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The Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) is getting ready to welcome the international community for the second semester of 2023 with a special welcome event. Promoted by the Office of International Relations (SINTER), the event “International Community Welcome Day“ will take place on 4 August 2023, at 10 a.m., in the Rectorate Building Auditorium.

The event, traditionally held at the beginning of each semester, which aims at welcoming and integrating new international students into the academic and social life of the University, will take on a new format this second semester. In addition to the international students of the Incoming, PEC-G and Escala Grado and Escala Posgrado programs, which are directly managed by SINTER, the event will seek to be more comprehensive and include the entire international community of UFSC. To do so, SINTER has joined forces with the Prorectorate for Undergraduate Studies and Basic Education (PROGRAD) and the Prorectorate for Graduate Studies (PROPG).
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On 21 July 2023, the announcement ceremony for the Selection Process for PEC-G Undergraduate students for the year 2024 took place at the Ministry of Education, in Brasília, with online streaming.

In this edition, the Program – which enables students from 70 partner countries (11 from South America; 15 from North America, Central America and the Caribbean; 29 from Africa, 9 from Asia and 6 from Europe) to complete their undergraduate studies free of charge in Brazilian universities – will offer more than 6,000 places in 342 undergraduate programs from 102 institutions. Applications for the program are free and must be carried out at a Brazilian diplomatic or consular representation of one of the PEC-G participating countries, according to the Call for Applications nº 5/2023, which establishes the opening of the application period and other procedures related to the selection process. The applications deadline is 18 August 2023.

During the announcement ceremony, the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) was featured as the second Brazilian university to receive the highest number of PEC-G students between 2008 and 2023, only behind Universidade de São Paulo (USP) among all institutions participating in the Program. Regarding the number of graduated students, UFSC comes third, with 333 graduated students in total.

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The Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) informed the working hours of the university units on the days Brazil is playing during the FIFA Women´s World Cup 2023.

According to the  Circular Letter nº 25/2023/GR,

• Working hours will start at 11 am on the days matches are held at 7:30 am (BRT).
• Working hours will start at 12 noon on the days matches are held at 8:00 am (BRT).

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UFSC comunica horários de trabalho durante jogos da seleção feminina na Copa do Mundo

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This post is available in Brazilian Portuguese only. Please access the website in Portuguese to read it.

Registration is open for the Self-Instructional Brazilian Portuguese course, to take place between 20 August and 30 August. This course is offered to students, researchers, foreign professors and external community members who need an introduction to the Portuguese language.

The aim is to enable participants to master the structures, expressions and sentences of everyday use, allowing them to communicate in a simple way, introduce themselves and others, ask questions and give answers about personal aspects and their surroundings. The course will also present elements of the Brazilian culture through relevant texts and famous MPB (Brazilian Popular Music) songs.

This 20-hour, self-instructional, free course will be held online through the virtual teaching and learning environment Moodle.

At the end of the course, participants who complete all required activities and obtain the minimum grade required will receive an electronic certificate issued by UFSC and valid throughout the country.

Course content: first contacts with Brazilian Portuguese. Introductions and greetings, formal and informal. The alphabet, letters and sounds in Portuguese, the days of the week and the months of the year. The verbs ‘ser’  and ‘vir’. The present tense of the 10 most frequent verbs in Portuguese. Subject Pronouns, definite and indefinite articles, the prepositions ‘de’ and ’em’ and their contractions. Yesterday, today and tomorrow. The numbers from 1 to 300. Some cities and countries from around the world.

Register until 15 August 2023 through this link: https://inscricoes.ufsc.br/curso-pb-autoinstrucional-a1-1

Contact for queries: cbfaveri@gmail.com