The 2018 Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina Model United Nations (UFSCMUN) is being organized by the International Relations Program of UFSC. The event, that simulates International Organizations and Government Delegations meetings, will take place on 15 and 16 September 2018.

The Model United Nations was created in 1927 at Harvard University by a group of students interested in replicating the environment of the League of Nations after the First World War. Currently, there are more than 400 MUN conferences around the world and over 3,000 Brazilian students involved with these events.
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USAC, in partnership with SINTER, promoted a second edition of the “Internationalization Initiative – English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI)” Course on 18, 19 and 20 June 2018. The course was addressed to UFSC’s faculty and lectured by visiting Professor Sarah Blithe, from the University of Nevada, U.S. It took place on the Florianópolis campus and was transmitted live on SINTER’s Facebook page.

The aim of the course was to give support to UFSC faculty members on how to design and teach courses in English, in order to meet the needs for using English as a Medium of Instruction (EMI) and contribute to UFSC’s internationalization process.

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Prof. Julio Theiler, an expert in internationalization and current Director of the Languages Center of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Argentina, will address the webinar “Current Challenges on the Internationalization Process and University Cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean”.

The webinar will be in Spanish and will take place on 4 July 2018 at 2 p.m.

Attendance is free, but requires prior registration through email: riesal.erasmus@gmail.com

Applications for the XXVI Jornadas de Jovens Pesquisadores of the Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo (AUGM) are open until 9 July 2018. The event will take place from 17 to 19 October 2018 at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (UNICUYO) in Mendoza-Argentina. The theme chosen for the 2018 event is “A 100 años de la Reforma Universitaria: Saber te hace libre” [100 years of the university reform: knowledge makes you free].

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One of the objectives of the USAC program is to offer learning opportunities in English for UFSC undergraduate students.

The requirements for participation on the courses are:

• be regularly enrolled at UFSC;
• have advanced English listening and speaking skills;
• have specific interest and availability to attend at least 90% of classes.

Students interested in taking the courses must go to USAC’s Office (UFSC Rectorate Building 2 – Store 4)  until 26 June, from 1 p.m to 5 p.m., for a brief English interview and course registration. If it is not possible to attend in person, please call USAC’s Office from 1 p.m to 5 p.m.  at + 55 48 3721 6207.

For information on the courses being offered, click here.

Applications for the Bolsa Mérito 2018.2 (a merit scholarship aimed for students from the Programa de Estudantes-Convênio de Graduação – PEC-G at UFSC) is open from 21 June 2018 to 20 July 2018.

Offered by the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE), the Bolsa Mérito  consists of a monthly scholarship worth R$ 622,00, which is granted for a period of 6 months.

Read the rules carefully in the Call for Applications DC n. 1/2018.

To apply, students must send the following documents, digitized in high quality and PDF format, to pecg.sinter@contato.ufsc.br until 11.59 p.m. on 20 July 2018.

• Application Formproperly filled in and signed;
• Commitment Statementproperly filled in and signed;
• Copy of the student’s passport page on which the current visa (VITEM – IV) is stamped;
• Copy of the current RNE or its updated protocol;
• In case of participation in extracurricular research or outreach activities during the past two semesters, proof of student’s participation, indicating date of completion, duration and/or the workload.
• Individual letter of recommendation, written and signed by a professor from a course taken in the last semester.

The email must have as its subject “MÉRITO 20182 + APPLICANT’S NAME” (e.g.: MÉRITO 20182 ANA SILVA).

SINTER announces that applications for the program “Bolsas Ibero-Americanas para estudantes de Graduação Santander Universidades” are open, according to the Public Call no. 08/SANTANDER Bolsas Ibero-Americanas. The program, financed by Banco Santander (Brasil) S.A., offers scholarships to students enrolled at universities that are partners of Santander, enabling mobility between Ibero-American countries.

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