During the opening of Nursing Week on the 16th, Unicamp received an award from Colonel Solzhenitsyn of the Ministry of Defense for its extensive contributions to 33 operations carried out in the Rondon Project. According to the Ministry, Unicamp is the Brazilian university that has participated most regularly in the project. “To date, it has contributed to the benefit of more than 350 citizens in situations of risk and vulnerability,” highlighted the Colonel.
The tribute was paid to the professors of the Nursing School (Fenf) Mauro Antônio Pires Dias da Silva and Kátia Stancato – who participated in the project in 1973 and 1979 – and to Thalyta Cristina Mansano Schlosser, participant in 2025, in a project in the city of Brasópolis, Minas Gerais.
Nursing Week
A 86a Brazilian Nursing Week was supported by the Office of the Vice-Rector for Outreach, Sports and Culture (Proeec) and had the theme “Planetary health: challenges and the critical role of nursing”. Fenf director Roberta Matheus Rodrigues says that since 1940, the Brazilian Nursing Association (Aben) has promoted the event, a celebration of World Nurses Day, which proposes a broad debate, throughout the country, on a pressing topic in the global health and nursing scenario, chosen by its delegates. Each year, the meeting mobilizes professionals, students, managers and researchers around reflections on more conscious, ethical and transformative practices.
For the director of the Nursing Department at Unicamp’s Hospital de Clínicas (HC), Joaquim Antonio Graciano, the theme proposed by the Week is urgent. Graciano points out that planetary and human health are interdependent, and that environmental degradation exposes collective health to risk. “This risk is not distributed equally. Those most susceptible are harmed first, such as indigenous, riverside and peripheral populations,” he stated. In the face of this global problem, Graciano states, nursing professionals can contribute to the construction of integrated solutions. “This is an ethical and political call that challenges our profession, in which we can be agents of transformation,” he concluded.
Unicamp's general coordinator, Fernando Coelho, who was also present at the ceremony, congratulated the internal and external community for holding the event. "It is a great pleasure to witness the opening of an event of such quality and scope, and a great source of pride to have such a young college already occupying the position of second best nursing college in the country," he celebrated.
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