Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Extensão Universitária

What Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Extensão Universitária does

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Extensão Universitária (FAPEU) is a private, non-profit support foundation established on September 28, 1977, headquartered in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. It provides administrative and financial management services for scientific, technological, research, teaching, and extension projects conducted at six supported Brazilian public institutions: UFSC (its founding institution), UFFS, IFC, UNIPAMPA, HU-UFSC, and UDESC. FAPEU operates under Federal Law 8.958/94 and is officially credentialed by the Ministry of Education (MEC) and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), with formal recognition as a public utility at both municipal and state levels.

FAPEU's core product is complete project lifecycle management (Gestão de Projetos), spanning resource capture from government agencies (FINEP, BNDES) and private companies, through procurement, imports (tax-exempt under Law 8.010/1990 for research equipment), scholarship administration, financial management, and accountability reporting. The foundation generates revenue through regulated ressarcimento (administrative) fees applied to managed project value: 10% for research projects, 7% for extension projects, 15% for graduate specialization, and 1% for undergraduate/graduate projects, as defined by UFSC normative resolutions. It also operates ancillary services including a room reservation system, an event management platform (eventos.fapeu.com.br), a coordinator portal, and a supplier portal. NAGEFI, its consulting arm, extends compliance and management consulting services to public and private companies outside the university support mission.

FAPEU's technology infrastructure consists of conventional management platforms—DRHFlow for HR, ADMFlow for administrative workflows, and event/coordinator/supplier self-service portals—rather than differentiated proprietary systems. The organization maintains a lean team of 101-250 employees, has formal ethics, risk management, and anti-corruption governance structures established in 2018, and has implemented an LGPD-compliant data protection program since February 2025 through a partnership with SOMAXI GROUP. Distribution is exclusively via direct institutional agreements with supported universities, with no external commercialization beyond NAGEFI consulting.

Name

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Extensão Universitária

Legal name

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa e Extensão Universitária

Website

https://fapeu.org.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1977

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

FAPEU is a Brazilian non-profit foundation, established in 1977 and headquartered in Florianópolis, that provides administrative, financial, and project management services for research, teaching, and extension projects at six supported public universities including UFSC, UFFS, IFC, UNIPAMPA, HU-UFSC, and UDESC, generating revenue through regulated administrative fees.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Research Administration Services

NAICS

Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (6113), Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools (611310)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700), Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Government Student Financial Aid Agencies (EDADAHAA)

Keywords

• Research project management
• University fund administration
• Grant management services
• Academic event management
• Research equipment import

Headquarters

HQ city

Florianópolis

HQ country

Brazil

HQ region

Latin America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Project Management Ressarcimento (Administrative Fee): FAPEU charges a ressarcimento (reimbursement/administrative fee) for managing research, teaching, and extension projects. Fee rates vary by project type: 10% for research projects (Resolution 47/2014/CUn), 7% for extension projects (Resolution 88/2016/CUn), 15% for graduate specialization projects (Resolution 15/2011/CUn), and 1% for undergraduate and graduate projects (Resolution 13/2011/CUn).
2. NAGEFI Consulting Services: NAGEFI provides consulting services for public and private companies in financial, accounting, tax, and compliance management improvement.
3. Event Management Services: FAPEU manages event registrations, legal support for sponsorship contracts, certificate issuance, and service contracting for academic and scientific events.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

FAPEU provides administrative and financial management services for teaching, research, and extension projects at Brazilian federal universities. Core activities include resource capture from funding agencies and private companies, complete project lifecycle management from elaboration to accountability, tax-exempt import of research equipment, event and course management, and institutional compliance consulting (NAGEFI) for public and private organizations.

Product overview

FAPEU offers an integrated portfolio of solutions for managing research and extension projects at supported Brazilian universities. The core offerings include: (1) Gestão de Projetos for complete administrative and financial project management, (2) Reservas de Salas for meeting and event space booking, (3) Cursos e Eventos for event creation and management, (4) Importação de Bens e Insumos for tax-exempt research equipment imports, and (5) NAGEFI for institutional compliance and management consulting services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Gestão de Projetos (Project Management)

Named customers6 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• SOMAXI GROUPcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 February 2025Strategic partnership established on February 1, 2025 for implementing best practices in privacy, information security, and risk management. SOMAXI GROUP designated certified data protection professionals Denise Juliatto and Urik Pokrovsky as DPO (Data Protection Officer) to lead new practices for guaranteeing security, protection, and privacy of personal data processed by FAPEU.
• CONFIES (Fórum Nacional das Fundações de Apoio)coreOthersNational Forum of Foundations Supporting Research. FAPEU is affiliated with CONFIES, the national association representing research support foundations in Brazil.
• GreyLogix BrasilminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrivate company partner in biogas purification project developed with UFSC's Chemical Engineering department, funded by FINEP. FAPEU served as bridge between company and university department, enabling university participation in project with resource capture via FINEP-Empresa call.
• Veolia BrasilminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartner in Greygas project for biogas purification pilot plant. Veolia Brasil collaborated in constructing pilot plant for purification of 200 Nm³/h of raw biogas from EcoParque Biguaçu.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• FINEP (Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos): Brazilian federal innovation and research funding agency under MCTI. Functions as one of FAPEU's core financial partners (funding source for managed projects), and operates in the same research-funding value chain. Listed as a Core financial partner in FAPEU's data.
• FAPESP (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo): One of the largest state-level research funding agencies in Latin America, based in São Paulo. While FAPESP is primarily a grant-making body rather than a university support foundation, it operates in the same broader Brazilian research funding ecosystem and competes for the attention of leading researchers and institutions in southern Brazil.
• CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico): Brazilian federal agency linked to MCTI that funds scientific and technological research nationally. Sits upstream of FAPEU in the research funding value chain as a primary source of grants flowing through support foundations, and shapes the regulatory and policy environment FAPEU operates in.

Direct peers

• FUNAPE (Fundação de Apoio à Pesquisa): Brazilian university support foundation affiliated with UFG (Federal University of Goiás) that manages research, teaching and extension projects. Operates under the same Law 8.958/94 regulatory regime as FAPEU and serves a comparable set of stakeholders with a similar administrative fee (ressarcimento) model.
• FUNDEP (Fundação de Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa): Private non-profit support foundation for UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais) providing administrative, financial and project management for research and extension activities. Closely mirrors FAPEU's structure, services (project management, imports, events) and regulatory accreditation under the same federal framework.
• Fundação COPPETEC: Private non-profit support foundation linked to UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) that provides administrative and financial management of research, teaching and extension projects. Directly comparable to FAPEU in business model, regulatory framework under Law 8.958/94, and core service offering of intermediating grants between funding agencies and a federal university.

Regional players

• Fundação Araucária: State research support foundation of Paraná — one of FAPEU's three operating states. Comparable mission of supporting science and technology in southern Brazil, with overlapping institutional relationships at state universities, representing both a potential partner and a regional competitor.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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