The researcher at RS Brain Institute , Augusto Buchweitz , was invited to present his ideas about the country's literacy to the Literacy Secretariat and the Evidence-Based Literacy Directorate.

These ideas should help to incorporate evidence into the document that will be produced on the country's literacy guidelines. He was at the Ministry of Education , in Brasília, this Tuesday, February 26th. In addition to Buchweitz, there were three other researchers and two representatives from the third sector. “There was a good prospect that science will be part of the decision making process of this new national evidence-based literacy secretariat,” says the researcher.

Buchweitz is a professor at the School of Health Sciences at PUCRS and a researcher at the Instituto do Cerebro do RS. One of his research projects is the ACERTA, which emerged in order to understand the changes that occur in the brain of children in literacy and explain why some children develop learning disorders.

Another research project is VIVA - Life and Violence in Adolescence , which studies the impacts of violence on the brain development of adolescents.

In the photo, there is the national literacy secretary, Carlos Nadalim (the second from right to left), standing in front of researcher Augusto Buchweitz, the director of the Evidence-Based Literacy group, Maria Regina Maluf. Researchers Vitor Hasse (UFMG), Jerusa Salles (UFRGS) and Alessandra Seabra (Mackenzie) also participated.