Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

Virtual Exchange

With the aim of promoting virtual exchange activities as a strategy for internationalization, SINTER has the support of Professor Kátia Madruga (Araranguá campus) and Professor Marcos Baptista Lopez Dalmau (Department of Administrative Sciences), who serve as UFSC’s virtual exchange coordinators.

Their responsibilities include:

Coordinate, in partnership with SINTER, virtual exchange initiatives at UFSC;
Coordinate, in partnership with SINTER, Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) initiatives at UFSC, including liaising with the SUNY COIL Global Network and other partner universities and institutions;
Train UFSC staff to develop virtual exchange and COIL activities at UFSC, under SINTER’s coordination;
Provide information about virtual exchange and COIL activities to the UFSC university community, upon request;
Represent SINTER in the Brazilian Virtual Exchange Program (BRaVE), organized by the Brazilian Association of International Education (FAUBAI).

For further information, please contact intercambiovirtual.sinter@contato.ufsc.br.

BraVE-Faubai Seal:

Since April 2026, UFSC has been awarded the Brazilian Virtual Exchange Program (BraVE – Faubai) seal. This initiative of the Brazilian Association for International Education (FAUBAI) aims to encourage the implementation of virtual academic exchange in member institutions. It provides students and faculty with opportunities to engage in cooperative and multicultural activities online, through courses with an international dimension developed in partnership with foreign institutions.

Sharing COIL Experiences:

We invite UFSC faculty who have implemented COIL activities in their courses to share their experiences by filling out a form available here.

General information about virtual exchange and COIL: