Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

The international course “The Languages of Science” had its first class of the year. Created in 2021, the course is a partnership between the Imagine Project at UFSC and the Collège Sciences et Technologies of the Université de Bordeaux (UB), France. This is the first Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) course offered at UFSC, in a multicultural and interdisciplinary way. The 2022 edition takes place between 13 September and 6 December.

COIL is a cooperative teaching and learning modality between international partner institutions, in which a course is taught simultaneously in both countries. The classrooms of the two universities are connected online and participants can interact in real time, in order to promote a creative, international, intercultural, and innovative environment. In the second semester 2022, sixteen places were offered for each institution (UFSC and UB). The course, addressing the role of science in society, will include topics such as science and democracy, pseudoscience and fake news, taking students on a virtual journey through the scientific world, with all its diversity of areas, cultures, languages and countries.

Watch a video from the first class here.

The Office of International Relations (SINTER) is representing UFSC at the 32^nd Annual EAIE Conference and Exhibition (EAIE 2022), which takes place between 13 and 16 September in Barcelona, Spain, with the attendance of the Secretary for International Relations, Prof. Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho.

The annual conference of the European Association for International Education (EAIE) is the largest and most important European event on international higher education, in which European universities and several universities from other continents come together. It is a privileged space to create a network, strengthen partnerships and establish cooperation agreements.

UFSC participates together with other 19 Brazilian universities, in the stand of the Brazilian Association for International Education (FAUBAI).

The International Programs Coordinator at the Office of International Relations (SINTER) informs that undergraduate students who apply for the Outgoing Program to go on exchange at the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany, in the first semester of 2023 (March to August), will have the opportunity to apply for a EU$700 (per month) scholarship, for a period of at least three months.  The application and selection process to be carried out by UFSC will follow the rules set out in the Call for Applications no. 02/2022/SINTER of the Outgoing Program and its Rectification.

UFSC will nominate three students to Offenburg, which will make the final selection among the applicant students from all institutions participating in the opportunity. According to the analysis made by the German institution, the three students nominated by UFSC may be granted the scholarship or not.

Interested students must submit the application, following the instructions below, until 12 October 2022.

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The National Association of Directors of Federal Higher Education Institutions (ANDIFES), together with the Universidade de Brasilia (UnB) and the Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo [Association of Montevideo Group Universities] (AUGM) promote the seminar “Educação Superior Pública na América Latina. Desafios e Perspectivas” [Public Higher Education in Latin America. Challenges and Perspectives]. The event will take place in hybrid format on 14 September, from 3 to 6 p.m.

Check the schedule below:

3 p.m. – Opening speeches

Rector of the Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) and President of Andifes, Dr. Ricardo Fonseca and Rector of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) and President of AUGM, Dr. Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida.

3:20 p.m. – Exhibition panel

Moderation: Rector of the Universidade de Brasilia, Dr. Márcia Abrahão de Moura.

3:20 p.m. – Rector of the Universidad Nacional del Noroeste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (UNNOBA) and Vice-president of the Commission of International Affairs of the Consejo Interuniversitario Nacional [National Interuniversity Council] (CIN); Dr. Guillermo Tamarit.

3:35 p.m. – Rector of the Universidade de Brasilia (UnB), Dr. Márcia Abrahão Moura.

3:50 p.m. – Rector of the Universidad de Valparaíso, Vice-president of AUGM and President of the Consorcio de Universidades del Estado de Chile (CUECH), Dr. Osvaldo Enrique Corrales Jorquera.

4:05 p.m. – Rector of the Universidade Nacional do Este (UNE), Dr. Osvaldo de la Cruz Caballero Acosta.

4:20 p.m. – Moment of exchange of information between the rectors of AUGM, Andifes and participants.

5:30 p.m. – Seminar conclusions and closing ceremony.

Rector of the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) and the President of AUGM, Dr. Sandra Goulart Almeida.

The Seminar will be streamed on YouTube. Click here to watch it.

The UNESCO Chair on Language Policies for Multilingualism (UCLPM) was renewed for a second quadrennium (2022-6). Coordinated by Prof. Gilvan Müller de Oliveira, the Chair is the first one based at UFSC and it was created in May 2018 with the signature of the cooperation agreement between UNESCO/Paris and the university.

UCLPM comprises an international research network on four continents, involving 26 universities in 16 countries, which carry out research and teaching acitivities in 11 different languages. UCLPM has brought to UFSC ten international agreements so far,  in countries such as Mexico, Colombia, Chile, South Africa, Indonesia, India, China (Macau), Russia, France and Spain. New institutions continue to request membership to the Chair, and later this year, the Universidad de Antioquia, in Colombia, and the Indian Statistical Institute, in Calcutta, will become member institutions.

The research network aims to generate knowledge on the different contexts of multilingualism, on the language policies developed in these contexts, and their implications for the sustainable development of citizens, linguistic communities, countries and regions. The Chair promotes events, publications, academic mobility, and training of master’s and doctoral students, in addition to advisory services to linguistic communities and governments. The Chair has as deputy coordinators Prof. Suzani Cassiani and Prof. Irlan von Linsingen and is linked to several units at UFSC such as the School of Communication and Arts (CCE), the Office of International Relations (SINTER), the Department of Vernacular (Portuguese) Language and Literature (DLLV), the Department of Foreing Languages and Literatures (DLLE), the Graduate Program in Translation Studies (PGET) and the Graduate Program in Linguistics (PPGLIN), among others.

Learn more about the Chair here.

The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) promotes the first in-person edition of the “Italian Proficiency Tests” course. The aim is to present the proficiency tests CELI, CILS and PLIDA. There will be 15 places offered and registrations are open until 27 September 2022.

In this course, participants will not learn the language itself, but instead how the proficiency tests work, including their duration, how the questions are presented, which skills are assessed, the test locations and fees. It is advisable but not mandatory that the students have basic knowledge of Italian to carry out the course activities.

The course is structured into four study modules, organized in such a way that it presents all the relevant information about each of the proficiency tests. The first module will introduce the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its relevance to proficiency tests in any language. Then, the most frequently asked questions involving the Italian tests will be answered. In the second, third and fourth modules, the CILS, CELI and PLIDA tests, respectively, will be presented, including their individual characteristics, the test formats, their duration, and the calendar for the current year.

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The International Programs Coordinator at the Office of International Relations (SINTER) informs that the undergraduate students who apply for the Outgoing Program to go on exchange at the Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten (HRW), Germany, in the first semester of 2023 (March to August). will have the opportunity to apply for a EU$ 850 (per month) scholarship, for a period of four to six months. The application and selection process will follow the rules set out in the Call for Applications no. 02/2022/SINTER of the Outgoing Program and its Rectification.

Interested students must submit the application, following the instructions below, until 12 October 2022.

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