Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) offers the online Spanish course “Elaboration of a motivation letter for academic exchange/mobility”. Applications will be open from 8 February to 8 March and classes will take place from 9 March to 1 April. 

The course contains guidelines for the elaboration of a motivation letter in Spanish to apply for academic exchange programs. The course materials and activities will be in Spanish; therefore, reading proficiency in the language is a minimum prerequisite.

Classes will include the analysis and identification of the parts of a motivation letter, formality and informality, forms of address, greeting and farewell formulas in Spanish, selection and organization of information relevant to the letter, lexicon and appropriate contents.

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Applications for the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) 2022, developed by the Canadian Government, are open.

ELAP offers scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students (master’s and doctoral level) from Latin America and the Caribbean for an exchange program at Canadian universities.

SINTER manages the applications of UFSC undergraduate students only.

Please click here for further information.

The Brazilian Portuguese Survival Course is an initiative of the Office of International Relations (SINTER) in partnership with the Office of Distance Education (SEAD) at UFSC. The aim is to train students, faculty and staff from universities all around the world to communicate in basic Portuguese and to carry out mobility and academic cooperation activities at UFSC.

The online, asynchronous and self-instructional course totals 20 hours and is organized into five learning modules, each comprising three lessons. At the end of each lesson, students complete activities in a “Practice Time” session.  The modules also feature a “Cultureme” session, which introduces aspects of the Brazilian culture, and a “Tip Time” session, which brings useful information to help students handle the new language.

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The Office for International Relations (SINTER) announces the final results of the simplified selection process for scholarship holders of the Institutional Center of Languages and Translation (NILT) in accordance with CALL No. 19/2021/SINTER.

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Ways and perspectives for studying in Italy – reading and understanding Italian Calls for Applications in Italian language.

This extension course, which is part of an initiative of the Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER), seeks to equip the academic public (undergraduates, graduate students, administrative staff and professors) to understand scholarship Calls for Applications for Italian educational institutions.

Duration: from 23 November to 17 December 2021

Workload: 20 hours.

Synchronous meetings: on 30 November, 7 December and 14 December,  Tuesdays, from 10 am to 11:30 am.

The first week of activities will be asynchronous and the Moodle space will open on 23 November

Speakers: Cleide Giacomelli Borraz and Telmo Clos Ambrosini

Registration: from 10 to 21 November 2021.

Number of places: 30.

Criteria: order of entry, no language prerequisite.

Registration link: http://inscricoes.ufsc.br/leitura-e-compreendeo-de-editais

For more information, access the Teaching Program.

Contact and questions: daniela.bunn@ufsc.br

The Office of International Relations (SINTER) will hold on 22 October , Friday, the Welcome Reception for international students who will undertake Virtual Mobility in the second semester of 2021 at UFSC.

The event will count with a welcome message from the Secretary for International Relations at UFSC, Professor Lincoln Fernandes; who will also offer information about SINTER and guidelines from the team responsible for bilateral exchanges (Incoming Program).

This semester, there will be 11 international undergraduate students from Germany, France, Peru and Portugal. These exchange students enter UFSC through Bilateral Agreements.

International undergraduate students who will start their studies online at UFSC, professors and coordinators of programs with international undergraduate students from the Incoming Program are invited to participate. Reception will take place via the Zoom platform from 2 pm on the link https://bit.ly/incomingufsc.

More information about the Incoming Program access here.

The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT), linked to SINTER, will give courses aimed at better preparing for UFSC’s Internationalization process:

1. Cultural texts in German: a translation practice (16h);
   2. Spanish Proficiency Exams: familiarization (16h);
   3. Written production in English – abstracts (16h);
   4. Reading and comprehension of Calls for Scholarships to study in Italy – Italian for specific purposes (16h);
   5.Portuguese for foreigners: Unveiling the Reading process: first steps (16h);
   6. Portuguese for foreigners: First steps in academic writing: the paragraph (16h);
   7. Portuguese for foreigners: Aspects of academic writing in Brazilian Portuguese: review, scientific article and abstract (16h).

All courses will be free of charge.

More information about the courses and the link for registration will be available soon on SINTER website.