Family Health

28/05/2026 15:11

Objective: The Graduate Program in Family Health (ProfSaúde) is a training strategy designed to meet the demands arising from the expansion of undergraduate and graduate education in Brazil, as well as to promote the continuing education of health professionals through the consolidation of knowledge related to Primary Health Care, Health Management, and Education.

Type: Professional master’s degree.

Area of Concentration: Family Health

Lines of Research:

  • Health Care, Access, and Quality in Primary Health Care;
  • Comprehensive Care Across the Life Course and for Vulnerable Groups;
  • Education and Health: Contemporary Trends in Education, Competencies, and Professional Training Strategies;
  • Health Information;
  • Planning, Management, and Evaluation of Services within the Family Health Strategy and Primary Health Care;
  • Health Surveillance.

Contact: profsaude.ccs@contato.ufsc.br | +55 48 3721-6138

Website: https://profsaude.paginas.ufsc.br/

This is a national network program offered in various institutions.

 

Agricultural and Forest Biotechnology (Curitibanos Campus)

28/08/2025 12:56

Objective: The Graduate Program in Agricultural and Forest Biotechnology (PPGBAF) aims to train professionals capable of meeting the needs and challenges of the agricultural and forest production sectors by developing and applying biotechnologies for more efficient and sustainable production systems, fostering competence and competitiveness at the regional, national, and international levels.

Type: Academic master’s degree.

Area of Concentration:
Agricultural and Forest Biotechnology.

Lines of Research:
– Agricultural and Forest genetic resources;
– Mitigation of biotic and abiotic stresses.

 Contact: ppgbaf.cbs@contato.ufsc.br

 Website: https://ppgbaf.paginas.ufsc.br/  

Conventional and Integrative Veterinary Medicine

30/03/2020 20:46

Objective: The Graduate Program in Conventional and Integrative Veterinary Medicine (PPGMVCI) aims to prepare qualified professionals who will contribute to the development of science and technology through critical and objective training directed toward research in the various fields of Conventional and Integrative Veterinary Medicine.

Type: Academic master’s degree.

Area of Concentration:
Animal Health.

Lines of Research:
– Animal farming with an emphasis on health, integrative nutrition and welfare;
– Conventional, integrative and innovative therapies for health;
– Assessment of health parameters in veterinary medicine.

Contact: ppgmvci@contato.ufsc.br | +55 48 3721-4731

Website: https://ppgmvci.ufsc.br/

Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology

30/03/2020 20:43

Objective: The Graduate Program in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (PPGMVCI) aims to train highly qualified professionals, committed to the advancement of knowledge, for the practice of teaching, research, outreach, and other professional activities in the field of Speech-Language Pathology and related areas.

Type: Academic master’s degree.

Area of Concentration:
Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in health care.

Lines of Research:
– Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in primary health care;
– Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in secondary and tertiary health care.

Contact: ppgfono@contato.ufsc.br | +55 48 3721-6138

Website: https://ppgfon.ufsc.br/

Science and Technology Education

04/11/2019 19:34

Objective: The Graduate Program in Science and Technology Education (PPGECT) aims to develop teaching and research activities on the relationship between education and science, with particular emphasis on understanding the teaching–learning process —namely, the structures of thought required by science and technology and their place within Brazilian society — in order to promote more effective teaching.

Type: Academic master’s degree and doctoral degree.

Area of Concentration: Science and Technology Education.

Lines of Research:
– Teacher Training;
– Science Teaching and Learning;
– The Social Implications of Science and Technology in Education;
– Epistemology and the History of Science and Mathematics;
– Media and Science Education;
– Language and Education.

Contact: sec.ppgect@gmail.com | +55 48 3721-4181

Website: http://ppgect.ufsc.br/

Natural Disasters

04/11/2019 19:33

Objective: The Graduate Program in Natural Disasters (PPGDN) aims to prepare highly qualified professionals committed to advancing knowledge and innovation for teaching, research, outreach, and other professional activities in fields related to risk management and natural disasters.

