of ongoing research about the relationship between Literatures in Portuguese Language, which are conducted by Brazilian and international researchers involved with PrInt. Considering this diversity, we intend to build a network between these researchers in order to straighten academic exchanges and interdisciplinary relations, to which such studies naturally aim. For the development of this action, the plan it to host international researchers for giving courses and seminars at UFPR, as well as send UFPR’s researching professors linked to the PrInt and their respective doctoral supervisees to international institutions, in order for them to improve their knowledge and share two ongoing research, thus straightening the link between the institutions involved. The aim is to straighten links between Brazilian and international researchers, in order to improve ongoing studies, especially regarding their interdisciplinary character.

Action Indicators


Situation Year Goal

Quantitative

Overseas technical visit of Brazilian

0 1 2

researcher

Quantitative Course given by visitor in Brazil 0 1 3

Quantitative Conducting postdoctoral research abroad 0 1 3

Objective Space, society and development: contemporary challenges

Action 2. Foster the internationalization of research networks Description

Start date 11/2018

Finish date 07/2022



This action comprises bidirectional activities that contribute mainly to the strengthening of interaction actions with international researchers, and the recognition of UFPR as an international reference center on research related to the theme of the project. The existing relations are expected to be broaden and strengthen, especially with the following universities: Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington (NZ); Politecnico di Milano (IT); Technion, Israel Institute of Technology (IL); The Ohio State University e The University of Illionois at Urbana-Champaign (US); Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, Universidad Autônoma Metropolitana de México-Xochimilco and Universidad de Guadalajara (MX); Universidad de Alicante, Universidad de Málaga, Universidad de Vigo, Universidade de Girona and Universitat Rovira i Virgili (ES); Universidad de Chile (CL); Universidad de la República (UY); Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Universidad Nacional de Catamarca and Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR); Universidade de Évora and Universidade de Lisboa (PT); Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and University of Angers (FR); University of Pretoria (ZA); University of Twente (NL). To this end, faculty members of the team shall be sent abroad to act as senior visiting scholars, especially the ones who do not yet experienced long-term stays abroad. Also, international researchers shall be hosted at UFPR according to two distinct but complementary profiles: seniors and juniors. The interaction between them will be fostered through short and medium duration courses (summer/winter schools), through cooperation in research, writing of articles in co-authorship, among others. This action is essential for the international nucleation of research networks and should be undertaken in all modalities of interaction with international researchers enabled by the project. The academic visits to be conducted abroad are of short duration and their goal is to conduct technical visits for participation in academic conferences. Cross-cutting courses will also be offered by the GPs involved in this proposal, in order to improve the training in theoretical and practical elements that are complementarily related and can contribute to the development of integrated actions and research between the GPs.

Action Indicators


Situation Goal Goal

Quantitative

Amount of academic vistis conducted abroad with

8 10 25

minimum of 5 days each

Quantitative

Amount of visiting professors hosted at UFPR

0 3 6

for a period of 3 months

Quantitative

Amount of Junior researchers hosted at UFPR for a

0 2 6

period of 6 months

Quantitative Amount of faculty members sent to lecture as

6 3 7

senior visiting professors for at

least 3 months in international universities

Quantitative

Quantitative

Amount of cross-cutting courses offered by the GPs involved in the proposal Amount of papers written in co-authorship with international researchers

0 2 4

12 15 30

Action 3. Dissemination of knowledge and skills both outside and inside UFPR Description




This action consists of activities that can contribute to foster the inclusion of other actors of the internal community of UFPR in internationalization actions, as well as to disseminate the knowledge and expertise developed with the project to the society. This action will be performed through the creation of a website and an interactive platform to store the information and data produced under the project and to integrate the research networks of the actors involved in it. The aim is also to collaborate with national and international repositories of Open Educational Resources and Practices. Moreover, an annual workshop will be hold with members of the project team, which will be open to the general community, with a special invitation for the policy makers, in order to disseminate the knowledge and skills developed by the project. Also, the participation in scientific conferences abroad presents itself as relevant, as well as the establishment of cooperation agreements with the international universities involved in the project and that are not yet in categorized in this condition alongside UFPR. Sources of funding from international funding agencies shall also be sought in order to enable funding for the development of projects related to the themes proposed.

Action Indicators

Type Indicator Current 2nd Year

Goal Final Goal

Situation

Quantitative Website developed to

0 1 1

disseminate the results of the

project

Quantitative Annual workshop held with

0 2 4

team members and

external community

National and international Qualitative repositories with collaboration

of the participants of the project Amount of cooperation

Quantitative agreements linked to the international universities International funding agencies

Quantitative sought to finance projects of academic Amount

Quantitative conferences abroad with participation of members of the team Interactive platform

Quantitative developed to store the information and data of the project

No Partial Collaboration

Full Collaboration

collaboration

8 12 28

4 4 6

18 26 52

0 1 1

Action Start date Finish date 1. To develop and qualify human resources at international level of excellence for analysis, interpretation and planning of 11/2018 07/2022 theoretical and practical actions related to the space, society and development theme Description



This action is related to one of the most fundamental functions of the GPs: the training of qualified doctors and masters to act in education and research institutions, governmental agencies or in private enterprises. In this project, the following areas of knowledge are prioritized: i) Urban and Regional Planning, with emphasis on issues related to urbanization processes, peripheralization, metropolization and regional economic development, equity and concentration, urban mobility, commercial relations, and socio-environmental development; ii) Geotechnologies and innovations applied to development, in particular from the perspective of smart cities, including geography of knowledge and tools for social and participatory collaboration; iii) Culture, Leisure, Work and Tourism, addressing themes such as tourism and local development, socio-spatial aspects of the labor market, public spaces, social activism, urban landscape and culture equipments, sport and leisure, and culture and religion in urban space; iv) Law, Society and Democracy, with emphasis on the analysis of land policies, public services, social and political entrepreneurship, socio-territorial conflicts, urban poverty, and social rights, in the perspective of social and urban development. The implementation of this action is based on: i) sending students to conduct sandwich doctorate abroad, in order to qualify the training of students by inserting them in the international academic environment and stimulating cooperation networks with international institutions and researchers; ii) sending faculty members to lecture as junior visiting professors, which is of great importance for the qualification of young professors, the creation and strengthening of international collaboration networks, and the increase of the offer of subjects in a foreign language on undergraduate and graduate programs; iii) creating a MOOC and/or hybrid course for the GPs; iv) conducting courses of short and medium duration on the style summer/winter schools, to be delivered by international visiting professors in order to broaden the dissemination of knowledge and stimulate the interaction with Brazilian students and professors; v) offering of courses in a foreign language on all GPs involved in this action, aiming to invite international students, introduce Brazilian students to international experiences, and encourage other professors to deliver their subjects in a foreign language. Action Indicators


Situation Goal Goal

Quantitative

Conducting courses on the style summer/winter 0 2 4

schools

Quantitative Amount of students sent abroad to conduct

6 9 21

sandwich doctorate for at

least 6 months

Quantitative

Creation of MOOC and/or 0 1 2

hybrid course

Quantitative Amount of faculty members sent to lecture as

3 1 3

junior visiting professors for at

least 6 months

Quantitative

Amount of courses given in a foreign

2 5 12

language on the GPs involved in the project

Objective Power relations, inequalities and human rights

Action 4. To improve the basis and training for internationalization in the GPs Description




This action aims to enhance the internationalization conditions of the GPs by means of language policy and training. Courses will be systematically offered in foreign language in the GPs of the proposal and will begin offering undergraduate degrees in order to prepare students of scientific initiation. Faculty will participate in courses of English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI), directed to GPs’ faculty, in order to foster interdisciplinary classes that attend students of several GPs and, possibly, with the contribution of faculty from international universities of the research network. A policy to offer GPs in foreign languages will be implemented.

Action Indicators

Type Indicator

Current Final Situation 2nd year Goal Goal

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Placing and signaling of physical and virtual space of the GPs in foreign languages Amount of exchanges of undergraduate students Amount of courses given in foreign languages at Undergraduate Programs Projects to present research results in international networks Offer of courses delivered in a foreign language in the GPs involved in the project Amount of actions that aim to increase the foreign language proficiency of faculty members, technicians and students

1 3 6

3 2 4

4 2 4

0 1 2

8 12 24

2 3 6

Action Start date 11/2018 3. To increase the international promotion of the production from researchers and GPs involved in the project Description

Finish date 07/2022

This action aims to promote the international dissemination of the scientific production from researchers of the project and their respective research groups and GPs, in order to increase their international impact. Publication in international vehicles with JCR and publication of the research results in foreign languages will be increased in number. The selection of students linked to the project team that will conduct the research fellowship in foreign institutions of the research network, within the themes covered by the project and the sandwich doctorate modality, will be conducted. Criteria that will enable faculty members to conduct research and participate in events at foreign institutions of international renown and academic relevance within the areas of the project will be defined, in order for them to conduct academic visits, postdoctorate, or participate in events. The research results will be presented through communications, videos, and on a platform created for this purpose. The proposal is to seek, together with the university communication channels, professionals trained to design and create an online platform for wider promoting and visibility of the project, team activities and their results in the three priority foreign languages: English, Spanish, and French, as well as Portuguese.

Action Indicators




Situation Goal Goal

Quantitative Papers/book chapters or book, by team

64 30 60

faculty, in vehicles of international

quality

Quantitative Creation of an online promotion platform 0 1 1

Quantitative

Production of videos to promote

0 2 4

the research results

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Papers of faculty members in foreign languages Sending faculty members linked to the project on academic visit abroad or contributing on events Amount of students in sandwich doctorate program Amount of projects and programs to present the research results

64

25

31

0

30 60

20 40

12 24

2 4

Quantitative Number of articles published with JCR

Quantitative Presentations of research results internationally and in a foreign language

2 70

4 8 3060

Action 1. To increase the contribution of faculty members of GPs in international research networks Description

Start date 11/2018

Finish date 07/2022

This action will facilitate the exchange of information regarding research networks linked to the project, in order to promote and expand the team transdisciplinary link. International collaborations, which are still not institutionalized by terms of cooperation, will be identified, in order to offer conditions for signature of agreements. Committees will be organized to hold a biennial international event and to organize publications of project results, articulated with international faculty. International calls will be compiled and published, and conditions for the presentation of joint projects for funding will be pursued. A scientific committee that will identify the possible invited scholars will be organized, with theoretical and international expression in the respective disciplines. The organizing committee will be responsible to seek other funding bodies for the event, as well as to articulate the GPs involved and facilitate its wide dissemination (before, during, and after) through the articulated use of several digital media and the online dissemination platform.

Action Indicators




Situation Goal Goal

Quantitative Increase the amount of postdoctoral fellows 38 4 8


Quantitative Offer of courses in international platforms 0 2 4

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Offer of registrations in courses of international virtual mobility. Conduction of biannual event on Power Relations, Inequalities and Human Rights. Amount of research projects with international funding. Raise of funds and participation in funding calls and international calls. Publication of collective works, resulted from the biennial events of the project.

2

0

13

2

0

2 4 1 2 2 4 1 2 1 2

Action 2. To increase the cooperation with international researchers Description


This action will intensify international academic mobility by bringing senior faculty of important contribution for the areas concerned by the project to UFPR (considering the scope of the participant GPs), to deliver classes, mini courses, coorientation of students, and examining boards. Forms of exchange by using video conferences and specific commission that will indicate the names, contact and invitation will be organized. Moreover, the reservation of a room equipped with multimedia and the promotion among the team will be performed in order to guarantee the maximum possible adhesion of the respective team members to the video conference. Thus, it would allow the direct interaction between the national team and internationally renowned researchers, at no additional cost. It is also proposed to recruit young scholars for the research areas of the project to conduct postdoctoral research in the PIPD and to deliver classes and/or mini courses. The project will enable the publication of articles, books or book chapters in vehicles of international quality, preferably in partnership with those contemplated by PIPD or visiting scholars, during the 4 years of the project. The foreign faculty of the project will be invited for orientation in joint supervision, considering the scope of the participant GPs.

Action Indicators



Current Final

Type Indicator 2nd

Situation Goal

Year Goal

Quantitative Publication within joint supervision with international 2 4 8

partners

Quantitative

Arrival of junior professors,

8 4 8

considering the scope of the GPs that are participating

in the project

Quantitative Offer of courses by international participants 6 6 12

in a foreign language

Quantitative Amount of students received at UFPR 12 4 8

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Quantitative

Senior visiting professors for short duration visits Academic production of visiting faculty during their stay at UFPR Academic participation of international scholars by videoconference Participation of international faculty in examining boards

4 2 4

5 4 8

2 3 6

6 6 12

Quantitative Amount of supervisions within joint supervision

Quantitative Publication in co-authorship with international scholars

Quantitative Co-supervision of GPs students of UPFR by international professors

4 8 16

21 8 16

1 4 8

Objective SmartMinds: internationalization of the humanities in the digital public sphere

Action 5. To attract and integrate into the academic life of UFPR renowned international partners Description


With the completion of the summer/winter schools and academic visits abroad for teaching and research, UFPR aims to attract not only these colleagues, but also, because of their presence in Curitiba, local researchers at the international level (in particular the Southern Cone), as well as doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows from other regions, including additional funding of their own. For example, the postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for direct participation in project activities is already scheduled for 2019, for a period of 9 months. Given the strong adhesion of the project institutions in Germany, and given the official DAAD declaration of funding for doctoral candidates to join Brazil under the CAPES/Print, we intend to attract a large number of PhD students (about ten) for performance in the various subprojects. The numbers indicated in the fields pertaining to the targets do not include people encouraged by other sources, except in the "Current situation" field. The field "Final goal" is cumulative, referring, therefore, to the 4-year duration of the project.

