The Ministry of Education and the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes) made official, this Thursday (29), the recreation of the Abdias Nascimento Academic Development Program. Created in 2013, in response to demands from social movements, and paralyzed since last year, the program seeks to encourage the entry and permanence of black, brown, indigenous and quilombola students, in addition to those with global developmental disorders or high skills in courses undergraduate and graduate courses at universities and institutes of professional and technological education of excellence in Brazil and abroad. Although the ceremony for recreating the program took place this morning, at Capes headquarters, in Brasília, the ministerial ordinance that reinstates the initiative was published in the Official Gazette of the Union this Wednesday (28). Today, in addition to signing the notices that make public the selection of joint research projects that authorize the call for professors and researchers linked to postgraduate programs to present projects, the Minister of Education, Camilo Santana, and the president of Capes, Mercedes Bustamante, announced the allocation of more than R$ 600 million to fund affirmative actions in post-graduation and teacher training. Of this total, R$260 million will be invested over the next four years to finance up to 45 academic research projects on topics such as promoting racial equality, combating racism, disseminating knowledge about Afro-Brazilian and indigenous history and culture, intercultural education , accessibility, inclusion and assistive technology (assistive technology). The proposals can also be related to the research and development of products, equipment, services and methods aimed at the autonomy of people with disabilities and reduced mobility. Scholarships for sandwich master’s and sandwich doctorates will be awarded, in addition to funding for studies at excellent foreign universities. The projects must have the approval of at least one educational institution in Brazil and another from abroad. In the selection, priority will be given to proposals linked to teaching institutions in the North, Northeast and Midwest regions or municipalities with a very low, low or medium Human Development Index (HDI). In addition, at least 50% of study missions abroad will be for women. The initiative will also allocate resources to the Postgraduate Development Program – Affirmative Policies and Diversity. In this segment, the federal government should allocate, over five years, just over R$ 45 million to training projects for teachers and academic researchers in different areas of knowledge. Proposals will have to cover studies on assistive technology in education, interculturality, policies for indigenous peoples and for traditional peoples, equity, inclusion and evaluation of affirmative actions. The start date for registration has not yet been announced, both for projects to be developed abroad and in Brazil, but academic activities will begin in January 2024. The federal government will also allocate more than R$ 223 million to initial training actions of education professionals for rural schools, indigenous and quilombola communities, special and inclusive education, provided for in the National Plan for the Training of Basic Education Teachers (Parfor-Equidade), and to assist students in degree courses contemplated by the Institutional Scholarship Program of Initiation to Teaching (Pibid-Equity). In addition, R$ 22.8 million will be allocated, over two years, to funding Portuguese language tutoring scholarships for indigenous students and R$ 56.8 million for special education, through distance extension courses. from the Open University of Brazil (UAB). Secadi will allocate, in four years, R$ 40 million to preparatory courses for access to stricto sensu postgraduate courses (in a specific, restricted sense). Ceremony “People may not know the dimension, what it means to bring back this program, which was abolished in an authoritarian way, without assessing the consequences of this”, said the Minister of Education, Camilo Santana. “We are aware of the historical debt that our country owes to blacks, indigenous peoples and quilombolas. [Por isso] we know that everything we do in terms of public policies will be little to guarantee opportunities for these communities throughout the country”, said the minister. “With this small step, today, we resume the road that many have been building over many years of public policies. Here’s to many more steps. And that they are wide because we are in a hurry”, commented the president of Capes, Mercedes Bustamante. The program’s recreation ceremony was attended by representatives of social organizations, public authorities and parliamentarians. Among the guests was the president of the Institute of Research and Afro-Brazilian Studies (IPEAfro) and widow of the artist, professor, politician and human rights activist Abdias do Nascimento (1914/2011), Elisa Larkin Nascimento. She associated the resumption of the academic development program with the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the institution of quotas by the first public universities in Brazil and the two decades of the entry into force of Law nº 10.639 , which makes the teaching of Afro-Brazilian history and culture mandatory. in primary and secondary, public and private education. Brasília (DF) 06/29/2023 – Teenager Mirella Arcângelo was invited to be master of ceremonies during the launch of the resumption of the Abdias Nascimento Academic Development Program and the first public notice under the program, at the headquarters of Capes, in Brasília. Joédson Alves/Agência Brasil The teenager Mirella Arcângelo also participated in the event, who was invited to be master of ceremonies. Now 16 years old, Mirella became nationally known in 2017, when amateur videos in which she appeared simulating an interview with her brothers about the conditions of the bumpy streets of her neighborhood, in Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, went viral on the internet. At the time, the girl who dreamed of being a journalist appeared on several TV shows, including Fantástico, on TV Globo, where she spoke with reporter Glória Maria, who was her main influence at the time. In addition to conducting the event, Mirella took pictures with her family and ended up sitting, at the invitation of Minister Camilo Santana, in the chair designated for him. “On behalf of all Brazilian youth, I salute Mirella, who represents the dream of our young people. And I wanted to invite you to sit in my chair. I have no doubt that you will be a great journalist. Who knows, you who thought about being mayor [de Ribeirão Preto]one day become the Minister of Education in this country.”
Agência Brasil
Folha Nobre - Desde 2013 - ©