Have you ever thought about diving headfirst into the world of scientific research?
Scientific Initiation is an incredible opportunity for this! Here at PUCRS, you, as an undergraduate student, have the chance to work on projects led by researchers with expertise in various areas of knowledge. Imagine being directly involved in research projects that go beyond the classroom, contributing not only to your academic training, but also to the development of skills and competencies essential for scientific practice.
In Scientific Initiation, you not only learn, but also train and qualify yourself to be a researcher of the future! By participating, you not only gain knowledge about the routine and challenges of academic life, but also learn about research ethics and how to disseminate your results in scientific events and specialized publications.
Our Scientific Initiation and Technological Development and Innovation Initiation programs are here to spark your interest in research and raise the quality of scientific studies in the country.
Come be part of this journey and contribute to the advancement of scientific knowledge!
Coordinator
Prof. Dr. Laura Roberta Pinto Utz
Advisors
Prof. Dr. Maria Ivete B. Rockenbach
Prof. Dr. Marcio Rosa D'Avila
Contact
Av. Ipiranga, 6681
Living 360° (building 15) – Room 325
Porto Alegre/RS – Brazil – ZIP Code 90619-900
Phone: (51) 3353-7719
Email: pesquisa.ic@pucrs.br
Office hours
From Monday to Friday, from 2am to 6:8pm.
The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq), an agency of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), has as its main attributions to promote scientific and technological research and encourage the training of Brazilian researchers.
Created in 1951, it plays a key role in formulating and implementing science, technology and innovation policies. Its work contributes to national development and the recognition of Brazilian research institutions and researchers by the international scientific community.
Source: www.cnpq.br/web/guest/geral
Scholarship duration: The call period begins in September and ends in August of the following year, totaling 12 months in duration.
The beginning | 1/9/2024 |
Replacement period for graduating scholarship holders 2024/2 | 1st to 5/12/2024 |
Submission of the half-yearly report | 1st to 30/4/2025 |
PUCRS Scientific Initiation Hall | 3/6/6/2025 |
Replacement period for graduating scholarship holders 2025/1 | 1st to 5/7/2025 |
PUCRS Scientific Initiation Hall – Awards | 7/8/2025 |
End of activities | 31/8/2025 |
Submission of final report | 1st to 30/9/2025 |
The beginning | 1/9/2025 |
Replacement period for graduating scholarship holders 2025/2 | 1st to 5/12/2025 |
Submission of the half-yearly report | 1st to 30/4/2026 |
PUCRS Scientific Initiation Hall | 2/5/6/2026 |
Replacement period for graduating scholarship holders 2026/1 | 1st to 5/7/2026 |
PUCRS Scientific Initiation Hall – Awards | 6/8/2026 |
End of activities | 31/8/2026 |
Submission of final report | 1st to 30/9/2026 |
The Institutional Scientific Initiation Scholarship Program – Pibic/CNPq is a program aimed at developing scientific thinking and initiating research among undergraduate students in higher education.
Pibic aims to support the Scientific Initiation policy developed in Educational and/or Research Institutions, through the granting of Scientific Initiation (IC) scholarships to undergraduate students involved in scientific research. The quota of (IC) scholarships is granted directly to the institutions, which are responsible for selecting the projects of the supervising researchers interested in participating in the Program. Students become scholarship holders upon recommendation by their supervisors.
Source: www.cnpq.br/web/guest/pibic
New call 2025/2026
2025/2026
Project Submission Form
Project Renewal Report
*Note: The formatting of the Submission Form and Renewal Report may be altered if they are opened on the macOS operating system. If this occurs, it will be necessary to fill them out on the Windows operating system.
Call in progress 2024/2025
Closed Calls
Pibic Results
After filling out and collecting signatures, the document must be delivered by the scholarship holder to the Scientific Initiation Coordination – Living 360º, room 325.
The Institutional Program for Scholarships for Initiation in Technological Development and Innovation (Pibiti) aims to encourage young people in higher education in activities, methodologies, knowledge and practices specific to technological development and innovation processes.
Pibiti aims to contribute to the training and insertion of students in research, technological development and innovation activities; contribute to the training of human resources who will dedicate themselves to strengthening the innovative capacity of companies in the country, and contribute to the training of full citizens, with conditions to participate in a creative and entrepreneurial way in their community.
