Federal University of Technology – Paraná

The Federal University of Technology – Paraná is a federal university with campuses in thirteen cities located in the state of Paraná.
UTFPR is one of the most renowned Universities in Brazil. Their teaching pattern is inspired by the European polytechnic university model. It specializes in natural sciences and engineering.

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Campi

The campi are located in the following cities:

History

On September 23, 1909, the President of Brazil, Nilo Peçanha created the Escolas de Aprendizes e Artífices, in the Paraná state this school started on January 16, 1910, named Escola de Aprendizes e Artífices do Paraná.
Two decades later, it started acting as a basic education school and was renamed Industrial Lyceum of Curitiba in 1937. Later it was instituted together with federal industrial schools, renamed Technical School of Curitiba in 1942 and then to Federal Technical School of Paraná in 1959.
In 1978 it became a Federal Center of Technological Education., renamed Federal Center of Technological Education of Paraná.
On October 7, 2005, president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva transformed it into the first Federal University of Technology in Brazil, renamed Federal University of Technology – Paraná. It still acts as a technical high school, classified as the best of Paraná, according to the Brazilian education index ENEM. And today is the best federal university in the state according to the Ministry of Education.

Year	Portuguese name	English name
1909	Escola de Aprendizes Artífices do Paraná	Paraná's Schools of Apprentices and Artificers
1937	Liceu Industrial do Paraná	Paraná's Industrial Lyceum
1942	Escola Técnica de Curitiba	Curitiba's Technical School
1959	Escola Técnica Federal do Paraná	Paraná's Federal Technical School
1978	Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica do Paraná	Paraná's Federal Center of Technological Education
2005	Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná	Federal University of Technology – Paraná