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UNESCO Chair launched in Europe

One of the United Nation’s Chair for Education, Science and Culture, co-created by The Federal University of Ouro Preto, and hosted by The Federal University of Viçosa, arrived in three dutch institutions: Brada University of Applied Sciences, Erasmus Rotterdam University and Tilburg Universities. These new partnerships...

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Journalism students produce Mariana’s sound path

The sound path "Steps of Mariana: The City in Sound Paths" invites everyone to travel through the first city in Minas Gerais (Primaz de Minas). The material was developed by the students of the Sound Language course at the Journalism undergraduate studies at the Federal University of Ouro Preto (UFOP) and by Professor...

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UFOP is certified by Inep as a Celpe-Bras test center.

The Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto (UFOP) has reached an important milestone in its internationalization plan: the University is now certified by Inep (the National Institute of Educational Studies and Investigations) as a test center for The Certificate of Proficiency in Portuguese for Foreigners (Celpe-Bras). ichs...

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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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