The history of Unesc dates back to the mid-1960s, when the South of Santa Catarina was experiencing economic growth. In Capivari de Baixo, the region gained the Sociedade Termoelétrica de Capivari (Solteca), which controlled the Jorge Lacerda Thermoelectric Plant, and the State of Santa Catarina was implementing a plan of goals that considered the development of the financial, transportation, energy and telecommunications areas. On June 3, 1997, the State Education Council unanimously approved the opinion of the Rapporteur Councilor and, in a plenary session on June 17, 1997, also unanimously, definitively approved the transformation into the Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense (Unesc), which defined as its mission “to promote regional development to improve the quality of the living environment”, with Fucri as its sponsor.

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