Source: www.cnpq.br/web/guest/pibiti
New call 2025/2026
2025/2026
Project Submission Form
Project Renewal Form
*Note: The formatting of the Submission Form and Renewal Report may be altered if they are opened on the macOS operating system. If this occurs, it will be necessary to fill them out on the Windows operating system.
Call in progress 2024/2025
Calls closed
Pibiti Results
After filling out and collecting signatures, the document must be delivered by the scholarship holder to the Scientific Initiation Coordination – Living 360º, room 325
pubic
• CNPq Pibic Institutional and External Committee 2024-2025
• CNPq Pibic Institutional and External Committee 2023-2024
• CNPq Pibic Institutional and External Committee 2022-2023
• CNPq Pibic Institutional and External Committee 2021-2022
Pibiti
• CNPq Pibiti Institutional and External Committee 2024-2025
• CNPq Pibiti Institutional and External Committee 2023-2024
• CNPq Pibiti Institutional and External Committee 2022-2023
• CNPq Pibiti Institutional and External Committee 2021-2022
Scholarship requirements
Important: The scholarship holder who changes his/her curriculum must inform the Scientific Initiation Coordination (pesquisa.ic@pucrs.br) of the new registration number for the necessary measures.
Scholarship holder's duties
Important: The CNPq scholarship holder is committed to presenting the results of the research in which he/she participates at the University's Scientific Initiation Fair, and it is also the responsibility of the supervising researcher to confirm this participation and monitor the scholarship holder's presentation at the event.
When nominating a scholarship holder, the selected student will receive an email from CNPq informing him/her of his/her nomination as a scholarship holder in the aforementioned scientific/technological initiation modality (Pibic/Pibiti). In this email, in addition to containing the scholarship validity period, CNPq requests that the student accept or decline the nomination. We emphasize that the procedure is carried out directly on the CNPq website through the link provided in the email.
Important: The scholarship will only start to be paid after the registration of consent to your nomination.
A CNPq scientific initiation scholarship may be granted to a student who is undertaking a non-mandatory internship, provided that a joint statement is provided by the internship supervisor, the research advisor and the scholarship holder stating that undertaking the internship does not create an employment relationship of any nature and will not affect the student's dedication to academic and research activities.
This requirement also applies to scholarship holders who undertake a non-mandatory internship during the term of the scholarship.
Template – Pibic Joint Declaration
Template – Pibiti Joint Declaration
Observation: After filling out and collecting the signatures of the internship supervisor and the research advisor, the document must be delivered by the scholarship holder to the Scientific Initiation Coordination (Living 360°, room 325) together with his/her internship contract.
The professor responsible for the research must fill out the scholarship replacement form and send it, together with the student's enrollment declaration and bank statement, by email to the Scientific Initiation Coordination (pesquisa.ic@pucrs.br) requesting the replacement of a Pibic or Pibiti scholarship holder by the 5th of each month.
Pibic scholarship holder replacement form
Pibiti scholarship holder replacement form
Confidentiality agreement
After filling out and collecting signatures, the document must be delivered by the scholarship holder to the Scientific Initiation Coordination – Living 360º, room 325
Important: The nominated student must have:
Observation: If the researcher chooses to withdraw from the scholarship, it is essential to formalize this by email to the Scientific Initiation Coordination so that the necessary procedures can be carried out.
The scholarship is paid monthly by CNPq until the 5th business day of the month following the month of competence, by means of a deposit into a current account held by the scholarship holder, necessarily at Banco do Brasil.
The Semiannual Report and the Final Report are instruments for monitoring and evaluating the research project.
The reports must be submitted, without exception, by SAP system:
The Supervisor needs to access the “CI Project Management” module, through the link https://webapp.pucrs.br/sibic, select the option “Consult Registered Projects” and perform the following steps:
Half-yearly report
Final report
The Rio Grande do Sul State Research Support Foundation (Fapergs) was created in 1964 with the purpose of being an agency to promote scientific and technological development in Rio Grande do Sul, in accordance with the policies established for the sector. Linked to the State Secretariat for Economic Development, Science and Technology, it is maintained by resources from the State Treasury, in accordance with Law 9.103 of August 1990, and from agreements or partnerships.
