Office of International Relations

The Times Higher Education (THE) has published today the results of the World University Rankings 2021, listing the best universities in the world.

In this year’s edition, the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) maintained its position among the 601-800 best universities in the world and the eight best universities in Brazil, together with the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) and the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), among others.

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Last Friday, 28 August, 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 until 31 December.

According to the Ordinance no. 371/2020, on-campus teaching activities at all levels and of all types remain suspended. The ordinance authorizes remote learning at UFSC, under the rules set out in Normative Resolution no. 140/2020/CUn.

Any other in-person academic activities, such as defenses, recruitment examinations and meetings, as well as the in-person technical and administrative activities, except for health, security and other urgent and essential services, are also suspended on all UFSC campuses until 31 December.

The document stresses, however, that these measures may be changed upon occurrence of new events.

To read the Ordinance no. 371/2020, click here.

The Office of International Relations (SINTER) has published a call with the rules for UFSC undergraduate students to apply for exchange via the Outgoing Program.

The UFSC online application system will remain open until 30 November 2020. To go on exchange, the students will need to follow the deadlines of the host institution according to the rules established in the call.

For institutions with deadlines between December and January, the student must apply through UFSC online system until 30 November 2020.

Extension requests must be imperatively registered on the online system as well.

All doubts about the application procedures should be solved via e-mail (outgoing.sinter@contato.ufsc.br).

The reading of the Call for Applications is mandatory for all applicants.

The Confucious Institute at UFRGS, in partnership with UFSC and UFSC, invites everyone for the online event on “Opportunities in China: meeting the Confucious Institute” that will take place this Thursday, 27 August, at 7 pm., on the Zoom platform.

During the event, the guest speakers will talk about academic and cultural exchange opportunities for the universities and the students, and will share their study, research and cultural experiences in China.

Guests include Prof. Nicolas Maillard, Secretary for International Relations at UFRGS; Prof. Lincoln Fernandes, Secretary for International Relations at UFSC; Prof. Érico Flores, Secretary for International Relations at UFSM; Prof. Antônio Padula, Brazilian Director of the Confucious Institute at UFRGS; Athos Munhoz Moreira da Silva, Planning Manager at Instituto Confúcio at UFRGS; Bianca Stone, Chinese teacher at the Confucius Institute at UFRGS, and Samuel Sant’Anna, student at the Communication University of China.

The event will be held on the Zoom platform, in the virtual room 766 527 9679. For direct access, access zoom.us/j/7665279679.

The Office of International Relations (SINTER) announces that the Universidad del Valle (Univalle), a partner institution of UFSC in Colombia, is offering virtual mobility opportunities through remote learning for undergraduate students of the Physical Therapy Program. The participation will be free for UFSC students.

Universidad del Valle will offer to UFSC students the opportunity to take up to 2 courses among the 7 courses offered online. Access the Course Catalogue and learn the prerequisites for each course.

Classes will be held from 19 August 2020 to 23 December 2020.

When applying, each student should indicate up to 2 preferred courses. The coordinator of the Physical Therapy program, together with the coordinator of the agreement between UFSC and Univalle, Professor Livia Arcêncio do Amaral, will analyze the applications and authorize the remote learning activity.

UFSC students will be able to transfer the credits earned at Univalle as elective courses or complementary activities.

1. The requirements at Universidad del Valle are:

• be an undergraduate student of Physical Therapy.
• be able to attend classes in Spanish.

2. The requirements at UFSC are:

• be regularly enrolled at UFSC from the time of application until the end of the virtual mobility.
• have completed 30% of the total hours of their program at the moment of application.
• meet the prerequisites described in the course catalogue.

3. The documents required for application are:

• Motivation letter, written in Spanish, including the indication of the 2 preferred courses;
• Updated Academic Transcript, issued by CAGR;
• Curriculum Vitae
• Scanned copy of a face photograph (colored, with white background);
• Scanned copy of the passport photo page or of a photo ID document (front and back).

4. Applications at UFSC:

4.1 The applicant must send scanned copies of all the documents listed in item 3, saved in a single file in Portable Document Format (.pdf) to the e-mail programas.sinter@contato.ufsc.br until 23 August 2020. The e-mail should be sent as a copy (cc) to fisioterapia@contato.ufsc.br.

4.2 The student must write in the body of the e-mail the name of the courses they wish to take online at UNIVALLE.

4.3 The application e-mail must have as subject UNIVALLE + APPLICANT’S FIRST NAME + LAST NAME (for example: UNIVALLE ANA SILVA). Applications that do not follow such format, are not sent as a copy to fisioterapia@contato.ufsc.br or present incomplete documentation will not be considered.

5. Results:

SINTER will send to UNIVALLE the names of the approved students. The students will be contacted via e-mail about the enrollment procedures and the beginning of the activities at the institution.

The Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, through its Office for International Relations, informs that:

– It does not have any cooperation or work agreements with national or international study abroad agencies and recruiters;

– The cooperation agreements between UFSC and the international institutions are signed after several negotiations between both parties, and the conditions for any joint activity are provided for in the general agreement or its addenda;

– No cooperation agreement or activity is linked to a private agency. They are made directly between UFSC and the international institution;

– All students regularly enrolled at UFSC wishing to apply for an academic exchange must go through specific application and/or selection procedures and meet pre-established requirements. The existence of a cooperation agreement does not guarantee the exchange.

– All information on our website is public. However, we do not take responsibility for its incorrect use or its employment for interests other than institutional ones.

On 21 July, the University Council (CUn) of Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) approved the Exceptional Supplementary Calendar, which will be in force at UFSC as the university transitions to remote learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The CUn has decided that there will be a period of five weeks of preparation for the resumption of the academic semester, which is scheduled to restart from 31 August. The semester will last 16 weeks and is expected to end between 14 December-19 December.

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