FEPE – Fundação de Apoio ao Ensino, Pesquisa e Extensão

What FEPE – Fundação de Apoio ao Ensino, Pesquisa e Extensão does

FEPE – Fundação de Apoio ao Ensino, Pesquisa e Extensão is a private, non-profit support foundation founded in 1973 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Originally established as Fundação de Estudo e Pesquisa em Medicina Veterinária Preventiva by professors from the Veterinary School of UFMG, FEPE was created to provide administrative, financial, and operational support to academic research, teaching, and extension activities. Over 53 years, the foundation expanded its scope beyond veterinary medicine to serve the full institutional base of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG). FEPE operates as the official support foundation credentialed by the Brazilian Ministry of Education (MEC) and the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI), enabling it to administer public funds, manage inter-institutional convênios, and conduct procurements under Brazilian public law.

FEPE's core offering is project and partnership management — including resource capture, financial execution, procurement, personnel hiring, scholarship disbursement, and accountability reporting — delivered to UFMG researchers, professors, and administrative units, as well as to external public and private organizations seeking partnerships with the university. The foundation operates a unified institutional service platform comprising the Portal de Compras (procurement), Espaço do Pesquisador (researcher coordination), Portal da Transparência (public accountability), Plataforma de Cursos e Eventos (event management), and Editais Vigentes (funding calls). These are hosted on the conveniar.com.br infrastructure and serve administrative rather than commercial purposes.

FEPE's revenue is generated through administrative overhead fees on managed projects and service provision, consistent with a professional services model. Distribution is entirely relationship-driven: services are not sold commercially but provided under formal convênios, contratos, and acordos with UFMG units and external partners. The foundation maintains partnerships across public federal, state, and municipal institutions, private companies, international organizations, and ecosystem bodies including CONFIES and Rede Filantropia. With 9 employees and a single headquarters location, FEPE operates as a lean institutional intermediary embedded in the UFMG academic ecosystem.

Name

FEPE – Fundação de Apoio ao Ensino, Pesquisa e Extensão

Legal name

Fundação de Apoio ao Ensino, Pesquisa e Extensão

Website

https://fepe.com.br

Company type

Private

Founded year

1973

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

FEPE is a Brazilian non-profit support foundation accredited by MEC and MCTI that provides project management, financial administration, procurement, and partnership services to UFMG researchers and external public/private partners across research, teaching, and extension activities.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Academic Research Support Services

NAICS

Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services (54169)

SIC

Services-Engineering, Accounting, Research, Management (8700)

akta.pro primary industry

Research & Science Grantmaking Foundations (BPAGAKAI)

Keywords

• Research project management
• Academic support services
• Grant administration
• University foundation services
• Research partnership management

Headquarters

HQ city

Belo Horizonte

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, Others

Revenue model

1. Project Management and Administration Services: FEPE does not directly fund projects but provides management, administrative, and financial execution services for research, teaching, extension, and innovation projects. It captures resources from third parties (funding agencies, private companies, government bodies) and manages project execution on behalf of UFMG researchers. Revenue comes from administrative overhead fees on managed projects and service provision to public and private partners.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

FEPE is a non-profit support foundation that manages and operationalizes research, teaching, extension, and innovation projects for UFMG. It captures resources from funding agencies, private companies, and government bodies, then provides end-to-end administrative, financial, procurement, and contractual support for these projects from proposal development through final accountability. It also organizes academic courses, seminars, and events, and maintains public transparency portals for project oversight.

Product overview

FEPE operates as a unified institutional service platform for supporting UFMG's academic activities in teaching, research, and extension. The organization does not offer a commercial product in the traditional sense; rather, it provides institutional services including project and partnership management, continuing education courses and events, and administrative support for research initiatives. These services are delivered through an internal online portal system comprising the Portal de Compras (procurement management), Espaço do Pesquisador (researcher coordination), Portal da Transparência (public accountability), and Cursos e Eventos platform (educational event management).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Project and Partnership Management Services End-to-end development, management, and fostering of research, teaching, extension, and innovation projects for UFMG faculty, including the establishment of convênios, contratos, and acordos with external public and private partners.
• Courses and Events Organization Organization and operational support for academic courses, seminars, symposiums, congresses, and other scientific and cultural knowledge dissemination events.
• Project Administration Services Agile administration of convênios, acordos, and contratos under Brazilian public law, providing full assistance in signing and managing agreements, with interface to universities, companies, and public and private institutions.

