Euvaldo Lodi Institute of Rio de Janeiro

EUVALDO LODI INSTITUTE OF RIO DE JANEIRO
INSTITUTO EUVALDO LODI DO RIO DE JANEIRO
Abbreviation	IEL Rio
Formation	29 January 1969; 55 years ago
Type	Non-profit organization
Purpose	To unite academy, research institutes and industry
Headquarters	Centro (Rio de Janeiro)
Location	Rio de Janeiro;
Region	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Services	Support to Junior Enterprises; Support to Business Incubators; Business performance management; Organizational diagnostics; Entrepreneurship events;
Official language	Brazilian Portuguese
Affiliations	FIRJAN System
Website	Firjan.org.br

Euvaldo Lodi Institute of Rio de Janeiro (IEL Rio) is the equivalent of the Brazilian Euvaldo Lodi Institute, created by the National Confederation of Industry along with the Industry Social Service (SESI) and the National Industrial Training Service in 1969. Except it only covers Rio de Janeiro state, instead of all the Brazilian territory.

The main goal of IEL Rio is to unite academy and institutes of science and technology with industry. Amongst its objectives, there are development of entrepreneurship programs in order to promote the creation of new leaderships and the adoption, in the graduation curriculum, of disciplines about the entrepreneurial action.^[1]

The politician Euvaldo Lodi and the engineer Roberto Simonsen were honored by industry thanks to their work: while the first one gave its name to IEL, the second one became the name of "a stutides and research institute of the Industry Federation of São Paulo State, which comprehends in its structure the COPS – Superior Council of Political and Social Guidance".^[2]

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References

^ "Empreendedorismo". FIRJAN System. Archived from the original on 27 November 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
^ Beloch, I. & Fagundes, L. R. (1997), Sistema FIRJAN: a história dos 170 anos da representação industrial no Rio de Janeiro, 1827–1997, Rio de Janeiro: Memória Brasil Projetos Culturais Ltda.