Founded in 1969, the State University of Maringá – UEM, is a public university maintained by the State of Paraná and subordinated to the Secretary of State for Science, Technology and Higher Education – SETI. Headquartered in the city of Maringá where it operates its administrative structure and most of its undergraduate and post-graduation courses (links), UEM is also present in various cities of the region through its fields and advanced base.

The Universidade Estadual de Maringá (UEM), 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 Maringá (UEM). 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.