AUGM ENTREPRENEURSHIP PORTAL: get to know and participate in the initiative that will identify and disseminate entrepreneurial experiences at UFSC!

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The Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) is a member of the Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo [Montevideo Group Association of Universities]  (AUGM) and participates in several thematic committees of AUGM, including the Committee for Science, Technology and Innovation, which it helps coordinate. The new Entrepreneurship Portal, led by the UFSC team, is an outcome of the Committee’s work.
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UFSC keeps activities suspended and sets deadline for decision on the academic calendar

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Last Friday, 29 May, the Central Administration of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) has announced that the university’s in-person academic and administrative activities will remain suspended. According to the Normative Ordinance no. 364/2020/GR, the suspension is now for an indefinite period, but a deadline of 30 days has been set for the university to decide on the continuity of the 2020-1 semester and on the rearrangement of the academic activities.
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Deadline for applications extended! Botín Foundation: Programme for Strengthening of Civil Service in Latin America 2020

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The Programme for the Strengthening of Civil Service in Latin America is an exchange program sponsored by the Botín Foundation, a Spanish organization dedicated to promoting vocation and talent for public service.

Every year, 32 Latin American undergraduate students with leadership profiles and talent for public services are selected to participate in a two-month intensive course. The course includes lectures, classes, institutional visits, debates, projects, outdoor training and personal qualification.

This year’s edition will be carried out between 18 October and 3 December 2020, in Spain (Santander, Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela and Madrid) and in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro). The program will cover the selected students’ expenses related to transportation and housing (students are responsible for all visa and passport-related expenses).

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Coronavirus: UFSC Central Administration suspends all in-person activities until 30 April

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The Central Administration of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) has extended the suspension of all academic and administrative in-person activities at the university until 30 April, according to the Normative Ordinance no. 357, published this Tuesday, 7 April. This measure unifies the suspension period, once classes in the State of Santa Catarina were suspended until 19 April and the UFSC administrative activities were being suspended for 1-week periods.

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Coronavirus: UFSC extends suspension of in-person services until 8 April

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The Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) extends for another seven days the suspension of in-person services on all its campuses, postponing the expected return date for 8 April (Ordinance no. 356/2020/GR). The teaching activities (on-campus and online classes) remain suspended according to the previous ordinance.

The measure is necessary in light of the actions taken by the national and state government against the COVID-19 pandemic and the spread of the Coronavirus in Santa Catarina. Health, security and other urgent and essential on-campus services are maintained.
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UFSC extends suspension of in-person services for more seven days

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The Central Administration of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), considering the measures taken by the federal and state government in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fight against the spread of the Coronavirus in Santa Catarina, has extended, for another seven days, the suspension of most part of the institution’s in-person activities.
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