University - Performance - Brief portrait of Unicamp
The story begins to be told in the 60s. At the time, the setting was a vast sugarcane field 12 kilometers from the urban center of Campinas. Three and a half decades after the official installation of the Unicamp campus, on October 5, 1966, the rural landscape where sugar cane once grew in abundance gave way to a teaching and research complex located in almost three million square meters of area, full of buildings, parks and lawns.
If the initial urban project underwent changes and adaptations over time, Unicamp's primitive ideals remain intact: the vocation for research and the capacity for insertion in the national development process that have accompanied it since its creation at the hands of the parasitologist Zeferino Vaz (1908-1981). Thanks to its great capacity to harmoniously combine high-quality teaching, socially relevant research and provision of services, Unicamp has become not only one of the best-known Brazilian universities but also the one that possibly has the greatest visibility abroad.
Brief history
The State University of Campinas, Unicamp, created by State Law No. 7655, of December 28, 1962, amended by Laws No. 9715, of January 30, 1967 and 10214, of September 10, 1968 with headquarters and forum in the city of Campinas, State of São Paulo, is a State autonomous entity with a special regime, in accordance with Article 4, of Federal Law No. 5540, of November 28, 1968, with didactic-scientific, administrative, financial and disciplinary autonomy.
It is governed by the Statutes, issued by State Decree nº 52.255, of July 30, 1969, by the General Regulations, issued by State Decree nº 3.467 of March 29, 1974 and by the specific legislation in force.
Despite being created in 1962, the effective implementation of Unicamp was only carried out after the publication of Decree nº 45.220, of September 9, 1965, creating the University Organizing Committee.
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