Strategic Planning
Formal strategic planning and self-evaluation programs were implemented by PPGEC in 2020. The preparation of the programs included the participation of all Permanent Professors and collaborators, and resulted in the elaboration of the PPGEC Strategic Planning Policy. This policy foresees a new planning dynamic, in four-year cycles, with the establishment of objectives and goals, after consulting professors, students, technicians and graduates, through self-evaluation, and which takes into account the aspects highlighted in Capes evaluations. The Policy includes an annual analysis by a PPGEC committee, made up of faculty and student representatives from the four areas of concentration and a representative of technicians from the Department of Civil Engineering, to assess and present to the PPGEC Board an analysis of compliance with the goals of the PPGEC current planning cycle.
PPGEC’s strategic planning follows UFV’s planning cycle, with the UFV Institutional Development Plan (PDI) in force for the period from 2018 to 2023, revised in 2020, for the period from 2020 to 2023. Four of the 21 objectives of the revised PDI (objectives 5 to 8) were prepared by the UFV Dean of Research and Postgraduate Studies (PPG/UFV):
Objective 5. Consolidate and expand postgraduate studies.
To achieve this objective, PPGEC actions have been directed towards achieving concept 5 in the CAPES assessment, the current objective of the program, and expanding and modernizing the research infrastructure.
Objective 6. Strengthen research, innovation, biosafety and intellectual property protection policies.
To meet this objective, PPGEC actions are aimed at encouraging the participation of professors and students in scientific initiation projects and the creation of research agreements signed with the public and/or private sector, allowing the raising of resources to finance research.
Objective 7. Expand scientific and intellectual production and dissemination.
To achieve this objective, PPGEC actions are aimed at increasing scientific publication in journals indexed in international databases and the average number of citations of scientific publications and encouraging scientific communication/dissemination, both within and outside the University and the country.
Objective 8. Improve and consolidate policies to encourage entrepreneurship and disseminate a culture of innovation, in order to promote socioeconomic development.
To achieve this objective, PPGEC actions are aimed at expanding partnerships between UFV and the productive sectors to execute projects aimed at applied research and technological innovation, incorporate entrepreneurial education into disciplines and short-term courses and encourage creation and development of new startups.
The support of the Dean of Postgraduate Studies at UFV PPG/UFV for the strategic planning of PPGEC has been in the form of holding workshops for coordinators of postgraduate programs, as well as preparing the institutional PDI and reports on self-evaluation of the institution.
In 2020 (at the beginning of the new PDI), PPG/UFV promoted a workshop on the analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT). In the same year, the SWOT analysis was carried out with the participation of the entire PPGEC faculty. Professors representing PPGEC’s four areas of concentration met to consolidate the SWOT analysis, with the aim of defining the objectives and goals of the next strategic planning cycle. The SWOT analysis is coordinated by the Program Coordinating Committee and will be carried out at the end of each four-year planning cycle, with the participation of students, technicians and graduates of the Program, as described in the PPGEC Strategic Planning Policy.