[1] The entity operates in several educational fronts, including: courses, technology centers, university and mobile units.

The areas that concern the so-called "creative industries" are covered in the courses of two Rio de Janeiro's units: SENAI Maracanã[2] (audiovisual, computer animation, printing office, design, web and information technology) and SENAI Laranjeiras[3] (audiovisual, computer animation and information technology).

In 1941, Euvaldo Lodi and Roberto Simonsen managed the then President Getúlio Vargas granted companies the responsibility to create an entity of industrial education: "Soon after, in January 1942, Getúlio Vargas decreed the creation of SENAI.

[note 1] It was established that the SENAI, born under the name of National Service of Industrialists' Training, would be maintained through contributions from industry employers.

[note 2] Its scope was broadened to the "transport, communication and fishing sectors, which, conserving the acronym, was renamed the National Industrial Training Service of the State of Rio de Janeiro, by Decree law in 4936, of 7 November 1942".