The Center for Rural and Urban Studies (CERU) develops interdisciplinary research, organizes meetings of scholars from the many different areas of the social sciences, and provides training to undergraduate and graduate students in the social sciences. The Center was founded in 1964 by a group of professors from the FFLCH Department of Social Sciences. In its inception, the Center focused on rural research and was then called the Center for Rural Studies. As researchers diversified their interests, alongside the concomitant expansion of research lines, the name change occurred to include activities pertaining to the urban world. On September 1992, the CERU became a research support center linked to the USP Provost's Office for Research. To achieve its objectives, the CERU integrates its work between professors and students by way of partnerships and contracts with national and international (non)-governmental entities.
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