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Follow-up Conference to the Regional Conference on Higher Education CRES+5 / Day 2
14 March 2024
The UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean is convening a follow-up meeting five years after the Third Regional Conference on Higher Education (CRES 2018).
The CRES+5 will take place in Brasilia, Brazil, from March 13-15. This participatory process will highlight the progress made, as well as the remaining challenges and emerging issues of higher education in the region, particularly in the wake of the pandemic crisis.
Program Thursday, March 14, 2024
07:00 to 13:00 Registration
Registration area/Cloakroom
08:30 to 09:30 Conference 01
Prof. Nilma Lino Gomes (Faculty of Education, UFMG; former Minister of Women’s Affairs)
Auditorium (broadcast on the MEC Channel)
09:30 to 10:00 Coffee-break
Coffee-break area
10:00 to 12:00
Symposium Thematic Axis 7 – Decent work and the living conditions of higher education stakeholders
Room 1
Coordinator: Marcelo Di Stefano, Argentina
Speakers: Ana Boff de Godoy (PROIFES, Brazil); Raquel Dias (ANDES); Cristina del Papa (FASUBRA)
Symposium Thematic Axis 8 – The impact of COVID in higher Education
Room 2
Coordinator: Juogreidin Coromoto Cerero Ramones (Venezuela)
Speakers: Socorro Gross (OPAS); Eduarda Cesse (Fiocruz, Brazil); Soraya Smaili (UNIFESP, Brazil)
Symposium Thematic Axis 9 – Inclusion, diversity and the role of women in higher education
Room 3
Speakers: Yamile Sokolovsky (UNLP, CONADU, Argentina); Juliana Cabeza (UNL, Argentina)
12:00 to 13:30 Lunch
Free. CICB Restaurant or Outside
13:30 to 15:30
Symposium Thematic Axis 10 – Financing and governance in Higher Education
Room 1
Coordinator: Rodrigo Arim (UDELAR, Uruguay)
Speakers: Enrique Mamarella (Argentina); Marcus David (ANDIFES- Brazil); Odilon Máximo de Moraes (ABRUEM- Brazil)
Symposium Thematic Axis 11 – Autonomy of higher education institutions
Room 2
Coordinator: Ana Lúcia Almeida Gazzola (UFMG, Brazil)
Speakers: Maria Beatriz Luce (UFRGS, Brazil); Marcia Abrahão (ANDIFES- Brazil); Carlos Greco (CIN- Argentina)
Symposium Thematic Axis 12.1 and 12.2 – The futures of higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean
Room 3
Coordinator: Amanda Harumy (OCLAE)
Speakers: Oscar Domingues (ENLACES); Dameon Black (Jamaica); Mercedes González Fernández-Larrea (Universidad de la Habana, Cuba); Roberto Escalante (UDUALC)
15:30 to 16:00 Coffee-break
Coffee-break area
16:00 to 18:30 Round Table 2 – Day 2 Symposium Coordinators
Auditorium (broadcast on the MEC Channel)
Coordinators: UNESCO IESALC, MEC-CAPES
Speakers: Coordinators of Thematic Axes 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12
Axis 7: Marcelo Di Stefano (Argentina)
Axis 8: Juogreidin Coromoto Cerero Ramones (Venezuela)
Axis 9: Sandra Goulart (UFMG, Brazil)
Axis 10: Rodrigo Arim (UDELAR, Uruguay)
Axis 11: Ana Lúcia Almeida Gazzola (UFMG, Brazil)
Axis 12: Amanda Harumy (OCLAE, Brazil)