Official Conference Site Address:
Prédio do Ciclo
Básico I
Universidade Estadual de
Campinas - UNICAMP
Cidade Universitária
"Zeferino Vaz" - Barão Geraldo
13083-970 Campinas, São
Paulo, Brasil
CAMPINAS
STATE UNIVERSITY: a little about the CONFERENCE VENUE
The
University of Campinas was established in 1966, as a
public
university funded by the State of São Paulo. Its mission is to
provide
education and training, qualifying our students to play a key role in
the process of social development. Unicamp seeks to
contribute in the solution of social
problems,
through education, research and also through its services to the
community.
A healthy
balance between research and teaching, pure and applied
science has made Unicamp one of the most distinguished Brazilian
academic Institutions. Unicamp receives undergraduate and graduate
students
from all over Brazil and also from abroad.
In Europe and even in the American Continent, the history of the oldest
universities spans over centuries, while in Brazil it can still be
counted in decades. Furthermore, if the history of the Brazilian
university is recent, that of the State University of Campinas
(Unicamp) is even more. Unicamp had its campus officially
opened on
October 5th 1966. Few years later it was
already recognized as one of the leading Brazilian and Latin American
institutions of higher education, conducting advanced research and
tackling important social issues. Today, Unicamp can be considered as a
fully consolidated university.
Unicamp combines its
youth to a strong experience in producing new
knowledge in virtually all areas. In effect, today, the University
concentrates 15% of the total scientific production in this country and
approximately 10% of the graduate courses. The result is its capability
to maintain areas of scientific and technological compatibility with
the main research centers in the world, through numerous international
cooperation agreements. Unicamp is an
autonomous autarchy of the São Paulo State.
Financial
resources are obtained mainly from the state government. Funding is
also provided by national and international research funding agencies.
Students
do not pay tuition fee, since the University is financed by
state
funds.
Here we
present the installations of the conference venue known as Ciclo
Básico I. This place is about 12 kilometers north from Campinas
downtown. The
conference
rooms are connected to high speed internet and have all necessary
infrastructure for the EMS-05 meeting.
