Saúde sem Fronteiras: ações de divulgação científica em tempos de pandemia

Abstract

This research aims to discuss a scientific dissemination and, more specifically, focuses on the extension project called: “Saúde Sem Fronteiras” (Health Without Barriers), an initiative of the Instituto Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo campus. Based on the assumptions of historical cultural theory and activity theory, we discussed how the project's actions were analyzed for scientific dissemination. It is a qualitative research, of the type study of case, any data were found by the different actions brought by Health Without Barriers. Follow-up took place during the period from March 2020 to August 2020. The actions were listed as follows: Bibliographic surveys, curation of information, production of materials for dissemination in scientific networks (WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram and Youtube) and shifts of doubts. The results of this research reiterate the importance of scientific dissemination as a strategy for communication in the sciences and demonstration that it must be thought of in a way that has a language accessible to the non-scientific population so that it can be inserted in the proximal development zone of the subjects and be carried out in knowledge potential.