The PIBIC-EM program aims to integrate public high school students into scientific research activities, under the guidance of UNICAMP professors and researchers.
The program is valid for 12 months (September to August of the following year).
Students interested in participating in PIBIC-EM must seek the direction of their school. The school is responsible for selecting students and enrolling them in the program.
Student support
- Monthly scholarship in the amount of R$ 300,00 (three hundred reais).
- Extra board card to use the University Restaurant for 1 meal/day, except for Cotuca and Cotil students who already have RAs.
- Use of UNICAMP chartered bus in Campinas, if there is availability on the line.
- Access to Libraries.
- Access to medical and dental care services at the Community Health Center of UNICAMP – CECOM, in case of emergency.
- Personal accident insurance.
- Certificate of participation for graduates.
Student requirements and commitments
- Be nominated and be regularly enrolled in the 1st or 2nd year of high school in a public school.
- Not having an employment relationship.
- Have school attendance equal to or greater than 80% (eighty percent).
- Have 8 (eight) hours per week, on days and times to be defined by the advisor at the beginning of the program. Eventual absences must be communicated and justified to the advisor/monitor.
- Participate in the usual activities of the project during the months of December, January (except for administrative recess) and July, as there are no holidays in the Program calendar and monthly payments will be made normally.
- Fulfill with maximum commitment and interest all the programming established in the research project.
- Observe and obey the internal norms of the Institution.
- Present the partial and final reports of the activities, within the deadlines set forth in this Term of Commitment. All scholarship holders who have benefited from the scholarship for at least 3 (three) months are committed to presenting the partial and final reports. Default or disapproval of the partial/final report will result in immediate suspension of scholarship payment and subsequent automatic cancellation of the scholarship, if the revised report is not approved.
- Participate in the PIBIC/UNICAMP Scientific Initiation Congress, presenting the final results of the research, through a panel exhibition, which allows verifying access to scientific methods and processes.
- Request the cancellation or suspension of the scholarship, due to reasons for completing, withdrawing or abandoning the research project, leaving public school, completing high school, carelessness, impossibility of maintaining the workload, employment relationship, receiving another scholarship from any institution or development agency, illness, maternity and other reasons that justify the decision, authorized by UNICAMP.
- Return to the institution, in updated amounts, the monthly fee/s unduly received, in the event of abandonment or withdrawal on its own initiative, without reason of force majeure, or for non-compliance with the requirements and commitments established in the Term of Commitment.
Note: Volunteer students have the same requirements and commitments as the scholarship holders mentioned above, with the exception of items related to the return of the installments received, since in this modality there is no receipt of monthly scholarships.