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UFOP students participate in Project Rondon’s Portal do Sertão Operation

UFOP, in partnership with the University Center of Espírito Santo (Centro Universitário do Espírito Santo - Unesc), participates this year in, Projeto Rondon’s Portal do Sertão Operation in the municipality of Pedrão, Bahia, fulfilling the public notice launched in 2019. The Projeto Rondon, coordinated by the Brazilian...

UFOP Professor performs activities in the Erasmus+ Programme domain in Poland

Prof. Guilherme Jorge Brigolini Silva, from the Department of Civil Engineering (Departamento de Engenharia Civil - DECIV) and the Civil Engineering Graduate Program (Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Civil - PROPEC) in the Federal University of Ouro Preto performed activities at the Rzeszów University of Technology...

UFOP welcomes students from the University of Portsmouth (England)

boas_vindas.png UFOP International Relations Office (DRI) welcomed on Wednesday, June 29, six students from the Geology Program of the University of Portsmouth (England). The group includes Benn Thomas Brock, Caelan Jasper Reid, Rosie Ella Martin, Sophie June Maidment, Thomas Peter Creasey, and William Robert Bown, who...

UFOP welcomes representatives of the University of Lille (France)

arquivoai_visita_universidade_de_lille.png On Thursday, June 23, the Institute of Applied Social Sciences (Instituto de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas - ICSA) at UFOP received a delegation from the University of Lille (France) with the Vice-President for International and European Networks Kathleen O'Connor, the Dean of the...

UFOP was included in the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2022

For the second consecutive year, the Federal University of Ouro Preto is among the best educational institutions included in the Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings. According to the results published on April 27, UFOP got the 12th position in the Brazilian university ranking and was the first among the ones in...

UFOP participates in the 1st ARIFA-FARA-TETFund Symposium

On April 28 and 29, 2022, UFOP was represented in the 1st Agricultural Research and Innovation Fellowship for Africa (ARIFA) Symposium, which took place at the Federal University of Viçosa, in the city of Viçosa - MG. The ARIFA Program is promoted by the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa ( FARA ) and the Tertiary...

UFOP resumes in-person welcoming of international students at campuses

After two years away from the campus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we are finally back! We were very glad and honored for welcoming some of our international students in person. On March 15, two welcome meetings were held with graduate students in the Morro do Cruzeiro campus, located in Ouro Preto, aiming to present UFOP...

UFOP signs cooperation agreements with Iranian universities

In the second semester of this year (2021) UFOP signed two important cooperation agreements with Iranian institutions. The cooperation reinforces the cultural and educational exchange that has existed between Brazil and Iran for more than 100 years. In September 2021, the first partnership with this country was established...

UFOP signs cooperation agreement with Lakehead University

In August 2021, UFOP signed the first cooperation agreement with a Canadian institution, Lakehead University. This agreement represents the fulfillment of a long-standing desire of the academic community to strengthen and officialize relations with this important country, having as its main objective to encourage and...

UFOP will have a new offer of the online extension course “Música Brasileña”

Offered for the first time between July and August 2021 through the International Virtual Mobility Program “Destino: Brasil”, by the National Association of Directors of Federal Institutions of Higher Education (ANDIFES), the "Música Brasileña" extension course, taught by Prof. João Fortunato Soares de Quadros Júnior,...