Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

Applications for the Bolsa Mérito (a merit scholarship aimed for students from the Programa de Estudantes-Convênio de Graduação – PEC-G at UFSC) is open from 8 December 2017 to 14 January 2018.

Offered by the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE), the Bolsa Mérito  consists of a monthly scholarship worth R$ 622,00, which is granted for a period of 6 months.

Read the rules carefully in the Public Call DC 4/2017.

To apply, students must send the following documents , digitized in high quality and PDF format, to pecg.sinter@contato.ufsc.br until 11.59 p.m. on 14 January 2018.

• Application Form properly filled in and signed;
• Commitment Statement properly filled in and signed;
• Copy of the student’s passport page on which the current visa (VITEM – IV) is stamped;
• Copy of the current RNE or its updated protocol;
• In case of participation in extracurricular research or outreach activities during the past two semesters, proof of student’s participation, indicating date of completion, duration and/or the workload.
• Individual letter of recommendation, written and signed by a professor from a course taken in the last semester.

The email must have as its subject “MÉRITO 20181 + APPLICANT’S NAME” (e.g.: MÉRITO 20181 ANA SILVA).