Founded in 1970 and rebuilt a year after the Ministry of Education (MEC), UEL represents the leadership effort of northern Paraná that understands the need for a higher education institution, as an advance of regional development. The University incorporated the pioneering faculties of Science, Philosophy and Dentistry, created in the 1950s. The academic structure is evidenced by 53 on-site Graduation courses (baccalaureates and bachelor’s degrees), two distance education courses, and 191 Post-Graduation courses ( residences, specializations, mestrados and doutorados), distributed in nine Study Centers, apart from a community formed by 25 thousand students, professors and technical-administrative servers.

The Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL), 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 Estadual de Londrina (UEL). 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.