Office of International Relations

On 7 August, the Office of International Relations (SINTER) at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) will host the International Community Welcome Day for students coming to UFSC in the second semester of 2026.

The event is open to all members of the university’s international community, including exchange students from the Incoming and AUGM Escala Grado programs; degree-seeking  students from the PEC-G (Programa Estudante Convênio Graduação) Program; refugee, asylum-seeking, and humanitarian visa holder students;  faculty members;  graduate students; and study buddies of  international students. Registration is free and must be completed by 6 August via the online form.

Activities will begin at 8:00 a.m. in the Garapuvu Auditorium at the Rector Luiz Carlos Cancellier de Olivo Culture and Events Center, featuring a welcome ceremony and specific orientation sessions. In the afternoon, students are invited to take part in cultural integration activities by registering in advance via this form.

View the full schedule at sinter.ufsc.br/recepcao-sinter.

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The Research with International Students Conference was held on 11 and 12 December in a hybrid format (online and in-person) at the University of Manchester (UK). The event sought to develop more methodological guidance to steer this subfield away from problematic discourses and assumptions, through presentations dealing with the following issues: critical conceptual and methodological issues currently faced by research with international students; practical (macro or micro) considerations for research in this subfield; issues of power, inequality, intersectionality and ethics in research with international students; how research with international students might be imagined differently; and what the future of research with international students should look like.

Based on this, the SINTEGRA project – a partnership between the Office of International Relations (SINTER/UFSC) and the Department of Psychology at UFSC – delivered a presentation entitled “SINTEGRA as an initiative to integrate international students from the Global South into a Brazilian public university“. They presented the Programa de Estudantes-Convênio de Graduação (PEC-G), how the project works, its objectives and the ongoing actions. The presentation was prepared by the Director of International Relations Fernanda Leal, the head of PEC-G at UFSC Elisa Freitas Schemes, the SINTEGRA coordinator Elka Lima Hostensky, and the psychology professor Lígia Rocha. The presentation was also attended by Paula Eduarda Michels, English/Portuguese translator and interpreter at SINTER.

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