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PARQUE TECNOLÓGICO DA UFRJ
UFRJ Science Park News
The Newsletter of the Science Park at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) is a monthly publication which circulates information about the major activities undertaken at the institution as well as events of interest.
PARTNERSHIP
UFRJ SCIENCE PARK ESTABLISHES PARTNERSHIP WITH TELEFÔNICA OPEN FUTURE FOR THE CROWD RIO PROGRAM

The UFRJ Science Park and Telefônica Open Future established a partnership to create a crowdworking space for digital entrepreneurs. The program aims at fostering Rio de Janeiro’s innovation ecosystem through an entrepreneurial action within the Park’s environment to stimulate the development of new technology-based innovating businesses.

Crowd Rio, as the program is named, will be located in the coworking space of the UFRJ Science Park and is in search of businesses that deal with IoT (Internet of Things) and digital technologies.

Registrations are open in the Openfuture.org platform or through this link until March 10. Ten startups will be selected.

The program will last up to one year, divided in three four-month rounds. During this period, the companies will have at their disposal a physical infrastructure and a package of services related to the methodology of Wayra/Open Future businesses acceleration. In addition, they will have access to an innovation environment open to the technological development in a partnership with UFRJ researchers as well as the opportunity of establishing networking with other startups, small and medium-sized companies and R&D centers of large multinationals, already residents in the Park and in the COPPE/UFRJ Business Incubator.

SEBRAE BUSINESSES
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PARTNERSHIP WILL OFFER CONSULTANCE TO THE RESIDENT COMPANIES

The UFRJ Science Park established A partnership with Sebrae to create “Sebrae Businesses”, a pilot program aimed at assisting the Small and Medium-Sized companies residents in the Park and the startups of the COPPE/UFRJ Business Incubator. The selected companies will be provided with Sebrae diagnosis and consulting services with the objective of strengthening and structuring the commercial sector of each company. The companies will also receive a plan of action for their commercial activities and will participate in theme-oriented workshops on pitch, sales techniques among others.

PARK IN THE MEDIA
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COOPERATION BETWEEN UFRJ SCIENCE PARK AND TUSPARK MAKES THE HEADLINES

On January 16, the partnership between the UFRJ Science Park and TusPark, the largest science park in China, hit the headlines of newspaper Valor Econômico. With the partnership, the Park’s companies will be able to learn about China’s business environment and the Chinese companies will be able to learn about the Brazilian environment. This is a way of fostering the internationalization of the technology-based companies from the two different innovation environments, especially of the small and medium-sized companies and of the UFRJ Science Park as well. Read the news article here.

LEARN MORE
■ TEDxUFRJ - The Science Park’s CEO, José Carlos Pinto, gave a talk at TEDxUFRJ on the development of a new medicine for the treatment of schistosomiasis and on how being an entrepreneur is of paramount importance for health sciences and Brazil. Check it here.
■ Incubator - TGR, a resident company at COPPE/UFRJ Business Incubator made the headlines of newspaper Valor Econômico on February 1. The company is currently developing a technology for monitoring Internet’s quality that is being used by Brazil’s largest fixed broadband operator. Read the news article here!
■ Visit - On January 27, the Science Park welcomed a group of students in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Espírito Santo. The students had the opportunity to visit the Park and watched a presentation prepared by GT2 Energia, a startup at Coppe/UFRJ Business Incubator.  
■ Video - TGR, a resident company at COPPE/UFRJ Business Incubator, was interviewed by Inova Parque UFRJ, the Park’s channel on YouTube. Check it here.






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