Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

Dear all,
We inform you that SINTER will be closed on 28 November (Monday), due to an all staff strategic planning meeting. During this day, our staff will not make appointments nor answer phone calls.
Any queries can be sent by e-mail and will be answered as soon as possible.
The staff’s contact information is available here: http://sinter.ufsc.br/contato-2/?lang=en

Last Friday, SINTER, in partnership with the Italian university system UNIFAIDATE and  the representative of the “Promozione del sistema universitario italiano nel mondo” program, has hosted a lecture about academic mobility in Italy for undergraduate and graduate students. The event was attended by nearly 30 people who could clarify their doubts about how to enter the European university system, how to apply for scholarships and about the local culture.

The Italian university system UNIFAIDATE, in collaboration with MIUR – MAECI – REGIONE ITALIANE – CRUI (“Promozione del sistema universitario italiano nel mondo”) and in partnership with SINTER/UFSC, promotes the lecture “Academic Mobility Italy – Brazil” this coming Friday, 30 September, in the Aroeira Room, first floor of UFSC Culture and Events Center, at 11:00 am.
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The Office of International Relations (SINTER), according to the call EDITAL Nº 9/SINTER /2016, of 22 July 2016, publishes the result of the selection at UFSC of technical and administrative staff in educatoin selected for exchange in one of the member universities of Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo (AUGM), through Programa Escala de Gestores y Administradores.

We highlight that this is the result of the selection realized at UFSC and that the definitive acceptance by the host university will happen only after the first meeting of Delegates Advisors of AUGM in 2016. The selected by UFSC will be informed about the procedures to be taken.

Candidates selected by UFSC:

• Carlos Alberto Sapata Carubelli
• Paulo Fernando Liedtke
• Rafael Gustavo de Lima

Further information: augm.sinter@contato.ufsc.br | +55 48 3721-6206.

The Office of International Relations (SINTER) invites the UFSC community to attend a lecture  on the demystification of the U.S. visa application process, which will be held on 5 October 2016 in the Harry Laus Room at the Central Library,. In the event, the public will be able to solve their doubts on how to apply for the different types of U.S. visa, including the student visa.
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The University Studies Abroad Consortium is offering courses in English to UFSC students. The courses are:

Brazilian Anthropology & Culture

Peoples of the Amazon

Strategic Management & Policy

Survey of Brazilian Literature

This is an opportunity for Brazilian students to get in touch with the international environment, to practice the English language and to improve their academic knowledge.

The deadline for enrollment is 29 September, 2016, until 5 pm.

To enroll and for further information, please call 55 (48) 3721-6208 – (48) 9191-7991 or email renato.carvalho@usac.unr.edu.

The University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC) Fall Program has started on 29 August, at UFSC. USAC is a consortium of universities linked to UFSC via the Office of International Relations (SINTER) since 2013.  This edition, which will take place until 14 December at the Florianópolis Campus, has the participation of 30 international undergraduate students; 26 from American universities, 3 from Sweden and 1 from Norway.
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