EXTENSION PROJECTS

Guavira: Promotion of the fruit that is the symbol of Mato Grosso do Sul and other plants using social media to promote knowledge.
Expected Start Date: 08/06/2023
Expected End Date: 07/05/2025

This project aims to promote the guavira and other medicinal and edible plants through online and in-person courses for high school students from state and municipal schools and for the community in general. In addition, it seeks to assist in the organization of the 6th State Guavira Seminar, as well as the 7th and 8th Seminars in the following years, and to show the relevance of the topic for the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. The aim is to contribute to the educational development of the city of Dourados-MS and strengthen the relationship between the school and the community. The proposal involves activities that prioritize students' contact with studies on medicinal and food plants, with a focus on guavira, aiming to spark students' interest and facilitate learning. The project also seeks to improve the quality of teaching and the school environment, disseminating knowledge about guavira and other plants in the region.
The public actions will take place in state and/or municipal schools in Dourados-MS, between February 2024 and July 2025. A survey of schools will be conducted on the website of the Department of Education, and school principals will be contacted to present the project and select schools interested in participating. Three schools, preferably full-time schools, will be selected to carry out the project.
The PIBEX scholarship students will be responsible for researching and creating digital content for social media, in order to disseminate information about guavira and other plants in the region, as well as holding lectures to promote the project. Using social media as a means of dissemination will allow a large number of people to be reached quickly and affordably.
A website will be created with content related to guavira and social media will be created, where content related to guavira and other plants in the region will be posted periodically. By the end of the project, it is expected to have prospected followers on social media and expanded the dissemination and promotion of topics related to guavira and other plants in the region.

Members of the Execution Team
Jéssica Bassani de Oliveira – (PGRN Student/Teacher -IT) – Coordinator
Thiago Luis Aguayo de Castro -(PGRN Student) – Collaborator
Claudia Andrea Lima Cardoso – (Teacher -IT) – Collaborator
Rosângela Maria Ferreira da Costa e Silva - (PGRN Student/Teacher) - Collaborator

Osrilene Afonso Alves, Yrna Evelyn Viana da Silva Winkelmann, Guilherme Machado Macedo –
PIBEX Students

"Integra UEMS" Project

This project began in July 2019 and will continue until January 2020. It is coordinated by Gabriela Lessa de Almeida, a master's student at the PGRN, and collaborators include professor Claudia Andrea Lima Cardoso.

The project began its outreach activities by promoting undergraduate courses at the State University of Mato Grosso do Sul in September. In addition, the project aims to generate participation with high schools in Dourados, whether to hold presentations of the courses themselves, the university, science fairs, exhibitions, or other activities that are freely chosen by the collaborators, since the project involves the participation of students and professors from the Postgraduate Program in Natural Resources (PGRN), together with professors and students from other undergraduate courses at the Dourados Unit, in order to promote knowledge, arouse curiosity, and promote the university and courses at UEMS.

Caburé Project: The Public Prosecutor's Office Keeping an Eye on the Waters
The State Public Prosecutor's Office, Dr. Anthony Állison Brandão Santos, met on 09/28/2018 at 1:30 pm to discuss a project by the State Public Prosecutor's Office with the PGRN and other agencies, regarding environmental damage, soil analysis and water quality. The project entitled "Caburé Project: The Public Prosecutor's Office Keeping an Eye on the Waters" aims to prevent and protect water resources in the Ivinhema River Sub-Basin located in the Deodápolis District.

Environmental education activities and restoration of riparian vegetation with the Laranja Doce Scout group in Dourados-MS and assessment of fish diversity and distribution and their relationship with water quality. In 2017-2018, the laboratories and zoological collection linked to the PGRN periodically receive visits from schools in the Dourados region, under the coordination of Professor Yzel Rondon Suarez.

Professor Etenaldo Felipe Santiago develops technical partnership activities with the Municipal Department of the Environment of Jatei, the Green Room project at the Gerson Pereira Dias School Site in that municipality, and also develops, together with Professor Yzel Rondon Suarez, technical support with the Municipal Government of Taquarussu, in activities related to the implementation of the Conservation Unit: Veredas de Taquarussu – ESEC/Taquarussu, through the Technical Cooperation Agreement signed between the State University of Mato Grosso do Sul-UEMS and the Municipal Government of that municipality.