Type: Professional master’s degree.

Area of Concentration: Natural Disasters and Risk Management.

Lines of Research:
– Geological, Meteorological and Hydrological Processes and Natural Disasters;
– Social Vulnerability and Risk and Natural Disaster Management.

Contact: ppgdn@contato.ufsc.br | +55 48 3721-3515

Website: http://ppgdn.ufsc.br/

Nanoscience, Processes and Advanced Materials (Blumenau Campus)

04/11/2019 19:31

Objective: The Graduate Program in Nanoscience, Processes and Advanced Materials (PPGNPTMat) aims to prepare qualified professionals to develop scientific research, processes, products, methodologies and new materials, enabling investments in technology and innovation in the fields of Chemistry, Physics, Materials, Biomedicine, Environment, among others, as well as promoting the advancement of knowledge in nanoscience, processes and advanced materials for the benefit of society.

Type: Academic master’s degree.

Area of Concentration: Nanoscience, Processes and Advanced Materials.

Lines of Research:
– Materials, Processes and Transformations;
– Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.

Contact: ppgnpmat@contato.ufsc.br | +55 48 3271-3336 / +55 47 3232-5136

Website: http://ppgnpmat.blumenau.ufsc.br/

Knowledge Engineering and Management

04/11/2019 19:29

Objective: The Graduate Program in Knowledge Engineering and Management (PPGEGC)  aims to train engineers, managers, and knowledge mediators to work in teaching, research, and innovation, as well as in the conception, development, and application of methodologies, models, techniques, and tools throughout the organizational knowledge cycle.

Type: Academic master’s degree and doctoral degree

Areas of Concentration:
Knowledge Management;
Knowledge Engineering;
Knowledge Media.

Lines of Research:
– Theory and Practice in Knowledge Engineering;
– Knowledge Engineering Applied to Organizations;
– Knowledge Modeling and Representation;
– Theory and Practice in Knowledge Management;
– Organizational Knowledge Management;
– Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Sustainability;
– Theory and Practice in Knowledge Media;
– Media and Dissemination of Knowledge;
– Media and Knowledge in Education.

Contact: ppgegc@contato.ufsc.br | +55 48 3721-2450

Website: https://ppgegc.paginas.ufsc.br/ 

Information and Communication Technologies (Araranguá Campus)

04/11/2019 19:27

Objective: The Graduate Program in Information and Communication Technologies (PPGTIC) aims to prepare high-level professionals, committed to the advancement of knowledge and innovation, for the development of research, teaching, outreach and other professional activities.

Type: Academic master’s degree and doctoral degree.

Area of Concentration: Technology and Innovation.

Lines of Research:
– Educational Technology;
– Computer Technology;
– Technology, Management and Innovation.

Contact: ppgtic@contato.ufsc.br | +55 48 3721-7603

Website: http://ppgtic.ufsc.br/

Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Sciences

04/11/2019 19:27

Objective: The Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Human Sciences (PPGICH) aims to train and develop highly qualified professionals for the practice of higher education teaching, research and outreach in the field of human sciences, within an interdisciplinary perspective, in the concentration areas and lines of research defined by the Program.

Type: Academic doctoral degree.

Areas of Concentration:
Human Condition in Modernity;
Gender and Sexuality Studies;
Society, Environment, Migrations and Risk;
Africa and its Diasporas.

Lines of Research:
– Modernity and Globalization;
– Evolution of the Life and Health Sciences;
– Epistemology of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies;
– Gender and its Interrelations with Generation, Ethnicity and Class;
– Development, Conflicts and Public Policies;
– Consumption, Lifestyles and Ethics (CEV);
– Political Processes in Africa and the Diasporas;
– Sociocultural and Artistic Productions in Africa and Its Diasporas.

 

Contact: ppgich@contato.ufsc.br | +55 48 3721-9405 / +55 48 3721-3505

Website: http://ppgich.ufsc.br/