Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) offers the online English course “Written Production in English– Abstracts”. The course is aimed at faculty, staff and students at UFSC. Classes will take place remotely, via Moodle, and applications will be open from 7 to 14 February.

The goal of the course is to capacitate students to produce abstracts, identify the characteristics of the genre, and compare and contrast different types of abstracts. Intermediate knowledge of English – at B1, B2 or C1 level – is recommended.

Classes will take place from 17 February to 25 March. The course content will be available on Moodle for independent study. Evaluation activities will be carried out asynchronously and sent to the instructor’s e-mail on the following dates: 22 and 28 February, and 4, 9, 16 and 23 March.

The course totals 16 hours and there are 30 available seats. To apply, click here.

If you have any questions, please send them to victor.gobatti@posgrad.ufsc.br.

The Office of International Relations (SINTER) announces that applications for the 2022 PROMISAES Financial Support are open from 2 February to 31 October 2022. The awards are offered by the Ministry of Education (MEC) to students from the Programa de Estudantes-Convênio de Graduação (PEC-G) at UFSC.

Check the rules in the Call for Applications no. 3 SINTER 2022 – PROMISAES.

You can also access the required forms for application below:

2022 Household and Personal Income Form

2022 Commitment Form

2022 Application Form

The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) offers the online Spanish course “Elaboration of a motivation letter for academic exchange/mobility”. Applications will be open from 8 February to 8 March and classes will take place from 9 March to 1 April. 

The course contains guidelines for the elaboration of a motivation letter in Spanish to apply for academic exchange programs. The course materials and activities will be in Spanish; therefore, reading proficiency in the language is a minimum prerequisite.

Classes will include the analysis and identification of the parts of a motivation letter, formality and informality, forms of address, greeting and farewell formulas in Spanish, selection and organization of information relevant to the letter, lexicon and appropriate contents.

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Applications for the Emerging Leaders in the Americas Program (ELAP) 2022, developed by the Canadian Government, are open.

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.

SINTER manages the applications of UFSC undergraduate students only.

Please click here for further information.

The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) promotes the course “Ways and perspectives of studying in Italy – reading and understanding Calls for Application in Italian language – 2nd edition”. The initiative seeks to equip the academic community (undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff) to understand Calls for Applications for scholarships in Italian educational institutions.

Given the offer of Italian government scholarships for undergraduate exchange, graduate research and cultural exchanges, it is intended that students, at the end of this course, will be able to: 1) easily locate Calls for Applications for Italian government scholarships; 2) understand the Italian higher education system; 3) know the main Italian proficiency tests; 4) recognize characteristics of a Call for Applications, in Italian; 5) autonomously fill in registration forms.

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The Office of International Relations (SINTER) has published the Call for Applications no. 2 SINTER 2022 with the rules for UFSC undergraduate students to apply for exchange via the Outgoing Program. The UFSC online application system will remain open from 1 February until 30 November 2022.

To go on exchange, the students will need to meet the deadlines of the host institution according to the rules established in the call.

For institutions with deadlines between December 2022 and January 2023, the student must apply through the UFSC online application system until 30 November.

Extension requests must be registered on the online system as well.

All doubts about the application procedures should be solved via e-mail (outgoing.sinter@contato.ufsc.br).

Reading the Call for Applications is mandatory for all applicants.

For more information on the Outgoing Program, click here.

Applications for the MRE Merit Scholarship are open from 14 to 30 January 2022. The scholarship is destined for students of the Exchange Program for Undergraduate Students (PEC-G) at UFSC who have completed at least 2 semesters of study and have not failed any classes in the last semester.

Offered by the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE), the Merit Scholarship consists of a monthly financial assistance worth R$ 622.00, during the period of six months.

Read the rules carefully in the Call for Applications DCED no 1_2022 – DOU.

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