Site Internacional
Foreign affairs have figured significantly at Unijuí. Currently it has agreements with higher education institutions in several countries, having received students from Guinea Bissau, Angola, Cape Verde, Panama, Paraguay, Germany, Poland, Spain, Austria and Chile. Unijuí has exchange programs with higher education institutions such as the University of Tübingen, Germany; Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain; and University of Porto, Portugal. In postgraduate studies, international scientific cooperation occurs through joint research and exchange of researchers and university teachers of the programs developed by the Institution.
Benefits to Exchange Students
An exchange relationship with foreign cultures means both sending students abroad as well as hosting foreign students. Unijuí has an Office of Foreign Affairs that provides all information related to academic exchange as well as it assists foreign students while studying at Unijuí. Unijuí offers foreign exchange students 4 free housing places in its student’s hall Unicasa. It is an excellent site to straightly coexist with Brazilian young persons. Besides the student hall, the towns where Unijuí has its campuses offer a good array of lodgings and houses that can be rented by students.
Unijuí performances significant culture, sports and leisure projects which disseminate concepts such as integration, civil rights and life quality. So there is the Anthropological Museum Diretor Pestana and its vast regional memory preserving collection; the Unijuí Choir that promotes Unijuí by music; the Unijuí Theater Group with a variety of cultural shows; and the dancing, wrestling and gymnastics performing Cadagy Company.
Ethnic Diversity
Ijuí, where are situated Unijuí’s main campus and its headquarters, is known as Land of Diverse Cultures, housing an important movement coordinated by the Ethnic Union of Ijuí with its yearly National Festival of Diverse Cultures. Ijuí, settled in one of the most fertile regions of Rio Grande do Sul, was the first settlement project of the Brazilian Republic. In 1890 it was inhabited mainly by three different groups of immigrants: Polish, Germans and Italians. The peculiarities of the town attracted new immigrant waves, among them Latvians, Portuguese, Austrians, Afro-Brazilians, Swedish, Spanish, Arabian, and Dutch ones. This ethnic and cultural diversity enriches exchanging experiences of foreign exchange students at Unijuí.
Unijuí strongly contributes to scientific and technological development in its region
Unijuí’s scientific research comprises four master programs and one PhD program counseled by the Federal Board of Education. Unijuí maintains an Institutional Research Fund associated with fundraising among external partners providing conditions to develop and to improve institutional research. Unijuí has several research groups listed at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development dealing with more than one hundred institutional research projects that bear a strong impact on scientific, technological, educational, social, cultural and economic development of the region and the State of Rio Grande do Sul. Research teams are made up of researchers, graduate and undergraduate students as well as technicians. By means of four scientific sponsor programs Unijuí encourages undergraduates to promote research improving their academic training. For this purpose it offers more than 200 research fellowships. The Postgraduate Studies, Research and Services Vice Presidency includes several institutional entities to manage research: the Technologic Innovation Center providing advice and support to protect intellectual property and to transfer technology into productive sectors. The Project Consultation Center managing and encouraging fundraising among national and international agencies and enterprises; it provides advice and technical support to the researcher during project processing and execution. The Scientific Committee, a strategic and technical advice entity. The Ethical Committee in Research Involving Human Beings. The Ethical Committee for Animals Usage in Research.
Graduation
Unijuí currently has students distributed in undergraduate courses and Colleges of Technology, either in distance learning or presence modalities.
Continuing Education
Considering the growing social demand for new ways of learning to face the needs of a dynamic and knowledge-based society, Unijuí's Office of Continuing Education offers postgraduate, specialization, additional certification, extension and professional qualification courses.
Master's and Doctorate (Stricto Sensu)
The Unijuí has postgraduate programs as Master and Doctorate courses, all of them authorized by CAPES. These programs constitute a recognized area and already consolidated of professional training of high level education in the northwest region of Rio Grande do Sul. This is the appropriate place for who are looking for opportunity for training qualified through critical reflection and the realization of research projects in different areas of knowledge.
The University has a built area of 636,240.14 square meters
The University has a built area of 636,240.14 square meters, offering over 200 laboratories, structured with high quality and the latest technologies, which are used for teaching, research and extension. The University Library offers more than 327,000 volumes and virtual bases. In parallel with the campuses, the Centers for Technological Modernization also work, with structures in the areas of Food, in Santa Rosa Campus, Oleochemicals, in Três Passos Campus, and also in Mechanics, in Panambi.
INFRASTRUCTURE
UNIJUÍ has a built area of 74,000 square meters, offering over 450 teaching and research environments:
- 162 labs;
- 93 practical teaching classrooms;
- 177 classrooms;
- 16 amphitheaters and auditoriums
- 09 sport spaces.
Academic environments which benefit the regional community directly:
- Physical Rehabilitation Unit;
- Physioterapy and Psychology Clinics;
- Nursing and Nutrition Offices;
- Legal Assistance Offices;
- Veterinary Hospital;
- Farm School, denominated as Regional Institute of Rural Development.
UNIJUÍ Publisher: it has published 823 new titles (from 2012 to 2015).
The University Library offers more than 369,000 volumes and virtual bases.
Laboratories
Unijuí has more than 200 laboratories structured with quality and tecnology of last generation, used to activities of teaching, research and extension. Parallel to te university spaces, also work the poles of technological modernization, with structures in the areas of Food, oleochemical and mechanics, adding the universitary activities to the services provided to the community.
Educating and qualifying professionals with technical excellence and critical social consciousness, capable of contributing to the region's integration and development. This is the mission of Universidade Regional do Noroeste do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul - Unijuí (Regional University of Northwestern Rio Grande do Sul), a community institution of regional nature located in northwestern Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
UNIJUÍ has nearly 60 years acting in higher education and it has campuses in the cities of Ijuí, Santa Rosa, Panambi, and Três Passos, besides supporting units and services centers for distance education programs.
In these regions UNIJUÍ offers to its 10,000 students traditional and distance undergraduate programs, postgraduate and graduate programs, with particular emphasis on its five Master´s degree programs and one Doctoral program.
History
Unijuí's history dates back to the 50's when, in search for qualification and legal authorization for pedagogical work and activities in secondary education, the state's Franciscan Order of Friars Minor Capuchin as well as the community of Ijuí and the regional society began a mobilization in support of higher education implementation.
This movement achieved the creation in 1956 of Ijuí's Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters (Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ijuí - FAFI), pioneer in higher education in the northwestern region of the state. In 1969, FAFI's assets are transferred to the Foundation of Integration, Development and Education of Northwest State of Rio Grande do Sul (FIDENE), now the sponsoring institution of Unijuí, Diretor Pestana Anthropological Museum, Francisco de Assis Basic Education Center, and Unijuí Educational Radio.
