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The Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) now have a cooperation agreement that facilitates student and faculty mobility, ELAP scholarships and doctoral sandwich programs.
Marina von Keyserlingk, Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho, Maria José Hötzel and Daniel Weary at SINTER/UFSC
To further strengthen the collaboration between UBC, the Applied Ethology Laboratory (LETA) at UFSC and other Brazilian institutions, professors Daniel M. Weary and Marina A. G. von Keyserlingk have returned to Brazil for a visit. Together with Professors Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho and Maria José Hötzel, the Canadian professors will interact with other Brazilian research groups in the area of Applied Ethology and Animal Welfare.
As an example of this interaction, the hybrid course “Animal Behavior and Welfare” is being held jointly with the Graduate Program in Agroecosystems at UFSC between 16 and 17 March. The course is taught in English by professors Daniel M. Weary and Marina A. G. von Keyserlingk, from UBC, Luiz C. Pinheiro Machado Filho and Maria J. Hötzel, from UFSC, and Ruan Daros, from PUC-PR, with 57 students from these institutions enrolled.
Although the agreement has been signed recently, the collaboration between LETA at UFSC and the Animal Welfare Program (AWP) at UBC has been going on since 2002. This collaboration has also produced dozens of joint publications, undergraduate projects, master’s thesis and doctoral dissertations.
The episode “A briefing on Brazil” of the EAIE (European Association for International Education) podcast was aired on 15 March with the participation of the Director of International Relations at UFSC, Fernanda Leal, and the President of the Insper Institute of Education and Research, Marcelo Knobel.
The episode featured a talk about the process of internationalization in Brazilian Higher Education Institutions in 2023 and discussed the importance of inclusion, equity and diversity in Brazilian institutions. Another point raised in the episode was the place of foreign languages in higher education in the country.
Read more here: https://www.eaie.org/blog/podcast-fernanda-leal-marcelo-knobel-on-brazil.html
To listen to the episode, click here.
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This post is available in Brazilian Portuguese only. Please access the website in Portuguese to read it.
The Office of International Relations (SINTER) held last Monday, on 6 March, during the Welcome Session for International Students, the launch of the program aimed at the students in international mobility taking part in outreach projects, given the recognition of the outreach potential to strengthen the social dimension of internationalization, as well as the contribution that international students can offer to UFSC outreach projects, based on their experiences.
The program aims to bring international students who enter UFSC through bilateral agreements or international programs – such as Escala Grado and Posgrado programs of the Association of Montevideo Group Universities (AUGM) and Erasmus+ – closer to the wide and diverse range of outreach projects that are being carried out at the University. The initiative is the result of a partnership between SINTER and the Prorectorate for Outreach and Extension (PROEX), which conducted, between December 2022 and February 2023, a consultation to the university outreach community about the interest in offering places for the voluntary participation of international students in outreach projects, through the Internal Call no. 1/2022/SINTER-PROEX.
The consultation received expressions of interest from 51 projects in various areas of knowledge. The project coordinators provide a summary of the project’s objectives, the activities to be developed by the students and the weekly workload, as well as the desired profiles, when applicable, such as degree program or specific knowledge. The information available about the projects that have signed up for the initiative can be found in the Catalogue of Outreach Projects available to International Students.
To apply, students must contact the project coordinators to inform their interest through the email addresses available in the catalogue. The participation in the project will guarantee the issuing of a participation certificate with the hours dedicated to the activity.