Professor Claudia Andrea Lima Cardoso is developing an extension project entitled "Natural Resources: Dissemination and Inclusion", which offers courses, lectures and visits to public and private schools and universities in the region, both induced and at the request of the institution. In 2017, seven courses lasting between 4 and 40 hours were held for undergraduate and graduate students and the community in general, in addition to five lectures in schools in Dourados on different topics of regional interest. This project involves the participation of professors, students from the PGRN and also undergraduate students from the Industrial Chemistry and Bachelor's Degree in Biological Sciences courses. In the 2017-2018 period, two extension scholarships were obtained for undergraduate students from the Industrial Chemistry and Physical Engineering courses. In 2018, courses, visits and lectures were held in the extension project "Natural Resources: Dissemination and Inclusion", for students in basic and higher education by professors and students from the PGRN.

To assist in this process of social inclusion, in 2017, we began holding the Symposium on Natural Resources, coordinated by professor Sandro Marcio Lima, held by the PGRN with the participation of both the scientific community and professionals who work with issues related to the environment. The first edition took place in 2017, but in that same year we submitted a project to CAPES to assist in the region for the second edition of the event and managed to obtain resources of around 18 thousand reais to hold the event in August 2018.

In 2017-2018, professor Gilberto José de Arruda obtained three extension scholarships for students of the Chemistry Bachelor's and Industrial Chemistry courses with actions linked to schools in the city of Carapo-MS related to the teaching of Chemistry using games and experiments.

In 2017-2018, professor Gilberto José de Arruda Antonio Rogério Fiorucci coordinates the PIBID project in the Chemistry Degree course at UEMS/Dourados and several of the works developed by his PIBID group demonstrate the clear relationship between undergraduate and graduate studies, in addition to the role that this interaction has in strengthening basic education.

Our theses and dissertations also help in social inclusion, since they generally relate to topics that are directly related to society. Some of the topics are sugarcane and alcohol activity, water quality and/or aquatic environments, plant and animal biodiversity and environmental case studies (monitoring, and pollutants).

Teaching Chemistry in the Context of Science and Technology: Sustainable Development and Reduction of Social and Regional Inequalities

The project is being developed at the Naviraí and Dourados units by professors Alberto Adriano Cavalheiro and Gilberto José de Arruda. This project, funded by CAPES, has 24 scholarship holders for Teaching Initiation, 14 from Naviraí and 10 from Dourados. The project is linked to practices as a curricular component and also to the theoretical-practical activities of the Undergraduate courses involved in various ways, but the following aspects deserve emphasis:
1) Increased awareness of the scholarship student regarding the differences between the demands of basic chemistry teaching and their preparation by undergraduate courses; 

2) Use of teaching practice domains from different perspectives, through the use of different instruments, such as simulators, schemes and more efficient approaches experienced in the undergraduate course and their potential application in basic education; 

3) Presentation and discussion of the results obtained in the experience of the school environment in university-level events and in related disciplines of the undergraduate course curriculum; 

4) Presentation of demands to teachers, course coordinators and course boards for improvements and corrections in the training of future graduates in chemistry. 

Biomasses of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul and their Transformation Potentials 

Teacher: Margareth Batistote 

Project Term: 2018 - Current 

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1st Scientific Exhibition of Dourados

The Postgraduate Program in Natural Resources of the State University of Mato Grosso do Sul (PGRN/UEMS) approved a project involving students from public and private schools in the city of Dourados/MS at the CNPq. Through the planning and execution of scientific work, students and teachers from elementary, high school and technical schools will be encouraged to build their knowledge in an interdisciplinary way.

Among the activities that will take place at the 1st Scientific Exhibition of Dourados, the following stand out:

1st Practical Workshop for Teachers and Students: Examples of Research Projects in Middle and High School

This activity was held on April 12, 2018, from 7:30 to 11:30 am, at the Escola Estadual Profª. Floriana Lopes, Dourados-MS, and was attended by approximately 350 students from Basic Education.

“Recycling and Society” Workshop - held on 05/17/2018, from 7:00 to 11:30 am, was also held at the Escola Estadual Profª. Floriana Lopes, Dourados-MS and was attended by approximately 200 Elementary School students.

Course “Development of projects for teachers” - held on 06/21/2018, from 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, and was hosted at UEMS, Dourados-MS and had the participation of teachers from the municipality and also from other municipalities in the region.

EXTENSION ACTIVITIES

Among the permanent teachers of the PGRN, Professors Laércio Alves de Carvalho and Yzel Rondon Súarez develop environmental education activities and the restoration of riparian vegetation with the Laranja Doce Scout group in Dourados-MS. Professor Laércio A. Carvalho develops them together with students from the Environmental Engineering course at UEMS/Dourados, while Professor Yzel R. Súarez works mainly evaluating the diversity and distribution of fish and their relationship with water quality. Other actions are listed below.

