On 16 July 2018, UFSC’s Vice-Rector, Prof. Alacoque Erdmann, and the Secretary of International Relations, Prof. Lincoln Fernandes, welcomed Mr. Carlo Krieger and Mr. Jan Eichbaun, the Ambassador and the Honorary Consul of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, respectively, at UFSC.
In the meeting, the Luxembourg authorities demonstrated interest in reestablishing cooperation activities with the state of Santa Catarina, in consideration of the large number of Luxembourg immigrants in the state, especially in the Angelina region. They highlighted that the University of Luxembourg and UFSC have several areas of common interest which can enable the development of partnerships.
The Office of International Relations (SINTER) announces that applications for the Escala de Gestores y Administradores program are open from 17 July to 27 August 2018, according to the Public Call no. 9/SINTER 2018 – Escala Gestores y Administradores.
The call covers six scholarships to be offered to UFSC’s technical and administrative staff members. One of those is reserved for SINTER’s staff and the other five are available to the other university sectors that work directly in the strengthening of the internationalization process at UFSC.
To apply, the candidate must have been working in the institution for at least three years. Applicants must send all the documentation required in PDF format to the email augm.sinter@contato.ufsc.br. UFSC will provide the winners with round-trip air tickets in economy class, and the host university is responsible for organizing and providing accommodation and food, following its own criteria, as described in the Call for Applications 2019.
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The 2018 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Model United Nations (UFSCMUN) is being organized by the International Relations Program of UFSC. The event, that simulates International Organizations and Government Delegations meetings, will take place on 15 and 16 September 2018.
The Model United Nations was created in 1927 at Harvard University by a group of students interested in replicating the environment of the League of Nations after the First World War. Currently, there are more than 400 MUN conferences around the world and over 3,000 Brazilian students involved with these events.
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USAC, in partnership with SINTER, promoted a second edition of the “Internationalization Initiative – English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI)” Course on 18, 19 and 20 June 2018. The course was addressed to UFSC’s faculty and lectured by visiting Professor Sarah Blithe, from the University of Nevada, U.S. It took place on the Florianópolis campus and was transmitted live on SINTER’s Facebook page.
The aim of the course was to give support to UFSC faculty members on how to design and teach courses in English, in order to meet the needs for using English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) and contribute to UFSC’s internationalization process.
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Prof. Julio Theiler, an expert in internationalization and current Director of the Languages Center of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Argentina, will address the webinar “Current Challenges on the Internationalization Process and University Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean”.
The webinar will be in Spanish and will take place on 4 July 2018 at 2 p.m.
Attendance is free, but requires prior registration through email: riesal.erasmus@gmail.com
Applications for the XXVI Jornadas de Jovens Pesquisadores of the Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo (AUGM) are open until 9 July 2018. The event will take place from 17 to 19 October 2018 at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNICUYO) in Mendoza-Argentina. The theme chosen for the 2018 event is “A 100 años de la Reforma Universitaria: Saber te hace libre” [100 years of the university reform: knowledge makes you free].
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Applications for the Bolsa Mérito 2018.2 (a merit scholarship aimed for students from the Programa de Estudantes-Convênio de Graduação – PEC-G at UFSC) is open from 21 June 2018 to 20 July 2018.
Offered by the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE), the Bolsa Mérito consists of a monthly scholarship worth R$ 622,00, which is granted for a period of 6 months.
Read the rules carefully in the Call for Applications DC n. 1/2018.
To apply, students must send the following documents, digitized in high quality and PDF format, to pecg.sinter@contato.ufsc.br until 11.59 p.m. on 20 July 2018.
- Application Formproperly filled in and signed;
- Commitment Statementproperly filled in and signed;
- Copy of the student’s passport page on which the current visa (VITEM – IV) is stamped;
- Copy of the current RNE or its updated protocol;
- In case of participation in extracurricular research or outreach activities during the past two semesters, proof of student’s participation, indicating date of completion, duration and/or the workload.
- Individual letter of recommendation, written and signed by a professor from a course taken in the last semester.
The email must have as its subject “MÉRITO 20182 + APPLICANT’S NAME” (e.g.: MÉRITO 20182 ANA SILVA).
