Program pantanal.dev will be held in Mato Grosso do Sul and aims to prepare 120 young people for the job market; in the first edition, held in Ceará, around 300 young people were impacted by the initiative
B3 announces the pantanal.dev, a technology training program carried out in partnership with the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS) that aims to develop talent outside the Rio-São Paulo axis.
The program is an initiative of B3 and its affiliates PDtec, BLK and neoway, and is in its second edition. The first, mandacaru.dev, was carried out with the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) and enabled the creation of a laboratory of technological excellence within the campus, stimulating the local ecosystem.
A pilot project was also created for the immersive training of students in three training modules: Machine Learning, Data Science and Java. After completing almost 200 hours of content, 63 students were certified, with 10 of them hired by B3 companies.
"The program mandacaru.dev it certainly was a very important milestone in my professional life, in which I was able to acquire technical knowledge of machine learning and data science, and also improve my behavioral skills. It was because of this program that I got my job at B3, which manages to bring me countless technical and personal learnings every day, in order to complement what I learned at the University”, comments William Bruno, one of the students in the program who was hired by B3.
Mandacaru had 40 mentors from B3 companies, who helped students with the proposed challenges and brought a closer perspective of the job market to academic training. The rector of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC), Cândido Albuquerque, highlights the importance of the partnership. “This is the role that the Brazilian university is assuming today: the university that researches, innovates and undertakes. I am very happy when I see that UFC is walking arm in arm with private companies, with this philosophy of offering students the possibility of developing solutions”, he said.
O pantanal.dev will also have 3 knowledge modules, on the same themes as the mandacaru.dev, in addition to periodic lives on the IT market.
Both mandacaru and pantanal were developed to help train technology professionals for the job market, identifying the potential to contribute to regional ecosystems by working outside the Rio-São Paulo axis. The integration between B3 companies and partner universities aims to expand opportunities for training and hiring talent, foster the socioeconomic transformation of regions, develop research and contribute to Open Innovation.
“B3 believes that technology plays a fundamental role in building a better tomorrow, and this is only possible through collaboration with great visionaries, creative minds and entities with an innovative purpose and excellence in technical-operational knowledge. It is an honor to collaborate with renowned universities and students with such potential, opening doors for the development of talents in Brazil.” comments Rodrigo Nardoni, Vice President of Technology and Cybersecurity at B3.