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

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AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Rede FilantropiaminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 11 November 2025FEPE participated in the 'CEBAS na Prática' workshop organized by Rede Filantropia in São Paulo, focused on training Third Sector leaders in strategic management and CEBAS certification compliance. FEPE's general manager César Alexandre and supervisor Jefferson Willian attended. This partnership supports FEPE's institutional capacity building in Third Sector management.
• CONFIES – Conselho Nacional das Fundações de ApoiocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 October 2025FEPE participates in the CONFIES National Congress, the primary collective body for support foundations in Brazil. The congress addresses governance, technology, procurement, human resources, and compliance topics relevant to foundation operations. FEPE engages in thematic forums covering governance, legal matters, accounting, IT, and communications.
• UFMG – Universidade Federal de Minas GeraiscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary institutional partner. FEPE serves as the official support foundation for UFMG, with special emphasis on the Escola de Veterinária. The relationship encompasses project management, financial administration, and operational support for teaching, research, and extension activities across all UFMG units. FEPE was founded by UFMG professors in 1973 specifically to support the university's academic mission.
• Rede Metrológica de Minas GeraisminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFEPE collaborated with Rede Metrológica de Minas Gerais for LGPD (Brazilian General Data Protection Law) compliance and adequacy purposes. This partnership demonstrates FEPE's commitment to data protection governance and regulatory compliance.
• Public State Institutions (Instituições Públicas Estaduais)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFEPE partners with state-level public institutions for research and extension projects under its portfolio of public and private partnerships.
• Public Federal Institutions (Instituições Públicas Federais)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFEPE partners with federal public institutions for joint research, teaching, and extension initiatives as part of its multi-institutional collaboration strategy.
• Public Municipal Institutions (Instituições Públicas Municipais)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFEPE collaborates with municipal public institutions on community-oriented research and extension projects.
• Private Sector OrganizationsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFEPE establishes partnerships with private companies for research projects, technology development, and innovation initiatives, channeling private investment into UFMG academic activities.
• International OrganizationsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFEPE pursues international partnerships and project financing from foreign sources, contributing to the internationalization of UFMG's research and extension activities.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Fundação Araucária: Fundação Araucária is the support and research foundation linked to the State of Paraná and its universities. It provides comparable project management, grant administration, and innovation support services to academic institutions in a different state, making it a direct structural peer.
• FUSP – Fundação de Apoio à Universidade de São Paulo: FUSP is the official support foundation for the University of São Paulo (USP), the largest university in Brazil. It provides the same convênio/contract management, financial execution, and procurement support model as FEPE, making it a structurally identical peer at a far larger anchor university.
• FUNDEP – Fundação de Desenvolvimento da Pesquisa: FUNDEP is the other major support foundation operating at UFMG, providing parallel project management, financial administration, and partnership services for UFMG researchers. It is the closest direct competitor to FEPE inside the same anchor institution, with overlapping service lines and customer base.
• FUNCAMP – Fundação de Desenvolvimento da Unicamp: FUNCAMP is the support foundation affiliated with UNICAMP, managing research projects, technology transfer, and innovation partnerships. Like FEPE, it operates as a private non-profit arm providing administrative infrastructure to a major Brazilian public research university.

Broad incumbents

• CAPES – Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior: CAPES is the federal agency responsible for graduate education and postgraduate scholarship programs in Brazil. It indirectly shapes the academic project pipeline that support foundations like FEPE help execute, making it a relevant adjacent incumbent in the academic research ecosystem.
• FINEP – Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos: FINEP is a federal government-linked financing agency that funds science, technology, and innovation projects in Brazil. It is a major funding source whose convênios and contratos are frequently administered by foundations like FEPE, making it an adjacent incumbent in the same research-funding value chain.
• FAPESP – Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo: FAPESP is Brazil's largest state research foundation and one of the most prominent scientific funding bodies in Latin America. While far larger in scope and budget, it operates in the same broader space of academic research support and funding administration that FEPE serves at a project-management layer.
• FAPEMIG – Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais: FAPEMIG is the state-level research funding and support foundation of Minas Gerais. It funds and manages research projects across the state's universities (including UFMG) and operates at significantly larger scale than FEPE, intersecting with FEPE's project portfolio as a broader incumbent in the same ecosystem.
• CNPq – Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico: CNPq is Brazil's primary federal agency for scientific and technological development, funding research projects, scholarships, and grants. As one of the largest sources of project funding flowing through Brazilian support foundations, CNPq is an adjacent incumbent shaping the demand environment FEPE operates in.

Others

• CONFIES – Conselho Nacional das Fundações de Apoio: CONFIES is the national council that represents Brazilian support foundations, including FEPE itself. It is an ecosystem-level peer and industry association that convenes the network of institutions operating the same support-foundation model as FEPE.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

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