Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos

Unisinos is a Brazilian private Jesuit University, founded in 1969. The university has 2 campuses located in Southern Brazil (one in São Leopoldo and other in Porto Alegre) and 18 distance learning centers across the country. Unisinos welcomes around 25 thousand students in its 73 undergraduate programs, 26 masters, and 20 Ph.D. programs, in which are developed more than 450 research projects, all in its six Schools: Polytechnic, Business, Law, Health, Creative Industry, and Humanities. Unisinos has a strategic orientation in Science, Technology and Innovation with a global dimension. Its vision to 2025 is to be a global research university with the strategic trails of Academic Excellence; Social Responsibility; Research, Technology and Innovation; Growth and Sustainability, and Internationalization. Through its 5 technological institutes and the Technological Park – Tecnosinos, Unisinos shows the leadership in expanding knowledge to be applied to several industrial sectors and in the local community.