Madrid, July 7, 2023. President of Gru Universidades Españolas and Rector of Universitat Jam I, Eva Alcon, has participated in the opening ceremony of the V ALC-UE Education Summit this Friday, July 7, at the University of Alcala (UAH). During this action, the leader of Grue outlined the potential of “common spaces for higher education” between Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, “to address the great challenges of the new decade – climate change, digital, environmental and energy transition, security and democracy, among others – ” Don’t give up”.
In front of an audience of about thirty rectors, members of Ibero-American Universities Vice-Rectorates, Deaneries and Research Centers of European and Latin American Higher Education, Science Technology and Innovation Institutions, the President of the Crew said that universities “promote a global culture of openness, tolerance and dialogue, and that this university community Responsibility is “overwhelming” in the scope and vision of its operations.
The Rector affirmed that the common space for knowledge and higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean is “a new example” to unify actors under the common denominator of higher education understood as “common good” and “instrumental”. Strategy of the 2030 Agenda. “From here, we can start building common ground between Latin America, the Caribbean and the European Union,” he added.
José Vicente Sás, rector of UAH, was with Alcon at the opening session of this summit; Secretary General of Universities, José Manuel Pinkarón; Secretary General of the Organization of Ibero-American States (OIE), Mariano Zaponero, and representatives of the European Commission and the Community of Madrid and other officials.
For three days, academics from the European Union, Latin America and the Caribbean are gathering at the University of Alcalá with the aim of promoting the Academic Integration Agreement as an institutional framework to create a common space for higher education and science. Technology and innovation. The proposal, which will be sent to the heads of state and government meeting in Brussels at the next CELAC-EU summit on July 17 and 18, builds on the European experience of Bologna, the Erasmus program, and European higher education. region, and an emerging university collaboration network between the two regions.
