Awards and Achievements

Centro Universitário Facens was considered in the UI GreenMetric 2022 global ranking the most sustainable private higher education institution in Brazil, for the second consecutive year. With even better results than in 2021, this year Facens remained in...

On December 07th, the Sorocaba City Council granted the Entrepreneurial Woman Medal “Ana Abelha” to Thais Barros Beldi, director of strategy and innovation at the Facens University Center. The honor, proposed by councilor Ítalo Moreira, recognizes...

On November 30, the Sorocaba City Council awarded the title of Sorocaba Citizen to Regiane Relva Romano, director of the Smart Campus of the Facens University Center. The tribute took place in recognition of the services rendered by Regiane to the city...

Facens ADS students have plenty of reasons to celebrate, the Systems Analysis and Development course received the seal of the best course in Brazil in Private Institutions! This is the third consecutive year that Facens has been featured in the Faculty Guide. Is...

Facens University Center has 10 starred courses and 9 recognition seals from the Faculty Guide | I Want Education | State Guide. This is the third consecutive year that Facens has been featured in the college guide. Check out all the courses that received the seal...

On October 27, CIT Facens (Center for Innovation and Technology in Cidade e Construção Facens) celebrated the accreditation of ABNT NBR ISO/IEC 10, carried out by the General Coordination of Accreditation (CGCRE). The event was attended by the board of Facens and more than 17025...

With the mission of providing contact between the University and its graduates, the USP Alumni Office, in partnership with the USP Rectory, will hold an event that will reward graduates with professional trajectories with a direct positive impact on society: the Alumni...

Between October 14th and 16th, the IronCup (Inatel Robotics National Cup) took place in Santa Rita do Sapucaí, MG. The competition had participants from 30 universities in Brazil, with 515 competitors and 222 robots. The categories were: Sumo: the challenge is to expel the...

Conquering 2nd place in the “Egg Protection Apparatus” test, students from the Civil Engineering and Architecture and Urbanism courses are a highlight in Brasília. On October 14th, the StrongerTech team from LINCE (Laboratory and Innovation and Student Competitions) of...

Between October 3rd and 7th, the Baja Mud Racing Facens team, represented by members Giovanna Souza, Gabriel Rodrigues and Matheus José, participated in the 3rd Flex Innovation Technology Challenge, in the Rocket Week and Atmos Feras stages. .

Event promoted by the Brazilian Programming Society and brought together 555 teams across the country On October 08, 2022, the Facens University Center was one of the 43 venues of the 27th Programming Marathon, a national event promoted by the Brazilian...

Last Saturday, 24/09, our Baja team participated in the 10th Baja Indoor in São Carlos/SP, a friendly competition organized by the School of Engineering of São Paulo (EESC-USP). This competition consisted of technical compliance and safety inspections, with enduro...

After two years with only Design Competitions, the Falcons Aerodesign team is back in the air for the XXIV SAE Brasil Aerodesign! The competition takes place the first weekend of November at the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology, and Falcons is...

On August 25th, Facens inaugurated, in partnership with CPFL and the Chinese company NARI, an operations center inside the campus, with the aim of training students and engineers to work with high voltage and protection of electrical systems. The space will soon feature...

The B'Energy Facens team competed between August 10th and 14th, in the 18th Formula SAE BRASIL-TotalEnergies Competition, in the electric car modality, which took place in Piracicaba (SP). B'Energy was a national highlight in the electric car modality, reaching the 2nd...

On the last August 15th, the city of Sorocaba completed 368 years and Jornal Cruzeiro do Sul published a magazine in commemoration of the date, in which Facens was featured in one of the articles. With the title “Professionals qualified to man the brave new world”,...

Between August 10th and 14th, the V8 Racing Facens team participated in the 18th Formula SAE BRASIL Competition, in Piracicaba, São Paulo. Once again, the team stood out with its combustion formula project, the result of all the determination and dedication of the students of...

On the last August 9th, another international student graduated from Facens' double degree program with the University of Lleida, in Spain. On the occasion, student Jordi Peñalver Moragues completed his degree in Food Engineering at the Centro Universitário...

As part of the ROTA 2030 project, Facens students and researchers were in Germany between July and the first week of August for a technical mission. For 19 days, the Facens team used the infrastructure and outdoor proving ground of the THI, Technische Hochschule...

On the first weekend of July, Omegabotz ??was in São Caetano do Sul, at the Mauá Institute of Technology, competing in the RoboChallange.??The team won 2nd and 3rd place in the Hockey Pro and Mini Hockey category. This is the same category in which the team was...

In February this year, some Facens students received scholarships, in partnership with Jiaotong University of East China, to carry out a Virtual Exchange, called COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning) at the institution, establishing contact with the...

Facens students on the podium again! ? The competition team of FACE – Facens Centro de Empreendedorismo, once again, reached the podium in the international competition Youthpreneur in Action. Students Ana Júlia Ramos and Gustavo Mello participated and won the...

The Facens Robotics team, Omegabotz, won another podium on June 19th. This time, the team participated in the 10th AGVS Challenge, which took place in Araucária-PR, lasting 2 days. In this competition, only a select group of 16 Brazilian teams...

Facens was internationally recognized as a Smart City, by the Smart City Expo Latam Congress, held in Mexico between June 7th and 16th. The University Center was among the finalists, in the Digital Transformation category, competing with Cidade...

