The history of the Fluminense Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology (IFFluminense) began at the beginning of the last century, with Nilo Peçanha, the then President of the Republic, who created, through Decree No. 7,566, of September 23, 1909, the Schools of Apprentice Craftsmen, with the purpose of educating and providing job opportunities for young people from the less favored classes. The federal government, through Law No. 11,892, of December 29, 2008, published in the Official Gazette of December 30, 2008, instituted the Federal Network of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education and created the Fluminense Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology. Nowadays, in the territorialization movement, the Fluminense Federal Institute is located in 12 municipalities with a spatial network that reaches 12 campuses, an Innovation Hub, a Reference Center in Technology, Information and Communication in Education, a Training Unit in Cordeiro and the Rectory, bringing together more than 15 thousand students and 1,500 active employees, including Professors and Technical-administrative staff in Education (data extracted from the IFF Transparency Panel, in February 2023).

The IFFLUMINENSE, through the national contract between CAPES and IEEE has an unlimited open access agreement with IEEE that enables researchers to publish articles as open access without open access fees in all IEEE fully and hybrid open access journals. The agreement applies to all original research articles accepted for publication between 5 November 2024 – 30 October 2027. To benefit from this agreement, the corresponding author has to be affiliated with IFFLUMINENSE. Please use the correct institution name and your institutional email address during submi​​ssion. It is recommended for authors to select the CC BY 4.0 license. The open access funding request will be approved by an OA administrator at CAPES. Overlength page charges or color fees are not covered by the agreement and will be charged to authors.