The Office of International Relations (SINTER) announces the rectification of the Call for Applications no. 14/2022/SINTER concerning the period in which technical and administrative staff members can undertake mobility.

Check the rectification here and the original Call for Applications here.

The Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) received, between 26 and 30 September, the visit from Laura Ascenzi, staff member of the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC), through the Escala Gestores y Administradores program of the Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo [Association of Universities of Montevideo Group] (AUGM). Ms. Ascenzi is in charge of the institutional communication area at the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas and has been working at UNC for fourteen years. In addition to working as a staff member, she is also a professor and researcher in the areas of Social Communication, Management of Innovative Technologies and Linkage.

The staff member was welcomed on 26 September by the UFSC Communication Agency (Agecom). During her stay, she visited the TV UFSC, the Office of Distance Learning (SEAD), the Prorectorate for Outreach and Extension (Proex), the Prorectorate for Undergraduate Studies and Basic Education (Prograd) and the Prorectorate for Affirmative Action and Equity (Proafe). The Escala Gestores y Administradores program aims at promoting mobility between technical and administrative staff from AUGM member universities in order to strengthen university management and administration, contributing to their development and increasing the understanding of the different organizational structures.

Laura Ascenzi visits Agecom at the Trindade Campus.

From left to right: Vice-Rector Joana Célia dos Passos, UCL staff member Laura Ascenzi and Rector Irineu Manoel de Souza.

The Office of International Relations (SINTER) announces the list of students approved in the documentation review stage of the selection process for the Escala Estudiantes de Grado program of the Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo [Association of Montevideo Group Universities] (AUGM) for the first semester of 2023, according to the Call for Applications no. 13/2022/SINTER.

Pre-selected students:

Amanda Becker

Amanda Camuzato de Quadros

Andrey Luiz da Rocha

Ane Caroline Schuh Debald

Camille Guilardi

Gabriel Mariano Gonçalves Santos

Guilherme Hoepers Ferraz

Gustavo Frederico Escorsim

Julia Franco Trombini

Marina Aime Budnikar

Patrick Suhre da Rosa

Ranieri Paulo Bona

Thaisa de Paula Pereira Cordovil

The interviews will take place between 13 and 18 October. The applicants will receive an e-mail with the date and time of their interview.

Applicants wishing to appeal against the preliminary results of the selection process may do so until 11:59 p.m. on 10 October 2022. The appeal must be sent in PDF format to augm.sinter@contato.ufsc.br.

The subject of the e-mail must be APPEAL + APPLICANT’S FIRST AND LAST NAME (e.g. APPEAL ANA SILVA). Appeals that are not submitted in this format, or are submitted after the deadline, will not be considered.

The SINTEGRA project, a partnership between the Office of International Relations (SINTER) and the Department of Psychology/UFSC, held a meeting on 5 October 2022, at the School of Socio-Economic Sciences (CSE) Auditorium, to integrate PEC-G students into the academic environment in Florianopolis. The action is part of the outreach project “Trajetórias estudantis internacionais: Acolhimento e integração no Programa Estudantes Convênio-Graduação (PEC-G)” [International student paths: support and integration in the PEC-G program].

The event was opened with a performance by the PEC-G student Edgar Rafael Leija Garcia, who presented songs in Spanish and Portuguese. The meeting also included a presentation of the UFSC units and projects that receive student demands. The coordinator of the Psychological Care Service (SAPSI), Prof. Chrissie Ferreira de Carvalho, presented the psychological support activities offered to students.

The possibilities of Pedagogical Support and Guidance promoted by the Institutional Program for Educational Support to Students (PIAPE/PROGRAD) were addressed by Janaína Santos. Prof. Elka Lima Hostensky and the Psychology student Jackeline Vieira Caixeta contextualized the actions of the SINTEGRA project, inviting students to the support meetings that take place on Wednesdays, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. at SAPSI/CFH. For further information, interested students can contact them through the email: sintegra.ufsc@gmail.com.

At the end of the meeting, Elisa Schemes, who administrates the PEC-G Program at SINTER, resumed important aspects of the program, reinforcing the purpose of the meeting: to present and provide students with the services offered at UFSC in order to address academic, psychological, and integration difficulties. Sixteen PEC-G students were present.

For further information on student support, check out the SAPSI and PIAPE websites.

Fernando Azevedo, Eliane Debus and Luiz Carlos Pinheiro at SINTER.

The Office of International Relations (SINTER) received today, 7 October, the visit from Prof. Fernando Azevedo, vice-dean for Internationalization of the Institute of Education at the Universidade do Minho, in Portugal, accompanied by Prof. Eliane Debus, Secretary for Culture, Arts and Sports at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC). They were welcomed by the Secretary for International Relations, Prof. Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho. At the meeting, they discussed the broadening of the relationship between UFSC and the Universidade do Minho and the possibility of offering the Double Degree Program to the School of Education (CED) undergraduate programs. UFSC and the Universidade of Minho reinsured their intentions to strengthen their friendship and cooperation, particularly based on a shared cultural heritage.

On 11 October, at 3 p.m., SINTER promotes the webinar UFSC Participation in the “Brazilian Cooperation for International Development” (COBRADI) research of the Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA). Participation is free and the event will be streamed on YouTube, in this link.

The research on COBRADI is coordinated by the Directorate of International Studies, Political and Economic Relations (Dinte/Ipea) since 2010 and has been subsidizing national efforts to ensure greater transparency in governmental actions and strategies for the country’s international insertion before the Brazilian society and the international community. In addition, COBRADI also promotes the formulation of cooperation policy for international development integrated to the objectives of Brazilian foreign policy and the global development challenges.

The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) promotes the first in-person edition of the course “Ways and perspectives of studying in Italy – reading and understanding Calls for Applications in Italian language”. Register here until 19 October.

The initiative seeks to equip the academic community (undergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff members) with the ability to understand Calls for Applications for scholarships in Italian educational institutions. It is intended that students, at the end of this course, will be able to: 1) easily locate Calls for Applications for Italian government scholarships; 2) understand the Italian higher education system; 3) know the main Italian proficiency tests; 4) recognize characteristics of a Call for Applications written in Italian; 5) autonomously fill in application forms.

The course will be taught by the instructors Cleide Giacomelli Borraz and Telmo Clos Ambrosini, with the supervision of Prof. Daniela Bunn (MEN/CED). The course has 15 places and totals 20 hours, distributed into three meetings scheduled for 24 October (Module 1), 31 October (Module 2), and 7 November (Module 4), from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. The meetings will be held at NILT, located in the Rectorate Building II (Av. Desembargador Vitor Lima, 222). Participants are not required to have previous knowledge of the Italian language.