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Facens has always had in its DNA to develop students for the labor market, as we were born with the vision of integrating market and academia. We believe that our students should not only be able to meet the expectations of companies, But overcome them, offering innovative knowledge and entrepreneurial and sustainable attitudes.
In 2002, we created the Sorocabano Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (Ipeas), which later, in 2017, became IP Facens, our market arm, which performs research, material testing, development, and innovation services in games, applications, augmented virtual reality, Artificial Intelligence, Industry 4.0, among others.
Among the more than 650 partners are companies such as Huawei, Emerson, Flex, ABB, Claro, Ericsson, Balluff, JCB, CNH, Lanxess, Lenovo, Prysmian, ZF, and Splice Group.
“The connection between universities and the market is essential to promote social inclusion and reduce economic inequality, as well as to promote innovation, sustainable development, and environmental conservation.”- Edward Brasil
(Vice-Dean of UFRJ)
In 2022, SBT inaugurated a space within the Facens University Center, in order to further foster the broadcaster's innovation pillar. The main goal is to integrate professionals and content that address the exploration of new technologies, the development of apps, games, augmented realities, virtual realities, and products related to 5G.
Among the main projects is SBT Games – the broadcaster's games vertical –, which always offers the market the most current and connected to the new habits of consumers, generating opportunities for advertisers. In total, we have already had more than 16 million downloads of the games developed in this partnership.
"This space allowed us to further accelerate the various initiatives and innovations that SBT has adopted in recent years. The strategic partnership with Facens helps SBT to explore the different opportunities that 5G will open up and all SBT stakeholders will gain from this.”- Fernando Pensado
(Head of Innovation of the broadcaster)
In 2022, Facens became the first higher education institution in the Sorocaba region to sign the UN Global Compact in Brazil, an initiative of the United Nations (UN) to mobilize organizations to adopt and promote, in their business practices, the ten universally accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption.
Launched in 2000, the Global Compact guides and supports the global business community in advancing UN goals and values through responsible corporate practices. With the creation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it became part of its mission to engage the private sector in its agenda. Thus, with more than 16,000 companies and almost 4,000 non-business organizations, distributed in 70 local networks (covering almost 170 countries), it is the largest corporate sustainability initiative in the world.
By joining the Global Compact, we commit to annually communicate our progress against its ten principles. Throughout the reading of this report, you can learn about Facens' initiatives that fall under each of the principles.
