IDP's PPG in Public Administration stands out for its high degree of social integration in different spheres of society. This insertion is manifested in numerous research and extension activities carried out by the Program throughout the four-year period. Over time, these activities expanded significantly, guided by “Perspective 4: Economic and Social Impact and Internationalization”, of the PPG Strategic Planning.

Our teachers have high impact rates, measured by Scopus, Google Scholar, Spell and other indexes. The total number of citations of works by our permanent professors is more than 14 thousand, according to Google Scholar. The average Google Scholar H and i10 indexes of our permanent professors are 11.37 and 18.15, respectively. According to Google Scholar, the average number of citations for IDP permanent professors is 744.26. More than 50% of our permanent professors have at least 500 citations and some of our professors have more than a thousand citations. The average Scopus H-index was 1.7.

With an educational proposal that seeks to balance theory and practice, based on a teaching methodology that gives special attention to problem solving, case study analysis and practical applications of knowledge, it is natural that the PPG also values, in the framework training from teachers to professionals. In this regard, it is worth highlighting that all professors in the Permanent Teaching Unit (NDP) have at least 10 years of experience in Public Administration or a related area (consultancy, international organizations, etc.). The Program's current teaching staff has experience in the three powers of the Republic (Executive, Legislative and Judiciary), at the three levels of the federation (Union, States and Municipalities), in Indirect Administration entities, International Organizations and in the Private Sector. Currently, 95% of the NDP occupy (or occupied during the four-year period) a prominent position in Brazilian Public Administration.

The program closely monitors the impact of the NDP's professional performance and intellectual production on information vehicles and the mainstream media in general. Media appearances include news and reports in magazines, newspapers, websites and blogs, as well as radio and TV interviews and the publication of articles in newspapers and magazines. Between 2017-2020 there were around 950 media appearances, 44 interviews and 44 newspaper/magazine articles. It is noteworthy that 95% of the NDP had at least one appearance in media outlets during the period.

Over the last four years (2017-2020), the PPG held several smaller and larger scale academic events to debate topics related to public administration. Among those on a larger scale, we highlight two: i) the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th editions of the International Public Administration Seminar and ii) the 7th edition of the Brazilian Public Administration Meeting (2020).

During the broadcast of the 10th Edition of the Public Administration Seminar (2020), the panels received more than 2,700 views on the IDP YouTube channel, which demonstrates the relevance of the aspects discussed and addressed over the three days of the event. It should be noted that the 11th edition of the event should take place in the second half of 2021.

Another relevant action of the Program was the partnership signed in 2019 with the Brazilian Society of Public Administration (SBAP) to co-organize and hold the VII Brazilian Meeting of Public Administration (VII EBAP), which would be held at the physical headquarters of the IDP in Brasília/DF on May 28th and 29th, 2020. Due to the pandemic, the event was postponed to the second semester and held entirely online on the 11th, 12th and November 13, 2020. The partnership was a success. The meeting had approximately 300 participants and more than 230 papers approved for presentation, distributed in 13 working groups.

In 2021, IDP and SBAP will repeat the partnership in holding the 8th edition of EBAP.

Open Space

In 2019, the IDP Professional Master's Program in Public Administration, in partnership with the institution's Master's Program in Economics, launched the “IDP Open Space”, a project led by Prof. Caio Cordeiro de Resende, Coordinator of the PPG, which aimed to offer free mini-courses open to the public in the areas of public administration and law.

The mini-courses had around 100 participants per meeting. In total, there were more than 2 thousand participants, and the event page was accessed almost 17 thousand times over the 10 weeks in which the courses were held (between September and November 2019).

In the second phase of the project, carried out in the 1st half of 2020, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the first IDP Open Space mini-courses were offered in online broadcasts, always publicly and free of charge. In this phase, a total of 12 courses were offered. Of these, 8 were taught by PPG professors. To date, there have been almost 3 thousand views on YouTube of the courses taught at Espaço Aberto IDP.

Open Class

In the 2nd semester of 2020, motivated by the success of the Espaço Aberto Project and the perception of the importance that an educational institution has to play in a context of serious health, economic and social crisis, the PPG decided to expand the Espaço Aberto project. The “Open Class Project” was then created, which differs from its predecessor in three important characteristics: i) the courses offered are of medium duration (on average, 10 hours per course); ii) the project was expanded to other areas of the IDP, especially to the areas of communication and law; iii) for some courses, teachers from outside the IDP were invited. However, two fundamental characteristics were maintained: the courses remained completely open to society and 100% free.

Despite all the adversity caused by the new Coronavirus pandemic, the “Open Class” therefore constituted an opportunity to expand access to free courses unprecedented in the history of IDP to students from all over Brazil, through online classes. The project has proven to be an unprecedented success. The management and economics courses alone, whose organization is under the direct responsibility of the PPG, brought together more than 25 thousand participants. As in its previous version, all Open Class project courses are available on the IDP website for later access (https://www.idp.edu.br/openclass/).

We make the main project data available on a public Dashboard, which can be accessed via the link: https://bit.ly/2QZRHZc

A relevant channel that enhances the economic, social and cultural impact of the PPG are the Program's research groups. Whether through academic production or technical production, research initiatives conducted within the PPG research groups combined with the professional performance of professors have generated concrete and relevant results for Brazilian society. Below, for illustrative purposes, we list concrete and relevant results from eight professors and their respective research groups.

