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ABERJE, with head office and forum in S. Paulo, at Av. Angélica, 1757, 12o. floor, inaugurated on October 8th. 1967, is a non-profit association that works to enhance the performance and reputation, locally and abroad, of Corporate and Management Communications - as administrative, politics, cultural and symbolic function for strategic management of organizations and the strengthening of citizenship.

The Association main actions are directed to improving Information, Communication and Relationship: to further friendship among companies, institutions, managers and researchers with activities related to Corporate and Management Communications; to establish and maintain propaganda vehicles that divulges the Association’s knowledge and performance, by disposing a permanent address to the associates; to bring together companies, institutions, managers and researchers related to Corporate and Management Communications; same idea concerning associations from other countries, especially those of Mercosul (South Common Market), Alca (Americas ‘ Free Commerce Association), European Union, mainly Portugal and the Portuguese speaking countries; to stimulate the relationship among associated companies, and among them and the Association, promoting the establishment of virtual and visual networks.

To promote meetings among the associates, the experts of specific market areas and the community itself, thus disseminating the ideas of the Corporate and Management Communications – as well as sharing professional experiences. To develop means for evaluation of the accredited works of the Corporate and Management Communications people; to find companies that are standards of quality and efficiency in this area; to stimulate the comprehension of a Corporate and Management Communication as having administrative, politics, cultural and symbolic strategic management function; to offer to its associates a structured ensemble of indexes and the qualifying process for an ISO certification.

The works running for Aberje award can’t be evaluated by criterion linked only to shape, innovation and communicative creativity. On the contrary, they must be linked to internal and external daily organization management, shown by the company’s social actions. In other words, the works can’t be just a piece of fiction neither inform to whom the actions and the distribution strategy are meant to, and how they rebound within people in general. Knowledge and Innovation. To make associations and partnerships with technical and high level teaching institutions; to spread all knowledge acquired by Corporate and Management Communications in Brazil. Information and New Technologies: to disseminate among the associates and the society in general the capabilities and potential use of information and new technology systems.

Companies and Communications

Nowadays, one of the facts that indicate the company historic responsibility, is its worries in establishing a permanent dialogue among target clients and the community, showing its value and transparence. Dialogue means communication made with ethics, with seriousness in handling the subjects and contribution for the developing of the association – presented with industrial and editorial skills.
The associates of ABERJE – Associação Brasileira de Comunicação Empresarial are – private and corporate people duly inscribed in the association, working in the area or contributing direct or indirectly to that purpose. The associates are classified into:

I. Effective Associates: private and corporate People affiliated to the Association for a period not less than 12 (twelve) months.

II. Affiliated Associates: private and corporate People affiliated to the Association for a lower period than 12 (twelve) months.

III. Honorific Associates: private and corporate People, elect by Deliberative Council that have rendered good services to the Association or have significantly contributed to the development of the Brazilian Corporate and Management Communications.

ABERJE’s associates receive every three months the magazine named Corporate Communication considered in the local market as a reference leaflet for the Corporate Communications area in Brazil. They also receive fortnightly, the newsletter Ação Aberje, with factual covering of the most important Brazilian Corporate Communication cases and ideas of the moment. The associates have free entrance at the Communication Forums, held on a monthly basis, with talks by managers of communication companies and institutions having had outstanding actions. Besides all this, ABERJE offers on a regular basis, recycling and up-dating studies specially created for corporate Managers, with special prices for the associates.

Conselho Deliberativo ABERJE

Presidente
Rodolfo Witzig Guttilla

Vice-Presidente
Eraldo Carneiro da Silva

Diretor Geral
Paulo Nassar

Conselheiros

Carlos Alberto Barreto de Carvalho
Elisa Prado
Eraldo Carneiro da Silva
Gilberto Galan
Jean François Hue
José Eustáquio Oliveira de Souza
Luiz Fernando Brandão
Newton Galvão

Conselho Fiscal
José Eduardo Gonçalves
Maria Alice Paoliello Lindenberg
Rosangela dos Santos Coelho

Presidente	Vice-Presidente	Diretor Geral	Conselheiro
Rodolfo Witzig Guttilla	Eraldo Carneiro da Silva	Paulo Nassar	Gilberto Galan
Conselheiro	Conselheiro	Conselheiro	Conselheiro
José Eustáquio Oliveira de Souza	Luiz Fernando Brandão	Elisa Prado	Newton Galvão
Conselheiro	Conselheiro Fiscal	Conselheiro Fiscal	Conselheiro Fiscal
Jean François Hue	José Eduardo Gonçalves	Maria Alice Paoliello Lindenberg	Rosângela dos Santos Coelho

Capítulos Regionais

Amazonas Mauro Martinez Marques		Bahia Claudio Cardoso
Cidade de São Paulo Márcio Polidoro		Espírito Santo Leticia Lindenberg
Minas Gerais Marco Piquini		Paraná Elói Zanetti
Rio de Janeiro Paulo Henrique Soares   Contato: paulo.henrique.soares@vale.com		Rio Grande do Sul José Paulo Soares Martins
São Paulo-Interior Augusto Rodrigues		Santa Catarina Rosângela Santos Coelho

Conselho Consultivo
Alberto Augusto Perazzo	Carlos Vogt	Edson Vaz Musa	Eugênio Bucci
Firmin António	Horácio Lafer Piva	Jorge Cajazeira	José Eduardo Gonçalves
José Guimarães Monforte	Prof. Dra. Margarida M. Krohling Kunsch	Maria Alice Paoliello Lindenberg	Pedro Luiz Passos
Prof. Dr. Renato Janine Ribeiro	Rubens Naves	Ruy Altenfelder	Sidnei Basile
Wilson Ferreira Júnior