# Carta a academia: por uma refunda\c{c}\~ao do CNPQ e da ci\^encia brasileira

## TL;DR

This paper advocates for a fundamental reform of Brazilian science policy, emphasizing the need for closer integration of academia with society and politics to foster democratic development and strategic planning.

## Contribution

It proposes a comprehensive refoundation of CNPQ and a new role for academia in Brazilian political and social decision-making.

## Key findings

- Current Brazilian science is disconnected from societal needs.
- Academic influence in politics is limited to social sciences.
- Reforming CNPQ could enhance science's societal role.

## Abstract

In this ``Letter'', I do introduce my point of view about the role of science in the development and organization of our societies, emphasizing that science is too far from our societies. In Brazil we follow a way similarly to that of USA and France concerning this phenomenon, marked by the lack of participation of our academies and scientific community in politics and economy, i.e. we can see that strategic decisions are been hold by only electoral bias and, when there is the presence of academic science, usually it is restricted to the fields of economical, political and social sciences. I conclude that the strategic planning of a country, or of the planet as a whole, needs that academy stay close of society, been this one necessary both not enough condition to the proper functioning of any democracy. In the Brazil case more specifically, I propose that this political change in our academies begin by one profound thought about the Brazilian Science with a consequent refoundation of the CNPQ (Nacional Council for Science and Technology development).