Action Indicators



Type Indicator

Academic visits of foreign scholars and researchers of renown

Quantitative in several areas, for the creation of an internationalized search quotidian at a high level of academic excellence: Number of beneficiaries

Action Start date 11/2018 4. Enable, via academic mobility, local activities, and training, technical staff, researchers, scholars and students in the discipline of digital humanities Description

Current Final Situation 2nd year Goal Goal 3 8 13

Finish date 07/2022

The SmartMinds project will provide an academic link to students and researchers for periods of study and activity in Curitiba (offering postdoctoral fellowships), and/or mobility to students, researchers and faculty staff for work assignments and study abroad, making it a permanent practice at UFPR. From the start, and to ensure the performance of a highly-qualified person with experience abroad for project monitoring under the guidance of the Coordinator, the selected postdoctoral student shall be linked to GP Letters, which soon will join other postdoctoral fellows connected to GP in Education and guided by their supervisor. Then, as the resources are made available, a detailed schedule of teaching visits abroad will be done, and the implementation of funding calls will start, for doctoral students, to periods of study abroad. For the implementation of this action, meetings and conferences will be held in order to academic mobility is done in an integrated way, and not as an individual, isolated activity. Activity reports presented publicly in small events in the context of the project will seek to make academic mobility an opportunity for intellectual exchange, collective actions and institutional planning, in favor of the production of knowledge and the establishment of institutional practices and procedures. The numbers indicated in the fields pertaining to the targets do not include people encouraged by other sources, except in the "Current situation" field. The field "Final goal" is cumulative, referring, therefore, to the 4-year duration of the project.

Action Indicators

Type Indicator

Offer of local link, mobility, and training for a team of students, technical-

Quantitative administrative staff linked to research and documentation, researchers and UFPR faculty members: Number of beneficiaries

Action

Start date

3. To organize and implement participation of UFPR in institutional consortia for use of digital platforms, funding, internally, the use and development of digital resources for research

11/2018

Current Final Situation 2nd year Goal Goal 6 26 51

Finish date

07/2022



Description Integration of UFPR to institutional consortia for use of digital platforms, initially the DARIAH-EU consortium, in Europe, which has already expressed the host institution and provision of data storage space for the SmartMinds project. Thus, the improvement of facilities, the digital integration between units and research groups in the subprojects, as well as the intensification of the use of Scanning and Digital Humanities room (as a meeting point of external scholars connected to the area and a support site for administrative organization of multidisciplinary activities by GPs involved), will be necessary. Finally, the participation of Research Groups in projects such as "Traveling with Alexander von Humboldt: science born of movement" of the Academy of Sciences of Berlin-Brandenburg (BBAW) (cf. http://www.bbaw.de/forschung/avh-r/uebersicht), adding data on the reception of Humboldt by Brazilian literature (in booklets of Amazonian studies by Euclides da Cunha, for example), in partnership with the University of Potsdam, and under special attention to the process of editing the texts of Humboldt (http:// edition-humboldt.de/index.xql), in the creation of tools, forms, and guidelines for presentation and research of digital documents. Other partners for research actions will be: a) The Ibero-American Institute (IAI) of Berlin, Institute for Foreign Relations (ifa), Stuttgart City Library, University of Göttingen (SUB), and the University of Grenoble (for the Letters course); b) The Università degli Studi di Trento (in Philosophy); c) The Istituto Italiano di Paleontology Umaña and The Moroccan Université Mohamed V (for Archaeology and Anthropology); and d) The University of Bologna (For the Music course). The actions will be done in partnership with laboratories of Digital Humanities, like the DHLab of the University of Basel, Switzerland, the Centre François Viète of the University of Nantes, and institutes at the University of Freiburg (Computer Science) and University Sidney (Physics). The internationalization experience of the partners will be used and adapted by UFPR. The formation of the international campus Eucor (http://www.eucor-uni.org/en/eucor-european-campus), which participates in important partners the UFPR, both the SmartMinds as in other projects: German universities of Karlsruhe and Freiburg, Switzerland University of Basel, and the universities of Haute-Alsace and Strasbourg.

Action Indicators



Situation

Degree of integration of UFPR Little Considerably Totally

Qualitative to international consortia

of digital research in integrated integrated integrated

Humanities

Membership of students,

researchers and scholars of

UFPR to work in international

Quantitative research networks

5 150 400

in digital environments:

Amount of participants in

international networks of

research on digital

environment

Action 6. To capture additional international funding for the development of the SmartMinds project in UFPR, in partnership with international institutions Description

Start date 11/2018

Finish date 07/2022



To conceive, formulate and submit projects in national and international public calls of funding agencies, for additional funding for infrastructure improvement, technical activities, and research activities that enhance the realization of the project SmartMinds. Examples of potential forms and funding sources are: funding of German doctoral fellowship by DAAD (as formal announcement made by the Affairs Office to contrast Brazilian investments made by the program CAPES/Print) and German postdoctoral fellowships by The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; investment of foreign agencies in joint research actions, personnel training, technical activities and infrastructure, together with agencies such as the German society for Science (DFG), ProHelvetia Foundation, ministries of Foreign Affairs of the Poland and Austria, France and Italy, among others, as well as by the private sector (local and foreign companies, and their respective foundations, as Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Volkswagen Foundation, Robert Bosch Foundation, Renault Foundation etc.). The value indicated in the fields "Expected goal" and "Final goal" are cumulative.

Action Indicators


Situation

Additional fundraising

Quantitative to conduct the SmartMinds

1200000

project as well as

all related actions: values

in R$

Action

Start date

1. To organize and offer three major training events, to create the culture of research internationality for UFPR,

11/2018

associated with work practices,

reflection and communication in digital environments Description

2nd Year Final Goal

Year

2700000 4500000

Finish date

07/2022



For dissemination of the Digital Humanities field, as well as staff and student training, three summer/winter multidisciplinary schools will be held between 2019 and 2021, prepared one year in advance, assembling all the subprojects in SmartMinds into one, open to the general community. It is expected that about 180 people from Curitiba, in addition to the local and foreign ministrants, will participate. Two of these events (in August 2019 and September 2020) will be introductory in UFPR; the third will happen in September 2021, at the headquarters of one of the partners abroad, probably in the University of Göttingen in Germany, with fewer participants. The summer/winter schools consist of: general lectures, training workshops, communications and workshops in sections organized according to subprojects. Participation in the third event, abroad, will require previous participation in the two previous events, and the final selection of participants will be according to criteria of appropriation of digital practices and internationalization in the daily work and research of the candidates, when technical and teachers An important detail: in the context of the events in UFPR will be offered to hundreds of graduate students and teachers in general, all PPGs in the Institution and even external, concentrated transdisciplinary courses entitled "New technologies and innovation in Humanities I and II". The format of the offer (in large auditorium, with multiplication in parallel auditoriums for screen) will continue the practice already consolidated in the UFPR, under the initiative of the Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research. UFPR scholars and renowned international partners in the area will deliver the course. The evaluation work will be monitored in a digital environment by postgraduates in teaching practice and will give credit to the approved participants. At the end of the three events, it is hoped that several dozens of technical staff and faculty capable of researching in the area of Digital Humanities will be available, which will ensure its consolidation as a daily practice in the Institution and as a factor of internationalization for the Institution as a whole. Action Indicators



Situation

Quantitative Training and practice in the area of

4 30 60

Digital Humanities: number of

trained staff

Quantitative Training and practice in the area of

12 70 160

Digital Humanities: number of

scholars trained

Quantitative

Amount of training Summer schools

0 1 3

conducted in the area of

Digital Humanities

Quantitative Diffusion of the area of Digital

25 400 800

Humanities among students:

number of students involved

Consolidation of Digital

Qualitative Humanities as a practice of the institution: presence of Digital Humanities in the institution

Isolated Practice in Practice Practice projects widely strengthened

known in the institution


2. To create and consolidate the DigiEL Center for Digital Training and Research in Language Teaching, of the GPs in Letters and Education, of regional range in the Southern Cone, in partnership with international universities

11/2018 07/2022



Description Creation of an International Centre for training and research in teaching of foreign languages (DigiEL Centre), linked to the GPs in literature and education, and associated with the GP in Computer Science, of regional range in the Southern Cone (e.g. Universities of Córdoba and Asunción, and the Goethe-Institut of Montevideo), dedicated to the diffusion of quantitative and qualitative research methods in the area of Foreign Languages, and to the qualification for the use of software, environments and digital interfaces, the latter also of interest of other disciplines such as History, Philosophy, Literature and Sociology. In this context, new collections of journals published in foreign languages in Brazil, – in German about 600 titles, about a third of them being newspapers and magazines and quite dense in content – are of interest and immediate membership as material for motivation of language learning in various regions and communities in Brazil and neighboring countries. Important partners in Europe are the German Universities of Bielefeld and Leipzig. For the specific area of German as a Foreign Language, there is the prospect of a complementary support before the submission of the project to the DAAD Dhoch3 program, for the international expansion of the Bilateral Master's Degree in German as a Foreign Language in the region, in partnership with GPs, particularly education, computer science and history. This way, the DigiEL Center will interface with current projects UFPR, such as "Digital DBP - Brazilian Portuguese-language Press" (eg with school newspapers, student publications and associations and scholars), and with research centers based at the Institution, such as the NPPD (Center for Research in Educational Publications), linked to the International Association for Research on Textbooks and International Media (iartem) and partner of Georg Eckert Institut - Braunschweig, as well as Research Groups in the areas of History of Education, linked to University College London (England) and University Stanford (USA), and English as a Language Academic, in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania (USA). The DigiEL Center, integrated to the Digitalization and Digital Humanities room and to other departments (Pedagogical Support Center – NAP, Languages Center of UFPR – NucLi, Languages and Interculturality Center of UFPR – CELIN, and Academic Publishing Advisory Center – CAPA), will host projects of academic excellence as well as training actions, which will also be available for teachers of foreign languages in the basic education. Action Indicators



Situation

Conclusion of Master’s dissertations and Doctoral theses in the Foreign Languages area Literature, and Education majors, through actions of internationalization: number of Master’s theses and Doctoral dissertations completed


International integration of the Graduate Programs (GPs) Through the establishment of the Research Center: Establishment of the DigiEL center

Center non-existent

Center in Center consolidated

Qualitative the process of consolidation

Amount of published papers, book chapters, compilations, and Academic books by the DigiEL Center


Training of staff in the field of Foreign Languages research and the use of softwares for qualitative and quantitative research in Digital Humanities: amount of publications



FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARANÁ 09/05/2018 21:12 STRATEGIES

Strategy for the consolidation of existing international partnerships, as well as the construction of new partnerships and cooperation projects to increase the relationship between the Brazilian institution and research groups abroad • Strengthening existing partnerships requires a systematic strategy to encourage fund raising in bilateral projects and co-authorship publication of research results. This way, obtaining resources for international activities will be linked to the commitment of sharing research results in international journals. Other strategies for these partnerships strengthening include: • To raise funds for participation in international research callings; to send PhD students for a sandwich doctorate internship; • To fund technical visits of national and international academic staff; To sponsor short-term courses in Brazil and abroad; To organize scientific events and research seminars; • To offer courses in foreign languages in partnership with foreign academic staff; • To increase on-site and off-site interactions between Brazilian and foreigner researchers; • To encourage the expansion of international joint supervisions; • To encourage Brazilian researchers to broaden their academic network from the contacts they already have abroad; • To encourage and promote researchers/faculty visits and internships to institutions/laboratories overseas in order for them to develop similar researches, bringing the possibility of starting new cooperation projects.

Strategy to attract foreign students to Brazil • To complement foreign students’ scholarships in the reverse sandwich scholarship program through moderate financial contributions from the Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research (PRPPG), aiming to support their stay in our country and to reinforce the reciprocity of this program; • To announce, in English, on the PRPPG’s website, information regarding policies for recognition and flexible use of credits, which were already implemented by UFPR (Resol. 32/17); • To simplify the access to information regarding UFPR competences and excellences through the website in its English version, explaining strategic areas of research, technology and innovation, main ongoing projects, researchers and main partners. • To improve graduate programs websites, available in English, mentioning the purpose of the program, its research lines, scientific and technological production, as well as its infrastructure regarding physical, instrumental, computational, and human aspects, through the CAPA’s activities. • To assist the development of material for exposure of the university research actions in English through CAPA. • Increase the number of courses held in foreign languages in a ratio of 10-15% per yearduring the Institutional Project for Internationalization (PRINT) term. • To mold the universityfaculty culture by increasing the percentage of academic staff that are qualified to offer courses in the English language, through the ongoing program for methodologies training to teach in English (English as a Medium of Instruction – EMI – course, coordinated by a internationally recognized specialist in this field); • To expand existing actions to assist students during their arrival, adaptation, and degree development periods through the actions of the International Affairs Office of UFPR. It already provides information online as well as in the written form in different languages about the city, housing, settling their entry and stay in Brazil, as well as a reception organization by students who volunteer and express an interest in exchanging experiences and language skills (TANDEM project, linked to the Languages and Interculturality Center - CELIN). • To increase the amount of Portuguese proficiency intensive courses for foreign students through the Languages and Interculturality center (CELIN), aiming their inclusion in our culture; • To promote the Lectureship Program in order to make known the different cultures of the countries with which we settled a research partnership. Strategy to attract faculty and researchers with international experience



