📋 Tender Overview
This Monday, October 20th, is the deadline for submitting methodologies, tools and studies used by states, municipalities, institutions and organizations to identify demands for secondary-level technical professional education, in order to support the implementation of the program. The sending of contributions is foreseen in the public call for - Demand for Professional Qualification, published by the Ministry of Education (MEC), through the Secretariat of Professional and Technological Education (Setec).
The objective of the call is to support the construction of more effective public policies aimed at professional training, aligning the offer of technical courses with the demand from the world of work and the productive sector, especially after the announcement of Interest for Education, an initiative that is part of the Federal Governments Full Payment of State Debt Program (Propag).
Propag establishes a new policy for renegotiating state debts with the Union, linking at least 60% of the interest on the debt to investments in secondary-level technical professional education. With the program, the goal is to generate 3.3 million places in technical courses over the next ten years.
The survey includes studies and research on demands for professional training; (digital) tools and instruments applied to its mapping; and applied methodologies used to identify them, for example, in specific sectors or territories. The final result will be published on December 9th.
Offering education networks and systems can participate in the call: institutions from the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education; federal and state universities; state secretariats; national learning services; representative associations; public bodies, international organizations with representation in Brazil; student representative associations and private non-profit organizations.
Submission of works is done via electronic form, sending information about the participating institution and the material you wish to present. After this step, the MEC will evaluate the documents based on dimensions and criteria defined in the call notice. The selected experiences will form a public repository, in order to support the execution of MEC policies and the definition of the entities offer within the scope of Interest for Education.
Interest for Education - The program intends to encourage states to invest directly in offering new free places in technical courses integrated and concomitant to secondary education, including in the form of youth and adult education (EJA), and in subsequent technical courses. In addition to offering new vacancies, the MEC initiative will help prevent school dropouts; improve school infrastructure; promote the continued training of education professionals; bring education closer to the world of work; and value and expand professional and technological education in the country.
Propag-Interest for Education is part of the Full Payment of State Debts Program, designed to promote the review of the terms of the debts of the states and the Federal District with the Union. The initiative provides for discounts on interest and installments of the balance of debts over up to 30 years, with the possibility of extraordinary amortizations and reduction in the values of the installments in the first five years.
MEC Social Communication Advisory, with information from Setec
