Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

This post is available in Brazilian Portuguese only. Please access the website in Portuguese to read it.

This post is available in Brazilian Portuguese only. Please access the website in Portuguese to read it.

The Brazilian Portuguese Survival Course, made available for partner institutions and the international community at UFSC from 27 March 2023, was conceived by the Office of International Relations (SINTER) during the term 2016-2022 and produced by the Office of Distance Learning (SEAD).

This course focuses on the need for our partners’ academic community to have a first contact with the structure and vocabulary of Brazilian Portuguese before starting their mobility and/or cooperation activities in our university.

The aim is to train students, faculty and staff from around the world through a course that:
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The Office of International Relations (SINTER) announces the rectification of the Call for Applications no. 14/2022/SINTER concerning the period in which technical and administrative staff members can undertake mobility.

Check the rectification here and the original Call for Applications here.

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.

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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