A total of 25 young students of the UFRO are going to spend one or two semesters at prestigious international institutions for higher education. The International Affairs Office and the Student Mobility Office of the university brought them together in order to congratulate them and to get to know their expectations.

The 25 undergraduate students of the Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO) are going to travel to countries such as Germany, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Spain, France and Switzerland. They are all going to fulfill their dream of studying abroad in order to gain experiences in their professional training and for life, thanks to scholarship programs and international agreements. One student is also going to participate in the national student mobility program.

It is key to put the main aspects for institutional internationalization into practice, opening new opportunities, not only for researchers and academics, but also for the students. On this occasion, 25 undergraduate students of the different faculties are going to do a student exchange or academic stay at prestigious European and American institutions.

The director of the International Affairs Office of the Universidad de La Frontera, Dr. Berta Schnettler, pointed out: “It is absolutely necessary to support the students and their projections regarding their professional training, and therefore, we have been establishing partnerships with different higher education institutions in the world. We know that opportunities like this one stimulate the search for knowledge and the development of our human capital.”

The students who are going to spend one or two semesters studying abroad are: Gabriela Flandez (Industrial Engineering (IE), specialization in Bioprocesses; Carlos Loncon (IE, specialization in Computer Science); Benjamín Raposo (Mechanical Engineering); Benjamín Quiroz (IE, specialization in Mechanics); Samia Elhafed (Business Administration); Ivana Perich (IE, specialization in Computer Engineering); Luciano Lagos (Physical Education Pedagogy); Catalina Álvarez (Social Work); Catalina Jara and Héctor Baeza (Psychology); Pamela Almeida (Sociology); Gabriel Díaz (Engineering in Natural Resources); Vicente Avilés (Agronomy); Sofía Saralegui (Law); Bastián Sáez and Sofía Tapia (Physiotherapy); Paula Espinoza, Matías Castillo, Ornela Castagnoli, Daniela Otárola and Jaime Vera (Dentistry).

They are all going to participate in student mobility thanks to different scholarship programs, while four other undergraduate students – Bastián Henríquez (Civil Engineering), José Painen (Electrical Engineering), Diego Villagrán and Camilo Cuevas (Computer Engineering) – are going to Switzerland, Brazil, Austria and Colombia for internships, thanks to IAESTE.

In this regard, Diego Nicolas demonstrated great enthusiasm and stated: “I am going to do my second internship at the University of Campinas in Brazil, where I am going to join the Physics Research Center and to contribute to their work in the field of software modeling related to the lifetime of particles.”
Pamela Almeida, a sociology student, will join the Institute of Political Studies in Rennes, France, and said: “I prepared myself, improving my French language skills at the Language Coordination Center of the UFRO, with the plan of going to France someday. I am a self-taught visual artist, I help out at a workshop and I teach painting for social organizations, such as COANIL, where I work on the children´s motor, emotional and integrative skills through art. I am going to spend a year in Rennes and I am going to take classes oriented towards cultural policies.”

The Director of the National and International Student Mobility Unit of the Universidad de La Frontera, Antonia Espinoza, confirmed the number of students who are going to spend one or two exchange semesters abroad: “We are very happy that they have the opportunity to spend some time for their studies or internships at universities abroad and in Chile. Some are going to be self-financed and some are going to go with scholarships.”

In this context, she also emphasized the important support of the Canadian government, the Pacific Alliance, ELAP, Santander-scholarships, the Institute of Political Studies in Rennes and the DHBW-Ravensburg, etc.

Written by: UFRO Communications Office
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