Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

From 15 December 2025 to 6 March 2026, the Office of International Relations (SINTER) will operate on summer hours, as established by Normative Ordinance No. 525/2025/GR.

During this period, SINTER staff will work from 7:00 am to 1:00 pm, Monday through Friday, with telephone, e-mail, and WhatsApp Business services available during these hours.

In-person office hours will be from 9:00 am to 12:00 noon.

You can access our full staff contact list here.

For more information about UFSC’s summer schedule, read: UFSC establishes summer hours from 15 December to 6 March, with services operating in the morning.

On Wednesday, 3 December 2025, the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) welcomed five representatives from the Chinese university Shanghai University of Electric Power (SUEP) for the signing of a broad cooperation agreement.

The SUEP delegation  included: Mr. Gu Chunhua, President of SUEP; Ms. Zeng, International Special-term Researcher & Advisor, Higher Education Development Strategy Research Center; Ms. Chen Jing, Deputy Director of the Graduate Student Affairs Office; Mr. Zhang Chuanlin, Vice-Dean for Industry-Academia Partnership; and Mr. Ma Jing, Dean of Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

At UFSC, the visitors were welcomed by the Secretary for International Relations, Dr. Fernanda Leal; the Coordinator and Deputy Coordinator of the Institute for Studies on China (ICHIN), Prof. Raul Burgos and Prof. Daniel Martins; the ICHIN intern, Tobias Compan Barcellos; the coordinator of the agreement at UFSC, Prof. Kátia Campos de Almeida (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering); and the SINTER staff members Bruno Wanderley Farias and Paula Eduarda Michels.

Students from UFSC’s Undergraduate Program in Electrical Engineering, Fernanda Paiva and Lucas Ferreira – selected through Call for Applications No. 1/2025/SINTER-ICHIN to participate in the 2025 Shanghai Summer School—were also present. Two other selected students, Guilherme Peixer (Graduate Program in Mechanical Engineering) and Guilherme Breda Fatalla (Undergraduate Program in Materials Engineering), sent video testimonials celebrating the signing of the agreement.

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Conselho Universitário aprova por unanimidade política de internacionalização da UFSC

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In 2025, the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), through its Office of International Relations (SINTER), joined the  Red de Investigadores y Gestores en Internacionalización de la Educación Superior de América Latina [Network of Researchers and Managers on the Internationalization of Higher Education in Latin America] (REDALINT) as a member university. REDALINT aims to foster dialogue, critical analysis, and collaborative action on the higher education internationalization processes in the Latin American region.

On 27 November, REDALINT will host the free online event “Jornadas REDALINT: Diez años de internacionalización universitaria e integración desde el Sur”. The opening lecture will be delivered by researchers Daniela Perrotta and Cornelius Hagenmeier, on the theme “Importance of networks and diversity to strengthen the exchange of knowledge and regional integration.” The Secretary Pro Tempore for International Relations, Dr. Fernanda Leal, will participate as moderator of the panel “Internationalization Actions”.

Registration for the event is available here.

About REDALINT

The network – created in 2015 and composed of universities from Argentina, Brazil and Chile – aims to foster dialogue, critical analysis, and collaborative action on the higher education internationalization processes in the Latin American region. Products of the existing cooperation within the scope of REDALINT are the REDALINT Journal – Universidad, Internacionalización e Integración Regional, (published biannually); the Latin American Digital Archive on the Internationalization of Higher Education; and the Diplomatura en Gestion de la Internacionalización Universitaria Latinoamericana – a program designed to train university managers in ​​internationalization from a Latin American perspective.

UFSC’s participation in REDALINT does not require the payment of membership dues or any other fees.

This post is available in Brazilian Portuguese only. Please access the website in Portuguese to read it.

This post is available in Brazilian Portuguese only. Please access the website in Portuguese to read it.