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UFOP’s International Office receives applications for a notice to hire a foreign visiting professor

30 October 2023

The International Relations Office (DRI) of the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP), considering the provisions determined by CEPE Resolution 7.708 and PROPPI Public Call Notice 18/2023, makes this Call Notice aiming at the selection of foreign professors or researchers as Visiting Professors. The Teaching Mobility...

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Welcome/DRI Project Team takes foreign students to visit Andorinhas Park

18 August 2023

Proceeding with the 2023 Cultural Calendar activities, the Welcome Project and International Relations Office assistants’ team took UFOP foreign students to a tour in Parque Natural Municipal das Andorinhas (Andorinhas Municipal Natural Park). 22 international students participated in the activities, from the following...

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Project Welcome made the BH Tour with UFOP exchange students

18 August 2023

Proceeding with the 2023 Cultural Calendar, on May 27, DRI Welcome Project assistants' team conducted the "BH Tour" with UFOP foreign students A total of 30 international students from China, Colombia, Croatia, Guinea-Bissau, Italy, Mexico, Mozambique, Nigeria, and Kenya participated in the Living Lab Biobased Brazil, GCUB...

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UFOP welcomes representatives from Dutch universities participating in the Living Lab Biobased Brazil Program

18 August 2023

On Wednesday, November 9, UFOP welcomed representatives from Dutch universities for an official visit. Among the visitors, there were the researcher of Biobased Energy and Resources' Living Lab Biobased Brazil Program, Jappe de Best (Avans University of Applied Sciences), and the Professors Marliene Bos (Zuyd University of...

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Living Lab Biobased Battle: here are the winning groups of the international competition of bioeconomy

18 August 2023

Between Monday (11/07) and Thursday (11/10), 2022, Living Lab Biobased Battle, an international bioeconomy competition organized by the Project Living Lab Biobased Brazil, was carried out. Created in 2014, the Project was born from a partnership between Dutch and Brazilian institutions aiming to promote the...

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UFOP professor and graduate student go on mobility to Mary Immaculate College (MIC) in Ireland

18 August 2023

The student from the Communication Graduate Program, Júlia Faccion, and the Professor Breynner Ricardo de Oliveira, from the Open and Distance Education Center (Centro de Educação Aberta e a Distância - CEAD/UFOP), participated in an international academic mobility program at Mary Immaculate College (MIC), Ireland, in the...

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Welcome/DRI Project carries out Cooking Workshop in partnership with professors from the School of Nutrition

18 August 2023

On August 22, the Welcome/DRI Project scholarship holder team carried out a Cooking Workshop with UFOP foreign students, which is part of the Project Cultural Calendar. The event’s goal was to introduce and teach the preparation of traditional recipes from Ouro Preto, taken from the “Memória Culinária de Ouro Preto” (...

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UFOP welcomes faculty members from the Universidad de Atacama (Chile)

18 August 2023

The UFOP International Relations Office (Diretoria de Relações Internacionais - DRI) welcomed on August 4 and 5 three faculty members from the Universidad de Atacama (Chile) for a visit to UFOP and the city of Ouro Preto. The members who visited the University were Dr. Ana Rivera, Department of Metallurgical Engineering...

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UFOP welcomes the Consul of the United States

18 August 2023

Last Tuesday morning, August 9, the US Consul, Katherine Earhart Ordoñez, the Public Diplomacy specialist, Cynthia Rocha, and the Public Relations Coordinator, Ana Lúcia Gonçalves, visited UFOP. The purpose of the visit was to strengthen internationalization issues between the University and the U.S.A. During the meeting...

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UFOP has been included in the Times Higher Education (THE) Latin America University Rankings 2022

18 August 2023

With a score of 50.3, UFOP ranked #64 in the "Latin America Universities" category, in the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine ranking this year. The magazine method is based on 13 performance indicators grouped into five different areas, each one with distinct values: Teaching - 36%, Research - 34%, Citations - 20%,...

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