INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC MOBILITY: A PROPOSAL FOR DEVELOPMENT OF A BANK OF OPPORTUNITIES AT A BRAZILIAN IES BRAZILIAN.
Academic mobility offers, opportunity bank, UFRN.
The International Academic Mobility, present in the Strategic Plan for Internationalization of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), contributes to the internationalization process of the institution. The mobility allows the student to enjoy learning in another academic environment, thus, the student academic mobility is added to the student's life in their training process, both in the educational, professional and personal sphere. In the current model applied by the Secretariat of International Relations (SRI) regarding international academic mobility offers, it is understood that it is necessary to improve the disclosure of offers in order to increase their use, considering that today some opportunities arrive late for study and analysis,resulting in a low rate of appreciation of these offers. The general objective of this workis to present an intervention proposal for the dissemination process of the mobility opportunities. The intervention proposal would have as its product an Opportunities Bank with the purpose of inserting in it the offers related to mobility.
The Bank of Opportunities aims to collect, store and then disseminate to the academic community the offers of mobility in a timely manner for the analysis of those interested. Also, the Bank of Opportunities aims to concentrate the offers in order to facilitate the student's knowledge of all the opportunities available to him at that moment, enabling the use of the offers directed to UFRN's undergraduate students. Besides helping the University to strengthen itself in the international context, the final product contributes to deepen the discussion about the application of the model in Public Education Institutions basedon a case study at UFRN. This work is of an exploratory-descriptive nature with an applied character. Data were collected through direct observation of the work environment, document analysis and semi structured interviews with the person responsible for SRI's mobility coordination. After these steps, it was found that the current process presents problems related to the time in which mobility offers reach interested parties and the way in which exchange offers are published on the SRI website, resulting in the researcher looking for a new way to publicize these offers.