Source: www.fapergs.rs.gov.br
Objectives: Fapergs aims to foster research in all areas of knowledge. Its responsibilities include: promoting technological innovation in the production sector, scientific, technological and cultural exchange and dissemination; stimulating the training of human resources, and strengthening and expanding the state's research infrastructure.
Duration of the Grant: The call period begins in September and ends in August of the following year, totaling 12 months in duration.
Source: www.fapergs.rs.gov.br
The beginning | 1/9/2024 |
Replacement period for graduating scholarship holders 2024/2 | 1st to 5/12/2024 |
Submission of the half-yearly report | 1st to 30/4/2025 |
PUCRS Scientific Initiation Hall | 3/6/6/2025 |
Replacement period for graduating scholarship holders 2025/1 | 1st to 5/7/2025 |
PUCRS Scientific Initiation Hall – Awards | 7/8/2025 |
End of activities | 31/8/2025 |
Submission of final report | 1st to 30/9/2025 |
The beginning | 1/9/2025 |
Replacement period for graduating scholarship holders 2025/2 | 1st to 5/12/2025 |
Submission of the half-yearly report | 1st to 30/4/2026 |
PUCRS Scientific Initiation Hall | 2/5/6/2026 |
Replacement period for graduating scholarship holders 2026/1 | 1st to 5/7/2026 |
PUCRS Scientific Initiation Hall – Awards | 6/8/2026 |
End of activities | 31/8/2026 |
Submission of final report | 1st to 30/9/2026 |
The Institutional Scientific Initiation Scholarship Program – Probic/Fapergs is aimed at undergraduate students from all areas of knowledge.
Objectives: “To develop an interest in scientific research among undergraduate students and complement their academic training through participation in the development of activities provided for in work plans linked to research projects, under the guidance of an experienced researcher from an educational and research institution based in the State”.
“Encourage productive researchers to engage undergraduate students in the scientific research process, optimizing the institution’s capacity to train highly qualified professionals.”
Source: www.fapergs.rs.gov.br
New call 2025/2026
1st ADDENDUM PROBIC PROBITI FAPERGS 2025-2026 Calls
Project Submission Form
Personal information form – Scholarship Supervisor
Project Renewal Report
* Note: The formatting of the Submission Form and Renewal Report may be altered if they are opened on the macOS operating system. If this occurs, it will be necessary to fill them out on the Windows operating system.
Call in progress
* Note: The formatting of the Submission Form and Renewal Report may be altered if they are opened on the macOS operating system. If this occurs, it will be necessary to fill them out on the Windows operating system.
Calls closed
* Note: The formatting of the Submission Form and Renewal Report may be altered if they are opened on the macOS operating system. If this occurs, it will be necessary to fill them out on the Windows operating system.
Probic Results
The Institutional Program for Technological Initiation and Innovation Scholarships – Probiti/Fapergs is aimed at undergraduate students from all areas of knowledge.
Objectives: “To develop an interest in scientific research and technological development among undergraduate students and to complement their academic training through participation in the development of activities provided for in work plans linked to research projects, under the guidance of an experienced researcher from an educational and research institution based in the State”.
“Encourage productive researchers to engage undergraduate students in the scientific research process, optimizing the institution’s capacity to train highly qualified professionals.”
New call
1st ADDENDUM PROBIC PROBITI FAPERGS 2025-2026 Calls
Project Submission Form
Personal information form – Scholarship Supervisor
Project Renewal Report
* Note: The formatting of the Submission Form and Renewal Report may be altered if they are opened on the macOS operating system. If this occurs, it will be necessary to fill them out on the Windows operating system.
Call in progress
* Note: The formatting of the Submission Form and Renewal Report may be altered if they are opened on the macOS operating system. If this occurs, it will be necessary to fill them out on the Windows operating system.
