Plano de Formação Continuada dos Servidores da Rede Federal de Educação Profissional, Científica e Tecnológica e seus caminhos até a plataformização

This article addresses the trajectory of the institutional policy for training employees of the Federal Network for Professional, Scientific and Technological Education (RFEPCT), called the Continuing Training Plan for Employees of the Federal Network for Professional, Scientific and Technological Education (Plafor). To do this, its political cycle, the actions carried out, as well as its dissemination and communication strategies are considered. This research is characterized as qualitative in nature, exploratory-descriptive in nature, and its procedures have a bibliographic and documentary scope, using the Internet. Data mapping took place in the official repositories of RFEPCT institutions, in the Brazilian Digital Legislation and on the websites of the bodies mentioned in the Plafor documentation. Regarding the communication of Plafor actions, a survey was carried out in the 38 (thirty-eight) Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology, with valid returns from 15 (fifteen) of these institutes, which totaled 31 (thirty-one) publications throughout 8 (eight) years. It is considered that this makes the dissemination of information about Plafor and the communication of its actions ineffective in terms of bringing knowledge of its existence to its target audience, which made its efficient implementation invisible until its platformization.