The Euvaldo Lodi Institute of Rio de Janeiro (IEL-RJ) is the FIRJAN System institution responsible for the integration of the business world with the academic world by promoting business qualification and technical upgrading programs. IEL not only develops programs and projects; the organization provides support to FIRJAN Innovation and Technology Development Management area.
  
IEL-RJ encourages the development and makes feasible the means for inserting intellectual and technological knowledge, normally found in upper learning institutions into various business segments, always aiming at increasing the competitiveness of the industrial sector of the state of Rio de Janeiro. IEL acts as an interface between the needs of businesses in the state and new information and technologies through the elaboration of reports entitled:
   
Business Diagnoses
Research and evaluation projects to determine the efficiency of business management processes
 
Capacitação Empresarial
Business Qualification Training programs, lectures, seminars and in-company consultancy services for qualifying businessmen, executives and technicians in using improved  business Management and Innovation techniques.
 
Programs and Projects
 
BITEC Program
Objective: transfer of knowledge from universities to companies and encourage the presence of students in small companies through the use of technological innovations and management processes to increase competitiveness.
 
Business Portal
This is a tool that offers professional qualification opportunities through the electronic web with a fast-access information system very useful to the business world. Content is selected by specialists from each industrial area/sector.

  
As part of the FIRJAN System, IEL also manages:
     

• Business Forum for Cosmetics and Toiletries
• Regional Representations Presidents Council
• Business Council for Strategic Competitiveness Management 

  
Euvaldo Lodi Institute / IEL-RJ
Phone: (55 21) 2563-4193 or e-mail: iel@firjan.org.br