Calls closed
Probiti results
Probiti Final Result 2024/2025
Probic
• CNPq Probic Institutional and External Committee 2024-2025
• CNPq Probic Institutional and External Committee 2023-2024
• CNPq Probic Institutional and External Committee 2022-2023
• CNPq Probic Institutional and External Committee 2021-2022
Probiti
• CNPq Probiti Institutional and External Committee 2024-2025
• CNPq Probiti Institutional and External Committee 2023-2024
• CNPq Probiti Institutional and External Committee 2022-2023
• CNPq Probiti Institutional and External Committee 2021-2022
Scholarship requirements
Important: The scholarship holder who changes his/her curriculum must inform the Scientific Initiation Coordination (pesquisa.ic@pucrs.br) of the new registration number so that the necessary measures can be taken.
Scholarship holder's duties
Important: The Fapergs scholarship holder is committed to presenting the results of the research in which he/she participates at the University's Scientific Initiation Fair. It is also the responsibility of the Researcher/Advisor to confirm this participation and monitor the presentation of his/her scholarship holder at the event.
To enable the signing of the Grant and Acceptance Term of Scholarship – Fapergs, the student must have their registration updated on SigFapergs (https://sig.fapergs.rs.gov.br) and attach the documentation required by the system (copy of ID, CPF, proof of enrollment and bank statement – Banco Banrisul). The granting of the grant will be directly linked to the digital signature of the Grant and Acceptance Term by the participating institution, the researcher, the grantee and Fapergs. The digital signatures will later be collected by Fapergs, via the Clicksign platform.
Important: The scholarship holder is prohibited from starting his/her activities before submitting the complete documentation and after the end of the term provided for in the aforementioned term.
Necessary Documents
Important: the scholarship will NOT be implemented by Fapergs if the scholarship holder is not registered in SigFapergs (https://sig.fapergs.rs.gov.br).
A Fapergs scientific initiation scholarship may be granted to students who are undertaking a non-mandatory internship, provided that a Joint Declaration is provided by the internship supervisor, the research advisor and the scholarship holder stating that undertaking the internship does not create an employment relationship of any nature and will not affect the student's dedication to academic and research activities.
This requirement also applies to scholarship holders who undertake a non-mandatory internship during the term of the scholarship.
Template – PROBIC Joint Declaration
Template – PROBITI Joint Declaration
Observation: After filling out and collecting the signatures of the Internship Supervisor and the Research Advisor, the document must be delivered by the scholarship holder to the Scientific Initiation Coordination (Living 360° | Room 325) together with their Internship Contract.
Requests for replacement of Fapergs scholarship holders must be submitted to the PUCRS Scientific Initiation Coordination Office (Living 360º – room 325) by the 5th of each month for implementation of the scholarship by Fapergs in that same month. Requests submitted after this date will be implemented in the following month.
According to Fapergs requirements, replacements can only be made from October/2024.
Necessary Documents
After filling out and collecting signatures, the documents must be delivered by the scholarship holder to the Scientific Initiation Coordination – Living 360º, room 325.
Important: To enable the signing of the Grant and Acceptance Term of Scholarship – Fapergs, the student must have their registration updated on SigFapergs (https://sig.fapergs.rs.gov.br) and attach the documentation required by the system (copy of ID, CPF, proof of enrollment and bank statement – Banco Banrisul).
The granting of the grant will be directly linked to the digital signature of the Grant and Acceptance Term by the participating institution, the researcher, the grantee and Fapergs. The digital signatures will later be collected by Fapergs, via the Clicksign platform.
Important: The scholarship holder is prohibited from starting his/her activities before submitting the complete documentation and after the end of the term provided for in the aforementioned term.
Observation: If the Researcher chooses to withdraw from the Grant, it is essential to formalize this, by email, to the Scientific Initiation Coordination so that the necessary procedures can be carried out.
The scholarship is paid monthly by Fapergs until the 5th business day of the month following the month of competence, by means of a deposit in a checking account held by the scholarship holder, obligatorily at the Banco do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (Banrisul). It is the sole responsibility of the scholarship holder to open a checking account at any Banrisul SA branch, as well as to provide the correct bank details to the Scientific Initiation Coordination (pesquisa.ic@pucrs.br) in a timely manner so that the necessary measures can be taken. No retroactive payments will be made. The division of the scholarship is not permitted, since it is personal and indivisible. Likewise, it is
Transfer of funds between scholarship holders is prohibited. The scholarship amounts are set by Fapergs.
The Semiannual Report and the Final Report are instruments for monitoring and evaluating the research project.
