The history of the founding and development of the University of Mogi das Cruzes begins with the creation of the Mogi Organization of Education and Culture (OMEC) in 1962. At that time, with the aim of offering more educational opportunities to the population of the city of Mogi das Cruzes and the surrounding region, the then President of OMEC, Professor Manoel Bezerra de Melo, founded an elementary school – a “gymnasium” as it was called at the time. The mission of the UMC is to generate and disseminate knowledge to train socially responsible professionals, entrepreneurs and transformers of contemporary reality, guiding its educational action on humanistic principles and organizational principles.

The Universidade de Mogi das Cruzes (UMC), 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 Mogi das Cruzes (UMC). 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.