Internationalization process: achievements and challenges in the URI context – community college

Abstract

This article present part of study developed in master’s project and scientific initiation, de within the framework of NEPPES – Núcleo de estudos em Políticas e Processos de Educação Superior and also De Within the GIEPES – Grupo Internacional de Estudos e Pesquisas em Educação Superior and discusses the spaces of internacionalization experienced by URI – Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões – located in the northwest region of Rio Grande do Sul state – Brazil. In his notes, bears the marks of a Community institution, non-profit, born of a dream project designed and built by your community. In this perspective, the construction of internationalization processes is a major challenge on the one hand, and very significant achievements on the other. The perspective of student and teacher exchange, as well as the possibility of participation in national and international research groups, passing through extension and teaching actions has challenged URI to build possibilities of internationalization that has been born from the conviviality and professor contacts de with their peers, giving life to agreements de with numerous institutions from diferente countries.