Become a partner
In many cases, companies seek Universities to recruit differentiated and competent professionals in the form of interns or employees. But the partnership with the University can mean more than that.
EDUCATION AND CONTINUING TRAINING
In the area of education, a partnership can be deveped to train employees with courses specific to the needs of the areas and taught by specialist professionals.
R&D INNOVATION
The interdependent research relationships between universities and companies allow both institutions to grow in their fields. While companies have access to academic infrastructure for product innovations, university faculty get real and market data to pursue the applicability of their research. Also, just as the industry needs basic and/or innovative knowledge and specialist skills to solve problems and better understand their challenges, the University gains from sponsorships to carry out research and improve the infrastructure of its laboratories.
COMPANY-UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIPS
Partnership relationships can be in the form of contracts, agreements or grants to carry out research, services and courses. An example would be contracting the design or study of subsystems or components of a product or the validation of prototypes in tests at the University’s laboratories. Students may have the opportunity to work for the company as scholarship holders, under these contracts/agreements, and be identified with a profile for a later internship or effective hiring.
Currently, the Rota2030 – Mobility and Logistics program has allowed several partnerships between the automotive industry and UFSC (with FINEP resources), promoting developments in several areas. The government program offers R$70 million + R$200 million raised from the private sector to solve difficulties faced by the national automotive industry, such as:
- the low competitiveness of the national automotive industry, which results in passive integration into global value chains;
- the technological gap, especially in energy efficiency and structural performance and assistive technologies for driving, of the national product compared to new technologies being implemented in the large markets of developed countries;
- the risk of transferring R&D activities to other poles, with the consequent loss of high-skill jobs;
- the risk of losing investments in the country, with the non-approval of new projects by the headquarters of companies installed in the country;
- the existence of idle capacity in the industry, which needs to be directed to the global market;
- the risk of losing knowledge in the development of technologies that use biofuels, with impacts on that supplay chain.
| PROJECTS | PARTNERSHIP | PROFESSOR | FEDERAL RESOURCE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligent data acquisition and analysis system for automotive controllers | Renault | Giovani Graciolli | - | R$903.250,25 |
| Efficient autonomous gas generation unit for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) based on ethanol reformer | BMW, AVL, ÁGORA | Rafael Catapan | rafael.catapan@ufsc.br | R$983.020,40 |
| Improved aluminum injection tooling design | PSA, Toyota, GM, Gama Indústria de Matrizes, Ferramentaria JN, Indústria de Moldes e Matrizes, Oerlikon Balzers, Magma Engenharia do Brasil, Wetzel | Carlos Mauricio Sacchelli | carlos.sacchelli@ufsc.br | R$2.671.279,54 |
| Development of brake pads with the same coefficient of friction and reduced emission of fine particles | Frasle | Andrea Piga Carboni | andrea.piga@ufsc.br | R$1.049.730,00 |
| Development of a vibration attenuator for motorcycles | Frasle | Thiago Antonio Fiorentin | thiago.antonio@ufsc.br | R$989.824,00 |
| Improvement of tooling competitiveness through more efficient assembly and tryout of injection mold | ABINFER, ABPOL, FUCS, GMB, JR Oliveira, Renault, Reserplastic, Simplas, Sulbras, TopLine | Régis Kovacs Scalice | regis.scalice@ufsc.br | R$961.488,00 |
| Development of post-combustion and evaporation systems and heating of the ethanol processing unit (EPU) for integrated application with solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) | BMW do Brasil, AVL South America, KRAH | Rafael de Camargo Catapan | rafael.catapan@ufsc.br | R$1.499.496,46 |
| Testing platform for air conditioning systems and thermal management of electric and hybrid vehicles | Renault do Brasil, ESSS, Mecalor | Ernane Silva | ernane.silva@ufsc.br | R$3.000.000,00 |
| Intelligent data acquisition and analysis system for automotive controllers - Phase 2 - Optimization and industrialization (IASE2) | Renault | Anderson Wedderhoff Spengler | anderson.spengler@ufsc.br | R$3.478.818,79 |
INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP ENVIRONMENT
UFSC Joinville works together with the Ágora Tech Park, assisting in the generation of an environment of innovation with companies from different market sectors. One of the purposes is the incubation of Startups and the promotion of partnerships born in a coworking environment. The structure, installed next to UFSC, has two multifunctional buildings (6,000m²) offering access to auditoriums, rooms, shared workspaces and laboratories focused on industry 4.0, smart cities and health. Several technological projects and interactions take place in this environment between the community and the university researchers and students, creating development and new business opportunities.
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