INTERACT 2025 will be hosted at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, in the city of Belo Horizonte, the capital city of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil.
The event will take place at the Convention Centre of the School of Engineering. You may set your Uber journeys to “Escola de Engenharia, UFMG”.
The Federal University of Minas Gerais is located at the area of Pampulha. The university is close to the UNESCO World Heritage Site known as the Pampulha Modern Ensemble (Conjunto Arquitetônico da Pampulha). The area has a number of hotels and restaurants.
The city is served by the Tancredo Neves International Airport (Confins – CNF). The airport has direct international flights to Houston, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale (USA), Lisbon (Portugal), Panama City (Panama), Santiago (Chile) and Buenos Aires (Argentina). The airport is also connected with numerous domestic flights with Brazilian hubs such as São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, with international flights to all continents.
Placed in the southeast of Brazil, the most industrialized region of the country, UFMG, a free-of-charge public educational institution, is the oldest university in the state of Minas Gerais. It was founded in September 7th 1927 by the name of University of Minas Gerais (UMG). Nearly one hundred years later the institution is the national leader when it comes to education, university extension, culture, scientific research and patent generation in several fields of knowledge.
Its community gathers around seventy-two thousand people in the cities of Belo Horizonte, Montes Claros, Diamantina and Tiradentes, distributed in seventy-seven undergraduate courses, 80 post-graduation programs and more than 900 research centers. In 2016, UFMG reached 1056 patent registrations granting it a leading position among the country’s higher education institutions.
The university also offers distance education, structured in graduate, specialization, improvement and updating levels. These courses are present in twenty-four cities, all over the state.
