Andifes Languages ​​without Borders Network held National Meeting at UFRN

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The Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte hosted the National Meeting of the Andifes Idiomas sem Fronteiras Network, in partnership with the Ágora Institute, from November 29th to December 1st.
The event's program included lectures and workshops on the activities of the Andifes IsF Network and the internationalization process, aiming to encourage new actions and the expansion of the work that has been carried out since 2014 with the IsF Network, and continued with the implementation of the IsF Network at Andifes in 2019.
To this end, national coordinators, accredited specialists, administrative coordinators from higher education institutions, language teachers who work in the IsF Network were invited, as well as government representatives and national and international partners of the network.
The opening table was attended by the national coordinator of the Andifes IsF Network, professor Denise Abreu e Lima (UFSCar), the secretary of Higher Education at MEC, Denise Carvalho Pires, the coordinator of international affairs at SESu, Jaqueline Schultz, the director of International Relations at Capes, Rui Oppermann, the vice-president of Andifes, rector José Daniel Diniz Melo (UFRN), the coordinator of CGRIFES, Renata Bieleman, and the vice-president of FAUBAI, Waldenor Moraes Filho. We were also at this table ADERSON NASCIMENTO director of SRI at UFRN and Izabel Nascimento – pedagogical and administrative coordinator of IsF at UFRN
In the opinion of professor Denise Carvalho, the meeting provides an exchange of practices, analysis of the actions carried out and articulations so that new ideas and proposals in favor of strengthening language teaching for internationalization emerge.
The Program
The Languages Without Borders Network (IsF) was created in 2012 by a group of foreign language experts. Based on an initiative presented by Andifes to the Higher Education Secretariat of the Ministry of Education, the program was developed to help higher education students have access to mobility programs offered by the Federal Government.
The Program has become an important tool in the internationalization process and to contribute to the development of a language policy in Brazilian universities, in addition to promoting teaching residency for future foreign language teaching professionals.
Since October 2019, when IsF activities were canceled by the Ministry of Education, Andifes has welcomed the proposal from the teachers involved in the initiative, maintaining the same work objectives of the Program, but with the prospect of new proposals to be discussed in the next scheduled meetings.  with the prospect of expanding course menus and other actions aimed at the internationalization of Brazilian universities