📚 MANDATORY SCHEDULED ACTIVITY (APO)
🎓 Course Completion Requirements

To complete your program, you must fulfill the mandatory credits (APO), which must be documented at least 30 days before submitting your dissertation or thesis.

✅ What counts as APO?
• Bibliographic and technical production
• Individual research related to your Area of Concentration
• Participation in scientific events and publications

💡 The goal is to encourage scientific engagement and foster strong development as a researcher and future professor.

📌 How many credits are required?
• Master's: a minimum of 8 (eight) units
• Doctorate: a minimum of 18 (eighteen) units

🖊️ The form must be signed by both the student and the advisor.

🔬 MANDATORY SCHEDULED RESEARCH ACTIVITY (APOP)
👥 Participation in a Research Group

The APOP is mandatory for all students and consists of providing proof of participation in a Research Group.

📆 Proof must be submitted at least 30 days before the Qualification Exam, in accordance with the PPG-DPE Regulations.

📄 How to provide proof:

Access: http://lattes.cnpq.br/web/dgp
Find your Research Group's page
Print the page where your name appears
Attach the printed page to the form

🖊️ The form must be signed by both the student and the Research Group leader.

ℹ️ Important: In the Student Portal transcript, the Doctorate-level APOP is recorded as “Research Tutoring”.