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The event will take place in Maceió, from June 29 to July 2

What are the positive and negative implications of artificial intelligence and machine behavior in the planet’s sustainable development? How does global human behavior impact the world and is impacted by machines? How do small molecules affect our perception, self-awareness, and stimulus processing?

Finding answers to questions like these by discussing new frontiers of research is one of the goals of the 12th Brazilian-German Frontiers of Science and Technology Symposium (BRAGFOST), which will take place in Maceió, Alagoas, from June 29 to July 2. The initiative will bring together 60 young Brazilian and German scientists, 30 of each nationality, all with up to 15 years of doctorate and with the potential to promote advances in science and technology in their fields of knowledge

In order to build future partnerships, researchers from the Center were at the institution’s headquarters in Washington on Friday, June 24

An alert system to prevent dropout and drop-out and an automatic correction tool for handwritten texts. These were the two projects of the Center for Excellence in Social Technologies (NEES) that gained prominence during the meeting with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

NEES leaders tighten the relationship with the MIT research center created by Economics Nobel Prize laureates

Elaborating public policies from information, data, and research that allow the increase of opportunities and quality of Brazilian public education. To achieve this goal, the Center for Excellence in Social Technologies (NEES) is tightening its partnership with institutions such as the research center J-PAL (Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab), which is headquartered in the Economics Department of the Technology Institute of Massachusetts (MIT).

Two coordinators of the FDNE were in Maceió participating in technical meetings with researchers from the Center

A delegation of the National Fund for Education Development (Fundo Nacional de Desenvolvimento da Educação – FNDE) visited NEES on Wednesday, May 25th. Technical meetings on various projects the Center is developing for the National Textbook Program (Programa Nacional do Livro e do Material Didático – PNLD) were carried out.

The participants were Nadja Cezar Ianzer Rodrigues, from the General Coordination of the Textbook Programs of the FNDE, and Joana Fusco Lobo, from the Coordination of Calculation and Budgetary Monitoring of the FNDE. Among the actions in development by NEES researchers, in partnership with the FNDE and the Ministry of Education (MEC) are foreseen:

Researchers from the Center are developing several technological solutions in partnership with MEC, among them, a preventive alert system to prevent school evasion and an application for digitization and automated correction of students’ handwritten texts

How to prevent school dropout and evasion in Brazilian basic education, issues which were aggravated during the pandemic? Which strategies can be created to recover students’ learning, which has been so compromised in recent times?

Developing technological solutions that answer questions like these is one of NEES’ goals. On May 19 and 20, the leaders of the Center were in Brasília to participate in the I Forum for Discussion of Results of Diagnostic and Formative Evaluations (I Fórum de Discussão de Resultados das Avaliações Diagnósticas e Formativas), and met with the Minister of Education, Victor Godoy.

The event was held by the Ministry of Education (MEC) in partnership with the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), and the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF). The initiative preceded the publication of the decree that created the National Policy for the Recovery of Learning in Basic Education (Política Nacional para Recuperação das Aprendizagens na Educação Básica).