• Provide a qualified access to the available research facilities in UFPR, which are necessary for the development of research projects. •Promote symposiums/workshops in a foreign language involving researchers, academic staff, graduate fellows, and post-doctoral fellows both from Brazil and from abroad. •Offer short term courses for faculty both from Brazil and from abroad; •Increase institutional support for publication of papers on international impact journals; •Expand funding for participation in scientific events that are relevant for each field of research; • Expand the use of the videoconference system to implement academic benefits to Graduate Programs, including a systematic formation of examining boards, seminars, thematic talks, presentation and discussion of scientific papers. •Release specific calls in partnership with Brazilian and foreign funding agencies, among other institutions, to fund research projects aiming to bring faculty/researchers from abroad; • Extend actions to train faculty in order for them to submit projects in international calls. The Coordination of the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research promoted a workshop in this regard in 2017, which has had an impact on the approval of projects that received international funds. Strategy to prepare the scholarship holders for the period abroad as well as for their return, especially in order to increase the knowledge appropriation by the institution. • Increase the number of vacancies offered for free in the Languages Without Borders program (IsF), aiming the preparation for the TOEFL exam and other proficiency exams internationally recognized (students and faculty). • Expand the internationalization at home actions at the Languages and Interculturality Center (CELIN) in promoting courses for the students to have a cultural and language broader view. • Expand the English for Academic Purposes (IFA) scope, which was created in 2017 for students and academic staff and change the project in order to support students who attended courses delivered in English. • Promote actions for Internalization at Home in order to give students and faculty a background on internationalization activities, such as transdisciplinary courses delivered in English. • Expand the actions for the English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) in order to train the institution faculty to teach English. • Request faculty who have returned from academic activities abroad offer courses in a foreign language and publish their research results in relevant international journals in their respective knowledge field, preferably in partnership with the foreign researchers involved in their research. • Invite students who have participated in a program abroad to engage in activities promoted by the Academic Publishing Advisory Center (CAPA), such as advising students who attend courses in English, and assisting academic staff in the writing process for publishing in international journals. Describe innovative strategies that will be used by the institution that were not mentioned above



• Offer Transdisciplinary classroom courses regarding academic writing in the English language, being also a live broadcast for students and faculty. In 2017, this course reached 250 students in classroom and 250 students who attended it through the live broadcast system. In 2018, this course was open for the UFPR faculty and graduate students and intends to train more than 500 students and academic staff in scientific papers writing in English. In 2019, the course will be delivered in English, reaching other universities nationwide as well as in other countries through the live broadcast system. In 2018, UFPR introduced the course “Applied Statistics”, having a total of 400 students from different programs, enrolled both in the classroom and the live broadcast system, providing a solid academic background in different knowledge fields. We expect to increase the offering of these courses in 2019 and 2020 comprising topics in Research Methods delivered in English. •Visiting Professor: In 2017, UFPR restructured its institutional Resolutions in order to expand its faculty connections with international institutions, which enables funding for visiting academic staff from abroad, recognized in their respective fields of study, for a period of one to twelve months. We expect to receive at least 80 academic staff per year, coming from abroad with their own funding sources. This program has been implemented and is already running. • UFPR intends to institutionalize an International Post-Doctorate Program (PIPD) aiming to bring foreign young talents with a recognized graduation, who will contribute (a) in research activities development in UFPR, (b) in the offering of courses in foreign languages, (c) to help students and faculty in the writing and publication of academic papers in their native language, (d) in strengthening reciprocity actions during exchange programs with foreign partners. The International Post Doctorate Program intend to attract researchers who will stay in Brazil longer than the faculty who is already internationally recognized. •The Dean of Graduate Studies and Research will make available nearly 50 Master’s and PhD sandwich scholarships for students to come and remain abroad. Such innovative project is important to increase the possibilities of bringing students from foreign institutions, with which we can establish relationships based preferably in reciprocity. These reciprocal actions broaden the changes of increasing the number of vacancies offered to Brazilian students to study in partner universities abroad. •The Coordination of Pedagogical Policies for Internationalization of UFPR performs the following functions: a) support scientific writing in English in order to improve the number and the quality of publications in international journals; b) train faculty in the English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) course in order to increase the number of courses delivered in English. These initiatives are already being implemented in partnership with the Academic Publishing Advisory Center(CAPA) and we intend to make them more extensive and more structured. For example, the Coordination of Pedagogical Policies for Internationalization will implement the activities of the English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) course through the ETA’s (English Teaching Assistants, American grantees of the Fullbright scholarship), as they will prepare the coursematerial in English. In 2018, the university started offering a 100-hour EMI teaching preparation course to faculty. It was developed in partnership with expert scholars from the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. The course may count for faculty career advancement. •The Academic Publishing Advisory Center (CAPA) is the first writing center in Brazil associated with the Division of Humanities and Languages of UFPR. The Center revises scientific papers in English as well as supports internationalization efforts at UFPR and translates websites to the English language. The Academic Publishing Advisory Center of UFPR was inspired by some of the Best writing centers in the United States, such as those at the University of Maryland, Columbia University, and the University of Notre Dame; in Australia, the University of Adelaide; and in the United Kingdom, the University of Plymouth. •An institutional initiative has been launched since 2017 aiming to disseminate and support research proposals that Will be submitted to international funding calls (eg. National Geographic, Unesco, etc). The first activity was a workshop organized by the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research (PRPPG) of UFPR conducted in partnership with the British Council, the Researcher Connect Grant Writing. It addressed all topics from the development to the submission of research proposals. •Recent changes in UFPR Resolutions allow students to write and defend their theses and dissertations in other languages. •The number of international cotutelles will increase as a result of the resolutions that were approved, which debureaucratized this process. •We intend to implement Colaborative Online International Learning (COIL) strategies to maximize contributions from previously established international partnerships as well as upcoming partnerships.



POLICIES

Policy for selection of foreign partners, considering that 70% (at least) of the resources should be earmarked for partnerships with institutions based on countries that Capes maintains effective cooperation (listed in Annex I of the call).

• Currently, UFPR has nearly 250 active cooperation academic agreements with universities in the following countries, in alphabetical order: Argentina, Angola, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Cameroon, Canada, Canary Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Ecuador, England, Estonia, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Mexico, Mozambique, Netherlands, New Zealand, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, South Korea, Spain, Tunisia, United States. The highest percentage of these agreements are withuniversities in France, Germany and Spain. • The choice of international partners promotes the scholarly interests of the five strategic disciplines in the UFPR without restricting them. Suchchoice depends on the evidence of the potential academic benefits involved in thee stablishment of partnerships, also taking into account the prior existence of specific collaboration actions already in development. The International Affairs Office of UFPR is the agent that supports, streamlines, and regulates internationalization actions. Among the activities of the Coordination of International Cooperation, there is the establishment of contact networks that promote the interaction and collaboration among UFPR researchers and international institutions and bodies linked to the promotion of science and technology activities. • The formalization of academic agreements takes place quickly (within a week), and it stems from the analysis of the proposals of Cooperation Agreements and Memoranda of Understanding through Referential Opinion issued by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office at UFPR. This document allows the staff of the International Affairs Office to legally analyze and validate academic collaboration agreements, reducing the time for completion of the processes until the signature of the Rector. • UFPR is represented in major international conferences of universities, such as NAFSA, EAIE and FAUBAI, taking advantage of the occasion to establish new partnerships, and to propose the renewal of agreements that have proven advantageous. • All current agreements are published in the University’s digital system, as well as listed on the International Affairs Office website. Information concerning the establishment of academic partnerships are also available on the Office’s website, in English and Portuguese. Grant policy and internal selection process for specific actions, within the funding lines of the Capes-PrInt program. In the case of cooperation projects with foreign institutions, the proposer should specify the application of funds, the plan of activities, reciprocal funding, academic mobility, technical - scientific production, counterparts in the partner institutions, among others.



• The selection of students contemplating a scholarship shall be made under specific funding calls, respecting the adherence to the demands of the thematic areas of the proposed projects. The calls shall be elaborated by project coordinators, in accordance with the General guidelines set by the Steering Committee, in conformity with the general requirements applied by CAPES, such as language proficiency, academic performance, qualifying examination, time to completion, work plan, letter of consent among the supervisors, supervisor’s experience abroad, history of collaboration among supervisors, existence of a current academic cooperation agreement; • Faculty members: the distribution of resources will consider the adherence of the demand to the thematic areas of PrInt-UFPR projects, assessment of academic excellence of the proponents, measured by their international intellectual productions, the existence of financed international projects with foreign partners and experience with research groups and foreign universities, amount of courses in a foreign language, graduate student training; • Projects: evaluation of the thematic adherence to PrInt-UFPR project; of the adequacy and excellence of the foreign institution; of the counterparts of the foreign institution; of the qualification and international experience of the project team; of the potential for attracting resources from the partnership; of the competitive and innovative nature of the research proposal in national and international contexts; of the history and synergy of the research actions of parties involved; of the adequacy of the activities schedule and budget; of the scope of teams; of the actions of appropriation of the knowledge produced in the network; of the potential impact of international publications and co-authorships. • Overseas Research Visits: the existence of unilateral or bilateral funding, academic production indexes, curricula of foreign researchers involved in actions, and scientific recognition of the team involved and foreign institutions will be considered. • Participation in international scientific events will depend on the analysis of the adherence of the events to the theme of the research projects of PrInt-UFPR, as well as their coverage, history and relevance. • The Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research, the Graduate Programs and the Research Projects Coordinators will be responsible for the wide dissemination of selection notices, as well as their results, respecting the deadlines. Policy for hiring faculty with recognized scientific performance at an international level • UFPR commits to discuss and propose internal Resolutions aimed at the recruitment of Brazilian and foreign faculty members of high scientific and academic performance, considering the themes of research projects related to the development strategic international actions. It is expected that these faculty members may be accredited in the Graduate Program as of their hiring or shortly thereafter. • In 2017, UFPR updated the Visiting Scholars Program, which now allows foreign faculty members to be hired for 1 to 12 months, and it is possible to renew the contract for up to 4 consecutive years. It is acknowledged that the assigning scholars of recognized excellence is difficult, given their high demand in institutions abroad, their financing, and other aspects. The Visiting Scholars Program allows them to remain in UFPR for shorter contracting intervals, thus making it possible to attract more than 80 international scholars annually. It is expected that international scholars of recognizeable impact may, after performing under the condition of visitors for a time, meet the conditions to be approved in public tendering, once they overcome the restrictions concerning the lack of fluency in Portuguese. • The strong investment scheduled for the Young Scholars Program (IPP - International Postdoctoral Programme) will allow young talents from abroad to stay for a greater length of time, which in turn enables them to meet the requirements determined by public tendering to fill the position of faculty member, then being accomodated by the institution. Policy to increase proficiency in foreign languages for students, postgraduate faculty and technical staff that have a direct relationship with the proposed Internationalization Project.



• In 2017, UFPR launched a program of transdisciplinary courses of common nature to several programs aimed at promoting a strong academic background in different areas of knowledge. The first transdisciplinary course offered was called & quot; Academic Writing in English & quot; the second, named & quot; Applied Statistics & quot;, is being offered in the first half of 2018. The institution plan also provides a new set of courses focused on Research Methods. From 2019 onward, these courses will be taught in English in order to promote the contact of students with the language, and hence, to increase the possibility of UFPR to receive international students; • The students involved in overseas research visits must meet the foreign language proficiency criteria stipulated by CAPES; • Faculty and staff members who commit themselves to the improvement of their qualification in a foreign language may benefit from the opportunity to request functional progression; • To direct the Institutional Staff Qualification Program (PIQ) in order to provide courses in English for Specific Puposes and intercultural knowledge, particularly in the case of Undergraduate and Graduate Studies Offices of UFPR; • Increase in regular postgraduate courses taught in foreign languages on the part of faculty members involved in research projects, especially when beneficiaries of PrInt resources; • Increase in the number of Undergraduate elective courses taught in foreign language. Policy for recognition of academic and scientific activities performed by faculty and students abroad. • With the reformulation of the Postgraduate Resolution in 2017, UFPR adopted a policy that aims to facilitate the recognition of credits and activities carried out abroad, delegating autonomy to the Board of the programs so that the consideration of credits is based on the requirements of each discipline. Such simplifications have reduced bureaucratic demands and boosted cotutelle actions, which have already been experiencing significant growth. In the case of cotutelle (joint supervision), the students perform their activities abroad based on a plan pre-approved by the Board of the Graduate Program, so that the viability of the acceptance of credits is analyzed and assured in advance by the supervisor in the country and by the Board of the Program; • The increase of regular and transdisciplinary courses signals the policy of offer and recognition of credits in other languages, which promotes student exchange on a reciprocal basis; • All Graduate Programs have elective courses, such as Advanced Research topics, which favor what classes taught by foreign faculty members can be accommodated in the curriculum of each Program; • Encouragement of the double degree practice upon fulfilment of credit requirements valid in both universities. Students who desire double degree must have the consensus of the foreign university (Undergraduate and Graduate Boards), in addition to the formalization of a specific cooperation agreement for this purpose. Policy for hosting and support of foreign faculty, researchers and students.



