The Universidade Federal do Pampa (UNIPAMPA) is a public university established in 2006 with the objective of strengthen the South Region of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Universidade Federal do Pampa - UNIPAMPA, created by Law 11640 of January 11, 2008 as the Federal University of Pampa, public in nature, with headquarters in the city of Bage, in Rio Grande do Sul, is endowed with autonomy educational, scientific, administrative and financial management and property, subject to current legislation and the present Statute and the General Rules and the regiments of the organs in the institutional structure and the resolutions of their collective bodies. The UNIPAMPA as a social institution is committed to ethics, founded on freedom, respect for difference and solidarity, constituting a public place for the exercise of critical consciousness, in which the community can rethink their ways of life and its political, social and economic organization. The UNIPAMPA is a federal institution of higher education, several campi, with campus in Alegrete Bage, Caçapava South, Dom Pedrito, Itaqui Jaguarão, Santana do Livramento, Sao Borja, Sao Gabriel and Uruguaiana.