Born in the heart of the Church in downtown Recife, the Catholic University of Pernambuco, UNICAP, began as the Manoel da Nóbrega School of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters on April 18, 1943, and was formally established as a university on September 27, 1951, through the aggregation of pre-existing units. Such modest origins did not prevent its growth.

The Catholic University of Pernambuco was not born from a government decree: it is the fruit of an educational project of the Church and the Society of Jesus that excited those who dreamed of it in the past, led it for seven decades and currently compose it.

The Universidade Católica de Pernambuco (UNICAP), 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 Universidade Católica de Pernambuco (UNICAP). 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.