Pollution affects 90% of Dourados' streams

A study by the State University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS) indicates that 90% of Dourados' streams are polluted. Several types of waste are starting to cause the death of some types of fish, such as the Dourado, one of the symbols of the city. Among the 30 species studied, only 30% are resistant to environmental degradation, as they are able to absorb oxygen from the air, carrying out gas exchange in the intestine. The remaining species are disappearing. Coordinator: Yzel Rondon Súarez.

The PGRN and the preservation of the Veredas

The UEMS, through a technical cooperation agreement, contributed to the implementation of the first conservation unit in the ecological station category in Mato Grosso do Sul, the Veredas de Taquarussu Municipal Ecological Station, by Municipal Decree No. 038 of March 24, 2017. Just like the cerrado stricto sensu (the one with the characteristic trees with twisted trunks and thick bark), the veredas dominated by the buriti palm (Mauritia flexuosa) constitute environments at serious risk of disappearing, giving way to productive activity. These natural environments make up the biodiversity of the Cerrado, of incalculable economic and ecological importance.

Biomass and Energy Production

Coordinator: Margareth Batistote

Schools: Geisa Alves da Silva, Jessica da Silva do Carmo and Janaína Duarte GomesSchools: Minister João Paulo Reis Veloso State School, Ramona da Silva Pedroso State School, Abigail Borralho State School, Pastor Daniel Berg State School (Dourados/MS).

Production of Ecological Tubes from Agro-Industrial Waste

Coordinator: Maria do Socorro Mascarenhas Santos -PGRN (Master's degree)

Collaborator: Margareth Batistote, undergraduate, master's and doctoral students: Adriana Morais do Nascimento Matos, Eliane Ferreira de Souza, Elvio Mora Junior, Geisa Alves da Silva, Izamara Casadia, José Darlan Alves da Silva, Thais Domingues da Silva

Interaction of methods for assessing the use of fish species as indicators of environmental degradation in the Tarumã stream microbasin (Naviraí – MS).

Touro-Tarumã Project: Assessment, Recovery and Public Use. This project involves professors from UEMS in Dourados, Naviraí and Ivinhema, as well as an NGO (GEBIO – Biodiversity Protection Study Group) and the Public Prosecutor's Office of Mato Grosso do Sul (MP-MS). Funding from Conduct Adjustment Terms signed between the MP-MS and companies and rural landowners in Naviraí. Funding from Conduct Adjustment Terms signed between the MP-MS and companies and rural landowners in Naviraí. Coordinator: Sidnei Eduardo Lima Junior.

Oxidative stability of edible oils

Lectures and questionnaires will be given in schools (5), universities (3) and supermarkets (3) in the cities of Dourados, Laguna Carapã and Bonito, providing interaction with the target audience. The proposal prioritizes community contact with studies in the food area, allowing them to have an insight into this as well as the research carried out on the subject. The use of real studies aims to arouse the public's interest in a topic that facilitates learning, followed by interpretation in everyday life. A reference point that favors the expansion of knowledge. Coordinators: Eliane Ferreira de Souza´PGRN (PhD) and Antonio Rogério Fiorucci

Eliane Ferreira de Souza (C.H. 20 hours/month) Associated Members: Cinthia Aparecida de Andrade Silva (C.H. 10 hours/month) Maria do Socorro Mascarenhas Santos (C.H. 10 hours/month) Talita Cuenca Pina Moreira Ramos (C.H. 10 hours/month) Taiane Crotti (C.H. 5 hours/month) Carmen Beatriz Reiss Zavala (C.H. 10 hours/month) Izamara Casadia (C.H. 10 hours/month) Marivane Turim Koschevic (C.H. 5 hours/month) Maria Bruna de Souza Mulinari (C.H. 10 hours/month) Kelly Cristina da Silva Brabes (C.H. 10 hours/Month)

(October/2019) Visit by the Pharmacy course at UNIGRAN to the PGRN laboratory
The Pharmacy course at UNIGRAN visited the Instrumental Analysis laboratories at PGRN on October 23, 2019. This visit is part of the PGRN's outreach activities coordinated by Professor Claudia Andrea Lima Cardoso.
The visits aim to strengthen teaching, research, and outreach relationships and to seek ways to carry out integrated actions between institutions. According to Claudia Andrea Lima Cardoso, coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Natural Resources (PGRN), since UEMS does not have an undergraduate course in Pharmacy and several research projects developed at PGRN are related to the topic, this rapprochement is important for the institutions. In December 2019, new research activities will begin to consolidate actions previously carried out between UEMS and UNIGRAN professors, as well as outreach activities for UNIGRAN students.

