ALFA III –TRALL Project Transatlantic Lifelong Learning:

Rebalancing Relations

Participant: Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Brazil

UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE

GOIÁS

Brazil

• the fifth largest country

in the world • 8.547.403 km²

• Distances:

North/South: 4.345 km

Est/West: 4.330 km

• 190.732.694 inhabitants

• seventh place

in the world economy

Goiás stateGoiás

341.289,5 km2

6.004.045 inhabitants

Goiânia

724,08 km2

1.301.892 inhabitants

Distance from Goiânia to Brasília :

209 km

Goiânia’s view from campus Samambaia

UFG: federal institution of higher education level

of teaching and research

creation: December 14th, 1960

4 campuses:Goiânia; Catalão; Jataí; Goiás

entrance to Campus Samambaia, Goiânia

Rectorate Campus Samambaia, Goiânia

• 2.229 academic staff

• 2.280 administratif

staff

18.640 undergraduate students

2.584 distance education undergraduate students

some cities in Goiás with UFG distance education programmes

4.545 specialization students

1.730 master students,692 doctoral students

Culture and Congress Center

Nature at UFG

Undergraduation

Fields of study:

• Humanities

• Applied Social Sciences

• Linguistics, Arts and Letters

• Exact and Earth Sciences

• Engineering

• Biological Sciences

• Agricultural Sciences

• Health Sciences

• 125 undergraduate programs

Graduation

• 64 Master (M.) and Doctoral (D.) Programs

Agricultural Sciences

• Agronomy (M. and D.)• Animal Science (M. and D.)• Food Science and

Technology (M.)• Plant Genetics and

Improvement (M. and D.)• Vegetal Production (M.)

Biological Sciences

• Biosciences (M.)• Vegetal biodiversity

(M.)• Biology (M. and D.)• Ecology and

Evolution (M. and D.)

Exact Sciences

• Computer Sciences

(M. and D.)• Chemistry (M. and D.)• Physics (M. and D.)• Mathematics (M. and D.)

Human Sciences

• Social Anthropology (M.)

• Education (M. and D.)• Philosophy (M.)• Geography (M. and

D.)• History (M. and D.)• Sociology (M. and D.)

Health Sciences

• Pharmaceutical Sciences (M.)• Health Sciences (M. and D.)• Teaching in Health Sciences

(M.)• Nursing (M. and D.)• Tropical Medicine and Public

Health (M. and D.)• Pharmaceutical

nanotechnology (D.)• Nutrition and Health (M.)• Dentistry (M.)• Collective Health (M.)

Applied Social Sciences

• Communication (M.)• Agricultural Law (M.)

Engineering

• Civil Engineering (M.)• Environmental

Engineering (M.)• Geotechnics and

Construction (M.)• Electrical and

Computer Engineering (M.)

Letters, Linguistics and Arts

• Visual Culture (M. and D.)

• Language Studies (M.)

• Letters and Linguistics (M. and D.)

• Music (M.)

Multidisciplinary programs

• Agribusiness (M.)• Environmental Sciences (D.)• Education in Sciences and

Mathematics (M.)

Physical Education at UFG

Research/2010

• 298 research groups registered in CNPq

• 2.628 research projects• 5.485 publications• 65 research centers

registered in UFG

Extension and Culture/2010: 1.150 projects

Cultural Center

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Further information:

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