The State University of Pará (UEPA) was created in 1993 from the merger of state faculties of Nursing, Medicine, Physical Education, and Education, developing teaching, research, and extension activities in three major areas: Health, Education, and Technology. UEPA offers 132 undergraduate courses, distributed across 21 campuses, five in the capital and the others in the municipalities of Paragominas, Conceição do Araguaia, Marabá, Altamira, Igarapé-Açu, São Miguel do Guamá, Santarém, Tucuruí, Moju, Redenção, Barcarena, Vigia de Nazaré, Cametá, Salvaterra, Castanhal, and Bragança. The University also includes the Pará Science Center and Planetarium, the UEPA Publishing House (Eduepa), toy libraries, and the Confucius Institute.

The Universidade do Estado do Pará (UEPA), 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 do Estado do Pará (UEPA). 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.