Students from municipal schools participate in "Day at UEMS" in Naviraí

In this project, high school students visit the university, see laboratories, have contact with instruments not available in schools, attend lectures and witness the development of experiments. These activities aim to demonstrate some ways in which the courses operate, aiming to awaken the interest of the community through knowledge of the courses available at the unit. These activities are carried out by students from the Chemistry and PGRN courses.

Coordinator: Euclesio Simionatto / Students: Érica Rodrigues Costa- PGRN (PhD), Grabriela Moessa Louro-Scientific Initiation, Eduardo João Moutinho-Scientific Initiation

CERNA-PGRN Summer Courses-2017

The summer courses are part of the extension project: Natural Resources: Dissemination and Inclusion, which aims to bring society closer to the University, and had the participation of professors and students from the Postgraduate Program in Natural Resources and the Center for Research in Natural Resources (CERNA)

2nd SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM ON NATURAL RESOURCES - 2018

"Integrating postgraduate and undergraduate studies in Natural Resources”.

The Center for Studies in Natural Resources (CERNA) of the State University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS), through the Postgraduate Program in Natural Resources (PGRN), and in partnership with the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD), promoted the 2nd Scientific Symposium on Natural Resources (SCRN) in 2018.

The SCRN was motivated by the growing number of multidisciplinary actions by researchers, students, companies and higher education institutions in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul focused on environmental issues, or that have natural resources as their “great laboratory”.

The organizing team aims to promote, with the holding of the 2nd SCRN, a scientific moment for exchanging experiences and an opportunity to publicize the main studies that are being developed in the region focused on natural resources. To this end, lectures with relevant national researchers in the area are being scheduled, as well as seminars, mini-courses and round tables.

Following the success of the 1st SCRN held in 2017, and in view of the great interest of the academic community of the different undergraduate courses that also focus on environmental issues, the organizers of the 2nd SCRN decided to establish as the motto of this edition of the event “Integrating postgraduate and undergraduate studies in Natural Resources”. With this, the event activities will also include the participation of undergraduate students from both UEMS and UFGD.

1st SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIUM ON NATURAL RESOURCES - 2017

"Natural environments and products: a multidisciplinary view"

The 1st SCRN included lectures, seminars, mini-courses and panel sessions, and achieved its objective with the participation of undergraduate and graduate students, professors from different areas and national institutions. One of the highlights was the participation of herbalists in the event, bringing society closer to the academic world.

TALKS

Title: Dumping of Solid Waste on the Banks of the Laranja Doce Stream. Speakers: Thayne Danieli Schmidt Zolin, Walter Assumpção Azambuja; Laércio Alves de Carvalho.

Title: Fish from Mato Grosso do Sul: challenges for biodiversity conservation at the Federal Institute of Mato Grosso do Sul, during Environment Week. Speaker: Elizabeth Rocha Corrêa- PGRN (Master's).

Title: Information on oil consumption in three cities

A group from the Postgraduate Program in Natural Resources (PGRN) is carrying out outreach activities on the best way to consume edible oils and on the disposal of their waste in compliance with environmental expectations, at universities, supermarkets and schools in Dourados, Laguna Carapã and Bonito.

According to doctoral student Eliane Ferreira de Souza, responsible for the project, the proposal prioritizes community contact with studies in the food area. “The use of real studies aims to spark the public’s interest in a topic that facilitates learning followed by interpretation in everyday life. A reference point that favors the expansion of knowledge”, he emphasizes.

The work is supervised by Professor Dr. Antonio Rogério Fiorucci. And the participants are: Dr. Kelly Cristina da Silva Brabes, M.E. Cinthia Aparecida de Andrade Silva, M.E. Carmen Beatriz Reiss Zavala, M.E. Izamara Casadia, M.E. Marivane Turim Koschevic, M.E. Maria do Socorro M. Santos, M.E. Maria Bruna de S. Mulinari, M.E. Mikaelly Nayara Santos, Taiane Crotti and Ronaldo dos S. Silva.

Speaker: Eliane Ferreira de Souza

TECHNICAL VISIT

SENAI students make a technical visit to PGRN/CERNA in Dourados/MS

A group of students from the Technical Qualification in Chemistry course, offered by the National Industrial Training Service (SENAI), visited the Center for Studies in Natural Resources (CERNA) of the State University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS), Dourados unit, this Tuesday (14).

