Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

The Projeto Imagine was created aiming with the aim to of encouraging education and the scientific development in marginalized regions of countries in Latin American and African countries, regions which are historically hurt damaged by social and economic conditions. This initiative believes in the international solidarity and in the cooperation between institutional partnerships partner institutions with new and practical results in several communities.

UFSC, specificallyin particular, focuses in on indigenous areas in ourthe state, who which needs a formal education that respects their traditions and adapts to their singular geographic and social conditions, that makes more difficulthinder the people access of indigenous people to the knowledge.

The Iinterdisciplinarity it’s one of the more most important value principles of driving the actions in of the universities that here in Brazil, and in Angola, Morocco, Mexico and Peru work hard to encourage the population to grown in science and transform the knowledge.

In this video, the president of the Pan-African Network for the Popularisation of Science & Technology, Dr. Elizabeth Rasekoala, congrats congratulates the initiative and shares a little bit of the objectives from of the current projects in several parts of the African continent.

The Projeto Imagine’sir Facebook Page and official website has provide more information about the expansion and currents actions of the projects.