EXTENSION ACTIVITIES
The Ministry of Education, through Resolution CNE/CES No. 7, of December 18, 2018, establishes the Guidelines for Extension in Brazilian Higher Education. According to Article 4 of this document, the extension workload must comprise at least 10% of the total student curricular workload of the courses, integrating the curricular matrix. In addition to this resolution, the curricular insertion of extension must observe the following guiding documents: Resolution 027/2015 CONSUN, which provides for the University Extension Policy of FURG; Resolution 29/2022 COEPEA, which regulates the process of curricularization of extension actions at FURG.
Extension activities constitute decisive contributions to students' education, both by expanding the universe of references they provide and by direct contact with major contemporary issues. These results enable enrichment of students' experience in theoretical and methodological terms, while also allowing for the reaffirmation and materialization of the ethical and solidarity commitments of Brazilian public education. Extension in the Higher Technology Course in Chemical Processes must be articulated with teaching and research, and is understood as an eminently educational, cultural, technical-scientific and pedagogical process.
The Pedagogical Course Plan provides for the allocation of at least 10% of the total workload of the Higher Technology Course in Chemical Processes for purposes of curricular insertion of extension activities. Extension activities will be characterized in the Pedagogical Course Plan according to the modalities provided for in Article 4 of Joint Normative Instruction PROEXC/PROGRAD/FURG No. 1, of April 8, 2022: programs; projects; courses and workshops; events; and service provision in extension. For curricularization purposes, the student must, obligatorily, be part of the execution team of the extension action. The modalities courses, events or workshops may count workload for curricularization purposes, provided the audience is primarily from the external community.
The Higher Technology Course in Chemical Processes requires a minimum workload of 240 hours of extension activities. The curricular insertion of extension will be characterized in the PPC through: i) hybrid subjects, with theoretical and extension workload, totaling 30 hours; ii) extension activities outside the QSL of the course, of a minimum of 210 hours.