The Sao Paulo School of Economics (FGV EESP) is based at 474 Rua Itapeva, in the neighborhood of Bela Vista in Sao Paulo. Its facilities are large enough, appropriate and well maintained, allowing students to perform the planned activities.

FGV is composed of a 12-story main office at 2029 Avenida 9 de Julho, and the Karl A. Boedecker Library, the Getulio Vargas Auditorium, a multisport court and two annex buildings at 432 Rua Itapeva. The classrooms, videoconference rooms, IT labs and integrated systems, all sponsored, are located in various FGV buildings in Sao Paulo.

The school’s administrative office and professors’ rooms are located in FGV EESP’s main office, which is also home to the Noble Room, the Mayor Faria Lima Bookstore, the Getulio Vargas Academic Office, a social space for professors, a medical center, two restaurants and two snack bars.

The annex buildings host some administrative departments and student groups such as AIESEC, the Junior Companies group, the Athletics Association and the Employees’ Association.

The Mayor Faria Lima Bookstore is a specialist bookstore and it offers the service of importing foreign publications. It also stocks the latest national and international publications in the fields of administration, law and economics.

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The multisport court is also a meeting place for students. As well as hosting sport events such as indoor soccer and basketball championships, it is also used for events and parties.

The Problem-Based Learning Rooms are assigned for group teaching activities. There are also smaller rooms for tutorials, in which the chairs are arranged in a circle to promote discussion and participation among everyone. There are audiovisual resources and whiteboards to facilitate presentations about what students have studied and to solve problems.

FGV has two videoconference rooms to host and transmit talks, national and international events, and dissertation defenses.

Videoconferences may be transmitted on the internet or through ISDN digital lines (instead of traditional phone lines), permitting a much better sound and image quality for videoconferences that use webcams.

In these rooms, everything that happens can be streamed via the internet in real time to people anywhere in the world. Students can also use a chat room to share experiences with classmates and interact with professors by asking questions and making comments.

All the classes in the graduate courses run by FGV Online in Sao Paulo are transmitted using this technology.

The Karl A. Boedecker Library contains specialized books in the areas of administration, business, economics, the social sciences and law. There are 60,000 titles and 78,000 copies of books, dissertations and theses, 1,600 periodicals, 9,000 indexed periodical articles, and 140 electronic publications, including various databases, the full texts of articles, statistical data and legislation. The movie archives contain more than 500 movies and 650 videos, some of which were produced internally by the school’s study centers.

The library runs a website, which is now its main guide, compiling information on all the available services and resources. It also functions as a channel for communication between the library and its users.

Created in 1992, the Information Technology Education and Research Laboratory (LEPI) has the main objective of administering the interface between FGV’s IT resources and academic activities in Sao Paulo. LEPI features state-of-the-art equipment, connected in a network, with free internet access and software programs for various activities and teaching areas in administration, economics and law.

Professors and students can use six well-equipped laboratories, which are open from Monday to Friday, from 8 am to 10 pm, and on Saturdays, from 9 am to 3 pm.

In accordance with Brazilian Technical Standards Association (ABNT) Regulations 9050, FGV has made technical adaptations in its offices to benefit disabled people. This is part of a continuous improvement process, and all buildings will gradually be adapted.

The most recent change was the installation of tactile flooring, which is one of the best ways to aid mobility. The flooring combines warnings and signs, informing and guiding people, forming precise and safe trails. Tactile flooring will be used in both outdoor and indoor areas, ensuring smooth flows.