Since 2013 the Science Park has organized a Social June Festival aiming at increasing integration between the Park and the companies as well as calling on resources for social university extension projects.
In 2013 and 2014, the funds were allocated in the Project of University Extension – Vacation Course to Public School teachers and students. The Vacation Courses are carried out by the Institute of Medical Biochemistry during the July and January school vacations for Elementary School and High School teachers and High School students. They are practical courses, coordinated by professors of the Institute and monitored by the graduate students, and offer the opportunity for a differentiated learning in the areas of natural sciences and health.
Learn more about the courses
here.
In 2015, the university extension Project supported was the storytellers students from IPPMG/UFRJ (Martagão Gesteira Pediatrics and Childcare Institute). The goal of this initiative is to bring happiness and entertainment to the hospital environment through children’s book reading.
Learn more about the project here.
The project, in a partnership with Pro-Rectory for Graduate Studies and Research, awards the five best Ph.D. dissertations defended each year from five different areas: Life Sciences, Technological and Nature Sciences, Social and Human Sciences, Letters and Arts, and Innovative Dissertation. Each winner is awarded a prize of R$ 10,000 and their advisors get a trip to participate in scientific events.
The implementation of a project focused on the adoption of internal practices of sustainability and of environment-friendly disposal of residues goes further than what is required by law. In addition to promoting the social-economic empowerment of the collectors’ cooperatives, the Project aims to subsidize the elaboration of research at the Center for the Selection and Processing of Recyclable products of the Science Park (CTB), which reinforces the initiatives of circular economy, contributing for the production of upcycle strategies (transform disposed objects into new products), remanufacturing, repairing/reuse, etc.
In 2016, the UFRJ Science Park supported the House of Science carrying out preliminary studies for its expansion project. The House of Science – UFRJ Cultural Center of Science and Technology is a center to popularize Science that explores different fields of knowledge through different languages: exhibitions, seminars, lectures, courses, workshops, audiovisual and theater. Its greatest challenge is to encourage the visitors to make their own discoveries, based on activities that trigger curiosity and invite them to question and search for answers.
Um resultado desse programa é o horto, que atende às necessidades e demandas internas de produção e paisagismo das áreas verdes de todo o Parque, sendo seu principal fornecedor de mudas e terra adubada (produzida por meio da compostagem de resíduos de podas no Parque). Em 2016, o Parque aumentou a sua área verde com o plantio de mais 50 arvores de três espécies da Mata Atlântica.
Um dos seus objetivos foi promover a interação entre as pessoas. A feira contou com a participação de empreendimentos criados por alunos do curso de Gastronomia; de apresentações de representantes da Universidade das Quebradas; apresentações de alguns projetos de extensão da universidade como: UFRJ Desafia; Alunos Contadores de Histórias do IPPMG; ATIVIDA; a Feira de Agroecologia da UFRJ; além de 
A iniciativa contou com a participação professores e alunos da UFRJ, funcionários das empresas residentes do Parque e da Incubadora de Empresas da Coppe/UFRJ, pesquisadores de laboratórios da universidade e colaboradores da administração do Parque e da Incubadora.
