The IDP Professional Master's Program in Public Administration (MPAP/IDP) systematically encourages and monitors the obtaining of external funding for research projects coordinated or with the participation of the NDP with institutions (public and private) and funding agencies.

It is recorded that each permanent professor of the Program leads a research project with the participation of students, graduates and participants external to the IDP. Several research activities developed within the scope of these Master's projects rely on external funding from public bodies or private sector entities, which highlights two important aspects that the Program seeks to solidify:

i) the formation and consolidation of a diversified internal research network, made up of professors and students; and,

ii) the confidence that institutions, whether public or private, have in the IDP's Professional Master's Program in Public Administration

The Program understands that this is one of the indicators of its credibility and institutional reputation, which, although established recently, already contributes significantly to the training of human resources for the production of knowledge in the area of ​​Brazilian public administration.

In the 2017-2020 quadrennium, for example, if we consider external funding, the proportion of NDP with funded research projects was 70%. It is important to highlight that these funds are in line with the Master's proposal and modality and benefit our professors and students, in addition to contributing to the insertion of the PPG in broader research networks.

As an illustration, some research projects with external funding are presented below, specifying the funding agencies that awarded the respective financial grants in the four-year period (2017-2020):

- Professor Alexander Cambraia: research project (Monitoring and Evaluation of Social Protection Programs) – Support: UNDP Agency (United Nations Development Program);

- Professor Alexandre Gomide: research project (Infrastructure Policy Governance: institutional constraints on investment) - Support: Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) / Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA);

- Professor Caio Resende: research project (Evaluation of public educational policies: practical cases of education in Brazil) - Support: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Distrito Federal (FAP-DF);

- Professor Fernando Meneguin: research project (Public Policy Assessment - New FIES: An Assessment of the Evolution of the Program in Brazil) – Support: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Distrito Federal (FAP-DF);

- Professor Grace Garbaccio: research project (Best legal practices for mining projects and their social acceptance) – Support: Université Laval; École Normale Supérieure de Rennes; Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Paris;

- Professor Humberto Falcão: research project (Public governance focused on results) - Support: London School of Economics (LSE);

- Professor Luciana Garcia: research project (Children and prison: effects of the prison system on early childhood development) – Support: Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI);

- Professor Luís Paiva: research project (Can Social Protection be an Engine for Inclusive Growth?) – Support: European Union / Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD);

- Professor Luiz Ricardo Cavalcante: research project (Competition and Innovation) – Support: Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA);

- Professor Pedro Cavalcante: research project (Government Nucleus) – Support: Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA);

- Professor Pedro Palotti: research project (Modernization of the State: mapping of conceptions and practices of state modernization with Ministers and Executive Secretaries of the Federal Public Administration) – Support: National School of Public Administration (ENAP);

-Professor Suely Araújo: research project (Federal conflicts in the fight against Covid-19: the performance of state governments) - Support: Brazilian Institute of Education, Development and Research (IDP).

In all the external financial grants, it appears that the funding comes from 19 different public and private, as well as national and international, funding institutions, which covered 23 NDP surveys of the Program. The following is the list of funding institutions for the program:

- UNDP (United Nations Development Program);

- IDB (Inter-American Development Bank);

- ABRAPP (Brazilian Association of Closed Private Pension Entities);

- IPEA (Institute of Applied Economic Research);

- CNPq (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development);

- FAP-DF (Federal District Research Support Foundation);

- FGV (Fundação Getúlio Vargas);

- OEI (Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture);

- OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Developmet);

- ENAP (National School of Public Administration);

- IBRD (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development);

- LSE (London School of Economics);

- Stanford University;

- Université Laval;

- Ecole Normale Supérieure de Rennes;

- IDP (Brazilian Institute of Education, Development and Research);

- Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Paris;

- SEBRAE (Brazilian Support Service for Micro and Small Enterprises);

- SENAT (National Transport Learning Service).

The IDP Professional Master's Program in Public Administration (MPAP/IDP) implemented in September 2019 the Institutional Research Center (NPI), which currently has two (2) PhD researchers, aiming to offer advice, assistance and support to professors permanent members of the program, as well as for students and graduates with regard to intellectual production. The work of these institutional researchers comprises the following attributions:

- Review of articles, presenting criticisms and suggestions for improvements to the texts;

- Indication of scientific journals for submission of articles (the team of researchers created a database with mapping of the evaluation deadlines of the main periodicals in the area; the indications have prioritized journals that are well ranked in Qualis, but with shorter deadlines for the evaluation of submitted papers);

- Formatting of articles according to the guidelines for journal authors;

- Assistance in the submission of articles to journals;

- Review the form of dissertations to ensure that all requirements of the Brazilian Association of Technical Standards (ABNT) are met;

- Individualized service to students of the 1st and 2nd semester of the program who are studying the Research Methodology discipline (these services aim to offer students the opportunity to resolve doubts and receive assistance to better define their research problems and operational and/or methodological procedures of their research, as well as support in the construction of their projects that will be presented in the qualification);

- Review of articles sent to the PPG technical magazine “Debates in Public Administration” (https://www.portaldeperiodicos.idp.edu.br/redap).

As preliminary results of this work, we can highlight:

- More than 50 articles submitted to journals, approximately 40 of which were co-authored with the program's professors;

- About 35 articles published, more than 10 published in stratum A of Qualis/Capes and co-authored by students and professors;

- Assistance in more than 50 paper submissions to academic events. By way of illustration, the NPI assisted in the review and criticism of the articles, as well as advised the students and graduates of the program in the submission of papers to the following scientific events:

- 7th and 8th edition of the Brazilian Meeting of Administration (EBAP), respectively in 2020 and 2021;

- Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA, 2021 and 2022);

- 10th and 11th IDP Public Administration Seminar (2020 and 2021), and others;

- Two short courses on quantitative methodology and one on qualitative methodology offered free of charge to students and the external community;

- Two workshops on literature review and ABNT formatting standards.

The implementation of the NPI was carried out in the wake of a set of PPG actions specifically aimed at the qualified production of professors, students and graduates of the program. In addition to the biannual monitoring of research and publication by professors, the program created several mechanisms to support research, the four main ones being: i) financial incentives for publications in well-qualified journals; ii) funding for the presentation of works at national and international congresses; iii) hiring research assistants to work under the guidance of NDP professors. All these measures have paid off. After four years, 100% of IDP's permanent professors produced highly qualified articles or technical products that converge with the proposal for a state-of-the-art public administration program.