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=Federal University of Technology – Paraná=

History
The institution was created in January 16, 1910, by the then president of Brazil, Nilo Peçanha, as the Escola de Aprendizes e Artífices do Paraná (School of Apprentices and Artificers of Paraná). At first, its focus was teaching lower class children, who both received primary education and were taught professional skills, such as tailoring, shoe making and woodworking.

Over time, the focus was gradually shifted to professional education, and the school was renamed Liceu Industrial de Curitiba (Industrial Lyceum of Curitiba), in 1937. Later, in 1942, it was reorganized along with several federal industrial schools, and renamed Escola Técnica de Curitiba (Technical School of Curitiba). It also underwent a name change in 1959, to Escola Técnica Federal do Paraná (Federal Technical School of Paraná).

In 1978 it became a Federal Center of Technological Education, and was renamed Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica do Paraná (CEFET-PR, Federal Center of Technological Education of Paraná). It was also then that the institution started offering academic degrees.

On October 7, 2005, president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva transformed it into the first federal University of Technology in Brazil, and renamed it Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Parana (UTFPR, Federal University of Technology - Paraná). However, it still acts as a technical high school, classified as the best of Paraná, according to the Brazilian education index ENEM. And today it is the best federal university in the state according to the Ministry of Education (MEC).