Office of International Relations

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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There is an internship vacancy open at the Office of International Relations (SINTER).

Students from the following undergraduate programs may apply (exclusively from UFSC):

• Administration
• Languages and Literatures
• International Relations
• Executive Secretarial Science

Start date: immediately

Total hours per week: 20 hours

Work hours: 1 p.m – 5 p.m.

Remuneration: R$ 787.98 monthly + R$ 220.00  (transportation vouchers)

Requirements:

• enrollment in the 2^nd semester of studies or beyond;
• no course failure due to unsatisfactory attendance (fi);
• fluency in English (knowledge of other languages is desirable, but not required);
• excellent writing skills;
• ease in operating administrative systems;
• teamwork skills;
• organization, responsibility, initiative and punctuality;
• basic knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel, Google Drive and Google Forms.

Internship duties:

Assist in administrative tasks related to the Outgoing Exchange Program (serving the university community and the public in general in Portuguese and in English; contacting foreign partner institutions; operating e-mails and administrative systems; issuing documents; updating spreadsheets; etc.)

Are you interested? Send your curriculum vitae and academic transcript to outgoing.sinter@contato.ufsc.br.

Applications are open, until 16 October, for the AUGM Escala de Gestores y Administradores program, in accordance with the Call for Applications no. 14/SINTER/2022.

Six places are being offered to technical and administrative staff members from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). One of those is reserved for SINTER’s staff, and the other five are available for staff from other units at UFSC.

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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.