Editorial Marcos Tadeu Tavares Pacheco

Abstract

The year 2020 will be remembered as the year of overcoming and expanding the use of technology in academic environments. In this context of pandemic in which the world reinvented itself, we held the 9th edition of the National Graduate Meeting - ENPG, in remote mode.

The National Graduate Meetings promoted by Universidade Santa Cecília aim to establish a specialized space for master's and doctoral students, as well as specialization courses from all over Brazil, to disseminate and discuss their technical and scientific work. This space is of great importance for students and advisors to discuss and evaluate opinions of colleagues and professors, sharing and disseminating knowledge generated in the various graduate programs in Brazil.

The event, organized by professors and students from the different graduate programs at UNISANTA, held by UNISANTA, has the support of scholarship funding agencies (FAPESP, CAPES, CNPq); SANTOS CONVENTION & VISITORS BUREAO; UNISANTA Journal Portal and is recognized by the UN - UNAI (United Nations Academic Impact) as an event of great academic impact due to its innovation and the possibility of its social reach.

In 2020, the 9th National Postgraduate Meeting scheduled for November 13th and 14th will feature the participation of excellent works previously selected and approved by the scientific committee. Excellent quality works that were developed by students and professors of stricto sensu postgraduate programs, as well as outstanding monographs selected from lato sensu postgraduate programs.

The high number of registrations, number of submitted works and mini-courses offered during the event demonstrates the great interest of the technical-scientific community in this high-level event.

The mini-courses offered this year involve professors from several universities in Brazil and abroad

1. Biomass and Energy

Prof. Dr. Daniel Marcelo, project leader. Universidad de Piura UDEP/PERU. Prof. Dr. Patrícia de Almeida, Associate Researcher of the Project. University of Piura UDEP/PERU.

Prof. Dr. Elder Mendoza. Associate Researcher of the Project. University of Piura UDEP/PERU

2. Current Themes in Biolaw: Assisted Human Reproduction, Research on Human Beings, Transsexuality and Living Wills.

Prof. Dr. Patricia Gorisch – Coordinator of the Migrant Rights Observatory at Unisanta.

3. Ethics in the Digital World

Prof. Dr. Renato Mehanna Khamis – Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Health Law at Santa Cecília University. Prof. Dr. Renata Salgado Leme, Member of the Health Law Commission of the OAB Santos and OAB Guarujá.

4. Ecology and Human Occupation of the Amazon

Prof. Dr. Miguel Petrere Junior - Full Professor at the Federal University of Pará UFPA.

5. Human Dimensions in Nature Conservation

Prof. Dr. Maria Auxiliadora Drumond - Genetics, Ecology and Evolution Department, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)

6. Integrative assessment of sediment quality in acidification scenarios associated with carbon capture and storage operations

Prof. Dr. Tomás Ángel del Valls Casillas - Professor of Physical Chemistry at the Faculty of Marine and Environmental Sciences, University of Cádiz/Spain.

7. Conservation genetics of elasmobranchs: taxonomic resolution, connectivity and life history

Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues Domingues - Associate researcher at the Save our Seas Shark Research Centre - Nova Southeastern University, USA.

8. The production of psychosocial scientific knowledge and its interface with the Health area

Prof. Dr. Gisela Vasconcellos Monteiro - Member of the Technical Team of Visão Social Consultoria and professor responsible for the Psychopedagogical Assistance Service at Universidade Santa Cecília. Prof. Dr. Rosa Maria Ferreira Pinto - Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Health Law at UNISANTA

9. Teaching Ecology in Schools: Learning Based on Research Projects

Prof. Dr. Júlio Cesar Voltolini, coordinator of the Research and Teaching Group in Conservation Biology – ECOTROP, Department of Biology, Unitau, Taubaté, SP.

In the Proceedings of the IX ENPG 2020 (ISSN: 2594-6153) we can find the full articles related to the papers presented at the event, which are available online at https://periodicos.unisanta.br/index.php/ENPG/index

In the hope that you enjoy our event held remotely in 2020, we hope to be able to meet you again in person at our tenth Meeting, to be held in 2021, the year in which Universidade Santa Cecília celebrates its 60th anniversary.

Until then,

Prof. Dr. Marcos Tadeu T. Pacheco

President of the Organizing Committee IX ENPG (2020)