Office of International Relations

On Monday, 22 August 2022, SINTER´s Office will be closed between 2 and 4 p.m. due to the International Students Welcome Session  – 2022.2.

The Welcome Session will be held at the Rectorate Building Auditorium, Trindade Campus, Florianópolis. To learn more about the event, click here.

The Office of International Relations (SINTER), through the Translation Service, launched the Pilot Project for the translation of academic documents of undergraduate students applying for the International Exchange Program, Call for Applications no. 2/2022/SINTER, in the second semester of 2022.

The initiative meets the proposal of internationalization at UFSC, presented in the 2020-2024 Institutional Development Plan (PDI), and aims at attending part of the institution’s demand for the translation of academic documents.

Initially, the Pilot Project will assist undergraduate students that will undertake academic mobility through the International Exchange Program (Outgoing). The Translation Service will translate into English the Certificate of Enrollment and  the Summary Undergraduate Transcript of Records (issued by CAGR), which are the documents frequently requested by foreign institutions. Later one, the idea is to expand the proposal as well as the public that will be assisted by the project.

To have the documents translated, the students must send the updated documents, in Portuguese, along with the proof of application provided by UFSC’s online application system, to the e-mail traducao.sinter@contato.ufsc.br. The Translation Service will send the translated documents back to the students within 5 working days.

The Brazilian Association for International Education (FAUBAI) announces the FAUBAI-FARA Scholarship Program, offering scholarships for African students and researchers in Brazilian Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). The program is organized in partnership with the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and supported by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). A total of 500 scholarships will be offered for students and researchers in HEIs associated with FAUBAI, in the following levels/categories: Master’s Degree; Doctoral Degree; Sandwich Doctoral Program; and Postdoctoral Research.

To be eligible, the HEI must:

• Offer the whole education in English:

1. communication with the applicants in English;
2. graduate programs with information in English (websites and other documents);
3. possibility of writing and presenting the dissertation and thesis in English;
4. possibility of completing all the required credits in English (institutions may share programs, enabling students to obtain credits in programs offered in-person or online by other institutions).

UFSC faculty interested in receiving African master’s students, doctoral students, sandwich doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers through the FAUBAI-FARA Program must:

1. Fill in the FAUBAI registration form;
2. Send an email to sinter@contato.ufsc.br with the subject: “FAUBAIFARA – initials of the Graduate Program – name of the faculty member”, containing the following information:

• full name;
• email;
• name of the Graduate Program;
• number of places offered for Master’s Degree, Doctoral Degree, Sandwich Doctoral Program and Postdoctoral Research.

The due date to express interest is 30 August 2022.

For further information, watch the webinar about the program or send an email to fara-faubai@faubai.org.br.

The Office of International Relations (SINTER) announces the final results of the selection process for students to enroll in the international course “The Languages of Science”, in accordance with the Call for Applications no. 12/SINTER/2022.

Selected students:

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Dear university community,

The Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) receives around 120 international undergraduate students biannually, who come on exchange for one or two semesters.

As the university does not provide accommodation for international students, they need to find their own housing. The Office of International Relations (SINTER) provides a list of housing opportunities available for rent, through which the students can contact the property owners directly to obtain information.

Therefore, landlords who have properties available in Florianopolis, nearby Campus Trindade, or close to the beaches, and may have an interest in listing their houses or rooms for rent, we request you to fill in the housing registration form.

The list of housing opportunities is announced to the international students every semester, and is available on our website.

For further information on the Housing Register, you can contact SINTER through the email incoming.sinter@contato.ufsc.br.

The Director of International Relations at UFSC, Fernanda Leal, and the acting International Programs Coordinator, Guilherme da Costa, participated in the event “Rendez-vous des nouveaux partants” [Meet the newcomers] last Tuesday, 26 July. The event was promoted by the Campus France and the Embassy of France in Brazil and was targeted at students that will undertake international mobility in France.

The event was held at the Aliança Francesa in Florianópolis, from 2 pm to 4 pm, and gathered Brazilian students who are going to start their studies in French institutions between the end of August and beginning of September, the period that starts the academic year in the country. The aim of the event was to socialize and to share useful information about daily life in France.

The Office of International Relations (SINTER) announces the list of administrative staff members selected by the host universities to go on exchange through the Programa Escala de Gestores y Administradores of the Asociación de Universidades do Grupo Montevideo (AUGM), in accordance with the Call for Applications no. 08/2022/SINTER, of 10 May 2022:

Selected applicants:

• Lucas dos Santos Matos;
• Enio Paulo Belotto;
• Fernanda Geremias Leal;
• Claudia Heusi Silveira.

The selected staff members will be contacted through email by SINTER with further details about the mobility.