UFPR offers a protocol for service, reception and welcoming of the foreign community (teachers and students) by the International Affairs Office, following the following steps: I) Prior contact via email with an attatchment of the foreign sudent/faculty member’s manual of UFPR (drafted in 7 languages); this information is also provided on the Office’s website; II) Live reception of the foreigners in order to provide clarification regarding information previously submitted, in addition to other information regarding university life at UFPR; III) Selection of monitors/tutors, usually trainee students from the Languages and Interculturality Center who are fluent in the foreign student/faculty member’s native language, so that they can accompany them and guide them through bureocratic procedures such as the registration of CPF (Taxpayer Registry ID) and RNE (National Foreigner Registry) with the federal police, during the first week; IV) In the case of foreign students, after the documentation is ready, the International Affairs Office registers the GRT (registration of students-in-transit) with the Academic Attendance Center and instructs the students to report to the course coordination to register their enrollment; V) Although they are already aware of the arrival of foreign students, the course coordinations are once again notified of the students; VI) International students attend the Portuguese as Foreign Language course offered for free by the Language and Interculturality Center of UFPR and funded by the university; VII) Foreign students are invited to participate in cultural activities and to interact with Brazilian students, promoting the acclimatization of the foreigners in the institution; VIII) The Office has technicians trained to assist foreign faculty members in defining their housing during the period of their stay in the country. Policy for the appropriation of knowledge and experience acquired abroad by the beneficiaries of the actions of the Institutional Internationalization Project. • Promotion of workshops on thematic areas of excellence, involving international partners and a team of scholars of the institution; • Promotion of webinars on thematic content arisen from research with international partners; • Offer of courses (in Portuguese and/or foreign language) on thematic content arisen from research with international partners; • Publication and dissemination of research results obtained in overseas research visits in recognized scientific vehicles and/or of impact in their areas of expertise; • Use of TV UFPR for purposes of dissemination of research developed with international partners; • Expansion of virtual environments of academic discussion involving international partners in the form of Newsletters and Colaborative Online International Learning (COIL), among others; • Inclusion of students and faculty members in research projects developed in international collaboration within the framework of the strategic areas of the UFPR; • Encouragement for participation of foreign postdoctoral fellows (PIPD) in offering courses for Undergraduate and Postgraduate students in a foreign language. Policy for management and operationalization of the Institutional Internationalization Project. • Creation of a Management Center with technological and technical support for the management of PrInt-UFPR project activities; • Adequacy and guarantee of the infrastructure of the institution for the implementation of the activities of the scientific cooperation projects of PRINT-UFPR; • Management of financial resources by the Management Committee, in partnership with technical support of the Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research; • Initial Steering Committee Meeting with Coordinators of subprojects for general planning of the implementation of the institutional PrInt-UFPR project; • Semiannual Meetings of the Steering Committee with subproject Coordinators and Coordinators of Graduate Programs for the purpose of monitoring the activities carried out; • Annual meeting of thematic areas for discrimination of activities and planning of new actions; • Update of the Institutional Plan for Internationalization of UFPR aiming at the permanence of internationalization actions; • Encouragement of training and qualification policies of UFPR for the continuous development of internationalization policies; • Balanced distribution of institutional resources, respecting the skills of the members of the subprojects team members.



Policy for monitoring and internal evaluation of the goals of the Institutional Internationalization Project. • The presentation of periodic descriptive reports of the activities carried out and of their respective budget, in accordance with the requirements of the CAPES-PrInt call; • Systematic monitoring of the indicators of actions of projects developed with international partners; • Eventual redefinition of projects development strategies based on prior monitoring; • Periodicassessment of the fulfilment of goals defined in the actions and research projects; • The systematic non-compliance indicators, goals and actions may result in the eventual revision of the permanence of the subproject as a member of PrInt-UFPR. Policy for the conciliation of national development programs supported by Capes to the internationalization effort. • Encouragement of the development of graduate programs (Interinstitutional Master’s Program - MINTER, Interinstitutional Doctoral Program - DINTER) aimed at sharing international experiences from PrInt-UFPR project activities; • Promotion of interaction among research groups linked to GPs (recognized in the institution and/or accredited by CNPq) and coordinators and the team of PrInt-UFPR subprojects; • Development of opportunities for interaction among Graduate Programs not associated with the PrInt-UFPR and those integrated into the program; • Support of the presence of foreign scholars in National Post-Doctoral Program (PNPD)scholarships through selective processes that provide for non-face-to-face interviews, and eventually in a foreign language; • Use of funding calls to support the realization of events to promote the participation of international partners linked to PrInt-UFPR projects; • Adaptation of the selection process to allow the participation of foreign candidates in competition for UFPR institutional scholarships; • Increase the participation of foreign scholars as team members of PrInt-UFPR subprojects in editorial committees of journals aided by CAPES; • Encouragement of Graduate Programs that have not adhered to the CAPES-PrInt funding call for the invitation of international researchers with the aid of over-the-counter funding obtained from continuous demand funding calls from CAPES; • Optimization of Graduate Studies Support Program (PROAP) funding use, by encouraging the participation of foreign researchers in short-term events, and their participation in Masters and Doctoral Defense Committees from students of the institution; • Integration of the actions of the following programs: BRAFITEC, BRAFAGRI, CAPES-COFECUB, DAAD, FULBRIGHT, PROBRAL, NEWTON Foundation, FCT, Escola de Altos Estudos, among others, to the actions of the PrInt-UFPR subprojects. Describe here other innovative policies to be adopted by the institution that were not addressed in the previous items.



• UFPR is in favor of international patent filing in order to broaden the territorial scope of intellectual protection and institutional research results, as well as in the search for partners for licensing and transfer of technology. At the moment, several contacts have been made in order to make international patent filing viable via the establishment of partnerships for research and development of new products and processes, such as new drugs and products for agribusiness. For UFPR, partnerships and flexibilization of internal negotiations and processes are a means to effecting international deposits. UFPR will consolidate its innovation policy until February 2019, according to the current Brazilian Legislation (New Legal Framework of Science andTechnology), prioritizing external partnerships. • In order to improve the internal patent filing and to enhance the technologies that will go to the market, the Innovation Agency of UFPR has established operational measures aimed at the optimization of its portfolio of patents available to the productive sector. One of these actions is the formation of the Intellectual Property Council, which will assess the patentability requirements of applications. Another example of action is the joint work with the Research Coordination and the UFPR Library System in order to create workshops for access to research tools and technological information databases, aiming to align the applied research themes to the market demands. • In innovation actions, UFPR is rated the fourth most innovative Brazilian institution in the Ranking of Universities of Folha de São Paulo (RUF). This classification demonstrates the effectiveness of the internal policy of dissemination of the culture of intellectual property, making UFPR a national reference. UFPR leads the regional innovation networks, such as the Innovation Network of Paraná (REDIN), which proposed the organization of courses and training events. • The Innovation Agency of UFPR, with the aid of scholars, promotes partnerships via the transfer of technology and licensing contracts, and by conducting the necessary processes for their formalization. Since the search for new international markets has risen in the past year, there are ongoing negotiations, in which the Innovation Agency, together with the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office, appropriately establishes procedures without legal risks to the parties. Partnerships involving biological material are actions that have received attention from international contacts. Other areas also present potential for international application, such as mechanics, human health, animal health, agribusiness, and green technologies. • Encouragement to international cooperation actions for entrepreneurship: The Innovation Agency has been establishing partnerships with international institutions, such as the mentorship of student groups (in which the best work is awarded a trip to the partner institution) in order to stimulate entrepreneurship actions. This action will be administered by the Innovation Agency in the scope of PrInt project, with the proper funding. • Similarly, once the potential for a Startup is identified, the Innovation Agency organizes the mentorship of groups of students (only from UFPR or grouped with students from other institutions) in order to lay the foundations for a company to explore the generated knowledge by placing it on the market. Such action will extend the scope of the PrInt-UFPR subprojects. • It also provides for the establishment of a mentorship during the development of the Graduate studies, so that the student already starts to direct his/her research towards generating a patent or even a Startup. This procedure is established in the Entrepreneurship Coordination of the Innovation Agency and can be adapted for PrInt students.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Number of courses taught in a foreign 40

language for graduate students from 2013 to 2016

Number of stricto sensu cotutelle Graduate 12

Programs between 2013 and 2016



Number of stricto sensu Graduate Programs with double degree between 2013 and 2016 Number of stricto sensu Graduate programs from 2013 to 2016 Number of contributions to derived products and to database of international research projects Number of CAPES funding programs from which the institution has benefited from 2013 to 2016 Number of international cooperation CAPES projects of which the institution has benefited from 2013 to 2016

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8

15

18 10

Prediction on the curricular structure of the GPs for inclusion of materials, themes, and courses in a foreign language. The inclusion of themes, materials, and courses in a foreign language to Undergraduate and Graduate education will be a result of PrInt-UFPR projects, which are inserted into five strategic thematic areas, in which the best of scientific and technological production of this university is concentrated. Among the researchers involved in the sixteen PrInt-UFPR sub-projects, about 120 of them will offer Graduate courses taught in a foreign language within the first year of the project. At the end of the project, it is expected that 180 faculty members shall develop these activities, which means that approximately 50% of scholars will be involved in teaching in another language. It is also estimated that about 30% of visiting scholars and young doctors (PIPD) from abroad will provide short courses in foreign languages in the GPs of UFPR. About 10% of this contingent is expected to teach foreign language elective courses for the Undergraduate level. These teaching practices will result in the production of didactic material in a foreign language in the themes proposed by PrInt-UFPR. Among the privileged strategic themes in these courses, the following are highlighted: a) global climate change, air quality, nature protection and conservation, water resources and river basin management, risks and vulnerabilities associated with natural disasters, management of biodiversity and natural heritage, protection and conservation of soils; b) photovoltaic energy conversion processes, urban environmental quality planning, and smart energy distribution systems; c) new forms of synthesis and processing of advanced materials, and advanced techniques of characterization of materials and carbon nanostructures; d) treatment and prevention of major chronic degenerative diseases (cancer, Diabetes, obesity, and heart disease) and neglected communicable diseases (Dengue, Zika virus, Chicungunha, malaria, yellow fever, among others); e) migration and human rights, public policies of social character (affirmative action), and diversity and multiculturalism, as well as new forms of production and circulation of data in the digital sphere (Digital Humanities).

FORESEEN BENEFITS

THEME BIODIVERSITY AND ENVIRONMENT

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION PROJECTS



Project Title Start date Finish date Internationalization Network in Evolution and Biodiversity 01/01/2019 31/07/2022 Description Cooperation between researchers and institutions in different countries is a fundamental factor for scientific development. Technological innovations have evolved rapidly, and the complementarity character obtained through the interaction among researchers from different institutions enables the improvement of the quality of scientific publications, the transfer of new methodological innovations and of technologies, and the exchange of knowledge. In this project, the team of UFPR researchers has 48 international partners, distributed among 18 countries: a) 23 in North America (20 in the US, 1 in Canada, and 2 in Mexico); b) 4 in Central America (1 in Ecuador, 2 in Colombia, and 1 in Chile); c) 19 in Europe (2 in the United Kingdom, 2 in Denmark, 3 in Norway, 2 in the Netherlands, 4 in France, 2 in Germany, 1 in Belgium, 2 in Italy, and 1 in Austria); and d) 2 in Asia (1 in Australia and 1 in Singapore). Most of the international collaborations are already established partnerships (over 70%), and the rest are recent partners or partners who intend to contribute to this cooperation network through this project. Among the participating national researchers, 7 (30%) have a full-time PhD in the USA, 15 (65%) have postdoctoral degrees abroad in 14 institutions from 6 countries (USA, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom, and Spain), financed by national (CNPq, FAPESP and CAPES) and foreign (STRI, NSF and AMNH) funding agencies. The foreign team has 48 researchers, including leaders of laboratories, research centers and museums of natural history, mostly working in the United States and Europe, all with relevant publications and curricula. The team has expertise in diverse fields such as: a) curatorship in zoological and botanical groups in internationally renowned museums in the area of taxonomy; b) morphological and molecular evolutionary analysis, statistical analysis, computational modeling, analysis of diversity, metagenomics, structural and functional genomics involving the development of algorithms in areas of genomics; and c) evolution and modeling of the effects of climate change on the distribution and abundance of organisms of the marine food chain. These are excelling internationally renowned researchers, including research leaders and project coordinators in international collaboration networks. The AMNH Museum in New York, the Paris Museum, and the Smithsonian include a significant part of international and national staff of different graduate programs.

Overseas Research Visits linked to the Project Year Quantity Cost 2021 3 46,267 2022 2 30,845 2020 5 77,112 2019 12 185,070

Project Maintenance Fundings Year Cost 2019 10,000 2022 10,000 2020 10,000 2021 10,000

Grants Linked to the Research Project Year Type Quantity Total Cost 2020 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 9 364,305.60 2022 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 4 64,621.16 2020 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 4 64,621.16 2021 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 3 48,465.87 2022 Training (1 month) 3 46,375.20 2019 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 4 64,621.16 2020 Post-Doctorate (12 months) 3 207,931.74 2020 Training (1 month) 4 61,833.60 2019 Post-Doctorate (12 months) 3 207,931.74 2021 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (4 months) 1 44,870.40 2022 Post-Doctorate (12 months) 3 207,931.74 2021 Training (1 month) 3 46,375.20 2019 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 6 R$ 242,870.40 2021 Post-Doctorate (12 months) 3 207,931.74 2022 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 9 364,305.60 2022 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (4 months) 1 44,870.40 2021 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 9 364,305.60 2019 Training (1 month) 4 61,833.60



Project Title RIBIMA - Internationalization Network on Biodiversity and Environment: Threats and conservation of biodiversity Description

Start date 01/01/2019

Finish date 31/07/2022

The objective of this proposal is the implementation and strengthening of an international network for the development of high-quality research, coherent with the formation of human resources, transfer of knowledge to society, and generation of public policies. The activities and strategies to be developed and implemented aim to provide a better understanding and prediction of phenomena associated with biodiversity, conservation, and management and sustainability of natural resources, from the level of individual adaptive responses to ecosystems and socioecological systems, via interactions with consolidated international research groups of excellence. Among UFPR researchers, two level 1A fellows are involved in the project, one level 1B fellow and one level 1D fellow, and six level 2 fellows of the CNPq productivity system. This group of more experienced scholars of international profile, all scientifically active and productive, will interact with a group of young scholars within the network, almost all with international experiences during their PhD or postdoctoral fellowship. All participants maintain international cooperation activities, several of which are formalized through agreements and terms of cooperation, or via interpersonal contacts. Many project members have continually managed actions for the past five years, either as visiting scholars abroad, in short-term overseas research visits, collaborating in international research projects, and/or via co-authorship of scientific papers. The characterization of the foreign team sought to identify researchers who are active, productive, experienced, and who present clear ambitions for leadership and protagonist roles in the international scientific context. Almost all international partners are scholars directly involved with personnel training at a graduate level. Many foreign scholars remain in active collaboration with national project participants or have agreed to develop and/or strengthen any potential cooperation. The main planned collaborations will occur from the Southern to the Northern hemisphere, but they also target South-South interactions, especially among Latin American countries, in the expectation of supporting a greater role for Brazil in the continental context, and to strengthen common scientific interests in developing countries.



