Founded in 1973, the University of Fortaleza is a higher education institution recognized regionally, nationally and internationally. The University values ​​excellence in its mission to contribute to socioeconomic, scientific and cultural development through professional training, research and university extension. In addition to undergraduate programs, there are stricto sensu postgraduate programs, with master’s and doctorate degrees, as well as lato sensu programs (specializations and MBAs). The slogan Teaching and Learning is already part of the lives of more than 100 thousand students, including undergraduate and postgraduate students.

The Universidade de Fortaleza (UNIFOR), 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 de Fortaleza (UNIFOR). 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.