Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

This Thursday, 22 August, the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) welcomes its international student community for the second semester of 2024.  A welcome session will be held by the Office of International Relations (SINTER/UFSC), in partnership with the Prorectorate for Undergraduate Studies and Basic Education (PROGRAD), through the Institutional Program for Educational Support to Students (PIAPE).

The session will start at 9 a.m. in the Building E – Annex Auditorium at the School of Philosophy and Human Sciences (CFH) on the Trindade Campus (Florianópolis). The event is aimed at both exchange students and degree-seeking students. The international students’ buddies are also invited.

This semester, UFSC is welcoming 29 undergraduate exchange students from 7 countries. Out of the 29 students, 21 are coming from France, Germany, China and Portugal through the UFSC Incoming Program and 8 are coming from Argentina, Uruguay and Chile through the Escala Grado Program of the Association of Montevideo Group Universities (AUGM). Our University is also welcoming 2 degree-seeking students from Ecuador and Panama, who have been admitted to the Medicine Program and the Administration Program through the Programa de Estudantes-Convênio de Graduação (PEC-G), a mobility program managed by the Brazilian government. In addition, UFSC expects to welcome around 10 refugees, asylum seekers and humanitarian visa holders admitted to UFSC through a special selection process.

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The Research with International Students Conference was held on 11 and 12 December in a hybrid format (online and in-person) at the University of Manchester (UK). The event sought to develop more methodological guidance to steer this subfield away from problematic discourses and assumptions, through presentations dealing with the following issues: critical conceptual and methodological issues currently faced by research with international students; practical (macro or micro) considerations for research in this subfield; issues of power, inequality, intersectionality and ethics in research with international students; how research with international students might be imagined differently; and what the future of research with international students should look like.

Based on this, the SINTEGRA project – a partnership between the Office of International Relations (SINTER/UFSC) and the Department of Psychology at UFSC – delivered a presentation entitled “SINTEGRA as an initiative to integrate international students from the Global South into a Brazilian public university“. They presented the Programa de Estudantes-Convênio de Graduação (PEC-G), how the project works, its objectives and the ongoing actions. The presentation was prepared by the Director of International Relations Fernanda Leal, the head of PEC-G at UFSC Elisa Freitas Schemes, the SINTEGRA coordinator Elka Lima Hostensky, and the psychology professor Lígia Rocha. The presentation was also attended by Paula Eduarda Michels, English/Portuguese translator and interpreter at SINTER.

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

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

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