Grants Linked to the Research Project Year Type Quantity Total Cost 2021 Young Talents - A (10 months) 1 99,310.58 2022 Young Talents - A (12 months) 1 116,110.58 2021 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 5 202,392 2020 Young Talents - A (10 months) 1 99,310.58 2019 Young Talents - A (12 months) 1 116,110.58 2022 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 5 202,392 2019 Young Talents - A (10 months) 1 99,310.58 2020 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 5 202,392 2022 Young Talents - A (10 months) 1 99,310.58 2019 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 5 202,392 2020 Young Talents - A (12 months) 1 116,110.58 2021 Young Talents - A (12 months) 1 116,110.58



Project Title Start date Finish date Environmental Monitoring and Modelling - REsMA 01/01/2019 31/07/2022 Description This proposal has the strategic objective of establishing a collaborative research network for the assessment of environmental risks to the biosphere and to human populations, using physicochemical, biological and chemical parameters, and supported by transdisciplinary actions in geosciences and computer science for spatial data interpretation and development of application interfaces for biodiversity. This proposal has been organized in three segments: a) Integrated Parameters; b) Transdisciplinary Actions: Geotechnologies; and c) Transdisciplinary Actions: Computer Science. The first is divided into three subsections, in which 34 researchers are distributed within their Graduate Programs: (I) Chemical Parameters: 7 researchers distributed in PGs of coastal systems, and hydraulic engineering and sanitation; (II) Physicochemical: 9 researchers distributed in GPs in coastal systems, environmental engineering, and hydraulic engineering and sanitation; (III) Biological: 11 researchers distributed in GPs in cellular and molecular biology, ecology and conservation, pharmacology, coastal systems, and hydraulic engineering and sanitation. The second, Transdisciplinary Actions: Geotechnologies has 8 researchers distributed in GPs in hydraulic engineering and sanitation, coastal and oceanic systems, and geodesy. Finally, Transversal Actions: Computer Science has 6 researchers distributed in GPs in coastal systems and computer science. Internationalization includes cooperation actions with research centers in several countries, among them Canada, France, Spain, Italy, USA, Germany, South Africa, Ireland, China, Norway, Australia, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, Japan, Mexico, and Austria. The cooperation actions are organized in order to explore innovative technological aspects via the application of cutting-edge technologies.

Overseas Research Visits linked to the Project Year Quantity Cost 2019 10 156,060 2020 8 126,317 2022 9 142,107


Grants Linked to the Research Project Year Type Quantity Total Cost 2020 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 9 208,397.61 2022 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 9 208,397.61 2020 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 5 199,332 2021 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 9 364,305.60 2022 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 9 364,305.60 2019 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 9 358,797.60 2021 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 2 79,732.80 2020 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 9 364,305.60 2022 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 2 79,732.80 2021 Post-Doctorate (6 months) 6 214,531.74



Project Title Network of Internationalization in Bioprospecting, Biogeochemistry, and Environmental Biotechnology Description



The Internationalization Network in bioprospecting, biogeochemistry and environmental biotechnology will be established with 25 national participants of 9 distinct GPs and 38 international members from various disciplines. National participants will work in 3 main action lines: (i) environmental and genomic bioprospecting for the isolation of new molecules; (ii) use of modern biogeochemical and genomic analysis techniques for environmental monitoring; and (iii) synthetic biology for the design of environmental sensors and improvement of plant-associated bacteria. These action areas have a common goal: to advance the internationalization of innovative lines of research aimed at exploiting biodiversity and Brazilian agriculture in a sustainable way, together with innovative technologies for environmental monitoring and analysis. The network will consolidate existing international collaborations with the countries of: Germany, Spain, USA, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Canada, Argentina, Costa Rica, Hungary, Denmark, New Zealand, Finland and Mexico. The cooperation projects will integrate international researchers in lines of research and promote multidisciplinary interfaces among graduate courses of the area. The international partnerships established by this network will bring both the intellectual contribution of experienced researchers, as well as access to cutting-edge technology parks and training of faculty and doctoral students. The involvement of international researchers in integrative workshops and courses taught in a foreign language will enable various students to attain qualification in current, innovative issues of their areas. The areas of environmental and genomic bioprospecting will receive researchers specialized in environmental bioprospecting for isolation of new molecules, structural chemistry of biomolecules, toxicological and pharmacological tests of molecules in vitro by 2D assays, biological pest control, plant specialists in bioprospecting genomic and metagenomic, metabolic engineering and application of enzymes in bioremediation and biocatalysis. The foreign researchers shall act in the areas of synthetic biology of bacteria associated with plants, biogeochemistry, and environmental pollutants analysis.



Grants Linked to the Research Project Year Type Quantity Total Cost 2019 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 3 121,435.20 2021 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 3 197,035.20 2022 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 6 96,931.74 2019 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 4 64,621.16 2020 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 10 404,784 2021 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 10 404,784 2020 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 9 145,397.61 2022 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 2 131,356.80 2020 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2022 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 4 161,913.60 2021 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 7 113,087.03 2020 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 4 262,713.60

VISITS Year Number of Visits Funding for Visits 2022 1 26,000.00 2020 1 26,000.00 2021 1 26,000.00 2019 1 26,000.00

SCHOLARSHIPS NOT LINKED TO RESEARCH PROJECTS Year Type Quantity Cost 2020 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2020 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2021 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 1 16,155.29 2022 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80 2020 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80 2021 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2020 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2022 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2019 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2021 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2022 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2022 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 2 32,310.58 2020 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 1 16,155.29 2019 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2019 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 1 16,155.29 2019 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2021 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2021 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80 2022 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2019 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80

OTHER ACTIONS



Year Action Description Cost

The Institutional Project for Internationalization at UFPR – PRINT-UFPR – focuses on topics from five disciplines in which the institution has demonstrated excellence and notable improvement. Sixteen international research projects were developed within these five disciplines, each requiring specific resources for internationalization efforts outlined in the CAPES-PRINT and PRINT-UFPR funding calls. However, an institution of the size of UFPR presents specificities and demands that extend far beyond the scope of these subprojects. For this reason, it is imperative to accommodate the transdisciplinary needs of the projects that aim to promote the institution’s possibilities of advancement. Also, it is crucial to establish the PRINT-UFPR Steering Committee, which expects to acquire subsidies to extend and deepen internationalization through these more general initiatives. Thus, a set of requirements is presented as complementary to those aforementioned: a) detailed supervision and assessment of the local team’s implementation of the institutional project, with the contribution of foreign members of the Committee in annual meetings to be held in Brazil; b) the strategic training of faculty and students in activities of up to 3 months at selected partner institutions abroad, aiming to provide an opportunity for complementary training focused on research in collaboration with foreign teams, especially with respect to studies into internationalization of scientific-technological knowledge; and, c) the hosting of events in Brazil and abroad, in order to stimulate: c1) debate and diffusion of scientific-technological production carried out in the scope of international cooperation, c2) the exchange of scientific, technological and cultural experiences through workshops, and c3) the holding of a large international event to assess the experience of PRINT, in terms of its success, advances and challenges, with a view to expanding internationalization of graduate and research programs within UFPR. The PRINT-UFPR Steering Committee considers it essential to have a broad evaluation workshop of the project, in the final year of its implementation, not only to identify the progress achieved and its impact on UFPR, but also to map out future paths for the continuity and expansion of knowledge production, through both consolidated and new partnerships with international research groups and institutions.

Transdisciplinary Actions of Internationalization

2021 25,000.00



2020 25.000,00

The Institutional Project for Internationalization at UFPR – PRINT-UFPR – focuses on topics from five disciplines in which the institution has demonstrated excellence and notable improvement. Sixteen international research projects were developed within these five disciplines, each requiring specific resources for internationalization efforts outlined in the CAPES-PRINT and PRINT-UFPR funding calls. However, an institution of the size of UFPR presents specificities and demands that extend far beyond the scope of these subprojects. For this reason, it is imperative to accommodate the transdisciplinary needs of the projects that aim to promote the institution’s possibilities of advancement. Also, it is crucial to establish the PRINT-UFPR Steering Committee, which expects to acquire subsidies to extend and deepen internationalization through these more general initiatives. Thus, a set of requirements is presented as complementary to those aforementioned: a) detailed supervision and assessment of the local team’s implementation of the institutional project, with the contribution of foreign members of the Committee in annual meetings to be held in Brazil; b) the strategic training of faculty and students in activities of up to 3 months at selected partner institutions abroad, aiming to provide an opportunity for complementary training focused on research in collaboration with foreign teams, especially with respect to studies into internationalization of scientific-technological knowledge; and, c) the hosting of events in Brazil and abroad, in order to stimulate: c1) debate and diffusion of scientific-technological production carried out in the scope of international cooperation, c2) the exchange of scientific, technological and cultural experiences through workshops, and c3) the holding of a large international event to assess the experience of PRINT, in terms of its success, advances and challenges, with a view to expanding internationalization of graduate and research programs within UFPR. The PRINT-UFPR Steering Committee considers it essential to have a broad evaluation workshop of the project, in the final year of its implementation, not only to identify the progress achieved and its impact on UFPR, but also to map out future paths for the continuity and expansion of knowledge production, through both consolidated and new partnerships with international research groups and institutions..


2022 45,000.00



2019 25.000,00

THEME Advanced Materials

PROJECTS OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION



Project Title Start date End date

(Nano) Advanced materials: preparation, characterization, modeling, study of properties and applications 01/01/2019 31/07/2022

Description

This project aims to strengthen existing and developing international collaborations within one of UFPR’s most traditional multi- and interdisciplinary research fields, on the topic of “Advanced Materials”. The project involves researchers from seven graduate programs (Chemistry, Physics, Interdisciplinary and Material Engineering, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Cell and Molecular Biology) who develop research in the field of materials. The international team is composed of researchers from 43 universities and research institutes in 14 countries (Germany, South Africa, Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Spain, USA, France, India, England, Italy, Mexico and Portugal), the vast majority having previously participated in research collaborations with UFPR. The project is structured to cover all of the subfields related to Materials: the preparation, processing, characterization, modeling and study of properties, as well as the development and application of devices, products and processes involving carbon nanostructures (nanotubes, graphene, graphene oxide, nano-graphite, fullerenes), metalic nanoparticles, transition metal oxides, semiconductors, conventional and conducting polymers, lamellar and two-dimensional materials, (nano) Polymeric composites, (nano) ceramic composites, molecular magnets and metallic alloys. This list includes new and advanced materials with a high potential for technological application and the capacity to address major scientific challenges. International cooperation requires securing funding from international funding calls, collaborative publication of scientific articles and submission of patent applications. International cooperation also necessitates increased interaction with the productive sector through the participation of companies abroad, a boost in the internationalization status of the gplacementsroup and respective graduate programs by offering courses in English, a considerable contribution from international researchers in graduate programs, and several sandwich doctorate placements.

Visits Linked to the Research Project Year Number of Visitors Funding 2020 16 386,920.00 2022 16 451,370.00 2019 14 330,170.00 2021 18 446,890.00

Project Maintenance Fundings Year Cost 2019 50,000.00 2021 50,000.00 2022 50,000.00 2020 50,000.00 2022 10,000 2019 10,000 2020 10,000 2021 10,000 2020 10,000

Grants Linked to the Research Project Year Type Quantity Total Cost 2019 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 7 162,087.03 2019 Visiting Scholar (2 months) 1 37,555.29 2020 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 19 439,950.51 2021 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (12 months) 1 113,716.80 2021 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2021 Sandwich Doctorate (12 months) 8 610,214.40 2020 Post-Doctorate (12 months) 4 277,242.32 2019 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 4 161,913.60 2020 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (12 months) 2 227,433.60 2022 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (4 months) 1 48,470.40 2022 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (12 months) 2 227,433.60 2022 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2022 Training (3 months) 1 25,466.40 2020 Post-Doctorate (6 months) 1 35,755.29 2020 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2021 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 9 364,305.60 2022 Sandwich Doctorate (12 months) 5 381,384.00 2021 Young Talents - A (6 months) 1 59,155.29 2022 Post-Doctorate (6 months) 1 35,755.29 2021 Young Talents - A (12 months) 1 116,110.58 2019 Sandwich Doctorate (12 months) 3 228,830.40 2019 Young Talents - A (12 months) 1 116,110.58 2020 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2021 Visiting Scholar abroad Junior (3 months) 1 36,986.40 2021 Post-Doctorate (12 months) 2 138,621.16 2019 Sandwich Doctorate (9 months) 1 61,264.80 2020 Sandwich Doctorate (12 months) 3 228,830.40 2021 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 19 439,950.51 2021 Post-Doctorate (6 months) 1 35,755.29 2022 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 11 445,262.40 2022 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (12 months) 1 123,076.80 2019 Post-Doctorate (12 months) 1 69,310.58 2022 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 17 393,639.93 2022 Post-Doctorate (12 months) 4 277,242.32 2021 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 R$ 65,678.40 2020 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (12 months) 2 246,153.60 2020 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 9 364,305.60




SCHOLARSHIPS NOT LINKED TO RESEARCH PROJECTS Year Type Quantity Cost 2019 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2022 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80 2022 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2021 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80 2021 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2020 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2020 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2020 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 1 16,155.29 2021 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 1 16,155.29 2021 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2022 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2022 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2020 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2022 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 2 32,310.58 2019 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 1 16,155.29 2019 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2020 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80 2021 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2019 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80 2019 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40

