intends to increase the number of positions in professional, technical and technological instruction. Operations will be carried out via indirect (when funding is transferred by accredited financial institutions) and direct modalities. The minimum amount of each operation will be R$ 3 million. In case of imported machinery and equipment, the BNDES may hold an interest of up to 60% in the eligible items. Funding for working capital may be of up to 30% of the total amount financed. For the remaining items, the BNDES' participation may reach 90%.Items eligible for financing include civil construction, furniture and appliances, assembly and facilities, software developed in the country and related services, national machinery and equipment, imported machinery and equipment without a similar national version, managerial, technical and operational support capacity-building, training and improvement costs, as well as working capital associated to the other eligible items.The BNDES Qualification Program is open to entities included in the S System, public institutions working with professional, technical and technological instruction and private technical schools.The program supports projects earmarked to implement, expand and modernize professional, technical and technological schools.Innovation In keeping with the priority given by the industrial policy for innovation, the BNDES approved incentives for investments in this field. The efforts include the BNDES Credit Limit for companies innovation plans, new funding for Finep and the expansion of sectorial programs.The BNDES Credit Limit is a revolving credit line with amounts previously set by the Bank. The program was created in April 2005 to simplify the procedures adopted by the Bank to grant financial support to companies with low credit risk. As of now, the line will include support for pluriannual plans for companies innovation, enabling higher speed to release funding for innovation.The BNDES will grant credit in the amount of R$ 2 billion to Finep with the purpose of expanding its innovation portfolio, increasing the funding availability for the sectors investments. This is another initiative alongside the Technical Cooperation Agreement to carry out the Joint Plan of Support for Industry Technological Innovation in the Sugarcane-based Energy and Sugarcane-based Chemicals Sectors, entered into between the BNDES and Studies and Projects Financer (Finep) in March 2011.At that time, the program had R$ 1 billion for the 2011-2014 period, aimed at fostering projects seeking to develop, produce and trade new industry technologies earmarked to process the biomass produced from sugarcane.Sectorial programs Creation, expansion of budget and improvement of access conditions to sectorial programs, in the period for renewal of each of the following products: BNDES Pro-P&G Support Program for the Development of Oil & Natural Gas Goods and Services Supply Chain, created in 2011 within the scope of the Brasil Maior Plan; BNDES Profarma Support Program for the Development of the Health Care Sector; BNDES Prosoft Program for the Development of the National Industry for Software and Information Technology Services; BNDES Pro-Aeronautica Financing Program for Companies in the Brazilian Aeronautics Production Sector; BNDES Proplastico Support Program for the Development of Plastic Production Chain.http://www.bndes.gov.br/SiteBNDES/bndes/bndes_en/Institucional/Press/Destaques_Primeira_Pagina/20110804_brasil_maior.html