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

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

Staff members of the Office of International Relations (SINTER) had academic papers approved in three relevant national and international events on internationalization of higher education. They are the Faubai Conference 2023: Building Knowledge with all voices, the NAFSA 2023 Conference & Expo and the 2023 Biennial Conference on International Higher Education.

The Faubai Conference 2023: Building Knowledge with all voices is an international conference organized by the Brazilian Association of International Education (Faubai), attended by more than 600 university representatives, institutions and researchers from around the world. In the 2023 edition, the event will take place in Belo Horizonte, between 15 and 19 April.

The SINTER team, in partnership with colleagues from the State University of New York (SUNY) Empire State College (United States); the Universidad de La Frontera/Learn Chile (Chile); the Brazilian Institute of Applied Economic Research (IPEA); the Brazilian Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES), and the Schools of Socio-Economic Sciences (CSE), Education (CED) and Technology (CTC) at UFSC, had the following papers approved for presentation at the Faubai Conference 2023:

• Round table: Internationalization practitioners as researchers: Insights from Brazil and Chile
  (Fernanda Leal, Mariana Costa, Antônio de Lima and Paulina Latorre)
• Solidary internationalism in higher education: Insights from a Capes-PrInt project
  (Fernanda Leal, Lisa Unangst, Suzani Cassiani and Patricia Giraldi)
• International Cooperation for Development in Higher Education: Insights from UFSC participation in IPEA’s research
  (Fernanda Leal, Iara Leite, Rafael Schleicher, Rafaela Céspedes, Bruno Farias, Tayane Martins and Guilherme Carlos da Costa)
• Boas práticas de comunicação para fortalecer a internacionalização da Instituição universitária: O caso da Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina [Good Communication Practices to strengthen the internationalization of the university institution: the case of Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina]
  (Caroline Finati, Fernanda Leal, Luciane Stallivieri and Richard Perassi Luiz de Sousa)

The NAFSA 2023 Conference & Expo is the largest international higher education conference in the world. In 2023, the theme of the event, which will be held in Washington, DC, United States, between 30 May and 2 June, is “Inspiring an inclusive future”.

The SINTER team had the following papers approved for the event:

• International Cooperation for Development in Higher Education: Insights from Brazil
  (Fernanda Leal, Iara Leite)
• Integrating international students from the Global South in Brazil
  (Elisa Schemes, Fernanda Leal)
• Internationalization agents: capilarizing the process in academic units and campuses
  (Caroline Finati, Fernanda Leal)
• The use of Business Intelligence tools to evaluate internationalization strategies
  (Bruno Farias, Fernanda Leal)

The 2023 Biennial Conference on International Higher Education is a conference held every two years by the Center for International Higher Education (CIHE), at Boston College, United States. In 2023, the event will take place between 9 and 10 June.

The SINTER team, in partnership with IPEA and the Department of International Relations at UFSC, had the following paper approved for the event:

• International Cooperation for Development in Higher Education: Insights from Brazil
  (Fernanda Leal, Iara Leite, Rafael Schleicher, Rafaela Céspedes, Bruno Farias, Tayane Martins and Guilherme Carlos da Costa)

In addition to this presentation, the Director of International Relations at UFSC, Fernanda Leal, will participate in the session “Making the Most Out of your Doctorate” at the 2023 WES-CIHE Summer Institute, which takes place alongside the CIHE Conference.

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On 8 February, the Secretary for International Relations, Luiz Carlos Pinheiro Machado Filho, welcomed at SINTER a delegation of leaders from Mozambique’s National Institute of Information Technology and Communication (INTIC). The aim of the visit was to advance the technical cooperation agreement between UFSC and the institution for the implementation of a digital certificate infrastructure in the African country.

SINTER receives representatives from INTIC, IFRS, LabSEC/UFSC and PROPG/UFSC.

UFSC is providing support for the implementation of a digital certificate infrastructure in Mozambique through a partnership between the INTIC and the Computer Security Laboratory (LabSEC/UFSC). The meeting discussed the possibilities of cooperation and the possible sources of funds to support the provision of courses and scholarships for Mozambican students at UFSC. This partnership is based on solidarity between countries, and therefore does not involve remuneration of professors or any financial compensation.

The possibility of training Mozambican students in the digital area, at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as through short courses, was addressed. “The proposal is to prepare a Mozambican team that in the future will implement projects in Mozambique with full autonomy” said the Secretary.

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Registration is open for the Introduction to Brazilian Portuguese – A1 [Level 1] course, to take place between 15 February and 25 February. 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 course will be held online through the virtual teaching and learning environment Moodle. To progress in the course, students need to view all contents and complete the activities proposed at the end of each module. For approval in the course, they must obtain a final grade equal to or higher than six (6.0).

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.

Register until 14 February through the link: https://inscricoes.ufsc.br/activities/7905.

Read the course plan here.