Weaknesses
Low percentage of grade 5, 6 and 7 Programs
Justification
Out of 418 Programs graded 6 and 7 in Brazil, 316 are in the Southeast region of Brazil, but none in Espírito Santo. UFES is one of the 21 Brazilian institutions of Higher Education that has more of 50 Graduate Programs (GPs). Currently, UFES has 60 GPs, 5 of these in association with other institutions. The current number of GPs is a result of the expansion and consolidation of graduate studies in the last years. In 2012, UFES initiated an improving program for Graduate Studies called PROPOS, which aims to gradually improve CAPES’ grade of the GPs. The main idea is the strategic plan of each GP, designing project, academic actions and funding based in the criteria of the evaluation areas of CAPES, and in the grades of the evaluation forms of DAV-CAPES. Due to the strategic actions, there was a significant quality improvement of the institution’s GPs. In the last evaluation in 2017, UFES presented 13 GPs graded 5 by CAPES (beyond these 5, UFES has 2 more courses in association with other institutions which are graded 5). Beyond the growing of the Programs graded 5, 8 GPs reached grade 4. That way, programs graded 4 and 5 are already the greatest part of the institution (58%), which points to the consolidation of research and graduate studies in the institution. Despite the significant quality increase of the institution’s GPs, certified by CAPES grade, UFES has only 24% of its GPs graded 5 and does not have GPs graded 6 or 7. Thus, UFES defined, in its Institutional Strategic Plan 2015-2019 the goal of having courses graded 6 in the next evaluation, drawing strategy actions, policies and specific projects to guarantee their excellence. This proposal for the PrInt call is part of the actions, prioritizing GPs and research lines of programs graded 5 that are committed to reaching grade 6 and have a clear vocation for internationalization.
Medium level of Internationalization
Justification
Despite the numbers of publications with foreign co-authorship, publications in JCR journals, and agreements with foreign countries being reasonably good and comparable to other institutions in group 2, the report “The internationalization of the Brazilian University: results of the questionnaire” is necessary to improve the percentage of the technical body fluent in other languages, percentage of classes taught in other languages, number of graduate students participating in subjects taught in foreign languages, percentage of cotutelle, and percentage of students enrolled in graduate studies. In that context, one of the objectives in this proposal is to increase such numbers and increment activities related to active mobility.
