With an addition of 38 vacancies to the initial forecast, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) announced, this Wednesday (19) that 814 vacancies open for the next public tender for the department, of which 196 are for the position of analyst in Science and Technology at the units of search.
On the occasion, minister Luciana Santos revealed that R$ 50 million will be used for the recovery of the infrastructure and budget recomposition of the 17 research institutions linked to the Ministry.
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“This set of measures reflects our commitment and our recognition of the fundamental role that our institutes play in scientific and technological development”, said the minister.
Of the announced amount, R$ 41.9 million will be invested in actions to improve the infrastructure of the research units, which includes the preservation of collections and the modernization of laboratories. An additional R$9.4 million will be used to replenish the budget of related entities.
Expedition for Biodiversity – A practical example is the country's official scientific expedition to the Arctic, currently under way and ending this Friday (21st), with the objective of getting to know the frozen continent in more depth, in addition to assessing its ecological importance in the face of climate change global.
Gathered in the Svalbard archipelago, belonging to Norway, the team of researchers is made up of two professors from the Institute of Biological Sciences (IB) at the University of Brasília (UnB), Paulo Câmara – one of the coordinators of the expedition – and the researcher Micheline Carvalho Silva, in addition to the group of professors from the Department of Microbiology at the Federal University of Minas (UFMG) Luiz Henrique Rosa (also in the coordination) and Vivian Nicolau, in addition to the professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Brasília (UCB) Marcelo Ramada.
Led by Unb, in partnership with UFMG, the expedition is part of the Brazilian Antarctic Program (Proantar), under funding from the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) and by institutions involved.
Regarding the country's right to Arctic territory, professor Paulo Câmara explains that 7% of Brazil is closer to the Arctic than to Antarctica. We've had an Antarctic presence for over 40 years, whereas in the Arctic we don't have a presence. They are two major climate regulators. Brazil has always participated in Antarctica, in the Amazon, but we had no participation in the Arctic”.
The forecast is that, during the mission, the researchers will collect plants, fungi, microorganisms, sediments and other biological samples, in order to obtain data on the region and draw a comparison between existing species in the two poles – Arctic and Antarctica – that do not present intermediate areas of the planet. Among these species, highlight for bryophytes, small plants with easy dispersion in polar environments.
Rich in natural resources such as oil and natural gas, the Arctic is considered strategic for the investigation of climate, environmental and economic impacts worldwide. In this sense, the extreme north of the region has been showing, in the last four decades, an advanced melting process of its glaciers.
