AUGM Escala de Gestores y Administradores Program – Preliminary Results

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The Office of International Relations (SINTER), announces the preliminary results of the pre-selection of technical and administrative staff members to go on exchange in one of the partner universities of the Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo [Association of Montevideo Group Universities] (AUGM), through the Escala de Gestores y Administradores program, in accordance with the Call for Applications no. 14/2022/SINTER.

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PROPG announces Call for Applications for students from Timor-Leste

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The Prorectorate for Graduate Studies (PROPG) announces that applications are open for the Internationalization and Human Resources Training Program within the cooperation between the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) and the Timor-Leste Human Capital Development Fund (FDCH – Timor-Leste). The deadline is 30 October 2022.

The Internationalization and Human Resources Training Program aims to stimulate internationalization actions at UFSC, offering places in Master’s and Doctoral programs for Timorese students and contributing to qualified human resources training in Timor-Leste.

Click here to access the Call for Application.

Apply here.

UFSC signs cooperation agreement with Mozambique for digital certificate implementation in the country

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Photo: Robson Ribeiro / SECOM UFSC

On 17 October, the Rector of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Irineu Manoel de Souza, received in his office representatives of the National Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (INTIC) in Mozambique to sign a technical cooperation agreement for the implementation of a digital certificate infrastructure in the African country. The Vice-Rector of UFSC, Joana Célia dos Passos, and the Director of International Relations, Fernanda Leal, participated in the signing ceremony at the Rector’s Office.

The meeting was also attended by Prof. Lourino Chemane, president of the Board of Directors of INTIC; Laisse Mucavele, Director of the Certificate and License Division; Sérgio Guivala, Head of the Cybernetics Security Department; Abrão Nhaca, Head of the License Department; Narbal Silva, Executive Director of the Prorectorate for Outreach and Extension at UFSC; Frederico Schardong, lecturer at the Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (IFRS) and doctoral student in Computer Science at UFSC; Lucas Mayer, master’s student in Computer Science at UFSC; and Ricardo Felipe Custódio, supervisor of the Computer Security Laboratory (LabSEC) at UFSC.

The agreement signed between UFSC, through the Computer Security Laboratory (LabSEC/UFSC), the Instituto Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (IFRS), and the INTIC, which is the body responsible for the regulation, supervision, and inspection of information and communication technologies in Mozambique, aims at establishing a partnership to assist the Mozambican institute in the specification and implementation of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) in Mozambique (PKI-MZ), cooperating in the creation of a governance policy for technology management, as well as carrying out qualification and training actions for the continuing education of technicians in charge of the operation, implementation and maintenance of the solutions to be developed.

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2022 FAUBAI Southern Regional Meeting

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FAUBAI (@faubai_org) / TwitterThe 2022 FAUBAI Southern Regional Meeting will take place on 17 and 18 November on the Plenarinho [Small Plenary Room] at the Rectorate Building of the Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina (UDESC). This year, the event’s theme is “O Novo Cenário da Internacionalização: mudanças e desafios” [The New Scenario of Internationalization: changes and challenges]. Faculty and staff members at UFSC, including the internationalization agents, can participate.

The Secretary for International Relations at UFSC, Prof. Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho, will introduce the lecture: “O Novo Cenário da Internacionalização: principais mudanças e grandes desafios” [The New Scenario of Internationalization: main changes and major challenges]. The Brazilian Association of International Education (FAUBAI) brings together managers and heads of international relations from more than 200 Brazilian higher education institutions. The association promotes seminars, workshops, regional, national and international meetings, and an Annual Conference, aiming the integration and training of managers.

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Scholarship opportunity for undergraduate students at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences / Germany – Final results

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The International Programs Coordinator at the Office of International Relations (SINTER) announces the final results of the selection process of undergraduate students who applied to the Outgoing Program to go on exchange at the Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, in Germany, with a scholarship.

UFSC will nominate up to three students to Offenburg, which will make the final selection among the applicants from all institutions participating in the opportunity. According to the analysis made by the German institution, the students nominated by UFSC may be granted the scholarship or not.

Selected students in ranking order:

1 – Ian Jesus Silva Ribeiro

International Relations Program

2 –  Rafael da Conceição

Pharmacy Program

SINTER will contact the selected students by e-mail with further instructions.