The Rogério Valle Center for Sustainable Production (SAGE) was created in 1995 to develop an innovative and advanced way of sustainably producing goods, services and events; the way in which technical, economic, social and environmental criteria are integrated. For this, SAGE acts in an interdisciplinary way, thanks to its own team that includes engineers, chemists and marine biologists, in addition to several partnerships with other laboratories at UFRJ. It is currently coordinated by Professor Virgílio José Martins Ferreira Filho, and its mission is to act in the reflection, qualification and innovation of the ways of producing goods and services, integrating technical, social and environmental criteria, training people and developing research to involve society in sustainable production.

The objective of SAGE is to develop an innovative and advanced way of sustainably producing goods, services and events, considering its life cycle in an integrated manner through technical, economic, social and environmental criteria. SAGE acts primarily where production management and sustainability need to meet, using mainly Life Cycle Management and Multicriteria Sustainability Assessment.

Its main activities are related to Support for multicriteria decision in decommissioning projects. Monitoring, prevention and recovery of natural and environmental disasters; and environmental preservation. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), including environmental, social and life cycle cost analysis; - assessment of life cycle sustainability in a multicriteria approach; theoretical and practical training (in software) of LCA. Assessment and monitoring of biodiversity, particularly marine. Classification methods and selection of alternatives for making complex decisions involving multiple criteria. Its projects have made SAGE a national reference in Process Management (mapping and rationalization of processes, competence management, ERP Systems, Electronic Document Management and Workflow). It is a certified trainer and GRI stakeholder organization. For the IOC, it carried out the Sustainability Assessment of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (OGI).

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The Marine Biotechnology Laboratory (BIOTECMAR), coordinated by Professor Fabiano Thompson, develops innovative research on the themes of biodiversity, pathogens, contaminants, prospecting, genomics, post-genomics, computational biology, and transfer to the productive sector. It develops biosensors applied in the industry (pollution monitoring: domestic and industrial sewage, oil spills and ore tailings) and for environmental monitoring. It also develops pioneering studies on reef systems, Greater Amazonian Reef, Abrolhos, oceanic islands (São Pedro and São Paulo, Trindade, Abrolhos), coastal region (Rio de Janeiro coast, Guanabara Bay and deep sea, and Antarctica, aiming to develop biotechnological products and processes, and understand the functioning of these marine systems. Development of new therapeutic products to combat infectious diseases from marine biodiversity. It also develops studies on water quality and water security in several river regions of the country (including Amazonas, São Francisco Rivers, Contas, Paraguaçu, Doce, Paraopeba, and Guandu) Coordinates the MCTIC BIOTECMAR National Network.

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The MobiLog - Mobility Laboratory, Logistics and Sustainability is a research laboratory linked to the Production Engineering Program (PEP) of Coppe / UFRJ and is coordinated by Professor Lino G. Marujo. It acts in a transdisciplinary way, from a new perspective on operations management, mobility and logistics based on the triad Collaborative Economy, Circular Economy and Digital Economy. Among the areas of expertise is the development of extended supply chains, industrial symbiosis, circular and digital business models, socio-environmental assessment based on Life Cycle Thinking methodologies, urban mobility and logistics, sustainable logistics networks, simulation and use and Big Data treatment.

The objectives of MobiLog are:
- Offer innovation to the mobility and logistics sector;
- Make logistics more efficient, productive, greener, safer;
- Transform city logistics into a pillar of sustainable socio-economic development.

It is one of several " Knowledge Hubs" that are in the spheres of activity PEP / COPPE / UFRJ. As a Knowledge Center, MobiLog - Living Lab proposes to be the link of a fragmented transport and logistics industry to innovation and best practices in sustainability in supply chains. Activities with the objective of making the transport and logistics sector in RJ and the country more productive, efficient, more sustainable and safer.

The approach guided by technology and industry practice can address points of inefficiencies, criticisms of the interfaces involved, lack of standardization and fragmented visibility of the end-to-end in transport and logistics processes.  MobiLog explores new ways to orchestrate transport and logistics services through multiple service providers, modes of transport and technologies.

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The Core Laboratory for Technology, Management and Logistics Studies (TGL), coordinated by Professor Elton Fernandes, aims to contribute to the advancement of knowledge, in theoretical terms and in practical applications, in strategic approaches in three areas: technology, management and logistics.

His research involves approaches: organizational, sectoral and national. Its main activity is the training of researchers who are preparing to work in public and private initiatives or who already work in these areas and seek to improve their knowledge through “stricto sensu” graduate teaching.

Over the years, activities have been taking place through research on topics selected by students and researchers linked to TGL, cooperation with external researchers from other teaching/research institutions (national and foreign) and organizations (public and private), and realization specific research financed by funding agencies and organizations (public and private).

The results are materialized for society through the publication of research results, for example, articles presented at scientific conferences and published in national and international scientific journals. In the case of specific surveys, the reports with the respective recommendations, presented to funders, become the main element. Although TGL considers the explanation of research results, through the publication of articles, books and reports, of great relevance, the main product for society is the certainty of more qualified professionals for the exercise of research, with robust theoretical bases, which we believe in making a difference for the advancement of society and its organizations (public and private).

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