📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Education (MEC), through the Secretariat for Intersectoral Coordination and with Education Systems (Sase), held, on the 2nd, 3rd and 5th of February, three seminars to monitor intersectoral extension projects of the Extension Network for the Integrated Development of Intersectoral Actions in Territories in Vulnerable Situations (Interset-CE Network). The seminars were held at the Federal University of Ceara (UFC) and the State University of Ceara (Uece), in Fortaleza, and at the Federal University of Cariri (UFCA), in Juazeiro do Norte (CE).
The Interset-CE Network is an initiative of the MEC, in partnership with public higher education institutions in Ceara, which promotes the formation of intersectoral networks linked to basic education. The project integrates universities, schools and different areas of public policies -- such as health, social assistance, culture and human rights -- to face challenges in areas of social vulnerability, while strengthening university extension and the citizenship training of students.
With this initiative, in 2025, 70 extension projects were implemented with seven public higher education institutions in the State of Ceara -- UFC, Universidade Estadual do Vale do Acarau (UVA), Instituto Federal do Ceara (IFCE), Uece, and University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusofonia (Unilab), UFCA and Universidade Regional do Cariri (URCA). This initiative resulted in the offer of 331 scholarships for undergraduate students to work in education systems in 175 municipalities in the state of Ceara.
During the seminars, Sase promoted the socialization of results already achieved in the first six months of the network and the exchange of experiences between projects, through the Project Fair held in parallel to the seminars. Throughout the week of activities, in Fortaleza and Juazeiro do Norte, the Sase team also visited some schools benefiting from the projects and was able to see the importance of the activities carried out by the projects.
For the director of Intersectoral Articulation, Antonio Claret de Campos Filho, the initiatives developed highlight the strategic role of cooperation between different sectors in strengthening educational policies. The intersectoral extension actions carried out by the Interset-CE Network reflect the importance of structuring actions within education systems to promote integral education, for the full exercise of citizenship, within the scope of the great challenges that schools face, which must be taken into account by states and municipalities that, at this moment, discuss and prepare their state and municipal education plans.
MEC Social Communication Advisory, with information from Sase
