Program
Sunday, September 16th
7:00 - 7:45pm | Opening: Fernando Haddad (State Minister of Education), Ronaldo Tadêu Pena (current Chancellor of UFMG), Ana Lúcia Almeida Gazzola (Director of IESALC)
7:45 - 8:30pm | Lecture: "Education and social responsibility: a challenge for all" - Ana Luiza Machado (Adjunct Director of Education of UNESCO)
8:30pm | Opening cocktail party
Monday, September 17th
9:00 - 9:45am | Lecture: The Social Responsibility of Latin American and Caribbean Universities - Miguel Rojas Mix (Centro Extremeño de Estudios y Cooperación con Iberoamérica, Spain)
9:45 - 10:15am | Coffee-break
10:15 - 12:00pm | Round-table I: University and Social Inclusion
Moderators:
- Arquimedes Diógenes Ciloni (President Andifes, Rector University Federal de Uberlândia)
- Mónica Jiménez de la Jara (Rector, Universidad Católica de Temuco)
- Rubén Zardoya Loureda (Rector, Universidad de La Habana)
- Paulo Speller (Rector, Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso)
12:00 - 12:30pm | Debate
12:30 - 2:30pm | Lunch
2:30 - 4:15pm | Round-table II: University - Excellence, Relevance, and Social Interaction
Moderators:
- Carlos Forero (Executive Director, Asociación Colombiana de Universidades)
- Alma Herrera (Coordinator of the Observatory of the Public net of Macrouniversities in Latin America and Caribbe. Planning Secretary of "Faculdad de Estudios Superiores Zaragoza - UNAM)
- Yamileth González García (Rector, University Costa Rica)
- Elaine Foster-Allen (Rector, Shortwood Teacher´s College, Jamaica)
4:15 - 4:45pm | Coffee-break
4:45 - 6:00pm | Debate
Tuesday, September 18th
9:00 - 9:45am | Lecture: University and Development - Ronaldo Mota (Secretary of Superior Education of MEC/SESu)
9:45 - 10:15am | Coffee-break
10:15 - 12:00pm | Round-table III: University and Development
Moderators:
- Clélio Campolina (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
- Paulo Itacarambi (Executive Director of Instituto Ethos, Brazil)
- Benjamin Scharifker (Rector, Universidad Simon Bolívar, Venezuela)
12:00am - 12:30pm | Debate
12:30 - 2:30pm | Lunch
2:30 - 4:15pm | Round-table IV: Solidary Internationalization - Foundations, Partnerships, and Possibilities
Moderators:
- Corinth Morter-Lewis (Rector, Universidade de Belice and Vice-President of the Administrative Council of IESALC)
- Rafael Guarga (General Secretary of of the Asociación de Universidades Grupo Montevideo and President of the Administrative Council of IESALC)
- Pierre Paquiot (Rector, Universidade do Estado do Haiti)
- Xiomara Zharur (Academic Coordinator of Research of the Colombian Association of Universities - ASCUN)
4:15 - 4:45pm | Coffee-break
4:45 - 6:00pm | Debate
Wednesday, September 19th
9:00 - 10:30am | Round-table V: Proposals for an agenda
Moderators:
- Ana Lúcia Gazzola (Director of IESALC)
- Roberto Antonio Reyna Tejada (President of the Unión das Universidades de América Latina)
- María Isabel Rodríguez (Rector, Universidad de El Salvador)
Rapporteur:
- Júlio Theiler (Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina)
- Maria do Carmo Lacerda Peixoto (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
- Alfredo Astorga (UNESCO-OREALC, Chile)
- Antônio McDowell Figueiredo (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
10:30 - 11:00am | Coffee-break
11:00 - 11:45am | Lecture: The Twenty-First Century University: From the Conflict to the Dialogue of Cultures and Civilizations - Marco Antonio Dias (President, ORUS Internacional and Rector's Assistant, United Nations University)
11:45 - 12:30pm | Closing
12:30 - 3:00pm | Lunch
Side Event
Latin American and Caribbean Universities’ Social Responsibility Exhibition
Venue: UFMG Main Building Lounge and other venues around the Pampulha Campus.
Developed by Núcleo Web - Cedecom - UFMG
This event is preparatory for the 2007/2008 Regional Conference on Education for the Caribbean and Latin America.