Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

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International Community Welcome Day marks start of semester for students from 20 countries

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From left to right: Guilherme Costa, Ana Carolina Lucchetti, Sean McIntyre, Fernanda Leal.

On 4 December, SINTER received a visit from Middlebury College, a valued partner institution from the United States. The Middlebury College Director in Brazil, Sean McIntyre, was welcomed by the Director of International Relations at UFSC, Fernanda Leal, the Coordinator of International Programs, Guilherme Costa, and the person responsible for the Incoming Program at SINTER, Ana Carolina Lucchetti.

During the meeting, discussions focused on strategies to deepen the long-standing cooperation between UFSC and Middlebury, encourage Middlebury students’ participation in UFSC’s university outreach projects, and foster greater interaction between international and local students.

In the first semester of 2025, UFSC will welcome five undergraduate students from the partner institution, as part of the Incoming Exchange Program. Since 2007, UFSC has received 90 international students from Middlebury College.

The exchange program for international students from partner universities for one or two semesters (Incoming Program), in addition to the Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo [Association of Montevideo Group Universities] (AUGM) Escala Grado Program, received 83 applications for the first semester of 2025, more than the first semester of 2024, when UFSC received 76 applications, resulting in seventy students coming to UFSC.

The students enrolled for the first semester of 2025 come from sixteen different countries and 45 institutions, reflecting the institutional internationalization policy focused on multilateralism. The three countries with the highest number of applicants are France (30), Portugal (10) and Italy (5).

See the list below for the country of origin of the potential exchange students:

In addition to these new  potential international students, 4 students from China and 2 from France arrived at UFSC in the second semester of 2024 and will extend their exchange period for another semester.

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