Seminar “University, Society and State”
The Council of Rectors of the Montevideo Group Association of Universities (AUGM) will meet on Monday, June 30, and Tuesday, July 1. This is the organization's highest decision-making body, where it will discuss issues related to national, regional, and international contexts, cooperation agreements, public budgets and funding, development, equity and inclusion, scientific systems and higher education, the construction of the Ibero-American knowledge space, and alliances and cooperation among university networks.
The opening day takes place in the Paraninfo of the University of the Republic with the inauguration of the international seminar “University, Society and State,” a forum for reflection by university presidents from the region and international guests and government representatives on the role of public universities in the current political context, the challenges of internationalization, regional development, and Ibero-American scientific cooperation. The Executive Director of CLACSO is participating. Karina Batthyány, in the panel on “Regional development, scientific advances and transformations in higher education” starting at 2:30 p.m.
The academic event concludes with the solemn opening ceremony of the Council of Rectors, attended by the highest authorities of 50 universities from six countries in the region that make up AUGM: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, and the intervention of the Minister of Education and Culture of Uruguay, José Carlos Mahía.
On the second day of the meeting, the Council of Rectors convened in the Hall of Lost Steps of the Legislative Palace with international guests to strengthen regional and international cooperation and sign agreements of significant importance for the operation and expansion of the network's scope of action. Two agreements between AUGM and its member states were particularly noteworthy. One was with the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation through the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) for the development of research in the region, and the other with the Uruguayan Ministry of Tourism. Also celebrated was the agreement between the General Directorate of Technical and Professional Education (Uruguay) and the National Technological University (Argentina), along with several other agreements aimed at expanding AUGM's work with an Ibero-American perspective: with the Ibero-American Postgraduate Association (AUIP) and the La Rábida Group of Ibero-American Universities (GUILR).
The session of the Executive Council of the Latin American and Caribbean Higher Education Area (ENLACES) begins on Wednesday, July 2nd, at the Chancellery Amphitheater and the Casa Pérsico of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Uruguay. The Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs has been invited to the opening of this event, and a conference on regional integration and the role of universities, presented by Gerardo Caetano, will take place prior to the working session. ENLACES is being attended by representatives of university networks from Mexico, Cuba, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, Central America and the Caribbean, as well as representatives from National University Councils and Consortia, student and university staff organizations from the region, and the rectors of the universities from the six countries that participated in the AUGM Rectors' Council.
SEMINAR PROGRAM – Monday, June 30
Opening Remarks | 9:30 – 10:00 a.m.
*Álvaro Mombrú – Rector of the University of the Republic (Udelar)
*Clarito Rojas – President of AUGM, Rector of the National University of Concepción, Paraguay (UNC)
Panel | 10:00 – 11:30 am
PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES AND NATIONAL POLITICAL CONTEXTS. A look from the national associations, networks and consortia of Universities in the region.
Invited panelists:
*Franco Bartolacci – Vice President of the National Interuniversity Council of Argentina (CIN), Rector of the National University of Rosario (UNR).
*María Eugenia García – Rector of the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés (UMSA), Bolivia.
*Daniel Dinis – President of the National Association of Leaders of Federal Institutions of Higher Education of Brazil (ANDIFES), Rector of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRGN).
*Osvaldo Corrales – President of the Consortium of State Universities of Chile (CUECH).
*Hermenegildo Cohene – President of the Association of Public Universities of Paraguay (AUPP), Rector of the University of Itapúa (UNI).
*Álvaro Mombrú. Rector of the University of the Republic, Uruguay (UDELAR).
*Moderator: Zully Vera de Molina. Rector of the National University of Asunción, Paraguay (UNA), Paraguay.
Panel | 11:30 – 12:30 hs – REGIONAL INTEGRATION, COMMON SPACE OF KNOWLEDGE AND THE ROLE OF PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES.
Invited panelists:
*Dalila Andrade Oliveira – Director of Institutional, International and Innovation Cooperation. National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPQ), Brazil.
*Jorge Rojas – Advisor to the State University System of Colombia (SUE), former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs.
*Reynaldo Velázquez – Vice Minister of Higher Education of Cuba.
*Deputy Minister of Higher Education of Paraguay, David Velázquez – Representative of the Ministry of Education and Sciences of Paraguay
*Rodrigo Arim – Director of the Planning and Budget Office of Uruguay (OPP).
*Moderator: Ana Beatriz de Oliveira – Rector of the Federal University of San Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil
Panel | 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM – REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT, SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Invited panelists:
*Francesc Pedró – Director of the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. [Remote learning].
*Leopoldo Múnera – Rector of the National University of Colombia (UNAL).
*Karina Batthyány. Executive Director of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO).
*Dacio Matheus. Rector of the Federal University of ABC, Brazil (UFABC).
*Moderator: Rodrigo Vidal Rojas. Rector of the University of Santiago of Chile (USACH).
Panel | 3:30 – 4:30 pm – BUILDING THE IBERO-AMERICAN SPACE OF KNOWLEDGE AND SCIENTIFIC COOPERATION.
Invited panelists:
*Chantal Pérez – General Director of the Ibero-American University Association of Postgraduate Studies (AUIP).
*Marián Morón Martín – Vice Rector of the Pablo Olavide University
*José Ignacio García – President of the La Rábida Group of Ibero-American Universities (GUILR), Rector of the International University of Andalusia.
*Félix García Lausín – Secretary General of the Ibero-American University Council (CUIB) / Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB).
*Moderator: Diana Araújo Pereira, Rector of the Federal University for Latin American Integration (UNILA)
Panel | 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM – UNIVERSITY ALLIANCES AND COOPERATION POLICY: The role of regional university networks and spaces.
Invited panelists:
*Jorge Calzoni – President of the Union of Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean (UDUALC), Rector of the National University of Avellaneda (UNA).
*Carlos Alvarado – Secretary General of the Higher Council of Universities of Central America and the Caribbean (CSUCA).
*Luis Alberto Fierro – General Coordinator of the National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education of Mexico (ANUIES).
*Jairo Torres – President of the State University System (SUE) and of the Colombian Association of Universities (ASCUN), Rector of the University of Córdoba.
*Clarito Rojas – President of AUGM, Rector of UNC.
*Moderator: Fernando Sosa – Executive Secretary of the Latin American and Caribbean Higher Education Space (ENLACES).
6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. – OPENING OF THE LXXXVII AUGM RECTORS' CONFERENCE
Solemn ceremony in the Paraninfo of the University of the Republic
Opening and Welcome Remarks: Álvaro Mombrú – Rector of Udelar.
Presentation of the AUGM-Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation – National Council for Scientific and Technological Development Joint Research Program, Federative Republic of Brazil.
Words on behalf of MCTI-CNPq.
Remarks on behalf of AUGM: President Clarito Rojas. Presentation of the AUGM institutional video
Words from the Government of Uruguay: José Carlos Mahía – Minister of Education and Culture.
Artistic and cultural event
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