In a solemn session held last Friday (27), the rector of Unicamp, Paulo Cesar Montagner, inaugurated the new board of directors of the Limeira Technical College (Cotil). The professor of secondary technical education Marcelo Dotti takes over the management for the four-year period 2025-2029, accompanied by professor Ivan da Silveira Cardoso in the position of associate director.
Dotti replaces Augusto César da Silveira, the school’s principal from 2022 to 2025 – Silveira took over the leadership of Unicamp’s Integrated Planning Executive Board (Depi) this year. The former director was grateful for the opportunity to lead Cotil. “We have made our journey with the purpose [of not repeating mistakes]. We respect people, students, staff, teachers and external units. We took over a divided school that is now balanced, peaceful and sovereign,” he said.
Silveira recalled the actions carried out during his administration, such as the creation of new laboratories, the renovation of physical spaces, the reestablishment of an agreement with Santa Casa de Limeira for internships, the appreciation of the staff and the offering of a dental prosthesis course.
Once sworn into office, Dotti pledged to maintain peace and autonomy at Cotil. “Now, our role is to look at where we can go. We can aim not only for excellence in technical and vocational high school education – which we already have – but also for the creation of a modern, active and versatile school that becomes a vanguard in the way it teaches and develops technical citizens.” The director advocated a school with more art, integration, community-oriented and inclusive.
Dotti gave a brief account of his relationship with Cotil, which began in 1984, as a student in the technical mechanics course. The now director realized his dream of returning to the institution as a professor more than two decades later, in 2013. A professor since 1990, Dotti also has a master's degree in education, a degree in chemistry from the Methodist University of Piracicaba (Unimep) and a bachelor's degree in technological chemistry from Unicamp.
Integration
Unicamp's general coordinator, Fernando Coelho, highlighted the importance of technical colleges for the University, which train citizens who are prepared to join the public administration. According to Coelho, Limeira has great potential for growth. "Our goal is to increase the level of participation of the Limeira and Piracicaba campuses within the Unicamp system," which, he stated, would involve taking actions to increase the size and representation of the University in these locations.
Montagner highlighted the initiatives adopted in recent years and guided by the commitment to bring schools closer to Unicamp's central administration, which “reveals how much we believe in their role as strategic spaces for the highly qualified training that Unicamp offers and that needs to be perpetuated within our society”.
In this context, according to the rector, one of the challenges of the new Cotil management is to “consolidate and improve this integration with the University and ensure that students, teachers and staff of the schools actively participate in the institutional life of the University”.
