The Office of International Relations (SINTER) of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) will host 166 international students from 18 countries, who begin classes this semester. The event will be held next Friday, August 5, from 10 am to noon, in the auditorium of the Rectorate Building in Florianópolis.

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The Office of International Relations (SINTER) informs that applications for the Programa Escala Docente of the Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo (AUGM) are open according to the Public Call no. 10/2016/SINTER.

The reciprocal program of academic staff mobility, that involves several areas of teaching, research, extension and university management, is offering 17 exchange places to universities in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Paraguay, for a period of ten days, necessarily between February and November 2017.

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Started in 14 August, a new group of rules that simplify the regulation of internationally shared public documents among 110 countries from all around the world. There’s no more the need for procedures in each country’s consulate. As informed by the Representative Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Santa Catarina (ERESC), the issuance of documents foreseen in the Hague Apostille will be provided by notary offices in different parts of Brazil and published in the National Justice Council website.

This new way to exchange documents was discussed in the Hague Conference on Private International Law and took shape as the Hague Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents. The nations which did not participate in the agreement still need to go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and their representatives to provide for the mutual recognition.

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The Office of International Relations (SINTER) announces that applications for the Escala de Gestores y Administradores are open according to the  Public Call no. 09/SINTER/2016.

In this call, four scholarships will be offered to the technical and administrative staff from UFSC. One of those is reserved for SINTER’s staff and the other three are available to the other sectors of the university. To apply, the candidate must work in the institution for at least three years. Applicants must send all the documentation required in Portable Document Format (.pdf) to the e-mail augm.sinter@contato.ufsc.br. UFSC will provide the winners with round-trip air tickets in economy class, and the host university is responsible for organizing and providing accommodation and food, following its own criteria, as described in the Public Call 2017.

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The Office of International Relations (SINTER) announces that applications for the Programa Escala de Estudiantes de Posgrado are open according to the Public Call no. 02/SINTER/2016.

The program is aimed at graduate students enrolled at UFSC. Four scholarships will be offered to cover accommodation and food expenses and the  exemption of fees, two of those for master’s degree students and two for doctoral degree students. Applicants must send all the documents, scanned and in Portable Document Format (.pdf), to the e-mail augm.sinter@contato.ufsc.br.
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The Office of International Relations (SINTER) publishes that applications for Programa UFSC-UHK are open according to the Edital nº. 08/SINTER/2016. UFSC-UHK Programme, created within the scope of the cooperation agreement between Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) and the University of Hradec Králove (UHK), in the Czech Republic, offers scholarships to undergraduate students from the following courses: Anthropology, Social Sciences, Philosophy or History.  The scholarship will help cover transport, food and accommodation expenses during exchange programme period at UHK. All subjects will be lectured in English, therefore, fluency in the language is a must.

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Applications for Bolsa Mérito (aimed for students from the Programa de Estudantes-Convênio de Graduação, PEC-G, at UFSC) for the second semester of 2016 are open between 11 and 22 July 2016.

The Bolsa Mérito, of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE), consists of a scholarship worth R$ 622,00 (six hundred and twenty two reais), which is granted for a period of 6 months.

Find all the rules here:  Edital de Convocação DC 1/2016.

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