OTHER ACTIONS






2021 25,000.00



2020 25.000,00



2022 45,000.00



2019 25.000,00

THEME BIOSCIENCES AND HEALTH




Project Title Systems Biology and Omics Sciences Applied to Biosciences and Health Description



This project aims to establish an international network of transdisciplinary, multi-institutional research in frontier disciplines. The proposal aims to increase the reach of UFPR research groups in microbiology and molecular ecology, microbial taxonomy of clinical and environmental interest, omics sciences, including genomics, proteomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics, through the establishment and consolidation of partnerships with cutting-edge researchers and institutions. The research network will be built based on existing well-established international partnerships, serving as a point of departure for further expansion with new collaborations between UFPR faculty members and leading foreign researchers in different bioscience fields. International partners include Germany, Argentina, Sweden, United States, France, Spain, the Netherlands, China, and United Kingdom, with world-renowned researchers from the most reputable universities and research institutes in the world. 58 international partners from 51 institutions were selected. The foreign team associated with this project is of the highest quality and of international prominence in their respective fields. In order to highlight the team's expertise, we list the participants, their institutions and publications in Cell, Nature, Science or PNAS (CNSP), or journals with an impact factor greater than 10. Among these researchers are Ray Dixon, from the John Innes Centre in the United Kingdom; Kurt Wüthrich, from ETH Zurich; Gary Stacey and Lloyd W. Sumner, from the University of Missouri; Martin Buck and Jörg Schumacher, from the Imperial College of London; Karl Forchhammer, from the University of Tübingen in Germany; Demian Ifa, from the University of York in Canada; Michael Sadowski, from the University of Minnesota; Fabiana Leo Lee, from the National Institute of Mental Health in the United States; Bernd Schneider, from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Germany; Thibaud Decaëns, from the Université de Montpellier in France; Thomas Schulze, from the Institute of Psychiatric Phenomics and Genomics (IPPG), Universität München; Debbie Catharina Crans, from the Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado; Gerrits Sybren de Hoog, from the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute (CBS-KNAW); Wondwossen Abebe Gebreyes, from Ohio State University; Carlo Guglielmini, from Università degli Studi di Padova; and Michael H. Kogut, from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Texas, USA. The intended collaborations will enable the development of innovative products and processes that will impact the academic world and society.

Overseas Research Visits linked to the Project Year Quantity Cost 2021 6 103,147.00 2022 5 89,237.00 2020 3 51,761.00 2019 9 129,240.00

Project Maintenance Fundings Year Cost 2022 30,000 2021 30,000 2019 10,000 2021 10,000 2020 10,000 2020 20,000 2019 30,000 2020 30,000 2019 20,000 2021 20,000

Grants Linked to the Research Project Year Type Quantity Total Cost 2021 Sandwich Doctorate (12 months) 6 457,660.80 2020 Young Talents - A (12 months) 2 232,221.16 2019 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 10 161,552.90 2019 Post-Doctorate (12 months) 1 69,310.58 2019 Young Talents - A (12 months) 1 116,110.58 2022 Post-Doctorate (12 months) 2 138,621.16 2020 Post-Doctorate (12 months) 1 69,310.58 2022 Young Talents - A (12 months) 2 232,221.16 2022 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 4 161,913.60 2019 Sandwich Doctorate (12 months) 6 457,660.80 2021 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 4 161,913.60 2020 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 9 145,397.61 2021 Young Talents - A (12 months) 3 348,331.74 2022 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 9 145,397.61 2020 Sandwich Doctorate (12 months) 5 381,384.00 2021 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 10 161,552.90 2021 Post-Doctorate (12 months) 2 138,621.16 2022 Sandwich Doctorate (12 months) 6 457,660.80 2020 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (12 months) 3 369,230.40 2020 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 2 80,956.80 2019 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 6 242,870.40



Project Title Diagnosis, therapy, and molecular basis of chronic and neglected diseases. Description



The project aims at the prospection of biomarkers, standardization of monitoring methodologies, and development of new pharmacological agents with a nanotechnological scope for a range of chronic and neglected diseases. The researchers involved are prominent leaders in their respective fields. An indication of this is that the average h-index of the 30 international researchers is 31. These figures attest to the excellence of international research projects in the fields of pharmaceutical chemistry, nanotechnology, and in the treatment of chronic and neglected diseases. Expertise in these fields include scholars from 27 universities and research institutes from 5 continents. In the field of medicinal chemistry, Dr. Scammells (h-index 39) and Dr. Jakeman (h-index 27) study infectious diseases and cancer, as well as Dr. Boumedjel (h-index 29) and Dr. Tringali (h-index 30), both have publications in important scientific journals and are researchers in the chemical-pharmaceutical field.ea. The prof. Roessner (h-index 36) works in the field of analytical biochemistry and bioinformatics studying the different biological systems (physiological and pathological). Dr. Fattal (h-index 50) and Dr. Tsapis (h-index 25) from Galien-Paris Institute, Dr. Nicolai (h-index 44) and Dr. Chassenieux (h-index 25) from IMMM, as well as Dr. Rinaudo (h-index 65) from the University Joseph Fourier, are world references in the field of biomaterials, nanotechnology and nano-systems characterization. Dr. Loda PhD (h-index 105) at Harvard Medical School and head of the Oncological Pathology Department will contribute to the molecular and cellular studies. Dr. Calderón, (h-index 37) from the Catholic University of Louvain, will help in the study of the molecular mechanisms encompassed in cell death. Dr. Failloux (h-index 35), from the Pasteur Institute, studies neglected diseases, and has high experience in projects linked to the WHO (World Health Organization) to treat chronic and endemic diseases, in which Dr. Eizirik (h-index 78) is responsible for the molecular bases of diabetes and Dr. Skene for the (h-index 47), diabetes specificities. Dr. Meis (h-index 68) and Chakrabarti (h- index 51) are important names in the field of infectious diseases, and both act in the WHO establishing protocols for neglected diseases. Dr. Spiering (h-index 24), who is the Director of the Laboratory of Translational Immunology of University Medical Center Utrecht, will contribute to the immunological aspects of pathologies studied.


Project Maintenance Fundings Year Cost 2019 10,000 2020 10,000 2021 10,000 2019 30,000 2021 30,000 2020 30,000 2022 30,000

Grants Linked to the Research Project Year Type Quantity Total Cost 2021 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 10 404,784 2020 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 9 208,397.61 2022 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 5 115,776.45 2019 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 11 445,262.40 2020 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 10 404,784 2021 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 7 162,087.03 2022 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 8 323,827.20



Project Title Start date Finish date

Basic and Applied Cancer Research 01/01/2019 31/07/2022 Description The central objective of this project is to promote international partnerships, in order to provide the integration and strengthening of basic and applied research on cancer. In addition, this project aims to create a Center for cancer research at UFPR, with national and international visibility. The Group of Universities and foreign researchers involved in this project have an outstanding performance in Basic and Applied Research on Cancer. The participants involved in the project are: a) Jean Cadet (University of Sherbrooke), who has over 610 publications and 92 chapters published (h-index 83, 24800 quotes); b) J. Pouyssegur (University of Nice) who characterized cell proliferation signaling pathways, and which has 530 publications (h-index 122, 46000 quotes); c) Paul Witting (University of Sydney) who has 109 publications (h-index 41 and 4297 quotes), 6 book chapters published,14 reviews and 1 patent, which obtained U $12,630,000 in funding; d) Prof. Brunger who was the first one to build a high-resolution spectrometer to measure electron momentum spectroscopy, and has 143 publications (index h 22); e) Prof. Buckman is the Director of the Australian Research Council, who has more than 200 articles published; f) Prof. García who is an important name in the field of Atomic and Molecular Processes encompassing the Biomedical area, and which has 200 articles published (h-index 28); g) Massimo Loda who is a Professor at Harvard Medical School, researcher at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and member of the Broad Intitute of Harvard and of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; h) Members of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, which investigate Immunology associated with cancer and Immunotherapy, and that have high quality publications with an emphasis on Nature Immunology and Cancer Research; i) The Group of Dr. Telerman's at the Institute Gustave Roussy, which is the first European Centre of fight against cancer; j) Katharina Landfester who has experience in polymer chemistry, is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (Germany), operates in the Johannes Gutenberg University and has over 100 articles; k) Frank Kjeldsen who is a researcher of the Protein Research Group of the University of Southern Denmark and has more than 60 publications (index h 28); l) Chamindie Puyandeera of Queensland University of Technology who works on diagnostic research network with leading testing laboratories, such as the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the National Cancer Institute, and has published 77 high impact articles and 14 patents; m) Prof. Dario Consonni who is the professor of epidemiology and statistics at the University of Milan and Torino, and that has 426 publications and 8459 quotes.



Grants Linked to the Research Project Year Type Quantity Total Cost 2019 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 7 283,348.80 2021 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 9 364,305.60 2020 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 11 254,708.19 2022 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 6 138,931.74 2019 Sandwich Doctorate (12 months) 1 76,276.80 2020 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 7 283,348.80 2022 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 7 283,348.80 2022 Sandwich Doctorate (12 months) 1 76,276.80 2019 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 6 138,931.74 2021 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 6 138,931.74


SCHOLARSHIPS NOT LINKED TO RESEARCH PROJECTS Year Type Quantity Cost 2019 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2021 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2022 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2022 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80 2020 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80 2019 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 1 16,155.29 2021 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80 2019 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80 2020 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2019 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2019 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2022 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 2 32,310.58 2021 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2019 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2022 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2021 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 1 16,155.29 2020 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2020 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2020 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 1 16,155.29 2022 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40

OTHER ACTIONS






2021 25,000.00



2020 25.000,00



2022 45,000.00



2019 25.000,00

THEME RENEWABLE ENERGY AND NEW ENERGY SOURCES




Project Title Biotechnological processes for the production of advanced biofuels (BioADD) Description



The BioADD will develop research actions to consolidate the internationalization of the 3 level 7 programs from UFPR, contribute to the development of other Graduate Programs, and accelerate the deployment of an International Network Doctorate in Bioenergy (BIOEN). Our assumptions are that highly qualified research is done in a network, and that it is necessary to take advantage of the experience and technology of international partners to leverage the scientific production, technology and training of human resources at UFPR. This is done through an innovative theme in which the proponents already have experience. It is intended to: (1) consolidate the level of excellence of the three level 7 programs involved, through actions of internationalization with mobility of graduate students and young researchers, in order to expand their horizons and promote articulations that will raise the quality of research, as well as new developments; (2) support and encourage non-consolidated collaboration and promote collaborations with other Graduate Programs consolidate in the country, involving actions that will benefit these GPs and their graduate students, such as the offer of special courses and the coming of Visiting Scholar Abroad to Brazil; (3) advise and train of graduate students in an international network - the exchanges will help to leverage the network and information technologies, and communication (online courses) will contribute to the international training of graduate students, specially through the implementation of the BIOEN Doctorate; (4) cooperate in order to bring technology and knowledge quickly to the country, and increase the visibility of the scientific production of UFPR, encouraging the collaboration of Brazilian in events abroad as well as foreigners coming to Brazil –, which will increase the quality of research - 16 researchers from Brazil, 14 foreigners, 19 graduate students from overseas research visit, 30 cotutelle students, and over 23 highly respected institutions associated with UFPR will participate in BioADD, according with this proposal. The UFPR researchers involved in the proposal provide an excellent return, since they already are received more than R $3,160,000 in field projects, including the BioPal-Vale, active until 2020. Furthermore, the researchers promote initiatives such as the Masters and a Doctorate in cotutelle, the IBA-IFIBIOP network, which is founded by professor Soccol and contains 7 researchers from the project, and the network BEST, under construction, which contains several researchers from BRICS.



Grants Linked to the Research Project Year Type Quantity Total Cost 2020 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 5 115,776.45 2020 Post-Doctorate (12 months) 2 138,621.16 2019 Post-Doctorate (12 months) 3 207,931.74 2022 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 2 32,310.58 2019 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 8 185,242.32 2020 Sandwich Doctorate (12 months) 5 381,384.00 2021 Post-Doctorate (12 months) 2 138,621.16 2022 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 2 46,310.58 2022 Sandwich Doctorate (12 months) 2 152,553.60 2021 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 8 185,242.32 2021 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 3 48,465.87 2019 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 2 79,732.80 2019 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 1 16,155.29 2020 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 1 16,155.29 2019 Sandwich Doctorate (12 months) 3 228,830.40 2021 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 3 119,599.20 2021 Sandwich Doctorate (12 months) 2 152,553.60 2022 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 2 79,732.80 2021 Visiting Professor (12 months) 1 188,110.58



Project Title Efficiency in the capture, production and distribution of photovoltaic energy or other renewable energy sources. Description



Energy has always been one of the pillars in the construction of human society. Currently, the world energy demand is becoming a challenging subject, and these implications will require a 50% increase in its primary production until 2040. Studies show that, at the current rate, only polluting sources like oil and natural gas would be able to supply the energy needs of modern society. Thus, it has become imperative to reduce the barriers that prevent us to increase the renewable substitutes in the world energy matrix, in order to avoid environmental problems and prevent economic pressure of this new industrial revolution. Among all the sources, solar energy is considered the most promising one. Explore this inexhaustible source of direct (conversion of light into electricity or heat) or indirect energy (through its influence in the natural dynamics of the planet) would be one of the most practical ways to use abundant clean energy. According to the International Energy Agency, photovoltaic power reached a total of 74 GW in 2016, with a clear bias for growth in the future. However, the conversion processes still need to become more efficient. Traditional technologies of energy operationalization are geared for large power plants, but the photovoltaic power can also be produced on a small scale, where a dedicated device can operate single equipment. On the other hand, solar panels (installed in buildings) can generate a relatively large amount of energy that needs to be collected and distributed. Thus, the dissemination and public acceptance of these technologies still depend on solutions to structural implications such as the storage, transmission and use of these forms of energy. This action covers three fronts of the alternative energy sources’ use: (i) improvement in photovoltaic energy conversion processes; (ii) adequate and efficient capture planning of sunlight in the urban environment; and (iii) planning of intelligent systems of electric power distribution. The research actions will occur through the interaction between faculties and students of the 6 Graduate Programs from UFPR with renowned researchers of 13 institutions from 8 institutions. The idea is to collaborate in order to solve the technical problems/associated to scientific bottlenecks mentioned above, train highly qualified professionals, and make UFPR an International Centre of Excellence in this field.



