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Collaboration network and milestones

Partners & recognitions

Institutions and labs CEDIS works with, awards received, and institutional milestones.

Featured partners
6

Institutions and labs with active collaboration in recent cycles.

IBICT

IBICT

Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology

since 2013

The longest partnership at CEDIS. Canal Ciência was born from it, and more recently DFCris — a scientific-output indexing system built on NLP and machine learning. Joint work spans 12 years of cooperative projects and publications.

Concrete outcomes
  • Canal Ciência (science outreach portal)
  • DFCris (indexing with NLP + ML)
  • Best paper award at ICCSA 2024 (Vietnam)
A3M

A3M

Learning for the Third Millennium Program

since 2015

UnB's institutional program for pedagogical innovation. CEDIS brings educational software engineering — from gamification to learning analytics — turning classes into measurable experiences.

Concrete outcomes
  • Active methodologies in SE courses
  • Learning analytics instrumentation
  • Publications at SBIE, WEI, and education journals
FAP-DF

FAP-DF

Research Support Foundation of the Federal District

since 2016

Regional funder that sustains scholarships and applied research in the Federal District. FAP-DF calls have funded part of CEDIS's infrastructure and master's / PhD scholarships.

Concrete outcomes
  • Research scholarships (undergrad, master's, PhD)
  • Thematic calls awarded
  • Infrastructure for applied projects
Finatec

Finatec

Foundation for Scientific and Technological Enterprises

since 2018

UnB's support foundation for operating technical projects and cooperations. CEDIS uses Finatec to manage R&D contracts with federal agencies and companies, turning research into contracted deliveries.

Concrete outcomes
  • R&D contract management
  • Agreements with federal agencies
  • Support for digital transformation projects
Canal Ciência

Canal Ciência

Canal Ciência (IBICT)

since 2019

Science outreach portal developed in partnership with IBICT. CEDIS was responsible for architecture, integration, and evolution — also publishing on data governance and scientific usability.

Concrete outcomes
  • Web platform live in production
  • Publications on governance and UX
  • Student training on real projects
VISTA Lab

VISTA Lab

VISTA Lab — University of Évora (Portugal)

since 2021

International cooperation in visualization, interaction, and applied systems. It opened academic mobility, co-authorship at European conferences, and cross-mentoring between students of both institutions.

Concrete outcomes
  • Co-authorship in international publications
  • Bidirectional academic mobility
  • CEDIS presence at European conferences
Awards and milestones

Awards and institutional milestones

Recognitions, conference awards, mentions, and milestones CEDIS has accumulated over the years.

2024

  • Best paper — ICCSA 2024 (Vietnam)

    Canal Ciência Project

    Conference award

    Paper on the Canal Ciência portal receives an award at the 24th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications in Hanoi.

    See project
  • Fellow presents at ICCSA 2024

    CEDIS fellow

    Institutional milestone

    First international presentation by a CEDIS fellow at an ICCSA conference, marking the group's growing presence in European-Asian venues.

2020

  • Launch of Software for Good — 20th UnB University Week

    Software for Good program

    Institutional milestone

    The outreach program SpB is launched during University Week. It starts receiving concrete social demands and organizing student teams around them.

    See project

2019

  • Renaming to CEDIS

    Institutional group

    Institutional milestone

    The Software Factory Lab is renamed Center for Studies, Development, and Innovation in Software (CEDIS), reflecting a broadened scope and the group's maturation.