Mobilidade acadêmica internacional: proposta de um banco de oportunidades em uma IES brasileira

Abstract

International Academic Mobility, presented in the Strategic Internationalization Plan of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, contributes to the institution's internationalization process. In the current model applied by the Secretariat of International Relations regarding international academic mobility offers, it is understood that an improvement in the dissemination of offers is necessary so that there is an increase in the use of them, considering that some opportunities today arrive at a late time for study and analysis, resulting in a low rate of appreciation of these offers. The general objective of this work is to present an intervention proposal for the process of disseminating mobility opportunities. A resource as a tool for publicizing offers with the purpose of contributing to increasing adherence to academic mobility places offered to undergraduate students. The proposed intervention would have as a product a Bank of Opportunities with the purpose of including offers relating to mobility. The Opportunities Bank's intuition is to store and subsequently disseminate mobility offers to the academic community in a timely manner for specific analysis. Likewise, the Bank of Opportunities has a specific focus on offers to make it easier for students to learn about all the opportunities available at that time, making it possible to take advantage of offers aimed at undergraduate students at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. This work is exploratorydescriptive in nature with an applied character. Data were collected through direct observation of the work environment, document analysis, semi-structured interview with the person responsible for mobility cooperation at the Secretariat of International Relations and a consultation with Brazilian Higher Education Institutions regarding methods of publishing offers. After these steps, it is reinforced that the current process presents problems related to the time in which mobility offers reach specific people and the way in which exchange offers are published on the website of the Secretariat of International Relations, resulting in a looking for a new way to publicize these offers.