Grants Linked to the Research Project Year Type Quantity Total Cost 2019 Postdoctoral Fellowship (24 months) 1 123,310.58 2020 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 7 162,087.03 2022 Visiting Scholar (2 months) 1 37,555.29 2021 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 5 202,392 2022 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 65,678.40 2021 Visiting Scholar (2 months) 1 37,555.29 2021 Postdoctoral Fellowship (24 months) 2 246,621.16 2022 Training (3 months) 5 127,332 2021 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 7 162,087.03 2020 Young Talents - A (6 months) 1 59,155.29 2020 Visiting Scholar (2 months) 1 37,555.29 2020 Postdoctoral Fellowship (24 months) 5 616,552.90 2019 Training (3 months) 4 101,865.60 2020 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2021 Training (3 months) 5 127,332 2021 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2022 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 6 242,870.40



Project Title Renewable fuels obtained by chemical transformation processes Description

Start date Finish date 01/01/2019 31/07/2022

The world wide scientific community has been struggling in recent years with the search of appropriate, versatile and efficient chemical transformation methods for the production of renewable fuels. This is important since such methods will allow the development of: a) biodiesel and "drop-in" biofuels of high quality (preferably from non-food raw materials); b) mature and high value-added agro-industrial supply chains; and c) technology for the valorization and proper destination of wastes of different sources and composition. This project, which focuses on the development and intensification of production systems for the manufacturing of renewable fuels and clean energy, has 16 researchers from at least 5 UFPR Graduate Programs whose internacionalization efforts have reached high levels of excellence and recognition. The implementation of the proposal intends to facilitate the exchange with institutes and universities in Austria, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Spain, England, Switzerland and the U.S.A, all of these being active and global references in the field of renewable energy, with emphasis on the production of biofuels and other forms of energy. The project predicts: 20 academic visits abroad of foreign researchers to network and lecture in our graduate programs; 16 academic visit abroad of UFPR faculties with similar objectives; 8 internships for UFPR visiting scholars (Senior and Junior) abroad; and 17 scholarships for PhD students to undertake doctoral sandwich linked with graduate programs abroad. These are the topics to be covered in its implementation: (i) the development of innovative catalytic processes for the production of biofuels and electrocatalytic systems for the generation of clean energy; (ii) the production of advanced fuels (biogasoline, green diesel, biokerosene) from lignocellulosic materials using fast pyrolysis; (iii) the development of thermodynamic modeling for optimization and intensification of chemical conversion processes; (iv) the capturing of CO2 for the production of microalgae biomass, which will serve as raw material for the production of biofuels; and (v) the production of advanced fuels and additives from waste oils and soap stocks. As a result, we expect to expand: a) the production of scientific papers and patents involving Brazilian and foreign researchers; b) the interaction with important stakeholders in the field of renewable energy; and c) the internationalization profile of UFPR in this field.


Project Maintenance Fundings Year Cost 2020 20,000 2019 40,000 2021 20,000

Grants Linked to the Research Project Year Type Quantity Total Cost 2019 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 1 40,478.40 2020 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (12 months) 1 123,076.80 2020 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 5 80,776.45 2021 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 3 48,465.87 2019 Sandwich Doctorate (12 months) 1 76,276.80 2020 Sandwich Doctorate (12 months) 6 457,660.80 2021 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (12 months) 1 123,076.80 2020 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2022 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 4 64,621.16 2021 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2019 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (12 months) 1 113,716.80 2020 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 1 40,478.40 2020 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 65,678.40 2020 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (12 months) 1 113,716.80 2021 Sandwich Doctorate (12 months) 4 305,107.20 2019 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2022 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 2 46,310.58 2019 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 3 48,465.87 2021 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 2 80,956.80 2021 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 2 131,356.80 2022 Sandwich Doctorate (12 months) 2 152,553.60 2022 Visiting Scholar abroad Junior (3 months) 1 36,986.40


SCHOLARSHIPS NOT LINKED TO RESEARCH PROJECTS



Year Type Quantity Cost 2022 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2019 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 1 16,155.29 2019 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2020 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80 2019 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2021 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80 2019 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2021 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2022 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80 2020 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2021 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2022 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 2 32,310.58 2020 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2019 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80 2021 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2022 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2022 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2021 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 1 16,155.29 2020 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2020 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 1 16,155.29

OTHER ACTIONS






2021 25,000.00



2020 25.000,00



2022 45,000.00



2019 25.000,00

THEME DEMOCRACY, CULTURE, DEVELOPMENT




Project Title SmartMinds: internationalization of the humanities in the digital public sphere Description



With multi-and interdisciplinary approach within the Humanities, with the support of researchers of the Hard sciences and strong interaction with libraries and archives, this project is dedicated to investigating cultural and artistic spheres in Brazil and its international context, with innovative resources in international and plurilingual environments, as well as development in the public arena. The project follows up on the efforts of internationalization and innovation in digital Humanities research carried out at UFPR by several members of the Brazilian team. It aims to strengthen partnerships, infrastructure and expertise already administered by the institution in this area, expanding and extending them to other groups in order to better share them with the local community, Brazilian society and the international scene. In recent years, the project team has dedicated itself to strengthening the institution's infrastructure, with efforts to disseminate languages, integrating best practices in the Humanities, Informatics and Libraries in various ways. The UFPR Library System (“Sistema de Bibliotecas, or SiBi”), for example, has one of the largest digital repositories in Latin America. It also works to establish cooperation with institutions that hold documentary collections, such as the IAI in Berlin, the IFA in Stuttgart and the University of Göttingen. Other partnerships emerge at the local level, including the Public Archive of Paraná (“Arquivo Público do Paraná or APP”) and the Historical Archive of Joinville (“Arquivo Histórico de Joinville or AHJ”), and at the national level, with the National Library Foundation (“Fundação Biblioteca Nacional or FBN”). Hence, UFPR projects are dedicated to adapting and disseminating digital document presentation standards and internationally established research tools throughout the country, such as the DTA base format, developed by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW, Germany), the European DARIAH-EU network and the Goobi, software developed for the Göttingen University Library - all of which are partners in the project. The Brazilian team is composed of professors with extensive international experience, agents of internationalization at UFPR and experts in their respective areas. Everyone involved has international experience, has earned part of their academic qualifications abroad, and has been part of international projects, which are often financed multilaterally (by the university and other sponsors). In addition, the team has familiarity with the institutions and organizational structures responsible for research funding in Brazil and abroad.

Overseas Research Visits linked to the Project Year Quantity Cost 2019 4 59,400 2022 7 128,770 2020 5 108,660


Grants Linked to the Research Project Year Type Quantity Total Cost 2021 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 4 161,913.60 2020 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 2 80,956.80 2021 Senior Visiting Scholar (5 months) 1 57,074.40 2022 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 4 161,913.60 2022 Training (1 month) 3 46,375.20 2020 Senior Visiting Scholar (5 months) 1 57,074.40 2021 Junior Visiting Scholar (5 months) 1 52,754.40 2022 Visiting Scholar abroad Junior (3 months) 2 73,972.80 2020 Junior Visiting Scholar (5 months) 1 52,754.40 2021 Training (1 month) 2 30,916.80 2021 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 4 92,621.16 2019 Post-Doctorate (8 months) 2 102,621.16 2020 Post-Doctorate (12 months) 2 138,621.16 2021 Young Talents - A (6 months) 1 59,155.29 2022 Visiting Scholar (5 months) 1 80,755.29 2020 Training (1 month) 2 30,916.80 2019 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 6 242,870.40 2022 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2019 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 6 138,931.74 2021 Visiting Scholar (5 months) 1 80,755.29 2020 Sandwich Doctorate (12 months) 1 76,276.80



Project Title Start date Finish date Power relations, inequalities and human rights 01/01/2019 31/07/2022 Description The main goal of the proposal is the optimization of resources through the development of initiatives articulated by the six graduate programs that focus on power relations, inequalities and human rights. The teams responsible for the project’s internationalization programs, which have achieved three ratings of 6 to 7, (with 7 as the maximum score), and three ratings of 5, in the last four years, have played an important role. Therefore, it follows that the innovative character of the proposal is to carry out such activities with an interdisciplinary and integrated approach to research projects, which will optimize resources and, in particular, enhance the internationalization of each of the programs. The aim is to promote the construction, implementation and strengthening of a strategic plan for internationalization and expansion of the ongoing efforts in these programs. To this end, a cooperative project will be established with leading universities in Europe, the Americas and Africa. Many of the foreign researchers have impressive reputations in their fields, such as Judith Butler, Catherine Colliot-Thélène, Jean-François Kervegan, Frédéric Gros, Teun Van Dijk, Christian Laval, Chantal Moufe, Claudia Pedone, Laurence Tain and, Foé Nkolo. The foreign researchers will bring integral contributions to the strengthening of the research network and to the continuity sought after in the programs, giving rise to new epistemological perspectives related to human rights and social inequalities. The current project brings together the experiences of UFPR and foreign universities; its starting point, the link between them, is based on the demand for interdisciplinary research that benefits from from institutions that focus on different areas - in this case, law, education, philosophy, sociology, history and letters. In the field, the UFPR team has researchers with extensive experience in the participation and coordination of research projects, such as in local, national and international teams, and with projects financed in public funding calls: CAPES/COFECUB; CAPES / NUFFIC; PRONEX (Programa de Núcleo de Excelência) CNPQ/Fundação Araucária; PRONEN (Programa de Núcleos Emergentes) CNPQ/Fundação Araucária; CNPQ Research call and Innovation in Human, Social and Applied Sciences; CNPQ Universal; CAPES / SECADI Abdias call for international mobility.



Grants Linked to the Research Project Year Type Quantity Total Cost 2022 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 6 242,870.40 2020 Young Talents - A (6 months) 1 59,155.29 2019 Young Talents - A (6 months) 1 59,155.29 2020 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 2 46,310.58 2021 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 2 46,310.58 2022 Young Talents - A (6 months) 1 59,155.29 2020 Junior Visiting Scholar (5 months) 1 52,754.40 2020 Post-Doctorate (6 months) 1 35,755.29 2022 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 2 46,310.58 2021 Junior Visiting Scholar (5 months) 1 52,754.40 2022 Senior Visiting Scholar (5 months) 1 57,074.40 2019 Senior Visiting Scholar (5 months) 1 57,074.40 2019 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 2 46,310.58 2021 Post-Doctorate (6 months) 1 35,755.29 2019 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 6 242,870.40 2020 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 6 242,870.40 2020 Senior Visiting Scholar (5 months) 1 57,074.40 2021 Senior Visiting Scholar (5 months) 1 57,074.40 2021 Young Talents - A (6 months) 1 59,155.29 2021 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 6 242,870.40



Project Title Start date Finish date Production and Circulation of Knowledge 01/01/2019 31/07/2022 Description The research project brings together researchers from different fields of knowledge in the humanities (law, history, philosophy, literature, education, economics, etc.), with the aim of studying the production, circulation and historical appropriation of diverse knowledge. It involves reinforcing the already established habit of dialogue among teachers at UFPR that integrates the project, strengthening the interdisciplinary work with foreign partnerships. The Brazilian team organizes different internationalization efforts, such as international cooperation agreements and internationally networked research projects, as well as advancing collaborative efforts with partners of Higher Education Institutions in different countries. In this regard, mention should be made of the organization of two "CAPES Higher Education Schools," both in the field of law, in 2009 and 2010: professors Antonio Hespanha (Portugal) and Pietro Costa (Italy). The researchers from the foreign universities linked to the project work in centers of excellence and develop works of academic importance, of which many members of the Brazilian team are participants. Among the research activities of foreign members, in the area of education the work of French professor Anne-Marie Châtelet of the École Nationale Supérieure de Strasbourg should be mentioned. She acts as a consultant to UNESCO on architectural heritage issues. Also, Susana Sosenski of Mexico, is linked to the Observatory of Human Rights Education and is the Unesco Chair in Human Rights in Chile; Agnes Dussel, also from Mexico, works in a research network in the field of the history of education and curriculum. Additionally, Dr. Claus Zittel, who teaches German literature and philosophy at the University of Stuttgart in Frankfurt, has worked in several European universities, such as the University of Olsztyn in Poland, and has also coordinated the Stuttgart Research Center for Text Studies. Juan Antonio Nicolás Marín (University of Granada - UGr) is president of the Leibniz Ibero-American Network, a scientific society that brings together researchers from several universities, mainly in Europe and the Americas, and coordinator of the Leibniz Hispanic Library. In the area of ancient history, we have the work of Ray Laurence, currently a professor at Macquarie University in Australia. In the field of economics, we have Wilfred Dolfsma, who is director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Loughborough University in London. He was also editor-in-chief of the "Review of Social Economy", from 2005 to 2017.



