Euvaldo Lodi Institute of Rio de Janeiro

EUVALDO LODI INSTITUTE OF RIO DE JANEIRO
INSTITUTO EUVALDO LODI DO RIO DE JANEIRO
Abbreviation IEL Rio
Formation 29 January 1969 (1969-01-29)
Type Non-profit organization
Purpose To unite academy, research institutes and industry
Headquarters Centro (Rio de Janeiro)
Location
Region
Rio de Janeiro,  Brazil
Services
Official language
Brazilian Portuguese
Affiliations FIRJAN System
Website Firjan.org.br

Euvaldo Lodi Institute of Rio de Janeiro (IEL Rio) is the equivalent of the Brazilian Euvaldo Lodi Institute, created by the National Confederation of Industry along with the Industry Social Service (SESI) and the National Industrial Training Service in 1969. Except it only covers Rio de Janeiro state, instead of all the Brazilian territory.

The main goal of IEL Rio is to unite academy and institutes of science and technology with industry. Amongst its objectives, there are development of entrepreneurship programs in order to promote the creation of new leaderships and the adoption, in the graduation curriculum, of disciplines about the entrepreneurial action.[1]

Besides, it encourages innovative programs and projects, as well as innovation and technology management, introducing technological and intellectual products from institutions in companies, which generates more industrial competitiveness.[2]

Academy and companies

IEL Rio, entity that integrates the FIRJAN System, concentrates in the university-market relationship, specifically through two programs:

The main universities in Rio de Janeiro are IEL Rio's partners.[5]

Other ways of acting

With respect to technology and innovation, IEL Rio develops programs and projects such as the below:

EDITION YEAR THEME
I 2007 Entrepreneurship Seminar and Fair (various themes)
II 2008 II Entrepreneurship Seminar (various themes)
III 2009 Opportunities and challenges in the virtual world
IV 2010 Making ideas come true
V 2011 Rio entrepreneurs
VI 2012 Access to capital and innovation
VII 2013 Large companies that are investing in startups in Brazil
VIII 2014 Innovative Entrepreneurship
2011 2012 2013
Students 3,282 4,564 4,750
Universities 7 8 9

Generally, these courses last three months, with meetings once a week, which sum twelve classes. Entrepreneurs have taught lessons, representing companies such as Spoleto, Koni, Niely, Via Mia and Peixe Urbano. They talk about their experiences as entrepreneurs, while FIRJAN System representatives teach about competitiveness. Students of design, management, engineering, communication and architecture that desire to give the first step in elaborating new projects and companies usually take part in these courses.

According to Alberto Besser, superintendent of IEL Rio, the intention is to "inspire students to generate ideas and to turn them into business."[13] The course is part of the Entrepreneurs Formation Program (PFE) from Entrepreneurship Teaching Coordination (CEMP) of PUC-Rio's Genesis Institute.

History of national IEL

Looking at the Institute's history, it is possible to identify some phases. In its first seventeen years, from 1969 to 1986, the focus was limited to integrating industry and university. Afterwards, the efforts also concentrated in the analysis of the results achieved by the projects intended to unite productive sector and academy, not to mention the grouping of these projects in operational programs.

The third period is influenced by the National Plan for the Interaction Industry-University for 1990, aiming to support technological projects for industry development through the following strategies: "technological, sindical, of regional vocation, to support the small and medium industries, of CNI System institutional integration, to protect the values of free enterprise and of permanent interchange amongst the parties involved in politics".[14]

And despite searching for higher production and better quality in industry, IEL also looked for "eradicating iliteray, expanding basic education and professionally qualifying expressive human quotas" and, thus, put Brazil in the international market.[15]

IEL Rio

With respect to its local operations, the Institute considers important to develop a particular vision of each Brazilian reality. That is why IEL's core keeps the Regional Commissions and the Sectoral Committees.[15] In fact, in the first article of its own statute of creation it is foreseen that the Institute may use Regional Cells in the states and in the Federal District in order to execute its objectives. In Chapter V, specifically, it establishes that the Central Nucleus has the power to "delegate the execution of activities to the Regional Cells in the implementation of programs, projects, agreements and other actions"[16] (chapter V, article 26). This way, each nucleus would be directed by the "local Industry Federation president, would count on a regional director and an Advisory Counsel comprising three representatives, from the Federation, SENAI and SESI".[17] Due to this premise, IEL Rio and the other spread all over Brazil exist.

Euvaldo Lodi

The politician Euvaldo Lodi and the engineer Roberto Simonsen were honored by industry thanks to their work: while the first one gave its name to IEL, the second one became the name of "a stutides and research institute of the Industry Federation of São Paulo State, which comprehends in its structure the COPS – Superior Council of Political and Social Guidance".[18]

Notes

  1. One of the most known entities in this field in Brazil is Funding Authority for Studies and Projects (Finep), current Brazilizn Agency of Innovation (more information in the webpage Financiamento não reembolsável).

See also

References

  1. "Empreendedorismo". FIRJAN System. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  2. 1 2 "Instituto Euvaldo Lodi / IEL". FIRJAN System. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  3. "Programa de apoio às empresas juniores". FIRJAN System. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  4. "Programa de apoio às incubadoras de empresas". FIRJAN System. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  5. "Instituições parceiras do IEL". FIRJAN System. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  6. "Capacitação empresarial". FIRJAN System. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  7. "Contratar estagiários do Senai é a melhor forma de preparar profissionais qualificados para o futuro de sua empresa". FIRJAN System. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
  8. "FIRJAN realiza IV Seminário de Empreendedorismo IEL-RJ 2010". FIRJAN System. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  9. 1 2 "O papel do Sistema FIRJAN/IEL no desenvolvimento da cultura empreendedora nas universidades e empresas (PPT com 3,4MB)". Balog, Daniela. 2013. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  10. "Semana IEL nas universidades – Ideias que viram negócio". Shell, Iniciativa Jovem. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  11. "Fórum IEL de Gestão Empresarial traz ao Brasil o professor David Smallbone". FIRJAN System. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  12. "Inscrições abertas para a 2ª edição do "Meu Futuro Negócio"". Genesis Institute. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  13. "IEL promove "Meu Futuro Negócio" na PUC-Rio". FIRJAN System. Retrieved 24 March 2014.
  14. IEL (1994), Realizações da política nacional de interação indústria universidade (1969–1990), III, Cadernos IEL, Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Euvaldo Lodi
  15. 1 2 IEL (1994), Instituto Euvaldo Lodi. Uma época: 25 anos (1969–1994), Rio de Janeiro: Sistema CNI
  16. "Estatuto: Instituto Euvaldo Lodi Núcleo Central (PDF – 393KB)" (PDF). Euvaldo Lodi Institute. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
  17. "Instituto Euvaldo Lodi: relatório de 40 anos de atividades (PDF – 4MB)". Euvaldo Lodi Institute. Retrieved 3 April 2014.
  18. Beloch, I. & Fagundes, L. R. (1997), Sistema FIRJAN: a história dos 170 anos da representação industrial no Rio de Janeiro, 1827–1997, Rio de Janeiro: Memória Brasil Projetos Culturais Ltda.

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