Vice-Rector of UFSC Participates in Mission to Mexico Addressing Racial and Gender Inequality
Joana Célia dos Passos, Vice-Rector of UFSC, at the opening conference of the XVI Afroindoamérica Colloquium.
From 26 November to 6 December 2025, Joana Célia dos Passos, professor and Vice-Rector at Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), embarked on a mission to Mexico City. The mission, linked to the UNESCO Chair on Education towards Racial Equality project, was supported by the Abdias Nascimento Academic Development Program, funded by the Brazilian Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes). The mission’s primary objective, according to Professor dos Passos, was to “strengthen and internationalize research and graduate programs through student and faculty mobility, fostering an academic exchange that builds inclusive and diverse knowledge.”
The Abdias Nascimento Academic Development Program, as outlined in Capes Call no. 16, “is intended to educate and train students who self-identify as black, mixed race, and indigenous, as well as students with disabilities, global developmental delay, and high abilities, in universities, professional and technological education institutions, and research centers of excellence in Brazil and abroad.”
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