Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo

Brazilian federal institute of education, science and technology in the state of Espírito Santo, with its head office in Vitória and more than twenty campuses across the state, created in 2008 from the federal technical schools whose origins date to 1909. Teaches technical secondary courses, technology and bachelor degrees and postgraduate programmes in chemistry, industrial chemistry and chemical technology, food science, biotechnology, environmental and metallurgical engineering, nursing and safety at work, and runs its own laboratories with research and extension projects for local industry.