Founded in May 1953, the Catholic University of Petrópolis was the first institution of higher education established in the city of Petrópolis. It began with the creation of the civil society organization Faculdades Católicas Petropolitanas, an initiative of the then Diocesan Bishop, Dom Manoel Pedro da Cunha Cintra. The first course offered by the new institution was Law, established in 1954 in a building in the Retiro neighborhood. In 1956, with the acquisition of the building that had long housed one of the most refined hotels in the region, the Hotel Orleans, on Rua Barão do Amazonas, the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters was also created, and later, the Faculty of Industrial Engineering.

The Universidade Católica de Petrópolis (UCP), 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 Petrópolis (UCP). 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.