Internacionalização da UFBA e o PROFICI: um panorama sobre políticas nacinais com impactos locais

Abstract

This work aims to identify and analyze, within the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA), the actions and policies of internationalization aimed at the university’s insertion in the context of global education. The thesis demonstrates how UFBA has historically carried out actions in order to mark itself as an institution that acts in the perspective of integration between a university and knowledge production through internationalization. Based on the Institutional Development Plans (PDI) of the university, a document research was conducted about these actions up until the approval of its Internationalization Plan in 2018. The analysis is based on the review of the policies adopted by Brazilian governments to promote university internationalization up until the creation of the Science without Borders Program (PCsF) and Capes PrInt, in which UFBA was and is a participant, situating these significant, strategic actions for the insertion of Brazilian Federal Institutions of Higher Education in the international academic scene. This will certainly include the greatest challenge presented by scholars of internationalization: language proficiency. In this aspect, the analysis will deal with the PROFICI - Foreign Language Proficiency Program for Students and Employees of UFBA - which constitutes the main instrument of qualification and diffusion of the foreign language for the internal community of the university. Next to it is the Language Center (NucLi) within the scope of the Languages without Borders Program, which works in conjunction with PROFICI in the process of expanding opportunities to study a foreign language for academic purposes. The analysis is based on the review of policies adopted by Brazilian governments to promote university internationalization with the creation of the Science without Borders Program (PCsF) and Capes PrInt, in which UFBA was and is a participant, situating these significant, strategic actions for the insertion of Brazilian Federal Institutions of Higher Education in the international academic scene.