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Research at the State University of Campinas - UNICAMP
INTRODUCTION YEARBOOK 2006
Unicamp is an autonomous state university whose budget is linked to ICMS revenue from the State of São Paulo. In addition to these resources, the university raises funds from state, federal and private sources, through contracts and agreements to carry out funded research projects, cooperative research, training, services and extension activities in general.
UNICAMP's postgraduate courses train high-level researchers and professionals. Postgraduate students and their advisors generate vigorous scientific, technological, cultural and artistic production. It is worth highlighting the significant number of around 800 doctoral theses that are completed annually at UNICAMP.
Four major areas cover teaching, research and extension activities: exact (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Geosciences); technological (Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Food Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, and Architecture); biomedical (Medicine, Biology, Dentistry, and Physical Education); and humanities and arts (Philosophy, Social Sciences, History, Economics, Linguistics, Literature, Education, and Arts). Unicamp comprises 20 teaching and research units, numerous interdisciplinary research centers and centers, and a vast hospital complex, in addition to a series of support units in a universe where around 30.000 people live and countless research is carried out. TABLE I briefly shows this reality.
Table I - General and Academic Performance Indicators at Unicamp in 2006
2004 Census - Research Groups at UNICAMP – CNPq
The Directory of Research Groups in Brazil is a project developed at CNPq since 1992. It consists of databases (census and current) that contain information about research groups active in the country.
Extracted periodically from the current database (every two years), its contents are static, that is, they represent “photographs” of the research in Brazil, taken on certain dates to carry out the censuses. These dates are previously announced by CNPq so that group participants can update their data on the Lattes Platform. The Directory has carried out seven censuses to date (1993, 1995, 1997, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006), and the 2006 sense is being consolidated, although the partial indicators made available by the CNPq point to the maintenance of the data presented by the census of 2004.
According to the 2004 Census, research at UNICAMP is fundamentally structured around 657 research groups, which involve the direct participation of 2903 researchers, of which 85,6% are doctors who work, according to the CNPq categorization into six areas: Sciences Agricultural Sciences, Biological Sciences, Engineering and Computer Sciences, Exact and Earth Sciences, Humanities, and Health Sciences. According to data from the 2004 Census, UNICAMP is the fourth national institution in terms of the largest number of PhD researchers and number of research groups. search.
Also according to data from the 2006 Census, the stratification of research groups at UNICAMP is divided into 73% consolidated groups, 23% groups in consolidation and 4% groups in formation. Another significant data found by the census is that 91% of the groups classified as Consolidated are among the fifty institutions with the highest concentration of doctors, which highlights the institutional concentration of research in the country. In this ranking, UNICAMP, with 73%, occupies second place, with only PUC/RJ ahead of it with 79%. These data confirm the balance and quality of the research activities carried out at UNICAMP.
Some data relating to the 2004 Census can be seen in TABLES II to V and in GRAPHICS I and II below. The complete results of the 2004 census and the methodology used to classify groups are available at:
http://dgp.cnpq.br/censo2004/estratificacao/2004/index_estratificacao_2004.htm
Table II - Distribution of research groups according to institution, 2004
Table III - Number of groups, researchers, students, technicians, lines of research and relationships according to institution with the largest number of research groups
Table IV - Distribution of research groups by stratum according to institution
Table V - Distribution of research groups by large area, according to HEIs 1/
Graph I - The Evolution of the Structure of UNICAMP Research Groups, according to the 2002 and 2004 censuses
Graph II - Stratification of UNICAMP Research Groups, focused on the census in 2002 and 2004
Table VI and Graph III illustrate the academic productivity of Unicamp professors since 1995. The effort made at UNICAMP in recent years is evident. While the number of active teachers progressively decreased, from 1995 onwards academic performance indicators increased relatively.
Table VI - UNICAMP academic performance indicators in recent years
Finally, TABLE VII shows the evolution of research funding at Unicamp in recent years. The contribution of extra-budgetary resources allocated to financing research in 2006 represents a significant part compared to the university's budgetary resources.
Table VII - Research funding in R$ during the last few years
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