Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

Next Thursday, 21 March, Professor Dimitris Assimakoulas from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom, will give a lecture entitled “The Translation of Comic Books” at the UFSC School of Communication and Arts (CCE). The event will take place at the Drummond Room, Building B, ground floor, and will start at 10 am.

The lecture will be given in English and has the support of the Office of International Relations (SINTER), the School of Communication and Arts (CCE), the Graduate Program in Knowledge Engineering (EGC), the Graduate Program in Translation Studies (PPGET), the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Laboratory (Lempi) and the TraCor Research Group – Translation and Corpora.

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The Office of International Relations (SINTER) announces that applications are open for the 2019 Erasmus + UFSC – UHK Faculty Mobility Program, according to  Call no. 03 SINTER 2019. This edition of the Program is aimed at UFSC faculty members who develop graduate-level research in the following areas: Archival Science, History, Philosophy, Political Science, Social Work or Social Science. One faculty member will be selected for a mobility period in the Hradec Králové (UHK) University, Czech Republic.

The selected faculty member will be reimbursed for the transportation expenses in the amount of €1500 and will also receive daily allowances, totaling €1680. The benefits will be paid after arrival in the Czech Republic.

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Applications by undergraduate students for the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) offered by the Government of Canada are currently closed.

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

UFSC online application system will remain open until 30 November 2019. To do the exchange, the students will need to follow  the deadlines of the host institution according to the rules established in the call.

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On 14 March 2019, a lecture about exchange opportunities and scholarships in France will be held at the Chemical Engineering  Auditorium. The event for Chemical and Materials Engineering students will take place at 3:30 p.m.

The Director of the International Relations Office of the École Nationale Supèrieure de Chimie de Lilli – ENSCL, Zahia Turpin, will present details about ENSCL and the BRAFITEC program.

The event is a result of a partnership  between SINTER, the BRAFITEC Coordinator in the area of Chemical Engineering at UFSC, Professor Agenor Fúrigo, and ENSCL, with which UFSC has a cooperation agreement.

On 8 March, the Office of International Relations (SINTER) will hold a welcome session for foreign exchange students coming to study at UFSC during the first semester of 2019. The event will take place at the Rectorate Building’s Auditorium, at 10 a.m., and will have the participation of UFSC’s Rector and the Secretary for International Relations. In addition to welcoming the students, the session will include cultural activities and a coffee break.

UFSC will welcome 150 foreign students from 19 countries through the Incoming, BRACOL, BRAMEX and AUGM programs. The Incoming Program receives students from partners institutions, with which UFSC holds through bilateral agreements, without scholarships. The other programs, of which UFSC is a part, include financial assistance for incoming and outgoing students.

Besides the exchange students, UFSC will also welcome 18 students from the Exchange Program for Undergraduate Students (PEC-G), coming from 10 different countries to pursue their degrees at UFSC.

More information about the exchange programs offered at UFSC can be found in our website.

Number of incoming students –  2019/1 semester

On 22 February, the first Doctoral dissertation defenses scheduled in the scope of the FCT/CAPES Transnational Cooperations – Bilateral Agreements Project, established between IPVC and UFSC, took place at the Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal. Antônio Augusto Morini defended his dissertation entitled “Pré-avaliação da energia incorporada e da pegada de carbono como requisitos para seleção de materiais nas fases iniciais do desenvolvimento de produtos” [Pre-assessment of embodied energy and carbon footprint as requirements for material selection in the early stages of product development].

SINTER congratulates the new Doctor in Materials Science and Engineering  and his supervisors.

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