Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

The Office of International Relations (SINTER) congratulates the UFSC projects approved in the CAPES/BRAFITEC Program, through the Call for Applications no.  33/2022:

• REDE 3+5: EM DIREÇÃO A SISTEMAS DE ENERGIA SUSTENTÁVEIS [3+5 NETWORK: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS (Prof. Daniel Ferreira Coutinho)
• REDE FRANCO-BRASILEIRA DE ENGENHEIRO(A)S CIVIS [FRENCH-BRAZILIAN NETWORK OF CIVIL ENGINEERS] (Prof. Fernanda Fernandes Marchiori)
• ENGENHARIA DA ÁGUA PARA A TRANSIÇÃO ECOLÓGICA [WATER ENGINEERING FOR THE ECOLOGICAL TRANSITION] (Prof. Mauricio Luiz Senz)

The Program consists of joint research projects developed through university partnerships in all Engineering specialties, exclusively at the undergraduate level, to foster exchange between Brazil and France and encourage convergence between program curricula, including for grade equivalence and mutual credit transfer.

Professor Sandra Quarezemin, from the Department of Vernacular (Portuguese) Language and Literature and a member of the Graduate Program in Linguistics at UFSC, was selected for a Fulbright “All Disciplines Scholar Award – Cycle 2022-2023″ and obtained a Visiting Scholar grant to develop a research project in the Department of Linguistics at Stony Brook University, United States. The research, carried out from September to December 2022 (fall semester) and developed in collaboration with Professor Francisco Ordóñez, was centered on the teaching of grammar through the scientific method, the creation of a software for teaching syntax in undergraduate courses (developed by Professor Richard Larson, from Stony Brook University), and on a comparative study of Brazilian Portuguese, within the area of grammatical theory and analysis.

The “All Disciplines Scholar Award – Cycle 2022-2023” granted 20 teaching and/or research awards to professors and researchers, who have achieved their doctoral degree at least seven years ago, in all disciplines. Of the seven Fulbrighters who arrived at Stony Brook University in September 2022, only Professor Quarezemin represented Brazil.

On 5 and 6 December, The Director of International Relations, Dr. Fernanda Leal, represented UFSC, member of the Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo (AUGM), at the workshop “Strengthening of academic collaboration between Latin America and Europe” held in the Universidad de La República (UDELAR), Montevideo, Uruguay.

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On 13 and 14 October, the Superintendency of Innovation (SINOVA), with the support of the Office of International Relations (SINTER), received students and faculty members from the School of Exact and Natural Sciences (FACEN) of the National University of Asunción (UNA/Paraguay). The group came to visit the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) and the Florianópolis Innovation Ecosystem. The visitors comprised four faculty members and 30 undergraduate students from the Production Technology and the Logistics and Transport Management programs, who moved around laboratories and research and innovation centers.

Throughout the two days, the group carried out seven different visits. On Thursday (13), SINTER and PROPESQ welcomed the visitors on the UFSC Florianópolis Campus. Still in the morning, they visited the Research Laboratories for Emerging Technologies in Cooling and Thermophysics (POLO) – Unit of the Brazilian Company of Industrial Research and Innovation (EMBRAPII).

After that visit, the group lunched at the University Restaurant and performed a cultural presentation with live music and folk dances on the Praça da Cidadania [Citizenship Square] at UFSC. During the afternoon, the group visited the Prototyping and New 3D Technologies Laboratory (PRONTO 3D) and the CoCreation Lab Campeche.

On Friday (14), the group carried out a technical visit to the Innovation Center of the Associação Catarinense de Tecnologia [Catarinense Technology Association] (CIA ACATE Primavera).  Before the lunch break, they watched a presentation of the Living Lab Florianópolis in the LinkLab space.

During the afternoon, students and professors visited the Centro Empresarial para Laboração de Tecnologias Avançadas [Business Center for Advanced Technologies] (CELTA) incubator of the Certi Foundation. The last visit was to the Solar Energy Research and Training Center at UFSC (Fotovoltaica UFSC) in the Sapiens Park.

The institutional visit had as its main interests the knowledge of the innovation ecosystem, technology and entrepreneurship, transport management and logistical planning. For the faculty member and coordinator of the Logistics and Transport Management program, Prof. Mirtha León, the experience served to encourage research in the programs. “This openness helps us to relate and compare what we already have and what we can improve. The students come back with a more open mind and with a different motivation”, says León. Prof. José Román also thanked the reception and highlighted the interest in developing partnerships between the educational institutions. “We are very excited, motivated, and we think that, in the near future, we could carry out work projects together.”

*Text adapted from the news article published by SINOVA.

On 27 October, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., at the Auditorium of the School of Socio-Economic Sciences (CSE), the Institute for Studies on China at UFSC (ICHIN), the Office of International Relations (SINTER) and the Prorectorate for Research and Innovation (PROPESQ) will promote the workshop “Estudos e cooperação UFSC/China: Diagnóstico e perspectivas” [UFSC/China studies and cooperation: diagnosis and perspective].

The activity has been carried out based on the results of the poll conveyed on 17 August 2022, promoted by the PROPESQ/ICHIN partnership, aimed at surveying faculty members interested in participating in the cooperation with China. The results of the survey, answered by more than one hundred faculty members at UFSC, revealed the interest of this significant number of colleagues and allowed us to think of this workshop as a moment for exposing information and opening a dialogue between the interested faculty.

Access here the event’s schedule.