Trajectory

Since its foundation in 1986, IEA has promoted debates, developed analyses and elaborated propositions about essential themes for Brazilian scientific, technological, socioeconomic and institutional development. Additionally, it has provided the university community and the general public with the opportunity of having direct contact with several Brazilian and foreign personalities from the areas of science, humanities and arts.

Many programs, projects and cycles carried out by the Institute stand out due to the relevance of their themes for the future of the country. The following programs "Education for Citizenship" and "Constitutional Review", as well as the projects "Floram" (Forests for the Environment) and "Brazil in the Future – 2022", the forum "Capital-Labor" and the cycles "Dilemmas and Challenges in Higher Education", "Technology Innovation" and "Biomass Civilization" are examples of activities that produced detailed analyses and recommendations for the improvement of public policies in numerous sectors.

The programs, projects, areas and groups of the Institute have already received the collaboration of hundreds of participants, who have acted as visiting professors or researchers, lecturers or collaborators. Among those with greater international visibility are John Kenneth Galbraith, Noam Chomsky, Jürgen Habermas, Christopher Hill, Robert Darnton, Bernard Feld, José Saramago, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Georges Charpak, Milton Santos, Ignacy Sachs, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Christophe Yoccoz, Newton da Costa, Enzo Faletto, Mario Molina, Edgar Morin, Oscar Sala, Peter Burke, Alan Sokal, Jean-Pierre Changeux, Otto Gottlieb, Alain Touraine, Hans-Joaquim Köellreutter, John Casti, Yochai Benkler, Werner Arber, Jacob Palis, Richard Morse, Richard Nelson, David King, John Gledson, Hélio Jaguaribe and Iván Izquierdo.

The important role played by the journal "Estudos Avançados" could not be left out from this short outline of the history of the Institute. The journal is a publication for scientific and cultural debate that has been issued uninterruptedly every four months since 1987. One of its outstanding characteristics is the presence of a different dossier in each issue. Some of the subjects of the dossiers in last five years are: Amazonia, energy, migration, Latin America, labor and jobs, hunger and undernourishment, the situation of black people and women in the country, Judiciary reform and religions in Brazil.

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