The Fundação Getulio Vargas Research Symposium began yesterday (August 22). The meeting, which will take place until August 26 in the FGV Auditorium in Sao Paulo, aims to strengthen national and international networks of researchers. The objective is to promote the development of multidisciplinary research projects with real impacts on national socioeconomic progress, in line with FGV’s mission.
The president of FGV, Professor Carlos Ivan Simonsen Leal, made the opening remarks. He stressed that the main motivations in FGV’s applied research area are to understand real problems and propose solutions to issues that affect the everyday lives of the Brazilian people.
“We are undergoing a structural change in order for applied research to be a driving force for Fundação Getulio Vargas in all its areas of activity,” the president said.
The director of the FGV Research Network, Professor Goret Pereira Paulo, said that the entire symposium was designed with a focus on international links and the execution of research that brings benefits to society.
“Over these five days, it will be possible to see that our studies are structured together with the people who will potentially benefit from their results. These beneficiaries monitor the research projects as they unfold and discuss their results,” she explained.
The highlight of the event’s first day was the signing of a five-year agreement between Fundação Getulio Vargas, the Sao Paulo Public Security Secretariat and the University of Sao Paulo, supported by the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), to create the Center for Analytics and Security Policy Studies (FGV Analytics), which will be based at the Sao Paulo School of Business Administration (FGV EAESP). Researchers at the School of Applied Mathematics (FGV EMAp) and FGV EAESP will contribute to this center’s activities.
On the symposium’s first day, there was a debate about international research projects, featuring the president of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), Professor Evaldo Ferreira Vilela; the international scholarship monitoring coordinator at the Brazilian Education Ministry’s graduate education support agency, CAPES, Vanessa Fernandes de Araújo; the director of the British Council’s Education Area for Brazil, Diana Daste; and FGV’s Provost for Education, Research and Graduate Studies, Professor Antonio de Araujo Freitas Júnior.
After that, there was a panel discussion called “Military Conflicts and the International Order.” The main speaker was Professor Jan Wouters of the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies in Belgium. Moderated by Professor Oliver Stuenkel of the FGV School of International Relations, the subject was debated by professors Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida and Evandro Menezes de Carvalho of the FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School. They gave presentations about current geopolitical conflicts, in particular Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The afternoon’s panel discussions addressed the topic of public security. The opening remarks were delivered by the Sao Paulo state public security secretary, General João Camilo Pires de Campos. There were then talks by Sao Paulo Police Chief Soraya Libardi Galesi; Colonel Robson Cabanas Duque of the Sao Paulo Military Police; the Ceará state public security research and strategy superintendent, Dr. José Helano Nogueira; and the president of the Jones dos Santos Neves Institute, Dr. Daniel Ricardo de Castro Cerqueira.
There was then a debate featuring the coordinator of the Center for Science Applied to Public Security (FGV CCAS), Joana Monteiro; Fábio Bechara of the Sao Paulo State Public Prosecutors’ Office; Professor Thiago Bottino of the FGV Rio de Janeiro Law School; Professor Thiago Amparo of the FGV Sao Paulo Law School; and Professor Daniel Vargas of FGV EESP. The moderator was Professor Maria Tereza Sadek, who is a member of FGV’s Research and Innovation Commission and the Brazilian Center for Judicial Studies, and who also lectures at the University of Sao Paulo.