The first Education Innovation Laboratory in Brazil

The Prof. Pedro Cavalcante, in addition to leading the group “Innovation and Public Policies in Contemporary Brazil”, teaches the subject “Public Policy Laboratory: Innovation in Government”. The objective of this optional subject is to advance the understanding of innovation in the public sector based on applied theoretical approaches and practical case experiences. The focus of the course is the interactive and collaborative nature of innovative methods/tools aimed at solving public management problems.

Among the group's participants was Leomir Araújo, a career employee of the National Education Development Fund – FNDE. After completing his Master's degree, Leomir conceived the creation of the first Education Innovation Laboratory in Brazil. Located on the FNDE premises, the laboratory aims to provide an environment conducive to creativity and risk, where employees can experiment and test new projects. According to Leomir himself, “our idea was to create a safe space for the server to test, a place where we can experiment to do better, do things differently” (https://www.fnde.gov.br/index.php/acesso-a -information/institutional/press-area/news/item/12186-fnde-lanca- Primeiro-laboratorio-inovacao-em-educacao-brasil).

Recently, the laboratory was involved in the reformulation of the Caminho da Escola program, whose objective is to renew, standardize and expand the fleet of school vehicles in basic education networks (https://www.fnde.gov.br/index.php/acesso-a-informacao/institucional/area-de-imprensa/noticias/item/13198-laborat%C3%B3ri o-of-innovation%C3%A7%C3%A3o-do-fnde-labor-em-solu%C3%A7%C3%B5es-estrat%C3%A9gicas-para-advance%C3%A7os-no-caminho- school).

The Proposed Amendment to the Constitution 10/20 PEC of the War Budget

The Prof. Jose Roberto Afonso is one of the leaders of the group “Public Finances, Taxation and Fiscal Federalism in Brazil”. Right at the beginning of the pandemic, the professor led several discussions about the impact of the crisis on the Brazilian budget and the country's ways of reacting to the crisis. The discussions and reflections led Prof. Jose Roberto Afonso to propose the idea that became known as the “War Budget PEC”, which aimed to separate spending committed to combating the coronavirus pandemic from the General Union Budget (https://economia.uol.com.br /noticias/estadao-conteudo/2020/05/07/congresso-promulga-pec-do-orcamento-de-guerra.htm) . PEC nº 10, of 2020, was approved in May 2020 with the support of all parties in the Chamber of Deputies and was one of the most important legislative initiatives of 2020, which ended discussions about the constitutionality/legality of increasing, exceptionally, public spending in 2020, being a key element for, for example, the approval of emergency aid and the emergency plan for maintaining employment and income.

The Administrative and Social Security Reform of the State of Rio Grande do Sul

Professor Leany Lemos, leader of the research group in “Government Management Planning”, in 2020 was also holding the position of the Secretariat of Planning, Budget and Management of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. On this occasion, she was responsible for another of the most important technical products of the program in the quadrennium: the text of the Administrative and Social Security Reform of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, a collective work under the leadership of prof. Leany.

The reform represented a major innovation for the public administration of Rio Grande do Sul and was composed of eight (8) broad projects that aimed to promote fiscal adjustment in the State and the modernization of the public machine. The projected impact over 10 years is R$17 billion. The expectation is that the effects will begin to be noticed in the first half of 2020, with a reduction in the social security deficit and the stabilization of State personnel expenses, across all branches of government.

Reformulation of the Institutional Repository and creation of the Revista Debates em Administração Pública (REDAP)

In order to promote increased publicity for PPG's bibliographic production, the program carried out a complete reformulation of the Institutional Repository of dissertations (https://repositorio.idp.edu.br/handle/123456789/2595).

Additionally, the PPG launched the “Revista Debates em Administração Pública”, which consists of a Technical Magazine aimed at disseminating preliminary results of applied studies and research being developed by professors, researchers and postgraduate students with the aim of stimulating production and the discussion of relevant technical knowledge in the area of ​​Public Administration.

Management, Economics and Business Magazine (REGEN)

Fulfilling one of the most relevant aspects of its strategic planning, PPG launched, at the end of 2020, the Revista de Gestão, Economia e Negócios (REGEN). The first two editions were launched in 2020 and already have ISSN numbering. The expectation is that an evolution will gradually be observed in the Qualis strata. The periodical is called Revista de Gestão, Economia e Negócios, the same name as the School that brings together the professional programs of Public Administration and Economics at IDP.

Public Administration Training Course for High School

Since its inception, the Master's Program has demonstrated concern with the training of young people in the area of ​​Public Administration. As a way of addressing this concern, the Program has been offering free courses aimed exclusively at training high school students, primarily from public schools. The main objective of the course is to provide young people in high school with a space for discussion and debate about the main themes of Public Administration with teachers from the Master's and Undergraduate Programs. These courses, over time, have gained great support from society. From the first edition of the course, held in a classroom with 40 students, to the last, held in an auditorium with 250 participants, the growth in student interest was significant.

Course – Active Methodologies and Hybrid Teaching

It is noteworthy that the IDP Professional Master's Program in Public Administration held the Active Methodologies and Hybrid Teaching course in August 2020. This was a free initiative of the Program whose focus was to share the knowledge accumulated by the program since the implementation of the remote school regime and help in the training of high school teachers in the Federal District. In this training, the main objective was to support public school teachers with techniques and tools to be used during the resumption of classes in online or hybrid modalities. The course had 54 participants, all teachers from the public school system.