Innovation Scholarship Program - MAI/DAI - CNPq

Academic Master’s and Doctoral Program for Innovation – MAI/DAI – CNPq

The Academic Master’s and Doctoral Program for Innovation (MAI/DAI) is an initiative by the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq, enabling Graduate Programs to foster projects of interaction with companies through theses, dissertations, and course completion projects.

The MAI/DAI Program aims to strengthen research, entrepreneurship, and innovation in Scientific, Technological, and Innovation Institutions (STIIs), by engaging undergraduate and graduate students in projects of interest to the business sector, through partnerships with companies, hereinafter referred to as Partner Companies.

Under this Program, master’s and doctoral scholarship holders will develop their projects as regular students in existing graduate programs, and must have both an academic advisor and a supervisor from the Partner Company to which the master’s/doctoral project is related.

Each master’s/doctoral project must involve scholarship holders from Technological Initiation programs, enrolled in undergraduate courses at the executing STII, who will support the ongoing thesis or dissertation project and may assist in other research projects, provided that this does not compromise the MAI/DAI project to which they are assigned.

The Office of Innovation and Information Technology is responsible for promoting, executing, and monitoring projects with companies in accordance with the MAI-DAI-CNPq Monitoring Committee, as per Ordinance 2076/2021.

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