Grants Linked to the Research Project Year Type Quantity Total Cost 2020 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 6 138,931.74 2020 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 6 239,198.40 2021 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 6 239,198.40 2022 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 6 242,870.40 2019 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 6 239,198.40 2020 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 6 242,870.40 2019 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 6 242,870.40 2021 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 6 242,870.40 2022 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 6 239,198.40 2021 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 6 138,931.74 2022 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 6 138,931.74 2019 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 6 138,931.74



Project Title Start date Finish date Space, society and development: contemporary challenges 01/01/2019 31/07/2022 Description The purpose of the project is to grasp the challenges that arise in knowing and interpreting the contemporary world, in spatial, economic, and social terms. Contemporary challenges are addressed in a variety of aspects: social, technical, methodological, legal, economic, environmental, cultural, and regarding geo-information. The goal is to provide interpretations regarding the social and spatial transformations in the world today, based on the theoretical gains generated by the interaction with the foreign team, resulting in substantial and reciprocal gains for all the universities involved. The national team is formed by 26 professors, who work in GPs in UFPR of: Geodetic Sciences, Economic Development. Law, Geography, Public Policies and Sociology. The foreign team is highly qualified and was composed through the prioritization of relations already established and that have succeeded in the development of work partnerships in the scope of postgraduate. 28 universities were contacted, of which at least one partner was invited from each institution. Included among these insitutions: Massey University in New Zealand; Polytechnic University of Milan in Italy; Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Israel; The Ohio State University and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the United States; University of Alicante, University of Girona and University of Vigo in Spain; Autonomous University of Aguascalientes and University of Guadalajara in Mexico; National University of Tucumán in Argentina; University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and University of Angers in France; University of Pretoria in South Africa; University of Twente in Netherlands and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. These institutions have extensive experience in research, teaching and, in general, a strong international presence in the field of knowledge production and the training of high-level human resources. They are well recognized internationally and are geographically distributed mainly in Europe, the United States and Latin America. The intention is to extend existing links through this project, as well as explore new possibilities for interaction and new partnerships.



Grants Linked to the Research Project Year Type Quantity Total Cost 2021 Young Talents - A (6 months) 2 118,310.58 2020 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2022 Young Talents - A (6 months) 2 118,310.58 2022 Visiting Professor (3 months) 1 51,955.29 2021 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 2 79,732.80 2019 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2020 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 2 79,732.80 2021 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2019 Young Talents - A (6 months) 1 59,155.29 2022 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 2 79,732.80 2022 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 6 242,870.40 2021 Visiting Professor (3 months) 2 103,910.58 2020 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 6 242,870.40 2021 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 6 242,870.40 2022 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2019 Visiting Professor (3 months) 1 51,955.29 2020 Visiting Professor (3 months) 2 103,910.58 2019 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 3 121,435.20 2020 Young Talents - A (6 months) 1 59,155.29



Project Title Start date Finish date Public Policies and Social Change 01/01/2019 31/07/2022 Description This project aims to consolidate academic and institutional ties among a body of researchers in public policy and social change from UFPR, and its international partner institutions. The objective is to consolidate already existing initiatives and, at the same time, to promote the development of new and innovative comparative analyses, methodologies, assessments and proposals for the implementation of public policies, in particular social policies. The Brazilian team is composed of 25 professors from 7 graduate programs which take different approaches to Public Policies. The foreign team consists of 40 researchers, from 35 universities located in 12 countries across three continents, invited because of the previously established partnership with this project’s team, intending to expand and deepen already established international relations. About seventy-eight percent of the invited researchers come from countries prioritized in the UFPR-Print Call, specifically: Argentina, Canada, Spain, United States, France, Holland, England, Italy and Mexico. Additionally, nine researchers coming from non-prioritized countries, such as Chile, Singapore and Portugal, were invited because they are faculty members in internationalized universities. These researchers study the articulations between distinct social demands, the conversion and recognition of these demands as social rights, and the response (or lack thereof) from the State. The professors who are part of the team currently work or have previously worked: a) in the boards of national and international research centers; b) as members of national research committees; c) as founders and managers of hospitals and other social and research entities; d) as consultants to the UN, UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, ministries of Education, Agriculture, Science and Technology, among others.

Overseas Research Visits linked to the Project Year Quantity Cost 2020 10 109,670.00 2019 10 117,900.00 2021 10 118,270.00 2022 10 109,670.00

Project Maintenance Fundings Year Cost 2021 20,000 2020 9,000.00 2019 11,000.00 2021 11,000.00 2019 20,000 2020 20,000 2022 20,000

Grants Linked to the Research Project Year Type Quantity Total Cost 2021 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 6 242,870.40 2021 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 65,678.40 2022 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 6 242,870.40 2020 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 2 46,310.58 2022 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 65,678.40 2019 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 6 242,870.40 2020 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 65,678.40 2022 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 2 46,310.58 2019 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 65,678.40 2020 Junior Visiting Scholar (5 months) 1 52,754.40 2021 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 2 46,310.58 2020 Sandwich Doctorate (6 months) 6 242,870.40 2019 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 2 46,310.58 2021 Junior Visiting Scholar (5 months) 1 52,754.40 2019 Junior Visiting Scholar (5 months) 1 52,754.40 2022 Junior Visiting Scholar (5 months) 1 52,754.40


SCHOLARSHIPS NOT LINKED TO RESEARCH PROJECTS Year Type Quantity Cost 2022 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2022 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2021 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2021 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2022 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 2 32,310.58 2020 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2020 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2019 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2019 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2022 Visiting Scholar (1 month) 1 23,155.29 2021 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80 2020 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80 2020 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 1 16,155.29 2019 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80 2021 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40 2022 Training (3 months) 7 178,264.80 2021 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 1 16,155.29 2019 Visiting Scholar (0 months) 1 16,155.29 2020 Junior Visiting Scholar Abroad (6 months) 1 60,638.40 2019 Senior Visiting Scholar Abroad (3 months) 1 39,866.40






2021 25,000.00



2020 25.000,00



2022 45,000.00



2019 25.000,00

Values of Expected Benefits Registered

Value of Cooperation Projects R$ 53.212.190,17 Value of missions not linked to research projects R$ 520.000,00 Value of scholarships not linked to research projects R$ 6.442.380,05 Value of other actions R$ 600.000,00 Total Project Amount R$ 60.774.570,22



COUNTERPART

Internationalization of the curriculum - Incorporation of international themes in postgraduate classes Inclusion of international issues in Undergraduate and graduate studies will be a result of PRINT projects-UFPR, which are inserted into five strategic thematic areas, in which concentrates the best of scientific and technological production of this University. Thus, in thematic area 1: biodiversity and environment, different themes are foreseen on specific courses, such as global climate change, air quality, nature conservation and protection, water resources and watershed management, risks and vulnerabilities associated with natural disasters, biodiversity management, natural heritage protection management and conservation of soils. In thematic area 2, renewable energy and new energy sources, courses about photovoltaic energy conversion, planning of urban environmental quality and energy distribution smart systems are expected. Regarding thematic area 3, materials, courses will adress new forms of synthesis and processing of advanced materials and advanced characterization techniques of materials and carbon nanostructures. In thematic area 4, biomedicine and health, the aim is to implement, with innovative and cutting-edge knowledge, courses on treatment and prevention of major chronic degenerative diseases (cancer, diabetes, obesity and heart diseases) and neglected communicable diseases (dengue fever, zika fever, chikungunya virus infection, malaria, yellow fever, among others), which have an impact on the public health system and on the quality of life of the population. Thus, they constitute an international concern due to their transmissibility in a globalized world. In thematic area 5, democracy, culture and development, courses of recognized international social importance will be offered, such as: migration and human rights, public policy of social character (affirmative action) and diversity and multiculturalism, as well as new ways of data processing and production in the digital sphere (Digital Humanities).

Production of international publicity material in other languages, including course websites. As laid down in UFPR Institutional Plan for Internationalization, the institution commits to make efforts in order to effectively internationalize the institution websites, following the example of the best foreign institutions. This action must begin on the main UFPR website, followed by the International Affairs Office of UFPR website, finally reaching the GPs websites whose information in English are still incipient. CAPA, our university academic writing center ("Centro de Assessoria de Publicação Acadêmica", or Academic Publishing Advisory Center), is the institutional support for the internationalization of the main UFPR informative websites. CAPA boasts a strong team of 18 students interns along with several other student and faculty volunteers, all trained and specialized in translation and academic writing support services in general. The idea is to create a portfolio of permanent information, able to attract faculty and students interested in establishing partnerships and academic collaborations. UFPR already has flyers in English with updated information about undergraduate and graduate programmes, highlighting their areas of excellence and its main research projects. Training and qualification of staff for institutional internationalization.



The qualification of technical and administrative staff of the University is not restricted only to the training for proper performance of the tasks which relate to internationalization processes of the institution. The training also covers their qualification in foreign languages, especially English. In this regard, Office of the Dean of personnel management has been offering foreign language courses, especially in the English language, to UFPR staff. From the perspective of the PRINT, the investments will be enhanced with initial emphasis on graduate departments and research laboratories staff. The current data indicate that approximately 5 to 10% of secretaries are fluent in a second language. The institutional perspective is that there are progressive increments, so that at the end of the PRINT validity period, 30 to 35% of staff are proficient in a foreign language. For this task, UFPR has a qualification program financed with its own resources for the staff. Similarly, the Federal University of Paraná has a Language Center with extensive experience in language teaching which is also involved in the mission of training the staff for a complete and proper internationalization of our university. Such actions are forecast in the UFPR Institutional Plan for Internalization and, gradually, will also involve administrative staff linked to undergraduate courses. Counterparts offered by foreign partnership institutions, when applicable Those institutions that require costs ('tuitions’ and ‘fees'), will be asked to reduce or exempt them, especially in the case of doctoral students on “sandwich” scholarships, via direct negotiations with the partner institution abroad. We also intend to establish negotiations with partner institutions in order to allow Brazilian students to perform varied academic activities, thus contributing to enrich their curriculum, while strengthening the reciprocal interaction between partners. In addition, discussions about the organization of joint Research Laboratories with UFPR are forecast, bringing together leading researchers around the common areas of investigation, which implies sharing costs between the two institutions and increasing the chances of obtaining external funding beyond the resources provided in Print-UFPR. The reception of Brazilian scholars by foreign institutions for research and teaching, aiming the reciprocity of knowledge production. Investments in the production and international dissemination of knowledge in the context of cooperation projects should be considered. Financial and logistical assistance for the organization of events abroad related to the research produced in the context of scientific cooperation projects. Search for financial resources aiming the improvement of the material and technological bases for the satisfactory development of the research with foreign partners. Finally, it is part of the agreement to provide, together with the partner institutions, university housing and/or monetary assistance for installation and moving of UFPR students and teachers abroad. Other reciprocal measures, when applicable



In addition to the aforementioned counterparts, a set of actions aimed at promoting science, technology and culture, among which we can emphasize: the establishment of academic partnerships with greater participation of public and private corporations in promoting research and innovation. This type of action involves directly the assumptions of the new New Legal Framework of Science, Technology and Innovation of Brazil, which regulates the new relations between the academy and the productive sector. In this context, it is mister to reinforce new legal and institutional possibilities to ensure innovative relationships in international partnerships, in order to strengthen the internationalization of UFPR. There are already experiments underway at UFPR with overseas institutions in this regard, among which we can stress: the University of Stuttgart and the Boeing Company, Renault, AUDI, the city of Stockholm and the SMHI-Swedish Meteorological and Hydric Institut. The success of these partnerships stresses the importance of this type of action; b) improvement of the material, technological and organizational bases for the development of international exchange and cooperation. The institutions involved in the processes of international cooperation should have greater facilitations for carrying out their activities, with less effort on bureaucracy and diplomatic procedures. For this purpose, UFPR International Agency should develop actions with the brazilian diplomacy, and of other countries involved in the processes of scientific-technical exchange, to facilitate and promote the mobility of students and researchers. In addition to this, it is essential to offer satisfactory material bases for the administrative services of institutional childcare, as well as promote substantial improvements in the technological support, especially to IT – Information Technology, aimed at boosting the process of international trade. UFPR has invested in these scenarios, especially with the digital advances introduced by the platform SIGA – Academic Management System, developed by the institution/PRPPG since 2014, and currently applied in the management of postgraduate studies and research. Improvements in these systems will assure faster and more effective institutional internationalization. c) Investment and prospect for new opportunities of financial resources to support the activities of international cooperation. In addition to the features already evidenced in the framework of this project, point out the inadequacy of the same when the high demand from groups and graduate programs in the institution. Thus, it is of great importance to seek for new sources of financial support (from Brazil and abroad) to ensure greater participation of students and researchers from UFPR in education programs, research and extension-culture of international dimension. UFPR is committed to support the preparation of projects and their submission in international calls. e) Improving host support of students and foreign researchers received at UFPR and foreign institutions. The realization of activities within the framework of the production of knowledge lacks good material conditions to be performed with the desired success in contemporary science. Therefore, both UFPR and host institutions abroad shall ensure housing conditions and quality health care and safety to all involved in internationalization activities. In those institutions in which such bases have insufficient efforts will be required work on improvements in order to offer satisfactory conditions which will guarantee the full development of the aimed activity. f) Improvement and application of an electronic system of communication and work to enable just-in-time interaction between different national and international partners in the activities of knowledge production. In this context, the perspective of offering classes, seminars and colloquia in different locations and at the same time is emphasized; the monitoring of research activities, especially through experimental steps, shared among the teams involved; and the preparation of shared reports and documents for subsequent shared publication of those involved in the different proposals for academic-scientific disclosure.



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Plano_Institucional_de_Internacionalizacao_UFPR.pdf

CVs_Membros_Estrangeiros_Comite_Gestor_UFPR.pdf

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.pdf

SUMARIO EXECUTIVO.pdf

Oficio_de_apresentacao_expedido_pela_autoridade_maxima.pdf

Type Date Institutional Level of Internationalization 09/05/2018 IES or 20:59:48 document congener Curriculum Vitae – 09/05/2018

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Executive summary, in English, of the Institutional Level 09/05/2018 aligned to the project 20:15:44 presented in the Print Executive Summary of the plan Institutional 09/05/2018 aligned to the project 20:15:31 presented in the Print Office of presentation issued by 09/05/2018 17:28:52 authority (8.2.4 of the Call)


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