Secretaria de Relações Internacionais | Office of International Relations

The FAUBAI Conference is recognized as Brazil’s leading international higher education event, bringing together representatives from universities, organizations, and government bodies from around the world. The 2026 edition, held in Florianópolis from 11 to 15 April, was supported by the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), through the Office of International Relations (SINTER) and Office of Communication (SECOM). Under the theme “Internationalization for a Multipolar World,” the conference fostered key discussions on the future of internationalization through a program of workshops, plenary sessions, and parallel sessions.

For UFSC, the event provided an opportunity to hold bilateral meetings with representatives of foreign institutions, aiming to expand and strengthen international cooperation. The SINTER team, led by the Secretary for International Relations, Dr. Fernanda Leal, and the Director of International Relations, Guilherme Carlos da Costa, engaged in dialogues with institutions such as the Australian Embassy, the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills, Innovation Norway, University of Stavanger (Norway), École de Technologie Superior (Canada), Polytechnic di Torino (Italy), Technological University of Shannon (Ireland), and HSE University (Russia). Meetings were also held with partner institutions, including the University of Münster (Germany), the Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa (Portugal), the University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy) and the University College Cork (Ireland).

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As part of the international cooperation agreement negotiated with Zhejiang University International Business School (ZIBS), from China, the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) hosted this Thursday, 22 June, a delegation from the institution on the Florianópolis Campus. The agreement foresees international mobility among students from both institutions and research cooperation. The visit was organized by the Office of International Relations (SINTER) and the Prorectorate for Research and Innovation (PROPESQ), with the support of the Rector’s Office (GR) and the Institute for Studies on China at UFSC (ICHIN).

Delegation was welcomed at the Rector´s Office. Photos: Lethicia Siqueira/ Agecom/UFSC

The delegation from the Chinese university comprised Professor Ben Shenglin, Dean of ZIBS; his wife, Deng Yuhua; the CEO of the company LianLian, Zhu Xiaosong; and the Executive Director and the Partnerships Coordinator of the ZIBS Latin American Center, Rodrigo Moura and Mariana Rodrigues.

They were welcomed at UFSC by the Rector, Irineu Manoel de Souza; the Director of the Rector’s Office, João Luiz Martins; the Head of the Director’s Office, Bernardo Meyer; the Prorector for Research and Innovation, Jacques Mick; the Prorector for Graduate Studies, Werner Kraus Junior; the Prorector for Undergraduate Studies, Dilceane Carraro; the Director of International Relations, Fernanda Leal; the International Agreements Coordinator, Amanda Drehmer; SINTER’s communication assistant, Caroline Finati; Sinter’s translator and interpreter, Paula Michels; and the Institute for Studies on China (ICHIN) Coordinator, Raúl Burgos, accompanied by professors Daniel Martins and Fernando Spanhol and doctoral student Yasmin Lenz.

The group was welcomed by the Rector, who greeted the participants and gave a brief speech in which he presented data about UFSC, qualifying it as a very important university for society, recognized for its quality in the areas of teaching, research, and outreach. The Rector defined the agreement as a very important milestone for UFSC’s internationalization process, bringing opportunities in the area of research and exchanges.

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