SINTER participates in a round table discussion on South-South international cooperation
On 7 October, SINTER, represented by the director Dr. Fernanda Leal, participated in the round table discussion “South-South International Cooperation: Outreach, research and teaching in the Global South”. The event took place in the School of Education (CED) at UFSC and was attended by representatives from UFSC’s partner institutions in Colombia and East Timor, as well as by the Attaché of the Embassy of East Timor in Brazil, Mr. Marcelono Magno Ximenes, who reinforced the positive impact of international cooperation with Brazilian universities, especially UFSC, for higher education in Timor.
The Director of the School of Education, prof. Hamilton Wielewicki; the coordinator of the UNESCO Chair on Linguistic Policies for Multilingualism, Prof. Gilvan Muller; CED graduate programs’ coordinators involved in the cooperation; as well as Timorese and Brazilian graduate students were also present at the event.
Professors Suzani Cassiani and Patrícia Giraldo, who organized the event, have been leading UFSC’s international cooperation with East Timor for more than fifteen years. The most recent achievement of this cooperation was the approval, by Capes, of an Interinstitutional Doctoral Program (Dinter) between UFSC and Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosa’e. To learn more about the cooperation, access here.
