Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

On Wednesday, 3 December 2025, the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) welcomed five representatives from the Chinese university Shanghai University of Electric Power (SUEP) for the signing of a broad cooperation agreement.

The SUEP delegation  included: Mr. Gu Chunhua, President of SUEP; Ms. Zeng, International Special-term Researcher & Advisor, Higher Education Development Strategy Research Center; Ms. Chen Jing, Deputy Director of the Graduate Student Affairs Office; Mr. Zhang Chuanlin, Vice-Dean for Industry-Academia Partnership; and Mr. Ma Jing, Dean of Faculty of Electrical Engineering.

At UFSC, the visitors were welcomed by the Secretary for International Relations, Dr. Fernanda Leal; the Coordinator and Deputy Coordinator of the Institute for Studies on China (ICHIN), Prof. Raul Burgos and Prof. Daniel Martins; the ICHIN intern, Tobias Compan Barcellos; the coordinator of the agreement at UFSC, Prof. Kátia Campos de Almeida (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering); and the SINTER staff members Bruno Wanderley Farias and Paula Eduarda Michels.

Students from UFSC’s Undergraduate Program in Electrical Engineering, Fernanda Paiva and Lucas Ferreira – selected through Call for Applications No. 1/2025/SINTER-ICHIN to participate in the 2025 Shanghai Summer School—were also present. Two other selected students, Guilherme Peixer (Graduate Program in Mechanical Engineering) and Guilherme Breda Fatalla (Undergraduate Program in Materials Engineering), sent video testimonials celebrating the signing of the agreement.

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On 19 June, the Univesidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) welcomed a delegation from Nankai University, China, for the signing ceremony of a new cooperation agreement between the two institutions.

The event was attended by UFSC’s Director of International Relations, Fernanda Leal; the Prorector for Research and Innovation, Prof. Jacques Mick, the Coordinator of the Institute for Studies on China at UFSC (ICHIN), Prof. Raúl Burgos; the Deputy Coordinator of ICHIN, Prof. Daniel Martins; undergraduate students Letícia Renata de Carvalho (Mechanical Engineering) and Tobias Barcellos (Social Sciences, and Student Affairs Coordinator at ICHIN); and doctoral student Rita Coitinho (Sociology and Political Science). Representing Nankai University were the Dean of the School of Foreign Languages, Prof. Yan Guodong, and the Head of the Department of Portuguese Language, Prof. Hu Jing (Helena).

According to Fernanda Leal, Director of International Relations, strengthening ties with BRICS countries—particularly China—diversifies and reinforces UFSC’s internationalization process, which has, as one of its priorities, the strengthening of relations with the Global South. “The agreement signed with Nankai University is part of a series of initiatives developed in recent years by SINTER, in partnership with ICHIN. UFSC and Nankai University are committed to building strong cooperation in various fields, including in the area of Portuguese as a Foreign Language.”

With the formalization of this agreement, UFSC expands its network of partnerships in Asia, now totaling 15 cooperation agreements with Chinese higher education institutions. The goal is to foster academic, scientific and cultural collaboration, promote student and faculty exchanges, and support the development of joint projects.

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