Universidade Federal Da Integração Latino-Americana
UNILA is a bilingual university, where Portuguese and Spanish are used.
History
Luiz Inácio da Silva, Brazil's former president, proposed the University creation in 2007, however it was created only on January 12, 2010 on the border between Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay.
UNILA was the thirteenth university inaugurated by the Lula Government, and had its first class of 200 students among Brazilians, Paraguayans, Uruguayans and Argentines in August 2010, with an estimated investment of approximately 550 million reais, a portentous construction expected to end in 2014, with the architectural design of the famous Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.
It is connected to the network of federal universities in Brazil. Its mission is to contribute to Latin American integration, with emphasis on Mercosur, through technical cooperation among universities, government agencies and international.
Courses
Undergraduate
- Biological Sciences
- Economic Sciences
- Social and Political Sciences
- Engineering Physics
- Materials Engineering
- Energy Engineering
- Civil Engineering of Infrastructure
- Architecture
- International Relations and Integration
- Cinema and Audiovisual
Postgraduate
- Biosciences
- Neotropical Biodiversity
- Economics
- Civil Engineering
- Applied Physics
- History
- Contemporary Latin American Integration
- Latin American Studies
- Comparative Literature
- International Relations
See also
- List of universities in Brazil
- Brazil University Rankings
- Universities and Higher Education in Brazil
- Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira
References
- ^ UNILA. "UNILA em Números" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2020. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
External links
- Official website (in Portuguese)
- Projeto de lei que cria Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana é assinado. Agência Brasil/Brazilian news agency (2007) Archived 2007-08-13 at archive.today (in Portuguese)
- University of Latin American Integration (UNILA) created. Embassy of Brazil in London, UK (2007).
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