The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) promotes the first in-person edition of the course “Ways and perspectives of studying in Italy – reading and understanding Calls for Applications in Italian language”. Register here until 19 October.
The initiative seeks to equip the academic community (undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff members) with the ability to understand Calls for Applications for scholarships in Italian educational institutions. It is intended that students, at the end of this course, will be able to: 1) easily locate Calls for Applications for Italian government scholarships; 2) understand the Italian higher education system; 3) know the main Italian proficiency tests; 4) recognize characteristics of a Call for Applications written in Italian; 5) autonomously fill in application forms.
The course will be taught by the instructors Cleide Giacomelli Borraz and Telmo Clos Ambrosini, with the supervision of Prof. Daniela Bunn (MEN/CED). The course has 15 places and totals 20 hours, distributed into three meetings scheduled for 24 October (Module 1), 31 October (Module 2), and 7 November (Module 4), from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The meetings will be held at NILT, located in the Rectorate Building II (Av. Desembargador Vitor Lima, 222). Participants are not required to have previous knowledge of the Italian language.
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On 3 October 2022, the trial access to the SciVal (Elsevier) Platform has begun at UFSC.
SciVal is a modular platform that presents a series of research metrics, based on data from the SCOPUS database. The access to the platform may have an important role in planning and developing strategies for the enhancement of research, graduate studies and internationalization.
Thus, it is very important that the entire university community access the platform and test its functionalities.
To concentrate the information necessary for the access, SINTER created the Trial Access to SciVal (Elsevier) Platform page.
On this page, you will find general guidance, information on how to access the platform, complementary materials and a webinar, which was held on 27 September and contains the demonstration of some of the platform modules.
After the trial period, we will carry out a survey to canvass the views of UFSC users.
The Call for Applications no. 16 SINTER 2022, of the Office of International Relations (SINTER), sets the rules for UFSC faculty members to apply for the Escala Docente program of the Asociácion de Universidades Grupo Montevideo [Association of Montevideo Group Universities] (AUGM). Escala Docente is a reciprocal academic mobility program that involves several areas of teaching, research, outreach and university management.
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The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) is promoting the course “Introdução ao Português brasileiro – Nível A1” [Introduction to Brazilian Portuguese – Level A1] for foreign students, researchers and professors who need an introduction to the Portuguese language. The classes will be online and self-instructional. Registrations will be open from 30 September to 12 November 2022.
The aim is to enable participants to master the structures, expressions and sentences of everyday use, allowing them to communicate in a simple way, introduce themselves and others, ask questions and give answers about personal aspects and their surroundings. The course will present elements of the Brazilian culture through texts related to the content being learned and through famous MPB (Brazilian Popular Music) songs.
The course totals 20 hours and a certificate will be provided to the participants who complete all mandatory activities and achieve the performance required for its completion. Classes will take place from 7 to 21 November.
Check below the course content:
- Greetings and introductions;
- Verbs ‘ser’ and ‘estar’;
- Personal pronouns;
- Definite and indefinite articles;
- Prepositions ‘de’, ‘a’ and ‘em’;
- Contractions of articles and prepositions;
- Brazilian Portuguese alphabet and sounds;
- Lexical aspects:
- Week days and months of the year;
- Numbers from 1 to 40;
- Professions;
- Countries and cities.
Register here.
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The Secretary Luiz Carlos Pinheiro visited Curitibanos Campus this Tuesday.
The Office of International Relations (SINTER) has begun in September a schedule of visits to all UFSC Academic Schools and Campuses. The visits aim to encourage the university internationalization process at the Schools, presenting our office’s main activities and its general and priority actions for the next years. It also aims to be a moment for actively listening to each school’s needs. The Secretary for International Relations, Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho, the Director of International Relations, Fernanda Leal, and SINTER staff members will meet with the Heads of Departments and Coordinators of Undergraduate and Graduate Programs. This week, the visit was to the Curitibanos Campus.
Check below the schedule of visits to the Academic Schools at the Florianopolis Campus:
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The results of the QS World University Rankings: Latin America 2023 were published on Thursday, 22 September, and ranked the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) among the 23 best universities in Latin America. UFSC occupies the 8th position among the Brazilian universities and the 4th among the federal education institutions in Brazil.
The ranking is produced annually by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a British company specialized in education. The ranking analyzed 428 institutions in 20 Latin American countries and at the top of the list is the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC). The overall score of each institution is calculated using eight metrics, each with a different weight: Academic Reputation (30%); Employer Reputation (20%); Faculty Student Ratio (10%); Faculty Staff with PhD (10%); International Research Network (10%); Citations per Paper (10%); Papers per Faculty (5%) and Web Impact (5%). The strongest indicators for UFSC in this edition were Faculty Staff with PhD (99.8 score), Web Impact (98.7 score) and International Research Network (96.3 score).
The university was also awarded at the QS Higher Ed Summit: Americas 2022, which took place between 22 and 23 September in Vila Velha, Espirito Santo. The conference gathered together higher education leaders and experts to discuss the “Mission-led Universities: elevating higher ed in the Americas”. The event promoted debates, lectures, panel discussions and case studies, in addition to the opportunity to network with the international higher education community and build strategic partnerships. UFSC was awarded in the Research Excellence category and was represented by the acting Prorector for Research, Prof. William Gerson Matias.
Check out the complete ranking results here.
The Office of International Relations (SINTER) addresses UFSC faculty and technical-administrative staff for a consultation aimed at mapping the internationalization activities/actions in progress at the University and understanding the internationalization needs/demands of faculty, technical-administrative staff, and academic and administrative units.
The participation of the university community will help SINTER obtain a broader overview of the ongoing internationalization actions and develop its strategies aligned to UFSC needs and in accordance with the goals set out in the 2020-2024 Institutional Development Plan (PDI).
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