Manual dos procedimentos para contratação de fundação de apoio - Fundação de Integração Amazônica - FIAM

Abstract

The establishment of Research Support Foundations (FAP) in Federal Higher Education Institutions (IFES) occurred in the vast majority in the 1970s as an action by the academic community to overcome the absence of instruments that would ensure IFES greater flexibility and agility in the management of their activities, especially those focused on the processes of interaction with society. With the advent of the Law on Innovation in Company, and the New regulatory framework for Research, Development and Innovation (RD&I) actions, institutions are establishing their internal policies, identifying their potential, their competencies, protecting research results, and disseminating their competence, their know-how. UFOPA was created by Law No. 12,085, of November 5, 2009. It is the first federal institution of higher education based in one of the most strategic points in the Amazon, in the municipality of Santarém, the third largest city in Pará, worldwide known for its natural beauty with emphasis on the meeting of the waters of the Tapajos and Amazon rivers. The UFOPA Institutional Development Plan points out that the reduction of transfers from the Federal Government to the IFES is a reality. It supports its statement citing data from Andifes. Andifes points out that from 2014 to 2018, the real cut was R $ 2.2 billion, falling from R$ 9.9 billion to R$ 7.4 billion. Given this scenario, IFES have been studying other ways of maintaining its resources and not reducing quality, mainly of research and technological innovation. The main proposals are aimed at strengthening ties with the support foundations, the creation of integrated networks that foster and bring together research groups of development agents and, finally, the incipient, but promising, heritage funds, and that highlights the necessary relationship between UFOPA and FIAM (UFOPA, PDI - 2019 ~ 2023). The partnership between UFOPA and FIAM aims to contribute to the quality of teaching, as students who participate in research and extension projects, in addition to learning how to produce new scientific knowledge, are faced with real problems in society; it expands and updates the infrastructure of equipment, facilities and laboratories with the resources that finance the projects; it provides the improvement and development of products and processes of companies through the knowledge acquired, benefiting, and the injection of resources in the Institution with the reimbursement of the use of goods and services from UFOPA. The institutionalization of FIAM occurred in November / 2015, therefore relatively recent in the sector, aiming the institutional development of the Federal University of Western Pará in the management and execution of Projects that contribute positively to regional growth in a balanced and agile way. The production of knowledge by UFOPA, and its availability to various sectors can contribute to strengthen local initiatives, which even if mediated by economic values from the markets, do not lose the dimension of the social values related to decision making, reflecting in behavior change actions in relation to the quality of the environment, leading to include these values in the production process, in the generation of new products. Thus, all things considered, the necessary insertion of the Research Support Foundations is observed as a facilitator of the process, and this is what is hoped for with FIAM, its action as a partner of UFOPA, in contributing to the development of the Western Region of Para.