The Center for Studies on Families and Educational-Social Institutions (NEFIES) was founded in 2012 and has been linked to the Graduate Program in Psychology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul since 2019.

It is coordinated by Professor Dr. Angela Helena Marin and composed of master’s and doctoral students, scientific initiation fellows and associated researchers. As a theme, it is studies health-disease processes and their interface with issues related to family and educational-social institutions.