Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

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Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho, Secretary for International Relations at UFSC, and Yasuhiro Mitsui, Consul General of Japan in Curitiba.

On 12 December 2024, Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho, Secretary for International Relations at UFSC, represented the university’s Rector at the Santa Catarina State’s Brazil-Japan Friendship Week, held at the historic Santana Fort in Florianópolis. The ceremony was attended by Yasuhiro Mitsui, Consul General of Japan in Curitiba, along with his wife, Paulo Baltazar, president of the Wakamiya-Maru Association, and other distinguished local authorities.

The event celebrated the historical and cultural ties between Brazil and Japan, marking the anniversary of the arrival of the first Japanese immigrants to Brazil on 22 December 1803. As part of the commemoration, a plaque was unveiled at Santana Fort in honor of the five Japanese who disembarked there, recognizing the journey of the Russian ship that brought them to Brazil.

In addition, an exhibition was inaugurated, showcasing the epic voyage that began in 1793. The exhibition, featuring documents and historical records, will remain open to the public at the Santana Fort until the end of the week.

Joana Célia dos Passos, Vice-Rector of UFSC, at the opening conference of the XVI Afroindoamérica Colloquium.

From 26 November to 6 December 2025, Joana Célia dos Passos, professor and Vice-Rector at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), embarked on a mission to Mexico City. The mission, linked to the UNESCO Chair on Education towards Racial Equality project, was supported by the Abdias Nascimento Academic Development Program, funded by the Brazilian Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes). The mission’s primary objective, according to Professor dos Passos, was to “strengthen and internationalize research and graduate programs through student and faculty mobility, fostering an academic exchange that builds inclusive and diverse knowledge.”

The Abdias Nascimento Academic Development Program, as outlined in Capes Call no. 16, “is intended to educate and train students who self-identify as black, mixed race, and indigenous, as well as students with disabilities, global developmental delay, and high abilities, in universities, professional and technological education institutions, and research centers of excellence in Brazil and abroad.”
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From right to left: Guilherme da Costa, International Programs coordinator; Susana Bleil, Université Le Havre Normandie; Ana Carolina Lucchetti, responsible for the Incoming Program; Luiz Carlos Pinheiro, Secretary for International Relations; Daniel Castelan, Vice-Dean of the School of Socioeconomic Sciences (CSE/UFSC).

On 10 December, the Office of International Relations (SINTER) at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) hosted a visit from Professor Susana Bleil of Université Le Havre Normandie, alongisde Professor Daniel Castelan, from UFSC’s School of Socioeconomic Sciences (CSE).

Professor Bleil is a graduate from UFSC. She currently teaches Portuguese and Brazilian Civilization at the Faculty of International Relations at Université Le Havre Normandie, France. She is a researcher affiliated with the Center for Studies on Social Movements (CEMS) at the School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) and is a member of the Identities and Cultures Research Group (GRIC). Her academic interests encompass the history of inequalities in Brazil, identity, culture, political transitions, and the sociology of collective action, with a focus on qualitative research methods such as interviews and direct observation.

The meeting centered on the academic cooperation between the two institutions, including the implementation of the incoming student exchange program in 2025. UFSC will welcome five undergraduate students from Université Le Havre Normandie, one in the Law program and four in the International Relations program. This will be the first time UFSC receives students from this partner institution.

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