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DE MOURA BUENO, Maria Angélica; MACHADO PINTO, Lauren; DE ASSIS CESAR, Maria Rita  e  GOMES, Júlio. Virtual IN Workshop with Students Entering Higher Education: Dialogical Space in Time of Coronavirus Infection. NTQR [online]. 2021, vol.7, pp.304-312.  Epub 11-Nov-2021. ISSN 2184-7770.  https://doi.org/10.36367/ntqr.7.2021.304-312.

Student Assistance is a field in Public Politics that focuses on students' Inclusion and Permanence at the Federal Institutions of Higher Education, with actions on monetary and psychosocial aid. Since the beginning of the 2020 pandemic, IN workshop, as one of the actions of the extension project to the incoming student (IN) in a Federal Public University, has promoted synchronous colective meetings in subthemes related to the freshman student's universe. Objectives, Methods: The IN Extension Project, as one of its psychosocial care axes, aims to investigate and prevent signs of socioemotional vulnerability inherent to mental health in the social environment, in guaranteeing inclusion and university permanence, in particular, of vulnerable social groups. We intend to present the experience of the development of the meetings in the virtual workshops and the analysis of weekly field journals, considering the impact of these activites in the students' routines. At the time of the academic registry the project's team applied a form aiming the identification of psychosocial conditions of incoming students and social support networks between them. Results: Throughout the extension project in 2020, 32 meetings took place among 437 virtual invitations sent, reaching the voluntary participation of 62 students enrolled in the IN Virtual Workshops. In a qualitative evaluation, according to the exhaustive reading of the material registered in the Diário de Campo by the extension scholarship holders of the IN project, the Content Analysis categories were obtained in the discussion axes such as: sense of social belonging, feelings of vulnerability, virtual distance education in Education and social support network. Conclusions: The workshops promoted a welcoming strategy; establishing links and strengthening social support networks; academic leadership in the prevention of university mental health. It is configured as an effective action in a continuous public policy plan in Inclusion and University permanence.

Palavras-chave : Students; Higher Education; Workshop; Virtual; Pandemics..

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