:: What we do

CERTI is an independent private technology research and development organization that conducts unique activities and maintains partnerships with universities and research centers in Brazil and abroad. Its mission is to provide industrial and service companies with innovative and competitive technological solutions. Its permanent challenge is to maintain itself at the vanguard of technical knowledge. Through “mobilizing projects” that have public and private support, CERTI contributes to the technological, corporate and social development of Brazil.

:: How we do it

Each of the CERTI Reference Centers offers, within their specialties, technological services, consulting, assistance and training aimed at directly meeting clients' needs. They also develop solutions for new products, processes, systems and on large scale technological projects that result from the intensive interaction between CERTI and the client. CERTI's teams support the implementation of innovation and train suppliers and industrial factories.

:: History The CERTI Foundation – Reference Centers in Innovative Technologies – is a private not for profit organization, created in 1984, in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina. It began with the activities of Labmetro – The Metrology Laboratory of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Federal University at Santa Catarina (UFSC).

As a science, technology and innovation institute, CERTI was born with a focus on applied technology research, at a time when Brazil required leaps of quality and to develop its own and innovative “know-how”, especially in the field of computers and state of the art technologies.

In the past two decades, the Foundation has become a national and international reference for its innovative projects, services and enterprises that seek economic progress and social well-being by supporting innovative, self-sustainable processes that generate economic, human and environmental benefits.

CERTI, as a function of corporate demands, established technology institutes in Manaus and Brasilia that act in similar and complementary fields.