📋 Tender Overview
The first postgraduate program in Teaching in Professional and Technological Education (ProfDenciaEPT) was approved by the Ministry of Education (MEC), through the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). With professional masters level, the training for the qualification of teachers of public basic education networks in exercise in vocational and technological education (EPT) is an interinstitutional action coordinated by MEC, in partnership with the CAPES No 19/2024 was released on Friday, June 13.
The face -to -face courses will be offered by the following institutions: Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN); Federal Institute South-Rio Grande (IFSUL); Federal Institute of Espirito Santo (IFES); Federal Institute of Amazonas (IFAM); and Federal Institute of Brasilia (IFB). The five regions of the country are represented in the initiative, which also has the support of the Council of State Secretaries of Education (Consed).
Themes - The program is structured in two lines of research: policies, management and evaluation of/in professional and technological education; and curriculum, training and teaching work in vocational and technological education. In total, 100 vacancies will be offered, 20 by institution. Classes will start in the first half of 2026, but the student selection process will be launched in the second half of 2025, directly by the offering federal institutes.
The next step is to send documentation to the Higher Education Chamber of the National Council of Education (CNE) for authorization and recognition of the course, with subsequent approval by MEC. In parallel, the National Commission of the ProfDienciaEpt Graduate Program in IFRN is being constituted, with the organization and preparation of the associated institutions and the poles that will participate in the offer, as well as the production of pedagogical materials for support and selection of teachers who will teach classes.
The professional masters degree, prepared from the union of five institutions, creates a national network of knowledge formation, research and dissemination of knowledge that should contribute to the expansion, internalization and democratization of postgraduate studies, as well as acting in the reduction of regional asymmetries, said the director of policies and regulation of vocational and technological education of MEC, Patricia Barcelos.
Politics - ProfDenciaEpts main objective is to promote the teachers of basic education of public education networks Stricto Sensu continuing education for EPT teaching, structured in scientific, critical and ethical bases, articulated with creative and innovative proposals for educational intervention.
The program has been the result of, which has been underway at MEC since 2023. With an investment of R 66.7 million, MEC and CAPES have developed three postgraduate students focused on this education modality, with a workload of 360h: EPT teaching, EPT management and distance education at EPT. 24,725 vacancies were distributed in 48 institutions of the federal network.
