Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

The Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina has been pre-qualified for membership in the BRICS  Network University (BRICS-NU), in accordance with CAPES Call for Accession No. 8/2025. The application process involved the participation of the Office of International Relations (SINTER/UFSC), which supported the university’s candidacy by mapping its existing cooperation with BRICS countries.

Following the signing of the Term of Accession by the Prorector for Graduate Studies, Professor Werner Kraus Junior, UFSC is now eligible to receive a pre-qualification certificate. This will enable the institution to submit proposals in funding calls to be published at a later time.

The BRICS-NU mission is to foster academic, scientific and cultural cooperation among higher education institutions from BRICS member countries. In addition, the network encourages joint projects in the areas of teaching, research and outreach. As part of the pre-qualification process, participating universities were assigned to specific thematic areas. UFSC was pre-qualified in the thematic area of Energy. The full list of Brazilian universities pre-qualified for each area is available here.

With this confirmation, UFSC commits to actively participating in the network’s meetings and activities; contributing to the development of joint projects, knowledge exchange and holding of academic events; ensuring that student, faculty and research mobility programs are in line with the network’s rules and regulations; and meeting the deadlines and goals established in the collaborative projects.

This news articles is based on information provided by CGCOM/CAPES.

CAPES is the Brazilian Federal Agency for Support and Evaluation of Graduate Education, under the Ministry of Education (MEC).

From 2 to 6 June 2025, SINTER will organize the “UFSC Good Practices in Internationalization Week”. Due to the participation of SINTER’s staff and interns in the event, our in-person service will take place at alternative locations on 3, 4 and 5 June.

If you require in-person assistance on those days, please go to the following locations, observing our office hours, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.:

2 June (no change) –  Rectorate Building II, 1st floor

3 June – CFH Mini Auditorium (Building B – 3th floor)

4 June – CFH Auditorium (Building F – 7th floor)

5 June – CFH Auditorium (Building F – 7th floor)

6 June (no change) – Rectorate Building II, 1st floor

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This post is available in Brazilian Portuguese only. Please access the website in Portuguese to read it.

This post is available in Brazilian Portuguese only. Please access the website in Portuguese to read it.

This post is available in Brazilian Portuguese only. Please access the website in Portuguese to read it.

Source: World Humanities Report

The article The Languages Without Borders Network in Brazil has been published in the World Humanities Report and is now available on the Andifes-IsF Network website. Written by Denise Abreu-e-Lima (Federal University of São Carlos) and Waldenor B. Moraes Filho (Federal University of Uberlândia), with contributions from the Andifes-IsF Network, the article offers an in-depth analysis of the program’s evolution, its connections to the former Science Without Borders initiative, its impact on Brazilian higher education, the network’s structure and management, and its transition from federal government administration to Andifes—the National Association of Directors/Presidents of Federal Higher Education Institutions. The publication is available in seven languages: German, Spanish, French, English, Italian, Japanese, and Portuguese.

The World Humanities Report is a collaborative effort by the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) and the International Council for Philosophy and the Human Sciences (CIPSH).

The Languages Without Borders Network in Brazil

As the article explains, the Languages Without Borders Network emerged in Brazil as a political and regulatory strategy aligned with the internationalization efforts at universities in the Southern Hemisphere. One of the key initiatives in this context was the Science Without Borders (CsF) program, supported by the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) in Brazil. The program was criticized for prioritizing technology and innovation fields – such as Exact Sciences, Technology, and Medicine – while excluding the humanities and social sciences. The article highlights that “the program intended to internationalize Brazilian research, but it is impossible to address internationalization without considering language as the basis for communication among people and the central role of language education” (p. 4). In response to the academic community’s language proficiency needs for CsF scholarships, the Languages Without Borders (IsF) program was introduced as an alternative to supplement the teaching of foreign languages in Brazil.

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