1. ALFA III –TRALL Project Transatlantic Lifelong Learning: Rebalancing Relations Participant: Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG), Brazil

2. UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE GOIÁS

3. 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

4. Goiás state Goiás 341.289,5 km 2 6.004.045 inhabitants Goiânia 724,08 km 2 1.301.892 inhabitants Distance from Goiânia to Brasília : 209 km

5. Goiânia’s view from campus Samambaia

6. UFG: federal institution of higher education level of teaching and research creation: December 14th, 1960

7. 4 campuses: Goiânia; Catalão; Jataí; Goiás  entrance to Campus Samambaia, Goiânia

8. Rectorate Campus Samambaia, Goiânia

9. 2.229 academic staff 2.280 administratif staff

10. 18.640 undergraduate students

11. 2.584 distance education undergraduate students  some cities in Goiás with UFG distance education programmes

12. 4.545 specialization students

13. 1.730 master students, 692 doctoral students

14. Culture and Congress Center

15. Nature at UFG

16. 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

17. Graduation 64 Master (M.) and Doctoral (D.) Programs

18. 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.)

19. Biological Sciences Biosciences (M.) Vegetal biodiversity (M.) Biology (M. and D.) Ecology and Evolution (M. and D.)

20. Exact Sciences Computer Sciences (M. and D.) Chemistry (M. and D.) Physics (M. and D.) Mathematics (M. and D.)

21. Human Sciences Social Anthropology (M.) Education (M. and D.) Philosophy (M.) Geography (M. and D.) History (M. and D.) Sociology (M. and D.)

22. 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.)

23. Applied Social Sciences Communication (M.) Agricultural Law (M.)

24. Engineering Civil Engineering (M.) Environmental Engineering (M.) Geotechnics and Construction (M.) Electrical and Computer Engineering (M.)

25. Letters, Linguistics and Arts Visual Culture (M. and D.) Language Studies (M.) Letters and Linguistics (M. and D.) Music (M.)

26. Multidisciplinary programs Agribusiness (M.) Environmental Sciences (D.) Education in Sciences and Mathematics (M.)

27. Physical Education at UFG

28. Research/2010 298 research groups registered in CNPq 2.628 research projects 5.485 publications 65 research centers registered in UFG

29. Extension and Culture/2010: 1.150 projects

30. Cultural Center

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32. Further information: www.ufg.br