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The National Public Communication Network (RNCP) will be expanded with 49 new public FM radio stations, which will be operated in a partnership between Empresa Brasil de Comunicação (EBC), the National Council of Institutions of the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Institute (Conif) and 16 federal educational institutes across the country. The vehicles will broadcast EBC content and also programming produced at the institutes themselves.
The agreement was signed on the afternoon of this Wednesday, December 6th, in a ceremony at Palácio do Planalto, with the participation of representatives from the ministries of Education, Communications, the Secretariat of Social Communication (SECOM) of the Presidency of the Republic and the Federal Attorney General's Office.
“Federal institutes promoted a true revolution in Brazilian education. In 2003, in his first year of government, President Lula discovered a federal network with 140 units and 102 thousand enrollments. Thanks to the actions of President Lula and President Dilma, this network today has 680 units and 1.5 million enrollments. It is a totally different reality, with enormous potential for transforming the local reality and public communication itself”, said SECOM minister, Paulo Pimenta, in his speech.
PARTNERSHIPS – Currently, the National Public Communication Network is made up of 41 FM radio stations and 72 TV stations already in operation. This will be the first time that federal institutes will be part of the network. Last October, 32 federal universities joined the network with the expectation of operating more than 70 radio and TV stations, which are yet to be installed.
The first five stations that will operate in partnership with federal institutes are in the municipalities of Batalha, Marechal Deodoro and Penedo, in Alagoas; Januária, in Minas Gerais; and Poço Redondo, in Sergipe. Another six FM radios will be operated in partnerships between EBC and federal universities in Brasília (DF), Niterói (RJ), Palotina (PR), Dourados, Corumbá and Nova Andradina (MS) in the coming months.
“Today’s event marks the arrival of partners that should have been in the National Public Communication Network for a long time”, added Minister Paulo Pimenta.
EDUCATIONAL CONTENT – For the deans of federal institutes who went to the event to sign the partnership terms, the day was one of celebration. With the possibility of locally broadcasting content not only from EBC, but also produced internally, they intend to get even closer to their communities and provide more visibility and training options for their students, teachers and staff.
“It is a historic milestone, because we will be able to explore the capillarity that our network has and bring more content, information, art and culture to the interior of the country”, said professor Silmário Santos, dean of the Federal Institute of São Paulo ( IFSP), which has 42 campuses in several cities in the state. “Today we signed to create two radio stations, but I will work so that each of our units has one of these stations. We have more than a thousand students and around 140 technicians and teachers in each unit, we have a lot of potential to publicize.”
In turn, the dean of the Federal Institute of Paraíba (IFPB), Mary Roberta Meira Marinho, hopes to be able to expand the institution's role as a disseminator of educational content. For just over a year, the institute already has a broadcaster, Rádio Educativa FM Campina, from Campina Grande.
“Now, with the signing of this protocol of intentions with Empresa Brasil de Comunicação, we continue this process of bringing quality communication to communities, combating fake news and education, science, technology”, celebrated the dean.
