Northeast network in biotechnology (RENORBIO)

The Northeast Network in Biotechnology (RENORBIO) was established in 2004 by the Federal Government that identified the demand for this type of professional and signalizes a great opportunities them to act on the growing industry of biotechnology in Brazil. It is a network of research, development and innovation, which base is the Post-Graduation Program (PGP-RENORBIO) that have 36 institutions of education and research in the nine states of the Northeast, besides Espírito Santo, which also integrates this initiative. Started in September 2006, it represents a new model of Post-graduate program a network program fully supported by CAPES direction. The PGP-RENORBIO specifically aims to qualifying researchers, in a doctorate level, with a solid technicalscientific basis, able to act on several markets, such as teaching, research, services and industry. This way their specific objectives are: 1) Training qualified people for the activity of research and of higher teaching in the field of Biotechnology; 2) Encourage research in the area of Biotechnology, under the multi e interdisciplinary perspective; 3) Producing, expanding and applying knowledge to Biotechnology to the economical and cultural reality of the Northeast region. In the long run, it is hoped that the PGP-RENORBIO, as it make possible the interaction of institutions of research and teaching, national and international, and the best use of the critical mass existing in the Northeast region, contribute to the process of consolidation of the Northeast Biotechnology Network and to the effective to and systematic development of Biotechnology in the Country. The RENORBIO’s PGP assumes that it is possible to obtain growth with quality through means of integration strategies which promote development with Competitiveness, according to a world tendency. Hence, the integration of consolidated and emergent groups constitutes the basis of the strategy of the RENORBIO Program. Take part in this effort about two hundred Doctors connected to the thirty-six existing institutions in the nine states of the Northeast, besides Espírito Santo. This is being made possible because of an explicit institutional support, in a form of an Institution’s Consortium. Besides supporting the strengthening of the existing programs in the institutions that integrate this initiative, by the input of additional resources to them, this strategy discourages the disordered creation of new programs in Biotechnology in Region, avoiding the lavishness of resources and competencies. On the other hand, taking in account that the program works by adhesion, according to rules of defined institutional association in its regiment, allows the participation of a great number of national and international institutions, such as EMBRAPA and FIOCRUZ, which generally stay aside from the human resources formation efforts in the Country, considering they do not constitute themselves as Institutions of Higher Learning. By means of that integration strategy, all participating institutions, even those of less developed states, may offer a broad résumé academic curriculum related to four areas of concentration where Biotechnology offers its most important applications: Health, Agriculture and Animal Raising, Natural Resources and Industrial Biotechnology. Science, technology and innovation are essential factors for the development and competitiveness of nations. Countries without scientific competency cannot promote their development based on their own technologies and innovations have to pay to use the innovations developed in other countries. For the last twenty years, Brazil has quadrupled its scientific contribution in the global context. It is notorious this fact that results in the consolidation on the Post-Graduation in the Country, under the leadership of CAPES, since the scientific production and the postgraduation have a direct relation. However, enhance the Brazilian scientific contribution on the international context it is still necessary and, in this sense, it is opportune to stimulate the participation of young scientists in the Brazilian post-graduation system. Federal Rural University of Pernambuco, Pernambuco, Brazil Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Guerra et al. BMC Proceedings 2014, 8(Suppl 4):O44 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1753-6561/8/S4/O44