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.

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.