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  • Deadline for applications extended! Botín Foundation: Programme for Strengthening of Civil Service in Latin America 2020

    The Programme for the Strengthening of Civil Service in Latin America is an exchange program sponsored by the Botín Foundation, a Spanish organization dedicated to promoting vocation and talent for public service.

    Every year, 32 Latin American undergraduate students with leadership profiles and talent for public services are selected to participate in a two-month intensive course. The course includes lectures, classes, institutional visits, debates, projects, outdoor training and personal qualification.

    This year’s edition will be carried out between 18 October and 3 December 2020, in Spain (Santander, Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela and Madrid) and in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro). The program will cover the selected students’ expenses related to transportation and housing (students are responsible for all visa and passport-related expenses).

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  • Coronavirus: UFSC Central Administration suspends all in-person activities until 30 April

    The Central Administration of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) has extended the suspension of all academic and administrative in-person activities at the university until 30 April, according to the Normative Ordinance no. 357, published this Tuesday, 7 April. This measure unifies the suspension period, once classes in the State of Santa Catarina were suspended until 19 April and the UFSC administrative activities were being suspended for 1-week periods.

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  • Coronavirus: UFSC extends suspension of in-person services until 8 April

    The Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) extends for another seven days the suspension of in-person services on all its campuses, postponing the expected return date for 8 April (Ordinance no. 356/2020/GR). The teaching activities (on-campus and online classes) remain suspended according to the previous ordinance.

    The measure is necessary in light of the actions taken by the national and state government against the COVID-19 pandemic and the spread of the Coronavirus in Santa Catarina. Health, security and other urgent and essential on-campus services are maintained.
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  • UFSC extends suspension of in-person services for more seven days

    The Central Administration of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), considering the measures taken by the federal and state government in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and the fight against the spread of the Coronavirus in Santa Catarina, has extended, for another seven days, the suspension of most part of the institution’s in-person activities.
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  • Coronavirus: UFSC Central Administration decides to suspend on-campus classes

    Members of the Central Administration and technical team met on Sunday 15th. Photo: Mayra Cajueiro Warren / Agecom / UFSC

    The multidisciplinary committee created at the beginning of the month at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) met for the third time on Sunday, 15 March, at the Rectorate Building Hall, in Florianópolis. The agenda included the most recent data regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and its impacts on the university community.

    After the technical meeting, the Central Administration decided to maintain the contingency measures announced last Thursday and suspend all in-person classes on all UFSC campuses, beginning on Monday, 16 March, and also to close the University Restaurants (RUs) and the University Library from Tuesday, 17 March. The restriction will extend for an indefinite period and implies that new actions can be adopted in the next days.
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  • Central Administration announces contingency measures at UFSC due to the COVID-19 pandemic

    The Central Administration of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) announced this Thursday, 12 March, several measures to be taken at UFSC from Monday, 16. They include the suspension of large events such as graduations and ceremonies, as well as a protocol for the university community to follow in case of trips and contact with infected people.

    For now, the decision is not to suspend on-campus classes. “We believe that, with measures such as the suspension of large events and the communication of trips and contact with confirmed cases, we will be able to prevent people who have any COVID-19 symptom from attending classes. Another important factor is to focus on the most vulnerable populations, such as older adults. The profile of the majority of our students does not fit this group. This does not prevent students, faculty or administrative staff members who show any symptom from seeking medical attention and following the recommended protocol of staying at home”, informs the UFSC Rector, Ubaldo Cesar Balthazar.
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  • Sharing knowledge: SINTER’s staff member visits Universidade Federal de Santa Maria

    On 5 March, the Administrative Support Coordinator of the Office of International Relations (SINTER), Rafaela Ribeiro Céspedes, visited Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM) by invitation of the International Support Advisor of UFSM.

        

    The purpose of the visit was to meet with UFSM staff members and present the methodology used by SINTER to submit data for international university rankings, highlighting the procedures and tools used at UFSC for such activity. Besides the International Support Advisor and Deputy Advisor, the staff of the Office of International Support (SAI/UFSM), the Prorector for Research and Graduate Studies, the Research Coordinator and the staff of the Prorectorate for Planning also participated in the meeting.