History

The creation of the Postgraduate Program in Water Resources (PPWR) at the Federal University of Mato Grosso was approved by Resolution 38, of the Teaching, Research and Extension Council, on April 7, 2006. Submitted to CAPES, the proposal received a recommendation on March 7, 2007. The first class joined in June 2007.

The program emerged from the collective effort of professors from the Institute of Exact and Earth Sciences, Institute of Biosciences, School of Architecture, Engineering and Technology, and School of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine, which identified the need for training qualified professionals to work in multiple aspects of water uses. Two lines of research were created: Water Resources Planning and Management and Surface and Underground Dynamics. Thus, since its inception, the PPWR has adopted a multidisciplinary approach, generating and addressing scientific research in an integrated manner that led to practices of sustainability and rationality in the use of water and opens paths for new knowledge and technologies, through professionals trained in this complexity and its challenges.

Since its creation, the PPWR has been undergoing adjustments in order to meet the needs of the State’s professional demand. Between 2007 and 2012, the Program was part of the Interdisciplinary area of CAPES and underwent two evaluation processes (triennials 2007-2009 and 2010-2012), obtaining score 3 in both. As of 2013, the Program became part of the Environmental Sciences area, being evaluated with score 3 in the 2013-2017 quadrennium.

In 2014, the PPWR of the Institute of Exact and Earth Sciences was relocated to the School of Architecture, Engineering and Technology, which allowed an approximation with the undergraduate courses and improvements in the program’s infrastructure. This rearrangement culminated in the approval in 2019 of a new research line in Hydraulics and Sanitation that was created to meet the demands of city halls for professionals trained to carry out the Municipal Basic Sanitation Plans (PMSB), recently presented to 104 municipalities in the state and developed with the participation of PPWR professors.

Until 2020, the PPWR graduated 171 masters, who have worked as professors in public and private higher education institutions, as teachers of secondary and elementary education, both public and private, in the federal, state and municipal environmental agencies, in the private sector (mainly in the consulting and advisory area), sanitation companies and others have followed their academic career through the Doctorate program.