The reports must be submitted, without exception, by SAP system:
The Supervisor needs to access the “CI Project Management” module, through the link https://webapp.pucrs.br/sibic, select the option “Consult Registered Projects” and perform the following steps:
Half-Yearly Report
Final report
The PUCRS Institutional Scholarship Program for Scientific Initiation and Initiation in Technological Development and Innovation aims to encourage undergraduate students in activities, methodologies, knowledge and practices specific to scientific and technological development and innovation processes, in addition to encouraging their inclusion in postgraduate studies.
Scholarship duration: The call period begins in September and ends in August of the following year, totaling 12 months in duration.
The beginning | 1/9/2024 |
Replacement period for graduating scholarship holders 2024/2 | 1st to 5/12/2024 |
Submission of the Half-Yearly Report | 1st to 30/4/2025 |
PUCRS Scientific Initiation Hall | 3/6/6/2025 |
Replacement period for graduating scholarship holders 2025/1 | 1st to 5/7/2025 |
PUCRS Scientific Initiation Hall – Awards | 7/8/2025 |
End of activities | 31/8/2025 |
Submission of final report | 1st to 30/9/2025 |
The beginning | 1/9/2025 |
Replacement period for graduating scholarship holders 2025/2 | 1st to 5/12/2025 |
Submission of the half-yearly report | 1st to 30/4/2026 |
PUCRS Scientific Initiation Hall | 2/5/6/2026 |
Replacement period for graduating scholarship holders 2026/1 | 1st to 5/7/2026 |
PUCRS Scientific Initiation Hall – Awards | 6/8/2026 |
End of activities | 31/8/2026 |
Submission of final report | 1st to 30/9/2026 |
The PUCRS Institutional Scientific Initiation Scholarship Program aims to encourage undergraduate students to develop scientific thinking, encouraging them to enter postgraduate studies.
New call 2025/2026
2025/2026
Project Submission Form
Project Renewal Report
Call in progress
Calls closed
PUCRS-BIC Results
PUCRS-BIC Final Result 2024/2025
PUCRS-BIC Scholarship Nomination Form
Commitment and Confidentiality Agreement
After filling out and collecting signatures, the documents must be delivered by the scholarship holder to the Scientific Initiation Coordination – Living 360º, room 325.
The PUCRS Institutional Scholarship Program for Technological Development and Innovation Initiation aims to encourage undergraduate students in activities, methodologies, knowledge and practices specific to scientific, technological and innovation process development, in addition to encouraging their inclusion in postgraduate studies.
New call 2025/2026
2025/2026
Project Submission Form
Project Renewal Report
Call in progress
Calls closed
PUCRS-Biti Results
PUCRS-Biti Final Result 2024/2025
PUCRS-Biti Scholarship Nomination Form
Commitment and Confidentiality Agreement
After filling out and collecting signatures, the documents must be delivered by the scholarship holder to the Scientific Initiation Coordination – Living 360º, room 325.
Important: The scholarship holder who changes his/her curriculum must inform the Scientific Initiation Coordination Office of the new registration number (pesquisa.ic@pucrs.br), for the necessary measures.
Scholarship holder's duties
Important: The PUCRS scholarship holder is committed to presenting the results of the research in which he/she participates at the University's Scientific Initiation Fair. It is also the responsibility of the supervising researcher to confirm this participation and monitor the presentation of the scholarship holder at the event.
The implementation of the IC/ITI scholarship will be directly linked to the completion, signature and submission of the nomination form, the scholarship grant and acceptance term and the term of commitment, confidentiality and assignment of intellectual property rights with Ubea/PUCRS.
Important: The scholarship holder is prohibited from starting his/her activities before sending the complete documentation and after the end of the term provided for in the aforementioned term.
After filling out and collecting signatures, the documents must be delivered by the scholarship holder to the Scientific Initiation Coordination – Living 360º, room 325.
A PUCRS IC/ITI scholarship may be granted to students who are undertaking a non-mandatory internship, provided that the internship is not linked to PUCRS and that a joint statement is provided by the internship supervisor, the research advisor and the scholarship holder stating that undertaking the internship does not create an employment relationship of any nature and will not affect the student's dedication to academic and research activities.
