Cardano Foundation and SENAI São Paulo Launch Blockchain Training Program for Brazilian Industry

Cardano Foundation has announced a multi-year partnership with SENAI São Paulo to expand blockchain education and practical enterprise applications in Brazil’s industrial sector. The collaboration connects Cardano Academy training with SENAI’s technical education network, research teams and executive programs, with planned work covering certification, traceability pilots and Digital Product Passport use cases.

Cardano Foundation and SENAI São Paulo Start Blockchain Program

The partnership brings together the Cardano Foundation, the Swiss-based not-for-profit organization focused on advancing Cardano as public digital infrastructure, and SENAI São Paulo, one of Brazil’s largest industrial education and technology networks.

According to the announcement, the collaboration will combine SENAI São Paulo’s workforce development, technical education and research capabilities with the Foundation’s experience in blockchain infrastructure and enterprise training. The program is structured across education, professional certification, executive learning and applied pilot development.

The first phase has already begun with a two-week technical immersion initiative across the state of São Paulo. Cardano Foundation experts delivered hands-on training for SENAI education and R&D specialists, covering blockchain architecture, metadata standards, smart contracts and practical use cases for industrial environments.

Completion of the Cardano Academy CBCA course was required before participation in the initial workshop. The Foundation said 130 professionals across SENAI’s research, development and education functions will be onboarded after the first phase.

Cardano Academy Training Enters Brazil’s Technical Education Network

Cardano Academy is the education initiative connected to the Cardano Foundation’s broader learning strategy. In this partnership, it will provide structured blockchain training for SENAI educators, students, executives and technical teams.

The two-year roadmap includes ongoing certification and training programs for SENAI collaborators, student blockchain education through Cardano Academy, executive blockchain training for leadership teams and masterclasses connected to enterprise enablement. The roadmap also includes customized academy modules and technical master courses designed around specific application scenarios.

SENAI’s role gives the program a direct route into Brazil’s industrial training system. The initiative is not aimed only at blockchain-native developers, but also at educators, researchers, engineers and decision-makers already working with manufacturing, production and enterprise technology.

That distribution layer is central to the partnership. Enterprise blockchain adoption usually requires more than protocol availability. It also depends on trained operators, technical teams and institutional processes that can connect blockchain infrastructure with existing business systems.

Traceability and Digital Product Passports Move Into Applied Research

The next workshop is planned to give SENAI’s Research and Development teams a deeper look at active solution architecture. According to the Foundation, the work will explore how Cardano infrastructure can support enterprise blockchain applications, including traceability systems and Industrial Digital Product Passports.

Digital Product Passports are digital records that connect physical products with verifiable information about origin, composition, lifecycle data and sustainability attributes. In manufacturing and supply-chain environments, blockchain can support selected product data that is portable, tamper-resistant and easier to verify across companies, regulators and end users.

The partnership does not announce a completed production rollout across Brazilian industry. It creates a two-year framework for training, research collaboration and proof-of-concept development inside a major industrial network.

The immediate operational change is that SENAI São Paulo now has a formal Cardano-linked pathway for preparing educators, R&D teams and enterprise professionals to work with blockchain infrastructure. For Cardano’s enterprise positioning, the partnership places the network inside an education and applied research channel that already serves Brazil’s industrial workforce.