The Director of International Relations, Fernanda Leal, and the staff member responsible for the finances at SINTER, Luana Leite, are at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC) in Argentina, this week. The staff members have been visiting UNC through the Escala Gestores y Administradores program of the Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo [Association of Montevideo Group Universities] (AUGM). The 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.

The two staff members participate in a meeting with international relations managers from UNC and several Brazilian universities. 

As part of the agenda, they took Spanish and Latin American culture classes.

On 3 October 2022, the trial access to the SciVal (Elsevier) Platform has begun at UFSC.

SciVal is a modular platform that presents a series of research metrics, based on data from the SCOPUS database. The access to the platform may have an important role in planning and developing strategies for the enhancement of research, graduate studies and internationalization.

Thus, it is very important that the entire university community access the platform and test its functionalities.

To concentrate the information necessary for the access, SINTER created the Trial Access to SciVal (Elsevier) Platform page.

On this page, you will find general guidance, information on how to access the platform, complementary materials and a webinar, which was held on 27 September and contains the demonstration of some of the platform modules.

After the trial period, we will carry out a survey to canvass the views of UFSC users.

Ms. Ivana Garcia is welcomed at SINTER on 3 October.

The Office of International Relations (SINTER) received, this week, Ivana Garcia, a staff member of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL) in Argentina. She is visiting UFSC through the Escala de Gestores y Administradores program of the Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo [Association of Montevideo Group Universities] (AUGM).

Ms. Garcia has an undergraduate teaching degree in Political Science, has been working at UNL for eight years, and is currently in charge of the AUGM programs at that university. The UNL staff member will be at SINTER for a week to learn and contribute to the work developed by our team, participate in the execution of tasks, learn how our processes are done and promote the exchange of experiences between the universities.

Click here to learn more about the AUGM programs.

During the XXX Annual Conference of the Mexican Association for International Education (2022 AMPEI) and the XXI CONAHEC North American Higher Education Conference 2022, representatives of the project Políticas públicas para la internacionalización de los sistemas de educación superior em América [Public policies for the internationalization of higher education systems in America] (INILAT) will present the report Análisis de Politicas Públicas para la Internacionalización de la Educación Superior en América Latina [Analysis of Public Policies for the Internationalization of Higher Education in Latin America. The Director of International Relations at SINTER/UFSC, Dr. Fernanda Leal, is the author of the chapter about internationalization of higher education in Brazil.

Speakers                                

Addy Rodríguez Betanzos.
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Quintana Roo. Full-time professor.
Renée Barata Zicman.
Executive Director of the Brazilian Association for International Education (FAUBAI)
Daniel Antenucci.
Founding member of INILAT
Dr. Roxana Chiappa.
Universidad de Tarapacá (Chile)
Dr. Luisa Echeverría.
Corporación Universitaria del Caribe (Colombia)
Dr. Fernanda Leal.
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil)
M.A. Sheyla Salazar.
Universidad de Piura (Peru)
Dr. Daniela Perrotta.
Universidad Nacional de las Artes (Argentina)

Moderator:

Dr. Santiago Castiello.

Assistant professor of education at Seton Hall University.

For further information on the event, access https://sari.unach.mx/ampei2022/es/index.html

About INILAT: It is a research project for the Latin-American Initiative for Internationalization of Higher Education. Main objective: Elaboration of a comparative report about policies and programs that benefit the internationalization of existing higher education systems in the six main economies in Latin America: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Representatives:

• Mexico: Santiago Castiello
• Brazil: Fernanda Leal
• Colombia: Luisa Echeverría King
• Peru: Sheyla Salazar and Sofia Wong
• Argentina: Daniela Perrotta

The Call for Applications no. 16 SINTER 2022, of the Office of International Relations (SINTER), sets the rules for UFSC faculty members to apply for the Escala Docente program of the Asociácion de Universidades Grupo Montevideo [Association of Montevideo Group Universities]  (AUGM). Escala Docente is a reciprocal academic mobility program that involves several areas of teaching, research, outreach and university management.

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The Institutional Center for Languages and Translation (NILT/SINTER) is promoting the course “Introdução ao Português brasileiro – Nível A1” [Introduction to Brazilian Portuguese – Level A1] for foreign students, researchers and professors who need an introduction to the Portuguese language. The classes will be online and self-instructional. Registrations will be open from 30 September to 12 November 2022.

The aim is to enable participants to master the structures, expressions and sentences of everyday use, allowing them to communicate in a simple way, introduce themselves and others, ask questions and give answers about personal aspects and their surroundings. The course will present elements of the Brazilian culture through texts related to the content being learned and through famous MPB (Brazilian Popular Music) songs.

The course totals 20 hours and a certificate will be provided to the participants who complete all mandatory activities and achieve the performance required for its completion. Classes will take place from 7 to 21 November.

Check below the course content:

• Greetings and introductions;
• Verbs ‘ser’ and ‘estar’;
• Personal pronouns;
• Definite and indefinite articles;
• Prepositions ‘de’, ‘a’ and ‘em’;
• Contractions of articles and prepositions;
• Brazilian Portuguese alphabet and sounds;
• Lexical aspects:
• Week days and months of the year;
• Numbers from 1 to 40;
• Professions;
• Countries and cities.

Register here.

The Secretary Luiz Carlos Pinheiro visited Curitibanos Campus this Tuesday.

The Office of International Relations (SINTER) has begun in September a schedule of visits to all UFSC Academic Schools and Campuses. The visits aim to encourage the university internationalization process at the Schools, presenting our office’s main activities and its general and priority actions for the next years. It also aims to be a moment for actively listening to each school’s needs. The Secretary for International Relations, Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho, the Director of International Relations, Fernanda Leal, and SINTER staff members will meet with the Heads of Departments and Coordinators of Undergraduate and Graduate Programs. This week, the visit was to the Curitibanos Campus.

Check below the schedule of visits to the Academic Schools at the Florianopolis Campus:

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