“Some things I learned here... and that I would like to tell the 'younger people'” was the title of the master class given by professor Renato Peixoto Dagnino, from the Geosciences Institute (IG) at Unicamp, honored this Friday- fair (17) by institute colleagues. Dagnino was one of the organizers of the IG's Department of Scientific and Technological Policy (DPCT), guided by Amilcar Herrera. In August 2023, he ended a period of 46 years dedicated to the University, but will continue to work as a collaborating professor.
“It is essential that we rethink the education pact. What exactly are we going to train people for? For jobs that no longer exist?”, asked the professor in his presentation, right after the opening panel of the event, reaffirming the critical stance that marked his academic career.
The question raised, said Dagnino, was in response to what the rector of Unicamp, Antonio José de Almeida Meirelles, stated during the opening table: “We are at a moment in our country in which the roles that science and technology play in development of society are in great demand. We are experiencing a very accelerated process of deindustrialization. This requires us to think about the future of the country.”
The dean congratulated Professor Dagnino for his contributions to reflections and studies in this area and added: “The relationships between S&T, innovation and different political and ideological visions are at the center of what will in some way be the future of institutions like ours, of our relationship with society and the development of society itself”, said Meirelles, extending his congratulations to the IG's Postgraduate Program in Scientific and Technological Policy (PPG-PCT), which celebrated its 35th anniversary this Friday.
Biography
Still at the opening table, before the master class, professor Janaína Oliveira da Costa, head of the DPCT, read a text — which she produced and which was reviewed by the honoree himself — narrating a summary of the professor's academic life, which He was a student at the Colégio de Aplicação at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where he was a volleyball player and sang in the choir. He enrolled as an engineering graduate and was active in the student movement. As a result, during the military dictatorship in Brazil, he went into exile in Chile. Dagnino studied at the University of Concepción, in Chile, in the early 1970s. Back in Brazil, he completed a master's degree in Economics at the University of Brasília (UnB) and a PhD in Social Sciences at Unicamp, at the Institute of Philosophy and Human Science (IFCH) .
The professor often says that he learned in Chile, in theory, how to facilitate the transition from a peripheral capitalist economy to socialism. In practice, in the social movement, he learned how to carry out this transition democratically.
Renato Dagnino was invited by professor Rogério Cerqueira Leite, in 1977, to work at Unicamp in organizing the first business incubator in the Southern Hemisphere. Author of several books, “in recent years he has dedicated himself to studying and publicizing in the left-wing press what he calls it the cognitive launching platform for the solidarity economy, solidarity technoscience, which he says we have to help build”, wrote the professor.
“The world has changed a lot, a series of characteristics that made this (education) pact viable and productive for capital no longer exist”, said Dagnino during the master class, the content of which was then debated by guests Rogério Bezerra, Carolina Baggatolli and Amilcar Davyt.
Professor Lindon Fonseca Mathias also made up the opening panel, representing IG director Márcio Antônio Cataia. The event was held in the morning, at the “Milton Santos” Auditorium. In the afternoon, the IG celebrated the 35th anniversary of the Postgraduate Program in Scientific and Technological Policy (PPG-PCT), with the presence of professor Ana Patrícia Vilha and professor André Rauen.
