Unicamp - Press Room

Reform could generate fiscal shortfall

SOCIAL SECURITY - For economist Geraldo Biasoto Júnior, professor at the Unicamp Institute of Economics, the pension reform project sent to Congress by the government will waste public sector pensions and cause an unprecedented fiscal hole, affecting mainly states and municipalities. This will occur, according to Biasoto, due to the excess of demands that will reach the Judiciary regarding the transfer of contributions already made; also because the Court will lose judgment parameters due to the lack of a general rule on fund obligations regarding benefits and contributions; and, finally, due to the lack of criteria regarding the type and form of investment of resources, a situation that will generate many doubts regarding their adequate capitalization.

Study reveals Niemeyer's "commercial" phase

Architect rescues, in her master's thesis,
projects executed by Oscar Niemeyer
for the São Paulo real estate market, as
the Itatiaia building (photo), in Campinas.

Researchers assess impacts of warming

Pioneering research that has just been completed by Embrapa Agricultural Informatics and the Center for Meteorological and Climatic Research Applied to Agriculture (Cepagri) at Unicamp, outlines three scenarios about the losses zones that would be caused by global warming to coffee farming. According to the simulations, coffee should be eliminated from the states of Minas Gerais, Goi�s and S�o Paulo as soon as the Earth's average temperature is between 3C and 5,8C above the current one, according to It is expected to occur within 50 to 100 years.

System monitors football player

Researchers have developed a system to digitally record and process, in real time, images of each player's step during a football match.