In the year 2004, the Ministry of Education led to the National Congress and the Draft Law 3962/2004 that preceded the creation of the Federal University of ABC. This Law was sanctioned by the President of the Republic and published in the Official Gazette of the Union on July 27, 2005, as No. 11,145 and dated July 26, 2005. The Academic Project of UFABC seeks to record changes in the field of science, I propose an interdisciplinary matrix, characterized by intercession of various areas of scientific and technological knowledge. The University Project highlights the importance of comprehensive training, which includes the historical vision of our civilization and privileges the capacity for social insertion in a broad sense. In addition, the project aims to create an academic environment favorable to social development, contributing to the search for solutions to regional and national problems, based on cooperation with other educational and research institutions and institutions in the industrial and industrial sector. executive, legislative and judiciary.

The Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC), 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 Federal do ABC (UFABC). 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.