Mission
We work with education, expanding opportunities for young people to build a personal and professional path of fulfillment, citizenship and happiness.
Make a difference in your community, promote social, economic and human development and look to the generations that are being formed and will be responsible for carrying forward the dream of a better country. It is these desires that inspired Jelson da Costa Antunes to found the JCA Institute, which is part of the JCA Group and is structured with adequate physical facilities and a highly qualified team to develop actions focused on education in the East Fluminense Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro, where the institute is based.
The Jelson da Costa Antunes Institute (IJCA) is a family-run social investment founded in 2004 by transport entrepreneur Jelson da Costa Antunes. Believing that social inequality is an issue to be overcome, the organization works in the area of education with projects that improve opportunities for young people so that they can look to a future with more choice and more chances of building a professional and personal path of achievement, citizenship and happiness.
Jelson da Costa Antunes is considered one of the greatest businessmen in the transportation sector in the country. Jelson was born in 1927, in the municipality of Itaboraí in Rio de Janeiro. He began his professional life at a very young age, helping his father, initially in a warehouse and then in a pottery factory. At the age of 19, after working as a switchman, electrician, mechanic, foreman and manager in bus companies, he became a partner with his brother in a single bus. Jelson worked on his “half bus”, as he used to say, as a driver and mechanic, driving and fixing the car if it broke down.
In 1948, after breaking up the partnership with his brother, Jelson moved to the city of Macaé, where he bought his own bus and started transporting passengers. By the end of the 1940s, he already had four buses running, including a new vehicle, which became known as a “luxury cab” because it was the only one in the region. In the following decades, he founded or joined various companies in the transportation sector.
A successful businessman, in 1968 he bought Auto Viação 1001, at the time the third largest company in the state. The option was to merge the companies, which gradually achieved national prominence. When he acquired Viação Cometa, Jelson da Costa Antunes completed his cycle of entrepreneurial aspirations and became head of one of the largest road transport groups in the country.
Waitress
Administrative Assistant
Data Analyst
Technical Instructor
Social Projects Analyst PL.
Social Projects Analyst PL.
Watchman (Vigban)
Watchman
Pedagogical Advisor
Analista de Comunicação
Administrative Assistant
Administrative Analyst PL.
Communications Coordinator (Paiol Cultural)
Communications Assistant (Paiol Cultural)
Social Projects Analyst PL.
General Services Assistant
Executive Director
Jovem Aprendiz de Auxiliar Administrativo
Building Maintenance Assistant
Pedagogical Analyst Jr.
Financial Planning Coordinator
General Services Assistant
Social Project Analyst
Social Programs and Projects Coordinator
Start of the Fortalecendo Trajetórias and Oficina do Ensino programs.
The IJCA headquarters has classrooms, a digital center, a library, an auditorium and laboratories for vehicle refrigeration, automotive painting, vehicle electrics and mechanics.
The project focuses on training young social entrepreneurs.
Fetransport 5-year IJCA Award.
Participation in the "Caminhos e Trilhas" Program, focused on training social managers on issues involving education, work and social policies for young people. IJCA accredited as a qualifying social organization under the Apprenticeship Act. Partnership with Ashoka to carry out the “Geração Muda Mundo” project.
In celebration of its 10th anniversary, the IJCA took part in the 16th edition of Etransport. The stand featured programs with debates and discussions on topics such as first jobs, urban mobility and knowledge as a means of social transformation.
Honorable Mention in the Urban Mobility Award, in the Education and Culture category with the case “Youth Voices on Urban Mobility”. 1st place in the ANTPA-ABRATI “Good Practices in Land Passenger Transport” Award with the project “Professional Experience - the Qualification of Young People in Partnership with the Transport Sector”. Receives the ANTP-ABRATI. Good Practices in Land Passenger Transport with the “Life Project” case, in the Social and Environmental Responsibility category.
Organized by IJCA and Spiral Criativa with sponsorship from Auto Viação 1001, Sit Macaé and Macaense via the Ministry of Culture's Rouanet Law.
Co-creation and leadership of the Tamojunto9ºano Movement in partnership with the municipal education departments of Niterói and São Gonçalo, IFRJ-Campus São Gonçalo and Paiol Cultural with a purposeful agenda of mobilization and activities reaching more than 2,000 students in the 9th grade of the public school system. Start of work in Parque Vila Maria - SP with art and educational action projects. Launch of the Central Solidária de Oportunidades (CSO) platform in partnership with BEM TV.
“The City Beyond the Banks” Case: JCA Institute: an experience with the professional qualification of young apprentices. Motion of applause received by the Municipal Education Council of Niterói (CMEN) for the work done to broaden the educational and professional trajectory of young people from the public school system from the municipality and region.
Articulation and sponsorship of the 1st Intersectoral Seminar for the Valorization of Public Education of the Tamojunto9ºano Movement.
Seed investment in projects focused on leadership training and action in public education.
DOAR Seal - an initiative of the Doar Institute, this certification legitimizes the professionalism of Brazilian non-governmental organizations.
Beginning of the Rota da Cultura - a program of cultural visits combined with preparatory and artistic workshops on the thematic axes designed especially for the Parque Vila Maria area, in the northern zone of São Paulo.
Launch of the publication Strengthening Trajectories: new paths for young talents XIX Bienal do Livro.
Booklet Good practices in Public Education: ways to improve the quality of education - the publication gathers reports presented as oral communication by education professionals at the 1st Intersectoral Seminar for the Valorization of Public Education, organized by the #TamoJunto9oano movement.
