Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

On the morning of 15 February, the Secretary for International Relations, Lincoln Fernandes, and the BRAFITEC Program Coordinators at UFSC, Guilherme de Oliveira Barra and Diego Fetterman, along with Professor Fernando Cabral, welcomed representatives from partner French institutions and the Universidade do Grande ABC. During the visit, which aimed to strengthen the relationship between the institutions, operational bottlenecks in the BRAFICTEC processes were discussed, as well as possibilities for new partnerships and the amount of funding opportunities for UFSC students.

The meeting occurred during the Brazil-France Summer School which took place at UFSC from 11 to 15 February 2019. The Summer School had the participation of professors from Brazilian and French institutions who taught minicourses about entrepreneurship and innovation, exchange opportunities in France, biomaterials, environment, robotics, aerospace engineering and nanomaterials.