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UFOP improves in the sustainability action ranking

850x410px_2.png The 2023 impact ranking, held by Times Higher Education (THE), was published this Thursday (1) and it evaluates the overall performance of universities regarding United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). This institutional analysis is based on four indicators: research, teaching, extension and...

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Students graduated in the UFOP Urban Engineering Program are the first in Brazil

Initiated in 2018, the Urban Engineering program in the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP), the first in Brazil at the undergraduate level, has just graduated its first students. During undergraduation, faculty members and students faced several challenges, such as the COVID-19 pandemia and other obstacles due to the...

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UFOP student wins a national prize for article on gender-based violence

The Association of Journalists in Education (Jeduca) recognized Carlos Augusto Junior, master's student in the Graduate Program in Communication (PPGCOM) at UFOP, for his article "Re(existence) LGBTQIAP+ at school: Humanized reports on gender-based violence and sexual diversity in the school environment." In 2021, the...

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UFOP former Student leads global communication project in Clinton Foundation program

The "Communication to Change", Clinton Global Initiative University 2023 (CGI U), by the Clinton Foundation will be lead by Sandra Roza, from Mariana and former student from UFOP Journalism program, together with Marcelle Chagas, Journalist and master's student in Social Communication program of the Fluminense Federal...

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UFOP ranks 31st among Brazilian federal universities and 7th in the state of Minas Gerais by IGC index

Besides presenting the Program Preliminary Concept (CPC) for the undergraduate programs that participated in the 2022 National Students’ Performance Examination (Enade), the Ministry of Education (MEC) released this week the General Course Index (IGC), which is calculated based on the average score for the undergraduate,...

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UFOP welcomes faculty members from Canadian University

The UFOP International Relations Office (DRI) welcomed Freddy Cáceres and John Hayes, representatives of the School of Public Policy of the University of Calgary, Canada. Their visit lasted three days and served as an opportunity to plan future actions between both institutions. 1_2.jpeg The Canadian professors...

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Foreign universities’ representatives get together at the UFOP Central Administrative Office to discuss partnerships

The 5th Music, Culture and Education National Seminar took place from March 21st to 23rd, of 2023, and had as its theme the main challenges and prospects in post-pandemic musical, cultural, educational, scientific and technological knowledge production. Conferences, discussion forums, workshops, book launches, artistic and...

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UFOP welcomes faculty member from Universidad Antonio Nariño

In March, the UFOP International Relations Office - (Diretoria de Relações Internacionais - DRI) welcomed Professor Dany Andrey Latorre Méndez, from Universidad Antonio Nariño (UAN), Colombia, for a visit to UFOP and the cities of Ouro Preto and Mariana. visita.png Responsible for teaching Spanish courses to UFOP students...

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Welcome/DRI Project Team starts activities of the 2023 Cultural Calendar

2023 Welcome Project’s Cultural Calendar activities of the International Relations Office (DRI) have already begun. In March, the project assistants’ team conducted a tour for international students who arrived in Brazil this year. The purpose of the tours was to facilitate their adaptation process and introduce them to...

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UFOP welcomes new international graduate students for 2023/1 academic semester

On March 9, the International Relations Office (Diretoria de Relações Internacionais - DRI) promoted the welcome meeting for foreign students coming over to UFOP for the 2023/1 academic semester through the Cooperation Group of Brazilian Universities – (GCUB)/International Mobility Program: GCUB-Mob. recepcao.png The...

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