Canadian and Latin American university presidents and vice-presidents meet in Canada

Through the Women Leaders of Higher Education Institutions of the Americas initiative, academic authorities from CRUCH universities participated in this event that seeks to promote international cooperation on the continent.

Given the interest of Canadian universities in strengthening cooperation in higher education and research with Latin American countries, a work agenda was carried out that includes a meeting with Canadian and Latin American university presidents, vice-presidents, and authorities to exchange information and establish collaboration agreements on doctoral training and student mobility, as well as a meeting with representatives of the Canadian Bureau for Internationalization of Education (CBIE) to discuss academic collaboration and the internationalization of women-led higher education institutions and how these collaborative spaces consolidate gender equality in higher education.

In this context, the Canadian and Latin American rectors and vice-rectors, through the Space of Women Leaders of Higher Education Institutions of the Americas (EMULIES), held a meeting on Doctoral Training and Student Mobility in a Framework of Academic Collaboration, in November 2014 in the city of Ottawa, Canada.

EMULIES is an initiative promoted by the Inter-American University Organization (OUI) and its College of the Americas Program (COLAM) that stimulates academic exchange in support of capacity building for university management and collaboration among women leaders of Higher Education Institutions in the Americas.

The Doctoral Mission brought together a select group of senior university leaders from Brazil, Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Costa Rica with their Canadian counterparts in a dynamic environment that facilitated the establishment of concrete collaboration mechanisms to enable greater exchange between participating universities in Latin America and Canada. This meeting also provided firsthand insight into the key factors for inter-university cooperation with Canada.

In addition to this meeting, within the framework of the 48th Annual Canadian Congress on the Internationalization of Education, the Forum “The Space for Women Leaders from Higher Education Institutions in the Americas”, where Chile was represented by the Vice-Rector of the University of Concepción, Dr. M. Jacqueline Sepúlveda C.