FURG
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Statistical Yearbook
The Statistical Yearbook of the Federal University of Rio Grande gathers information on the development of the several areas of the University, as well as specific data on the institutional growth in the last 5 years.
Statistical Yearbook 2019 – Database 2018
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Internal Rules of Proceedures
The document disciplines the general aspects of structure, organization and operation of the various divisions and units, establishing the dynamics of administrative and academic activities in the institution.
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By-laws
Federal University of Rio Grande’s by-laws governs the principles, purposes, administrative and academic structures, among other parameters for the university.
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Strategic Planning
Since the 1970’s, FURG has invested in strategic planning as a collaborative process aimed to achieve the University’s mission and follow its vision of future. Therefore, a wide reflection about academic and administrative activities is fostered and, as a result, measures for institutional improvement are proposed.
In order to support this reflection, many opinion surveys have been made, in a cyclical way, with the university community to evaluate the perception of the different sections involved in FURG’s activities. The proposition of measures for the institution directions is carried out in seminars with the university community and by surveys to the university external community, students and outsourced workers, which results in the development of the Institutional Educational Project (IEP) and the Institutional Development Plan (IDP).
Learn more about the structure of FURG’s Strategic Planning and the connection with IEP, IDP and the Annual Action Plans.Access IDP.
Institutional Educational ProjectThe Institutional Educational Project (“PPI”) brings a strategic vision to think and plan the university in the long run. It summarizes the University’s philosophy, mission, vision and guidelines; the guiding principles of teaching, research and extension; the profile of workers and students; the evaluation and planning of strategic goals, as a way to guide teaching, research and extension activities.
Built for a 12 years perspective, PPI is a dynamic process under permanent assessment to manage the changes in institutional and social context.
Institutional DevelopmentThe Institutional Development Plan (“PDI”), in turn, brings the leading basis and the institutional programs by which the different fields of work at FURG aim to accomplish the mission, vision and strategic goals that are expected in PPI. PDI may be understood as a medium-term planning instrument, reviewed every 4 years and on which the Annual Action Plans of the University’s academic and administrative units are defined.
Access PDI 2015/2018.PDI construction and revision process
FURG’s institutional planning is a process completely integrated to the Institutional Self-Assessment Program. This is because by the assessment processes of the Program the university community is questioned about the University’s performance and can collaborate with its future. The Institutional Self-Assessment is structured in a 4-year evaluative cycle by which the different annual and quadrennial evaluation processes are made (Student Assessment of Faculty, Assessment of University Restaurants, Assessment of FURG’s Reputation, Community Opinion Survey, and more).
Results of the Opinion Surveys are analyzed in quantitative and qualitative ways and then sent to the Academic and Administrative Units. Based on this previously listed information, the Internal Committees for Permanent Evaluation carry out analyses and guide the process of self-assessment at the respective Unit levels, concerning positive working aspects and those to be improved.
This material (self-assessment report, contributions to the PDI from academic and administrative units, analysis of the surveys made with outsourced workers, society and students) is analyzed by members of the Planning Advisory Committee (“CAP”) and support the text construction for the next PDI. -
Presentation
The trajectory of Universidade Federal do Rio Grande (Federal University of Rio Grande) – FURG is based on the involvement and commitment to society.
Our history begins with joint efforts by sections of municipal community which came together to make possible the implementation of Higher Education in the city in the 1950s. This collaborative motivation continued to inspire the university community to engage with regional and national development, taking part in the demands from its environment. For this reason, since 1987, FURG has assumed the coastal and oceanic ecosystems as an institutional vocation. That is, we commit ourselves to the creation and diffusion of knowledge dedicated to understanding the complexity of natural, social, cultural and historical manifestations of the ecosystem in which we are. FURG relies on the involvement with surrounding community and region.Nowadays, through its different campuses, FURG extends activities to the cities of Santo Antônio da Patrulha, São Lourenço do Sul, and Santa Vitória do Palmar, thus consolidating itself as an important social activator in the very south of Rio Grande do Sul state and Brazil.
Our teaching, research and extension activities provide thousands of students with a citizenship experience, in addition to technical and scientific knowledge. Through affirmative actions and strategic decisions, the university pursuits to offer an egalitarian environment so that students can develop their academic life including all diversity, from university admission to graduation.
We are one of the first Higher Education Institutions in the country to offer specific selective process for the admission of indigenous and quilombola students. Furthermore, all seniors at FURG have guaranteed free participation on the Graduation solemnity. Since 2007, the graduations are coordinated and executed by the institution to ensure its official and public aspect.
Increasingly, we are a university that believes in free and public higher education in the advance of social, scientific, citizenship and solidarity development.
FURG in numbers70 Undergraduate Degree Programs
12 Residency Programs
19 Specialization Degree Programs
35 Masters’ Degree Programs
17 Doctoral Degree Programs
160 Research Groups certified by CNPq
More than 7 thousand undergraduate classroom students
More than 250 students in distance education
About 2,000 graduate students
About 860 professors
More than 1,050 educational staff
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