The technical visit was organized by the Stricto Sensu Postgraduate Program in Natural Resources (PGRN), in partnership with SENAI. During the visit, students were able to observe and participate in the chemical analysis processes carried out in the CERNA laboratories. The students were accompanied by instructors Eliane Ferreira de Souza and Mikaelly Nayara Santos, students of the Doctorate and Master's in Natural Resources.

The partnership between UEMS and SENAI reflects the industrial sector's concern for formal professionals in line with the reality of the job market.

PGRN/CERNA of UEMS welcomes Agronomy students from UNIGRAN for a technical visit

The Postgraduate Program in Natural Resources (PGRN) – Master's and Doctorate – of the State University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UEMS) welcomed around 30 students from the eighth semester of the Agronomy course, from the Grande Dourados University Center (Unigran), for a technical visit to the Program's laboratories, members of the Food Technology discipline.

The event called “Technology of products of plant origin: analysis of oil quality and fermentation parameters of biomass”, allowed students to participate in two lectures: “Analysis of oxidative stability in food – Rancimat Method”, given by Professor Antônio Rogério Fiorucci and PhD student Eliane Ferreira de Souza; and on “The efficiency of the fermentation process from alternative biomasses” given by Professor Margareth Batistote and Master's student Maria do Socorro Mascarenhas Santos.

INTERFACES WITH BASIC EDUCATION

Professor Antonio Rogério Fiorucci coordinates the PIBID project in the Chemistry Degree course at UEMS/Dourados, which has the participation of students from the PGRN, demonstrating the clear relationship between Undergraduate and Graduate courses, in addition to the role that this interaction has in strengthening basic education.

The Chemistry and Biology laboratories and the Zoological Collection linked to the PGRN periodically receive visits from schools in the Dourados region.

Natural Resources: Dissemination and inclusion

The proposal prioritizes students' contact with studies in the areas of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources, allowing them to have a view of these areas and the studies carried out in the State on these topics. The use of real studies in high school and undergraduate courses, in the first instance, aims to arouse students' interest, with an argument that facilitates learning, followed by the interpretation of everyday life, ending with an understanding of the world as a whole. A reference where successes and failures coexist, exchanging their statuses, in constant back and forth, is what makes it possible to use science in the teaching-learning process, a history that can show the coexistence of different explanations for the same fact, at the same time, addressing aspects that facilitate the elaboration of knowledge.

UEMS Professors: Antonio Rogério Fiorucci, Claudia Andrea Lima Cardoso (Coordinator), William Fernando Antonialli Junior.

UEMS students: Andrelle Caroline de Souza Brum (Biological Sciences), Denise Sguarizi Antonio PGRN (PhD), Douglas Alves Lopes (Biological Sciences), Eliane Ferreira de Souza PGRN (PhD), Ingrid de Carvalho Guimarães- PGRN (PhD), Jessica Ferreira da Silva PGRN (Master's), Mateus Rojas Franco de Souza (Biological Sciences), Michele Aparecida dos Santos Nobrega PGRN (PhD), Montcharles da Silva Pontes PGRN (Master's), Rafaella Caroline Bernardi PGRN (PhD), Shaline Sefara Lopes Fernandes PGRN (PhD), Veronica Augusta Costa Santos (Environmental Engineering) and Cinthia Aparecida de Andrade (Technician-UEMS).

INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES

In 2015, the Program welcomed, through the Graduate Student Partnership Program (PEC-PG), a student from the Republic of Benin, Yaovi Abel Kissi, to pursue a PhD, with a research project entitled: “Waste from WWTP as a substrate composition for the production of native seedlings in the Pantanal and Cerrado: Plant responses to stress”. In 2016, through the Alliances for Education and Training Program of the Organization of American States, a student from Guatemala, Julio César Jut Solórzano, joined the Master's program with a research project entitled: “Integration of landscape, hydrological and water quality metrics as predictors of fish distribution in streams of the Upper Paraná River.

INDICATORS OF SOLIDARITY AND NUCLEARATION

A proposal to create a Graduate Program in Chemistry is currently being discussed. In this proposal, some PGRN professors are participating in its construction. In addition, it is important to highlight that PGRN has participated in institutional projects to create or adapt its research infrastructure to serve both the Program and other emerging groups.

MONITORING OF GRADUATES

Although the history of graduates is small, it is worth noting that 40% of them went on to work in the public academic sector, 35% are working in non-academic sectors and 20% entered the doctorate program.