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SINTER’s Unit Working Group for the development of the PDI 2025-2029

In the context of the collective development of the new Institutional Development Plan (PDI) of UFSC for the period of 2025 and 2029, SINTER has created a Unit Working group (GTS) to discuss internationalization issues that will be part of the plan. Among the main objectives of SINTER GTS are: 1. to maintain the comprehensive internationalization strategy at UFSC; 2. to ensure that internationalization objectives and goals take into account the “diversity of contexts, social groups, ethnicities, cultures and interests that exist in and around the University” (SINTER, 2022).

In view of these objectives, SINTER invited two members of the international community to be part of the GTS. Namely: the Angolan Nataniel Cassoma Kuanza – President of the Association of Angolans in Florianópolis, representing the external community; and the Timorese Miranda Goretti da Costa Soares, representing graduate students. Also participating in the SINTER GTS are: Fernanda Leal – Director of International Relations (Managing Agent); Bruno Farias (Development Agent); Rafaela Céspedes – Administrative Support Coordinator (representing Technical and Administrative Staff); Ana Paula Mota (undergraduate student representative) and Ênio Snoeijer (graduate student representative).

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From right to left: Fernanda Leal – director of International Relations; Prof. Marcos Bosquetti –  CSE internationalization agent; Prof. João Masinhe – UTDEG advisor; Prof. Daniel Castellan –  CSE Vice-director.

During the week of 22 and 26 June, several UFSC units – such as the School of Socio-Economic Sciences (CSE) Dean´s Office; the Administrative Sciences program coordination; the Graduate Program in University Administration;  the Institute for Research and Studies in University Administration (INPEAU) and the Office of International Relations (SINTER) – welcomed the visit from the representatives of the Universidade Técnica Diogo Eugénio Guilande (UTDEG), a Mozambican university with which UFSC established a cooperation agreement at the end of 2023. The CSE Vice-Director, prof. Daniel Castellan; and CSE internationalization agent, prof. Marcos Bosquetti, accompanied the visitors.

On 22 June, the university representatives visited SINTER and were welcomed by the Director of International Relations, Fernanda Leal. They discussed the possibilities of strengthening relations between the universities. In addition, prof. Marcos Bosquetti was appointed as the coordinator of the cooperation agreement. As a newly established university, UTDEG main interests in cooperation with UFSC lie in international mobility and training of its faculty members and staff.

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