Abstract
Financial support and science promotion policies require preliminary studies of diagnoses, researcher profiles and historicity. Based on that new propositions to stimulate the areas of knowledge, the participation of researchers by gender or even the allocation of resources by region may be implemented. In this context, this study aims to describe the profile of the Scientific Initiation scholarship holders, through financial incentives from the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq), in the Brazilian Federal Institutes (IFs), considering the type of scholarship, age and gender. A quantitative approach was used, and 2017 data were collected on the CNPq portal. The results show that, out of the total scholarships (n = 31,382), 8.75% of them were offered by FIs, with the majority of scholarships offered by the high school program (64.60%), followed by the technological development program (18.14%) and the scientific initiation program (17.26%). Most students are female (51.1%). Given the above, we emphasize the importance of studies on student profile, so that measures are taken to provide wider access to scholarships for students involved in Brazilian scientific production, as well as map the areas of greatest investment and development technological.
Highlights
The Federal System of Professional, Scientific, and Technological Education (Rede Federal de Educação Profissional, Científica e Tecnológica; RFEPCT), officially instituted in 2008, led to the increase in the number of courses and opportunities offered to students in Brazil
From the data collected in the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa (CNPq) portal, it was possible to determine the profile of the students enrolled in the Scientific Initiation (SI) programs offered by the Institutes, and the information on the number of students by program, scholarship type, and age are illustrated in Tables 1 and 2
Of the 31,382 students involved in research in these types of scholarship, 2,746 participated in SI projects at the Ifs, and a total of 8.75% of SI scholarship students nationwide were in the Federal Institutes
Summary
The Federal System of Professional, Scientific, and Technological Education (Rede Federal de Educação Profissional, Científica e Tecnológica; RFEPCT), officially instituted in 2008, led to the increase in the number of courses and opportunities offered to students in Brazil. It represented a change in the configuration of federal institutions that offer public and free education. Law No 11.892/2008, which focuses on the creation of the IFs, initiated the process of the consolidation of the expansion of the Federal System in the interior of Brazil, which is the primary goal of the Institutes: to establish public, free, and quality education in interior cities. The technical courses are integrated into high schools, subsequent courses, technological higher education courses, bachelor's and licentiate degrees, master’s and doctorate graduate programs, and specialization programs, and provide initial and continuing training and extension courses
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