This requirement also applies to scholarship holders who undertake a non-mandatory internship during the term of the scholarship.
Template – PUCRS-BIC Joint Declaration
Template – PUCRS-Biti Joint Declaration
Observation: After filling out and collecting the signatures of the internship supervisor and the research advisor, the document must be delivered by the scholarship holder to the Scientific Initiation Coordination (Living 360°, room 325) together with his/her internship contract.
The documents below must be completed and signed by the advisor, scholarship holder and witnesses, and delivered to the Scientific Initiation Coordination (Living 360°, room 325), without fail, until the 5th of each month.
Important: The scholarship holder must have a current account in any bank. Savings accounts, joint accounts, salary accounts, electronic allowance and/or easy accounts, third-party accounts or legal entity accounts will not be permitted.
Observation: If the researcher chooses to terminate the scholarship, it is essential to formalize this by email to the Scientific Initiation Coordination so that the necessary procedures can be carried out.
Payment of the monthly amount of the scholarship will be made directly to the scholarship holders by the 10th day of each month, starting from the month following the start of the validity period, by means of a monthly deposit into a bank account informed by the scholarship holder (savings accounts, joint accounts, salary-type accounts, electronic allowance and/or easy accounts, third-party accounts or legal entity accounts are not permitted).
Important: Failure to receive the scholarship amount must be reported to the Scientific Initiation Coordination by the 20th of the month in question so that the appropriate measures can be taken. No retroactive, proportional and/or non-enrolled payments will be made.
The Semiannual Report and the Final Report are instruments for monitoring and evaluating the research project.
The reports must be submitted, without exception, by SAP system:
The Supervisor needs to access the “CI Project Management” module, through the link https://webapp.pucrs.br/sibic, select the option “Consult Registered Projects” and perform the following steps:
Half-Yearly Report
Final report
The PUCRS Volunteer Scientific Initiation Program – IC Voluntário aims to provide complementary human and scientific training to PUCRS undergraduate students, through the voluntary performance of research activities under the coordination of a professor/researcher linked to the University.
Workload: Up to 20 hours per week.
Duration: 12 (twelve) months, counted from the date of signing the Grant Term, extendable for the same period, as long as the student is enrolled in an undergraduate course at PUCRS.
Active research structures/projects
Access the Research Structures/Projects registered in the IC Volunteer Program below.
Supervisor profile
Be interested in involving and supporting undergraduate students in voluntary Scientific Initiation activities.
Supervisor requirements
Important: Hourly professors not accredited in a Graduate Program cannot supervise volunteer students in the PUCRS Volunteer Scientific Initiation Program.
Supervisor's duties
Volunteer Student Profile
Student Volunteer Requirements
Observation: The student volunteer linked to a project in the areas of Engineering and Biological, Health, Exact and Earth Sciences and related areas, or other areas, in which research activities involve work with biological, chemical materials or living organisms, must complete the Laboratory Safety Training Course available on the Moodle Platform and present the certificate of completion before starting participation in the program.
Student Volunteer Duties
The registration of the research structure or project must be carried out by the supervising professor by filling out, signing and delivering the registration form to the Scientific Initiation Coordination (Living 360°, room 325):
Research or project structure registration form
If the supervising professor is a member of the team of an active research structure and wants to register in the IC Volunteer Program with that structure, it will be necessary to submit the letter of consent from the coordinator of the research structure together with the registration form.
Each research structure or project may host more than one Volunteer IC.
The documentation for the student nomination process must be delivered to the Scientific Initiation Coordination by the 10th of each month for implementation and necessary procedures in the month itself.
Observation: Documentation submitted after this date will result in implementation the following month.
Student Volunteer Application Form and Activity Plan
Grant term
Confidentiality agreement
Updated Registration Declaration
Certificate of completion of the Laboratory Safety Training Course
To request the end of the IC Volunteer student's participation in the program, the supervising professor must complete, sign and deliver the document below to the Scientific Initiation Coordination (Living 360°, room 325) by the 10th of the month in which activities end:
Student Volunteer Participation Closure Form
To obtain documentation proving participation in the Voluntary Scientific Initiation Program, the volunteer student must submit the final report containing the final opinion of the supervising professor to the Scientific Initiation Coordination (Living 360°, room 325).
