The University Studies Abroad Consortium (USAC) is a non-profit organization that has as one of its purposes to offer English learning opportunities for UFSC’s academic community.

In this sense, it offers seats for UFSC students to attend courses in several areas – all of them taught completely in English. These courses are also attended by USAC foreign students.

To register, students must have an advanced level of English, especially of listening, writing and speaking skills, since student participation during classes is essential.

Students who attend at least 75% of the classes will receive a course completion certificate.

Requirements:

• Be regularly enrolled at UFSC;
• Have an advanced level of English (classes and course material will be in English);
• Have time availability and commitment to attend classes.

There are no course prerequisites and students from any undergraduate program may register.

Registration:

Those interested in attending the courses must go to USAC’s office (Room 219, Building A – CCE) to write an essay, do a brief interview in English, hand in their courses schedule for the 2019.1 semester, and sign an agreement term.

Registration period: from 22 to 28 February 2019 – Monday to Thursday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The following courses will be offered:

2019 Spring term (7 March  to 14 May 2019)

Alícia Amancio, International Relations student at UFSC

The UFSC International Relations student Alícia Amancio will represent the International Youth Climate Movement in the 8th Annual Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum.

Organized by the United Nations (UN), the event will take place in New York on 8 and 9 April 2019.

Alícia also participated in the 24^th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Climate Change Convention (COP24), which was held in Katowice, Polland, between 3 and 14 December 2018.

For more information, visit the ECOSOC Youth Forum website, the International Youth Climate Movement Facebook page, the International Relations Program website, or send an email to relacoesinternacionais@contato.ufsc.br.

On the morning of 15 February, the Secretary for International Relations, Lincoln Fernandes, and the BRAFITEC Program Coordinators at UFSC, Guilherme de Oliveira Barra and Diego Fetterman, along with Professor Fernando Cabral, welcomed representatives from partner French institutions and the Universidade do Grande ABC. During the visit, which aimed to strengthen the relationship between the institutions, operational bottlenecks in the BRAFICTEC processes were discussed, as well as possibilities for new partnerships and the amount of funding opportunities for UFSC students.

The meeting occurred during the Brazil-France Summer School which took place at UFSC from 11 to 15 February 2019. The Summer School had the participation of professors from Brazilian and French institutions who taught minicourses about entrepreneurship and innovation, exchange opportunities in France, biomaterials, environment, robotics, aerospace engineering and nanomaterials.

Applications are open for the simplified selection process of German teachers to work in the UFSC Language Center (NucLi) linked to the Language without Borders (IsF) Program.

The application period is from 11 February 2019 to 15 February 2019.

Click here for further information.

Applications are open for the simplified selection process of English teachers to work in the UFSC Language Center (NucLi) linked to the Language without Borders (IsF) Program.

The application period is from 7 February 2019 to 15 February 2019.

Click here for further information.

The Ambassadors Program is organized by the Brazilian student community in Boston since 2014. Every year, ten undergraduate students, two from each region of Brazil, are selected to attend the Brazil Conference at Harvard & MIT. The Program aims to enable these students to apply the knowledge acquired at the conference in their home regions and share with their regional centers the topics and discussions held.

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The Office of International Relations (SINTER) announces that applications for the 2019 PROMISAES Financial Support  are open from 30 January to 18 February 2019. The awards are offered by the Ministry of Education (MEC) to students from the Programa de Estudantes-Convênio de Graduação (PEC-G) at UFSC.

Check the rules in the Call for Applications no. 2/SINTER/2019.

You can also access the required forms for application below:

2019 PROMISAES Application Form

2019 Family Income Complementary Form

2019 Socioeconomic Form

2019 Commitment Form