{"id":3464,"date":"2025-06-03T17:42:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ppgsr\/?page_id=3464"},"modified":"2025-06-04T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T13:01:00","slug":"internacionalization","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ufrgs.br\/ppgsr\/en\/institutional\/about\/internacionalization\/","title":{"rendered":"Internationalization"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-c5a408c89e16c8f9b08addee5c7f48f6 wp-block-paragraph\">To boost internationalization, PPGSR encourages the exchange of its own faculty and students, as well as incoming international students and faculty. In addition, the program&#8217;s website is offered in English, for greater dissemination and recognition of its activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-0a3c9190b205de69882a1f1e6dcde703 wp-block-paragraph\">An important milestone was the renewal of UFRGS&#8217;s participation in CAPES&#8217;s Institutional Internationalization Program (PRINT 2021-2024), which promotes the mobility of faculty and students to foreign institutions. PPGSR also offers courses in English to attract more students from other countries and prepare its student body for bilingual work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-9bbd03adb77d89a22ee8269e0659bb0a wp-block-paragraph\">In the period from 2021 to 2024, several actions were carried out to strengthen the program internationalization, such as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-cafcd3ceecf39ba905c6bb78c832a389 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Exchange and Partnerships:<\/strong> The PPGSR maintains cooperation and exchange agreements, as well as encourages faculty and students to go abroad and has received students from other countries, such as Mozambique and Peru.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-4c7f6a25dfe84d191beffe6ca6e9e73e wp-block-paragraph\">In the last four years, PPGSR has had important international interactions, despite the difficulties caused by the floods of May 2024:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-85df52ea6fb1b3c66bc234f8b5027e34\">Prof. Guilherme Garcia de Oliveira carried out a post-doctorate in Lisbon, Portugal, researching the integration of remote sensing and artificial intelligence to predict floods.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-388df3bb7389d5168b0a307350331199\">The program hosted two visiting professors: Luciana Slomp Esteves, from Bournemouth University (England), who taught a course on coastal vulnerability assessment, and Will McClintock, from the University of California (USA), who taught participatory mapping for marine spatial planning.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-8fde48e3600991625cbc12b7da661f79\">There was an important visit by Prof. Robert Gilmore Pontius Jr., from Clark University (USA), a renowned researcher in spatial analysis methods and change modeling, with the support of the Fulbright Program.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-175414772d0749ca209c728216956c34\">In addition, the PPGSR has maintained research cooperation in the areas of Remote Sensing and Geomorphometry with the University of Bologna (Italy) and the Technical University of Vienna (Austria).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-5294f45c481973c5176661e22b397f8a wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>International Scientific Production:<\/strong> In addition to publications in English without foreign co-authors, 15 scientific articles were published in partnership with foreign researchers in well recognized journals (indexed in Scopus). Some of these articles had a high number of citations, demonstrating the impact of the research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-73bdf6fcd68f3803c7a7dd4609e90d68 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>International Networks and Organizations:<\/strong> Faculty and students from the program participate in important research networks, such as the International Charter Space and Major Disasters (applying remote sensing to disasters) and the Ibero-American Network for Integrated Coastal Management (IBERMAR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-dd74cda47d5f766dd633d474ded9ddbe wp-block-paragraph\">In cooperation with the International Charter Space and Major Disasters, most space agencies and geotechnology companies provide remote sensing images on an integrated platform so that disasters in any country in the world can be quickly reported and mapped. Therefore, the program&#8217;s technical-scientific capability is also applied in emergency disaster situations, experiences that have supported research and strengthened interactions in Civil Defense organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-daa27569c4151b44403ec81e6d895acf wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Participation in International Events:<\/strong> PPGSR faculty and students have presented papers at international congresses in Italy, South Africa, Austria, Mozambique and Uruguay, among other countries. 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