Academic events as interfaces between the stricto sensu postgraduation and basic education

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This research analyses the interfaces of 45 Postgraduate Programs (in Portuguese, PPG) of the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) with basic education. Data collection was carried out through the content analysis of each program's evaluation sheet, made available in the Sucupira Platform by the Coordination for Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (in Portuguese, CAPES), for the year 2017. From the data collection, ten categories were listed and, for the purposes of this study, the category “Academic Events” was selected for further study, indicated by 54.3% of PPGs studied as an interface activity with Basic Education. Among the events mentioned by the PPG are: UNICAMP Open Doors (in Portuguese, UPA), Science & Holiday Arts (in Portuguese, CAF) and the Institute of Arts’ Student Festival (in Portuguese, FEIA), aimed at students of basic education, mainly high school and community in general, with the purpose of presenting the institutional space of UNICAMP, its teaching, research and extension activities, allowing greater interaction between the internal and the external communities.