Its mission is to promote business competitiveness, education and quality of life of industrial workers and the whole society, in the state of Rio de Janeiro.

Its themed corporate boardrooms and sectoral entrepreneurial forums discuss trends and launch guidelines for actions of support and advice to enterprises.

[2] SESI Rio develops actions to promote health, education, sports, leisure and culture targeted to workers, businesses and society in general.

Directed to businesses' economy and sustainable development, it covers topics that go from micro/macroeconomic and investments to segmented studies in areas such as electrical energy, broadband, natural gas and nanotechnology.

[4] Besides, FIRJAN System awards industrial good manufacturing practices[5] and offers consultancy to companies of all sizes, in various fields (such as legal and environmental[6]).

In all actions, its objective is to stimulate "the generation of new businesses, new markets, access to strategic information for competitiveness improvement, as well as the spread of specialized studies that promote the economic development of enterprises.

[7] One of these studies include the periodic analysis of scenarios for the coming years in the Brazilian manufacturing sector, which implies mapping the "foreign and domestic investments and pointing out opportunities.

The SESI Rio units spread throughout the state offer an infrastructure conducive to leisure, sports, health and culture to society.

In addition to the actions carried out in its unities, the entity conducts the program Global Action, a campaign that provides services to populations in need of basic services in the areas of health (such as eye examination and identification of blood type), citizenship (such as CPF issuing and legal advice) leisure, culture and sports (such as handicrafts, choral presentation and sports activities).

In communities pacified by the UPP, the SESI Citizenship program makes a similar work, i.e., promotes education, sports, leisure and culture to the locals, only permanently and in loco.

"[14] In the 1920s, the country was investing in infrastructure (hydroelectric, ports, telephony and railways) and entrepreneurs imported technology to meet the desire for the most-wanted products at that time.

"[14] However, with the overthrow of Vargas and the entry of Eurico Gaspar Dutra, government investments fell in the second sector, causing the stagnation of the domestic industry.

It is worth mentioning two major actions in this regard: After the death of Vargas, Juscelino Kubitschek assumed in 1956 and "announced his Plano de Metas, primarily aimed at the sectors of energy (43.4% of the planned investments), transportation (29 6%), basic industry (20.4%) and food (6.6%).