We would like to inform the academic community that, due to the expense contingencies and the blockade of funds by the federal government, UFSC has suspended – for an indefinite period – all academic mobilities offered through the Escala Docente, Escala Grado, Escala Posgrado and Gestores y Administradores programs managed by AUGM (the Montevideo Group Association of Universities) and through the BRACOL and BRAMEX programs managed by GCUB (the Coimbra Group of Brazilian Universities).
Trips by representatives of AUGM Discipline Groups and Academic Committees are also suspended.
We also inform that, due to this scenario, no calls for applications will be launched for the selection of students, faculty and staff to go on exchange through the said programs in 2020. This way, we ask faculty members not to sign invitation letters, application forms, learning agreements, or any other documents related to these programs’ activities for the 2019 second semester or later. In case of doubts, we kindly ask faculty members to consult us before signing any such documents.
UFSC Central Administration considers the early suspension of mobility activities a more reasonable measure than incurring the risk of not honoring its financial commitments to these cooperation programs.
As soon as the economic situation is normalized, all programs will be resumed and the concerned students, faculty and staff will be communicated.
SINTER clarifies that all exchanges carried out through UFSC’s bilateral agreements (Outgoing Program) will not be affected by the Government’s blockade, because these are not funded by UFSC resources.
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The “W.I.L.D. Teaching: Making Your Classroom Come Alive” workshop, promoted by SINTER and USAC, took place on July 15 and 29. The workshop was lectured completely in English by the Professors Leslie Goldstein and Brian Burke from Fort Lewis College. The main content was the introduction of active learning techniques, which consist of pedagogical practices designed to make the learning more dynamic and the classes more interesting for students through the use of several thinking skills, like interpreting, analyzing, synthesizing, classifying, relating and comparing. In the course, the participants had contact with techniques selected by Goldstein and Burke to stimulate the intellectual autonomy of students through planned activities and simulations.
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SINTER announces that applications for the Erasmus+ UFSC – UHK Mobility Program 2020 are open, according to the Call for Applications no. 14 SINTER 2019. The program has as its study theme the Political Sciences. At UFSC, it is destined to students from the Social Sciences and International Relations Undergraduate Programs that wish to improve their knowledge through an academic exchange in the University of Hradec Králové (UHK).
Selected students will receive a €3200 scholarship, return air tickets and exemption from tuition fees at UHK. Since all courses are taught in English, proficiency in the language is required.
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The student Gabriela Ferreira da Silva, from the International Relations program, was approved to participate in the 10th edition of the Programme for the Strengthening of Civil Service in Latin America, an exchange program administered by the Spanish organization Fundación Botín that aims to promote vocation and talent for the civil service. Thirty-two undergraduate students are selected every year. Gabriela was selected among 6,315 contestants from 20 different countries of Latin America.
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On 3 July 2019, the UFSC Secretary for International Relations, Lincoln Paulo Fernandes, together with the Secretary for Innovation, Alexandre Moraes Ramos, the Prorector for Outreach and Extension, Rogério Cid Bastos, the Vice-Rector Alacoque Lorenzini, the professor and Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering, Sérgio Luiz Gargioni, and the professor Carlos Roberto de Rolt, from UDESC, attended a meeting at UFSC with the representatives of University of Bologna Rosa Grimaldi (Deputy Rector for Entrepreneurship), Antonio Corradi (Head of Department of Computer Science and Engineering) and Alessandro Grandi (chairman of AlmaCube SLR).
In the meeting, the group discussed the consolidation of partnership processes related to academic entrepreneurship. The visit also aimed at promoting a lecture by Professor Rosa Grimaldi about the role of higher education in the promotion of innovative entrepreneurship. The lecture was held for invited guests at ACATE, the Technology Association of Santa Catarina, on the same day.
The Office of International Relations (SINTER) and the University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC) are promoting once again an English course for UFSC faculty as a way to stimulate English as a Medium of Instruction – EMI, one of the tools for university internalization.
This time, Leslie Goldstein and Brian Burke will be the lecturers of the workshop whose theme is “W.I.L.D. Teaching: Making Your Classroom Come Alive”.
The workshop will be lectured completely in English and will take place on 15, 22 and 29 July, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. On 22 of July, it will be streamed online to enable faculty members from all UFSC campuses to participate. Therefore, on this date, the workshop will take place at the Harry Laus room in the University Library. More information regarding the streaming will be sent to the participants by e-mail.
On 15 and 29 of July, the event will happen solely on campus, at the SINTER Language and Translation Center, located at the Rectorate Building II, ground floor, room 4 (Avenida Desembargador Vitor Lima, 222 – Trindade).
To access the event description and fill in the application form, click here.
The Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) was ranked 101-150th in the Times Higher Education (THE) Golden Age University Rankings 2019, for universities established between 1945 and 1967 that are characterized by rapid university expansion and increasing investment in research. Universities in this category make up a unique group of higher education institutions that have incorporated innovative academic practices but are less than 100 years old. In the 2019 edition, 271 institutions were included. UFSC appears as the second best qualified Brazilian university.
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