Important: It is essential that the professor interested in ending his/her participation as an advisor in the Voluntary Scientific Initiation Program formalize his/her decision by email to the Scientific Initiation Coordination for carrying out the necessary procedures.
IC Júnior is a program managed by Pro-Rectory of Research and Postgraduate Studies (Propesq), under the responsibility of the Scientific Initiation Coordination, whose main objective is to provide opportunities for high school students from Porto Alegre and the metropolitan region to participate in projects run by researchers at the University, enabling initiation into research in different areas of knowledge.
Opportunities will be made available in the following modalities: volunteer quality scholarship holder, expanding the possibilities for student participation according to the profile and conditions of each project.
Workload: 10 hours per week
Duration: September to December – 4 months
NOTE: From the effective date of 2025, a trial version will be made available scholarship quota in online mode, intended for the Marist Social College Pius XII, located em Surubim, Pernambuco.
Candidate registration period
*Limited to 200 entries |
14/4 a 6/6/2025 |
Student selection period | 23/6 a 18/7/2025 |
Announcement of selected students | After 29/7/2025 |
Student welcome event | 14/8/2025 |
Delivery of student documents | Until 28/8/2025 |
Call validity | 1º/9 a 31/12/2025 |
Closing event of activities | 11/12/2025 |
Submission of video/Final Report | 1st to 20/12/2025 |
The call contains the information required for the registration process. We recommend that you read it in full before registering.
Student profile
Student Requirements and Duties
The student presentation video is essential for the scholarship selection process for the Junior Scientific Initiation Scholarship Program.
Important:
COMING SOON
The documents below must be filled out digitally and signed manually by the advisor, student and witnesses, and delivered to the Scientific Initiation Coordination (Living 360°, room 325), without fail, until the 5th of september.
Volunteer Documents:
Scholarship Documents:
Important: The scholarship holder must have a current account in any bank. Savings accounts, joint accounts, salary accounts, electronic allowance and/or easy accounts, third-party accounts or legal entity accounts will not be permitted.
The IC Jr. scholarship holder must prepare a final report in video format, which must be between 5 and 10 minutes long, in which he/she must address the following topics:
The issuance of the certificate is subject to the submission of the Final Report, which must be sent by the Supervisor by 20/12 to the email address pesquisa.ic@pucrs.br.
Undergraduate Scholarship Holders – Researcher Scholarships, in the scientific or technological initiation modalities, are students linked to research projects under the responsibility of a researcher with an active employment relationship, with research hours in spreadsheets, at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). These scholarships are obtained directly by the researcher from funding agencies and are intended for students both internal and external to PUCRS, with the objective of providing academic and scientific experience.
The implementation of the scholarship is subject to compliance with institutional requirements and submission of the required documentation.
The procedures for accepting scholarship holders include registration in institutional systems, verification of documentation and communication to those involved about the regularization of the relationship.
Students outside PUCRS must follow additional steps, such as obtaining a registration number at the University, ensuring their integration into the academic environment and access to institutional facilities and services.
The responsible researcher must send it to the Scientific Initiation Coordination (pesquisa.ic@pucrs.br) the request for registration of scholarship holders (internal and external to PUCRS), accompanied by the mandatory documentation, indicated below:
Observation: A card will be issued allowing access to the parking lot, the Library and other facilities that require identification, except for PUCRS students who already have one.
After the completion of the activities, whether due to the end of the scholarship term, suspension due to non-compliance with the funding agency's rules, request from the supervisor or withdrawal by the scholarship holder, the advisor must inform the Scientific Initiation Coordination so that the necessary updates can be made to the institutional systems.
In addition, the scholarship holder must return the PUCRS ID card to the Scientific Initiation Coordination Office (Living 360° – Room 325) within a maximum period of ten days. This requirement does not apply to students regularly enrolled in undergraduate courses at PUCRS.
Access the surveys that are active in the 2024-2025 period below.
Scientific initiation is an instrument that allows undergraduate students to be introduced into direct contact with scientific activity and engage them in research.
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IMPORTANT: If the email is not filled in correctly, we are not responsible for sending the requested documentation.
Event accepts registrations until May 21st
Tuesday, May 20 | 2025