In its April issue, AWARE magazine, from the Ingolstadt Institute of Technology, published an article about the vehicle safety project carried out by Facens, “Route 2030: Motorcycle Detection in the Vehicle Blind Spot Using a Radar Sensor”. The publication, which is...

Ana Júlia Alves Ramos Civil Engineering Ana Júlia will act as a mentor in the Next Generation program, an initiative of the Wadhwani Foundation (same as the competition held in Egypt) that helps participants transform their ideas into real innovation, design and...

Michell Algarra Vinícius Cavalcanti The scholarship is for the Google Summer of Code Project and the students won it through the Liquid Galaxy LAB Program at Facens. #orgulhodeserFacens Read more:...

1st place Isabela Floria Torrezan Márcia da Silva Inácio Ingrid Caroline Silva Messias 2nd place Gabriel Oliveira de Almeida Laura Moraes de Barros Julia de Pilla The projects were supervised by Professor Ana Carolina F. Basso Marques Congratulations on the achievement!...

LIS wins the International Green Gown Award for the second consecutive year. Last year, LIS celebrated the achievement of ECOGINC which was recognized as a winner in the Student Engagement category. This year, LIS celebrates recognition of best practice in...

The MCTI – Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation, in partnership with Facens, inaugurated on 30/04/21 the Facens-MCTI IoT and Technologies 4.0 Reference Center. The objective of the initiative is to create a place for practical demonstration of IoT solutions...

On 04/04/21, the result of the public notice opened by the joint initiative of FAPESP, the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) and the Internet Management Committee in Brazil (CGI.br) was announced, with the aim of establishing Research Centers ...

Facens, together with Ericsson, Embratel and Claro, with the support of its innovation hub – beOn Claro, announce the implementation of the largest Campus connected with 5G technology in the State of São Paulo, in Sorocaba, headquarters of Facens....

Between April 5th and 8th, the Second International South American Conference of the IEOM (Industrial Engineering and Operations Management) took place. The online event was aimed at the entire industrial engineering sector and Facens had a great...

In April 2021, the American University of Cairo – AUC promoted the global Real Life Challenge, organized by local students with the support of the Ministry of the Environment of Egypt and the United Nations Development Program...

The main objective of the agreement between the companies is to promote training and professionalization of electrical engineers in the skills of generation, transmission and distribution of electric energy. The partnership consists of building a power substation...

The IEOM Society International strives to be the leading global organization dedicated to advancing the industrial engineering and operations management discipline for the betterment of mankind. The core objective of the IEOM Society is to globally promote...

In 2020, the MicroPower Institute, formed by businessmen, academics, government and civil society, under the curatorship of Francisco Soeltl, started the research and development of Manifesto Brasil 5.0, a Reference Guide that brings together successful initiatives in several...

The Babson Collaborative Spotlight Award is an annual award given to a member institution that demonstrates excellence and innovation in entrepreneurship education. The award highlights a member institution's commitment to improving entrepreneurship education...

The ECOGINC – Empower to Change the Game project, by Centro Universitário Facens, won the International Green Gown Awards 2020 in the Student Engagement Category. The International Green Gown Awards contribute to the centralization of...

The Babson Collaborative for Entrepreneurship Education is a global membership organization that connects universities around the world that are building and expanding their entrepreneurship ecosystems. The Babson Collaborative is a unique offering...

The Socially Responsible Institution Seal is related to the Private Higher Education Social Responsibility Campaign, which intends, through a series of actions, to show society the importance of social responsibility in private education. The Seal is...

The Sorocaba Innovation Award is an award organized by the Sorocaba Technological Park and the Sorocaba City Hall, which will reward innovative ideas that contribute to the development of the Municipality of Sorocaba. The 2019 Edition aimed to...

Facens was one of the honorees at #MadeInSorocaba, an event organized by the Municipality of Sorocaba, through the Parque Tecnológico de Sorocaba, with the aim of recognizing companies that were born in the city and today occupy a prominent place regionally, nationally and...

Smart Campus Facens won the 2019 InovaCidade Award, with the case “Smart Campus Facens”. The award ceremony took place on July 22 at the Smart City Business Brazil Congress & Expo event at the Transamérica Expo Center in São Paulo, which is the most important...

Facens was invited to be part of the Municipal Council of Science, Technology and Innovation as a Teaching Institution, and its members are Paulo Carvalho, dean of Facens, and Ellis Menasce, manager of IP Facens.

Smart Campus Facens won first place in the IoT RFID 2018 Award, in the “Best Academy” category, by ABRFID – Brazilian Association of Radio Frequency Identification Industry through the Smart Campus Facens Project. The award recognizes the best...

In 2018, Facens received the highest score in the evaluation process that takes into account the PDI (Institutional Development Plan), infrastructure, working conditions for teachers and employees, management, personnel policies and policies for... .

The Socially Responsible Institution Seal is related to the Private Higher Education Social Responsibility Campaign, which intends, through a series of actions, to show society the importance of social responsibility in private education. Stamp...

Smart Campus Facens won first place in the IoT RFID 2018 Award, in the “Best Academy” category, by ABRFID – Brazilian Association of Radio Frequency Identification Industry through the Smart Campus Facens Project. The award recognizes the best...

Sorocaba became an integral part of the FabCity network thanks to Facens' partnership with the city hall. FabCity is a global project to develop locally productive and globally connected cities. This network already had cities like Barcelona, ​​Paris,...