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Follow-up meeting to the Regional Conference on Higher Education: CRES+5 | Day 3
15 March 2024
Thanks to the support of various sectors and agencies of the Secretariat of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, the Federative Republic of Brazil and the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC), the follow-up meeting of the Regional Conference on Higher Education (CRES+5), known as CRES+5, will be held from March 13-15, 2024 in Brasilia, the federal capital of Brazil.
Program Friday 15, 2024
08:30 to 12:00 Completion of texts of the Thematic Axes and the CRES+5 Declaration
(Final work restricted to Consultants)
CAPES Auditorium
09:00 to 12:00 Higher Education Policy Forum
(event proposed by UNESCO IESALC)
CICB Auditorium (broadcast on the MEC Channel)
Panel 1 – Improving quality in higher education and considerations for sustainability / 9:00 am (Brasilia)
- Viceminister of Higher Education, Paraguay, Federico Mora
- Subsecretary of Higher Education Institutions, Ecuador, Cecilia Santana
- Viceministry of Higher Education, Colombia, Alejandro Álvarez Gallego
- Director of the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation System, Mexico, María José Rhi Sausi Garavito
Panel 2 – Innovative approaches to higher education funding and considerations for sustainability / 10:30 am (Brasilia)
- Subsecretary of Higher Education, Chile, Victor Orellana Calderón
- Director of Higher Education Policies and Programs, Brazil, Alexandre Brasil Carvalho da Fonsesca
- Ministry of Higher Education, Cuba,Walter Baluja García
- Chief Executive Officer of Jamaica Tertiary Education Commission, Jamaica, Dameon Black
09:00 to 12:00 Side Events
(organized by associations with specific registration and access restricted to guests)
See the side events here.
CAPES room
12:00 to 14:00 Lunch
Free. CICB Restaurant or Outside
14:00 to 14:40 Conference 02 – University and Society
Prof. José Geraldo de Souza Júnior, Professor at the Faculty of Law and former Rector of UnB
CICB Auditorium (broadcast on the MEC Channel)
14:40 to 15:00 Coffee-break
Coffee-break area
15:00 to 18:00 Closing Plenary
(speeches by authorities, tribute to Prof. Marco Antonio Rodrigues Dias, reading of the Final Declaration with approval by acclamation, cultural presentation – Batalá)
- Minister of Education, Camilo Santana
- Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Izolda Cela
- Secretary of Higher Education, Alexandre Brasil
- President of Capes, Denise Carvalho
- Director of UNESCO IESALC, Francesc Pedró
- President of ENLACES, Oscar Domingues
CICB Auditorium (broadcast on the MEC Channel)