Research Research

The scientific production of the Federal University of Pernambuco is considered one of the best in Brazil.

In line with new trends, UFPE has been establishing partnerships, integrating research with teaching and seeking resources from funding agencies with the aim of generating knowledge and using the results of research developed in society.

As an active research university, UFPE has almost 600 research groups. The development of research was reinforced with the implementation of a new policy of public calls, which is even more transparent and democratic.

In recent years, UFPE's scientific production has gained more prominence thanks to the investments made to approve projects, mainly with the Studies and Projects Financing Agency (Finep/Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation) and the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes/Ministry of Education), through specific calls to support infrastructure and equipment acquisition. 

In this area, we highlight the CAPES-Print project.The CAPES-PrInt is a program to foster the internationalization of academic programs financed by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) of the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC). The program focuses on the graduate departments and finances work missions abroad, project maintenance aids, scholarships abroad (Sandwich Doctorate, Junior and Senior Visiting Professor and Training in short courses), in addition to scholarships in Brazil (Young Talent, Visiting Professor and Post-Doctorate).  These are the objectives of the initiative:

  • To promote the construction, implementation and consolidation of strategic internationalization plans for the selected institutions in the areas of knowledge prioritized by them; 
  • To stimulate the formation of international research networks aiming to improve the quality of academic production linked to postgraduate studies; 
  • To expand actions to support internationalization in postgraduate studies at the selected institutions;
  • To promote the incoming and outgoing mobility of professors and students, with an emphasis on doctoral students, post-doctoral students and professors linked to stricto sensu postgraduate programs with international cooperation activities; 
  • To foster the transformation of participating institutions into international environments; and 
  • To integrate other CAPES promotion actions into the internationalization effort.

The MEC launched a public call in 2017 and UFPE and 35 additional HEIs were selected (among 101 applications) to take part in the first edition of CAPES Print. 

You can read UFPE’s CAPES Print Work Plan here.UFPE's institutional internationalization project has a budget of more than R$20.5 million, to be implemented from November 2019 to October 2024. 

The table below showcases the UFPE programs that are part of UFPE's CAPES Print institutional project and offers details about each initiative. 

 

Research Area

Graduate Program

Project

 

 

 

 

Biodiversity and Natural Resources Conservation

Animal Biology Evaluate the diversity, evolution and bioinvasion caused by bryozoans and porifers, through an integrated study of morphological and molecular techniques
Fungi Biology Polyphasic approach to the study of fungal diversity in Brazil
Vegetable Biology Karyotype evolution and phylogeny of Ameroglossum Eb. Fisch., S. Vogel & AV Lopes and related genres based on chromosomal analyzes and Restriction-Associated DNA sequencing (RADseq)
Civil Engineering Biodegradation of hazardous waste and technology for the treatment of contaminated water and soil (RECAL)
Oceanography International Interdisciplinary Mixed Laboratory 'Physics, Biochemistry, Ecology and Human Dynamics of the Tropical Atlantic' - IJL TAPIOCA-UFPE
Energy and Nuclear Technologies Water and Carbon Dynamics in the Caatinga Biome (ACCA)

 

 

 

 

State and society in global contemporaneity:inequality and development dynamics

Political Sciences Scientific cooperation between the Graduate Program in Political Science at the Federal University of Pernambuco and the Latin American Center / St Antony's College at the University of Oxford - An interdisciplinary study on corruption in Brazil
Social Work DEVELOPMENT AND INEQUALITIES IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH: Suppression of rights and socio-political implications in the life and work of peripheral populations
Sociology The reception of Pierre Bourdieu's work in Brazilian Sociology
GLOBALIZATION OF AGRICULTURE AND SOCIAL INEQUALITIES: Public Policies, Food, Working Conditions and Gender Relations
The "post-colonial" in the Portuguese-speaking world and the place of African literature in the "world literature"

 

 

Health Innovation

Biological Sciences Innovative controlled release drug nanosystems: development and characterization 
Genetics Innovation in vaccine strategies against HPV-related cancers
Therapeutic Innovation Health Innovation in Systemic Sclerosis: development of new therapeutic approaches, diagnoses and evaluation of health expenditures
Tropical Medicine Discovery and development of new antifungal compounds with the ability to reverse antifungal resistance

 

 

 

Basic Sciences Innvation

Electrical Engineering Innovations in MEMs and Nanodevices for Microwave, Terahertz and Photonics applications
Physics New Perspectives on the Internationalization of Physics and its Multidisciplinary Applications
Mathematics Theoretical and numerical analysis of some physical systems
Chemistry Internationalization of the Graduate Program in Chemistry at UFPE via Synthesis, Characterization, Analysis, Modeling and Applications of New Chemicals and Materials

 

 

 

Systems Modeling

Computer Science Foundations, Methods and Computational Systems and their Use by Society
Civil Engineering Modeling, Computer Simulation and Optimization in Petroleum Engineering (MCOPE - "Modeling, Computational Simulation & Optimization in Petroleum Engineering")
Production Engineering Production Engineering Advances and Innovation
Electrical Engineering International Cooperation in Electrical Engineering: Signal Processing and Communications

We can also highlight our Scientific Initiation Program. This initiative consists of a research modality in which undergraduate and high school students are initiated into scientific practice and encouraged to participate in research projects developed at the University, under the guidance of a professor, as volunteers or as scholarship holders - through supports offered mainly by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes/Ministry of Education). Through the Scientific Initiation the student has the opportunity to expand his knowledge and obtain a more complete training, preparing for teaching and for postgraduate activities.