Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

Alícia Amancio, International Relations student at UFSC

The UFSC International Relations student Alícia Amancio will represent the International Youth Climate Movement in the 8th Annual Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum.

Organized by the United Nations (UN), the event will take place in New York on 8 and 9 April 2019.

Alícia also participated in the 24^th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Climate Change Convention (COP24), which was held in Katowice, Polland, between 3 and 14 December 2018.

For more information, visit the ECOSOC Youth Forum website, the International Youth Climate Movement Facebook page, the International Relations Program website, or send an email to relacoesinternacionais@contato.ufsc.br.

On the morning of 15 February, the Secretary for International Relations, Lincoln Fernandes, and the BRAFITEC Program Coordinators at UFSC, Guilherme de Oliveira Barra and Diego Fetterman, along with Professor Fernando Cabral, welcomed representatives from partner French institutions and the Universidade do Grande ABC. During the visit, which aimed to strengthen the relationship between the institutions, operational bottlenecks in the BRAFICTEC processes were discussed, as well as possibilities for new partnerships and the amount of funding opportunities for UFSC students.

The meeting occurred during the Brazil-France Summer School which took place at UFSC from 11 to 15 February 2019. The Summer School had the participation of professors from Brazilian and French institutions who taught minicourses about entrepreneurship and innovation, exchange opportunities in France, biomaterials, environment, robotics, aerospace engineering and nanomaterials.

Applications are open for the simplified selection process of German teachers to work in the UFSC Language Center (NucLi) linked to the Language without Borders (IsF) Program.

The application period is from 11 February 2019 to 15 February 2019.

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Applications are open for the simplified selection process of English teachers to work in the UFSC Language Center (NucLi) linked to the Language without Borders (IsF) Program.

The application period is from 7 February 2019 to 15 February 2019.

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The Ambassadors Program is organized by the Brazilian student community in Boston since 2014. Every year, ten undergraduate students, two from each region of Brazil, are selected to attend the Brazil Conference at Harvard & MIT. The Program aims to enable these students to apply the knowledge acquired at the conference in their home regions and share with their regional centers the topics and discussions held.

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Developed by the Canadian Government, the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) offers scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students (master’s and doctoral level) from Latin America and the Caribbean for an exchange program at Canadian universities.
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The 24^th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Climate Change Convention (COP24) was held in Katowice, Poland, from 3 to 14 December 2018, to discuss how the 2015 Paris Agreement will be implemented and moved forward.

The undergraduate student Alicia Maria Amancio da Silva, currently enrolled in the first year of the International Relations program at UFSC, attended COP24 as a representative of Youth NGOs. In addition to participating actively in the debate, during the first week of the Conference, Alicia had a meeting with the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, as a representative of Latin America.

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