The Office of International Relations (SINTER) will promote, on 22 August, a welcome session for the international students arriving at UFSC for the second semester 2022. The event will be held in the Rectorate’s Auditorium, on the Florianópolis Campus, at 2.30 pm.

Besides a welcome speech, the session will include important information about UFSC and cultural presentations for the newcomers.

This year, the event wants to welcome all the international student community at UFSC. Thus, not only exchange students but also international undergraduate and graduate degree-seeking students, including participants from specific programs managed by SINTER (i.e. Escala Estudiantes de Grado and Escala Estudiantes de Posgrado from the Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo – AUGM and Programa de Estudantes-Convênio de Graduação – PEC-G), are invited for the session.

The Office of International Relations (SINTER) has published the list of UFSC selected students for the elective course “The Languages of Science”. This is the first COIL course (Collaborative Online International Learning)* offered at UFSC, in a multicultural and interdisciplinary way.

The selected students are from three campuses (Florianópolis, Curitibanos and Blumenau), seven schools (CCB, CFM, CCE, CFH, CSE, CCS and CTC), and twelve undergraduate programs (Biology, Chemistry, English Language and Literature, Forest Engineering, Oceanography, Social Sciences, Pharmacy, Electrical Engineering, International Relations, Psychology and Materials Engineering). They will be joined by 16 French undergraduate students from different areas and ten students from the Euro-Mediterranean Master’s in Neuroscience (EMN-Online).

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The Office of International Relations (SINTER) announces the final results of the selection process for students to enroll in the international course “The Languages of Science”, in accordance with the Call for Applications no. 12/SINTER/2022.

Selected students:

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Dear university community,

The Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) receives around 120 international undergraduate students biannually, who come on exchange for one or two semesters.

As the university does not provide accommodation for international students, they need to find their own housing. The Office of International Relations (SINTER) provides a list of housing opportunities available for rent, through which the students can contact the property owners directly to obtain information.

Therefore, landlords who have properties available in Florianopolis, nearby Campus Trindade, or close to the beaches, and may have an interest in listing their houses or rooms for rent, we request you to fill in the housing registration form.

The list of housing opportunities is announced to the international students every semester, and is available on our website.

For further information on the Housing Register, you can contact SINTER through the email incoming.sinter@contato.ufsc.br.

The Director of International Relations at UFSC, Fernanda Leal, and the acting International Programs Coordinator, Guilherme da Costa, participated in the event “Rendez-vous des nouveaux partants” [Meet the newcomers] last Tuesday, 26 July. The event was promoted by the Campus France and the Embassy of France in Brazil and was targeted at students that will undertake international mobility in France.

The event was held at the Aliança Francesa in Florianópolis, from 2 pm to 4 pm, and gathered Brazilian students who are going to start their studies in French institutions between the end of August and beginning of September, the period that starts the academic year in the country. The aim of the event was to socialize and to share useful information about daily life in France.

The Office of International Relations (SINTER) announces the list of administrative staff members selected by the host universities to go on exchange through the Programa Escala de Gestores y Administradores of the Asociación de Universidades do Grupo Montevideo (AUGM), in accordance with the Call for Applications no. 08/2022/SINTER, of 10 May 2022:

Selected applicants:

• Lucas dos Santos Matos;
• Enio Paulo Belotto;
• Fernanda Geremias Leal;
• Claudia Heusi Silveira.

The selected staff members will be contacted through email by SINTER with further details about the mobility.

The Director of International Relations at UFSC, Fernanda Leal, together with Kelber Tozini, Cláudia Schiedeck Soares de Souza and Bernardo Sfredo Miorando, has published a chapter in the book “Higher Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Cross-National Perspectives on the Challenges and Management of Higher Education in Crisis Times”, which presents some initiatives undertaken by UFSC.

Check out the abstract of chapter 20, “Brazilian Public Higher Education and COVID-19: Extension/Outreach Initiatives as a Means for Universities to Respond to This Social Crisis”:

As a matter of public interest, the COVID-19 pandemic has not only affected different types of institutions but has also dictated that such institutions worldwide take actions to mitigate their impact. This chapter describes the idea of ​​university extension (outreach) as a fundamental mission for Brazilian public Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and other relevant social issues. First, the chapter contextualises Brazilian higher education. Second, it presents the idea of ​​extension conceived by the Córdoba Student Movement of 1918, a perspective for the contextualization of teaching and research, aiming at a close relationship between the university and society. Third, it highlights the relevance of extension in the current context by illustrating some initiatives taken by federal HEIs in Southern Brazil when COVID-19 struck. These experiences suggest that projects related to devising solutions to real-life problems might contribute to pedagogical innovation. Nevertheless, this requires institutional arrangements to support processes that exceed traditional academic boundaries.

Access the book here.