📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Education (MEC) released, this Friday, December 19, the , which deals with the public call that mapped studies, methodologies and tools to identify demands for professional and technological education (EPT) in Brazil. In total, 25 proposals submitted by 16 institutions were approved.
The majority of approved proposals refer to studies with a national scope, bringing together surveys and research that seek to understand the dynamics of the world of work and the economic, social and educational demands that impact the provision of secondary technical professional education (EPTNM). The selected proposals address current topics such as sustainability (with a focus on bioeconomy, solar energy, wind energy, ecological transformation), information and communication technologies (ICT), industry, circular economy and the job market.
The selected experiences will form a public repository, in order to support MEC policies and the definition of the entities offer within the scope of Interest for Education. The Secretariat of Professional and Technological Education (Setec/MEC) will publish the approved studies, methodologies and tools, which took into account economic, demographic, geographic and graduate data.
The objective of the selection is to support the implementation of the program, within the scope of the MEC initiative, which should contribute to expanding EPT in the country, improving school infrastructure, in addition to preventing school dropouts. The public call will also help in the construction of more effective public policies in the field of professional training, aligning the offer of technical courses with the demand of the world of work and the productive sector.
Institutions from the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education, federal universities, state departments, national learning services, representative associations, public bodies, international organizations with representation in Brazil and private non-profit organizations participated in the selection.
Interest for Education - The program aims to encourage states to invest 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. Interest for Education is part of the State Debt Payment Program (Propag), a Federal Government program designed to promote the review of the terms of debts owed by states and the Federal District to the Union.
The initiative provides for discounts on interest and installments of the debt balance over up to 30 years through the allocation of at least 60% of the debt interest to investments in medium-level EPT. With the program, the goal is to generate 3.3 million vacancies for technical courses over the next ten years.
MEC Social Communication Advisory, with information from Setec
