PPGDesign Self-Evaluation
 

In 2019, the program reevaluated its strategic planning under the Proposal for Improving Post-Graduation Evaluation Model, a document issued by CAPES in October 2018. The many proposed dimensions were contemplated in this process, resulting in the prioritization of some of the most relevant topics for PPGDesign/Univille. About the Graduate Follow-up dimension, the strengths are:

  • a segmented database of the graduates;
  • regular invitations to graduates to join events, classes and seminars;
  • the insertion by the graduates in companies, which make possible projects along with them.

About the Internalization dimension, we understand that the program is close to many multinational companies and has published in international events. Regard the Scientific Production dimension, considering PPGDesign/Univille is a professional program, to which technical production is as relevant as the scientific one, it was verified that:

- our production is adequate to the evaluation criteria;

- the multidisciplinary team balances the two types of production;

- PPGDesign/Univille journal was edited and already in progress.

In turn, in the Innovation and Knowledge Exchange dimension, the program has:

  • students that work on the labor market;
  • entrepreneurs students;
  • recurrent classes with companies;
  • relationship with incubators and startups;
  • research groups and laboratories that work in companies of the region and that are incubated in the university innovation park.

Related to the Economic and Social Impact and Relevance dimension, we consider that:

- sustainability concentration area is already the DNA of the program;

- the program is close to incubators and public entities/offices;

- workshops and capacitation with associations and communities are frequent.

Likewise the review of the Proposal for Improving Post-Graduation Evaluation Model guided strengths, in the same contemplated dimensions, improvement opportunities have been noticed. Regard the Graduate Follow-up dimension, we have verified that we can:

  • stimulate seminars with graduates to share the activities of their business;
  • promote debates with graduates, especially in the subject Seminars of Professional Experience;
  • stablish research groups with opportunities of publication with graduates;
  • consolidate the subject Mobility setting relationships with current students and the graduates’ companies.

In Internationalization dimension, we comprehend that we can:

  • Carry out surveys of companies with international projects;
  • Map international events for publication;
  • Bring invited professors;
  • Stablish partnerships with institutions from Mercosur.

In Scientific Production dimension, it is important to:

  • Stimulate new types of production (like descriptive memorials and patent registration);
  • Publish along with the members of the board;
  • Stablish partnerships with professional post-graduation programs;
  • Improve the activity records, like technical/technological publications;
  • Indicate on the title of the final year projects that they are patent processes.

About the Innovation and Knowledge Exchange dimension, it was seen that we can:

  • Increase proximity with local representative/class institutions;
  • Increase proximity with the other post-graduation programs of Univille;
  • Improve the record of our many activities and productions;
  • Transfer the knowledge to graduates (frequent seminars).

Finally, in Economic and Social Impact and Relevance dimension, we consider that we must:

  • Better structure the impact actions, based on our focus: public/urban, social, industry/service;
  • Associate the developed activities and projects with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

Trying to stablish a continuous process of improvement and qualification of the faculty, processes like the PPGDesign strategical planning and PPGDesign self-evaluation planning were systematized between 2018 and 2020.