First meeting of the ORACLE project

During the days 8,9 and 10 will be held the first meeting to formally initiate the project Regional Observatory for Quality and Higher Education in Latin America. This first meeting will take place in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. It’s organized locally by the Paulista State University (UNESP), in cooperation with the EDO group collaboration, of the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

ORACLE, funded under the Erasmus + Capacity Building of the European Commission, is coordinated by professors at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Joaquín Gairín and Diego Castro, and joins forces with the participation of more than 160 researchers belonging to 35 universities, 30 of which belong to 15 countries in Latin America and five in Europe.

Specifically, the universities that are involved in the project are:

1.- FH JOANNEUM Gesellschaft mbH (Austria)
2.- Universidad Católica Boliviana “San Pablo” (Bolivia)
3.- Universidad Mayor, Real y Pontificia de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca (Bolivia)
4.- Universidade de Brasília (Brasil)
5.- Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” (Brasil)
6.- Universidad de Talca (Chile)
7.- Universidad de Tarapacá (Chile)
8.- Universidad de Antioquía (Colombia)
9.- Universidad de Tolima (Colombia)
10.- Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
11.- Universidad de Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
12.- Universidad de Cienfuegos (Cuba)
13.- Universidad de La Habana (Cuba)
14.- Aalborg Universitet (Dinamarca)
15.- Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (Ecuador)
16.- Universidad Estatal del Milagro (Ecuador)
17.- Universidad de El Salvador (El Salvador)
18.- Universidad Dr.José Matías Delgado (El Salvador)
19.- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (España)
20.- Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (Guatemala)
21.- Universidad Rafael Landívar (Guatemala)
22.- Universita’ degli Studi di Bergamo (Italia)
23.- Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco (México)
24.- Universidad Veracruzana (México)
25.- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua – León (Nicaragua)
26.- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua – Managua (Nicaragua)
27.- Universidad Especializada de las Américas (Panamá)
28.- Universidad Interamaericana de Panamá (Panamá)
29.- Universidad Central del Paraguay (Paraguay)
30.- Universidad Nacional de Asunción (Paraguay)
31.- Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (Portugal)
32.- Instituto Universitario Asociación Cristiana de Jóvenes (Uruguay)
33.- Universidad ORT Uruguay (Uruguay)
34.- Universidad de Los Andes (Venezuela)
35.- Universidad Central de Venezuela (Venezuela)

The meeting will serve as the first contact between the project partners and aims to lay the foundations to promote the project forward. Therefore, the meeting will focus on two key themes: the internal management of the project (interpersonal relations, responsibilities, administrative issues, commitments WP,-CDI- distributed control, etc.) and preparation of the institutional observatories (previous experiences, formation and discussion on how it has to be and work, etc.)

Among the most important Oracle goals are highlighted the will to generate models to assess the university quality linking it to the equity in access, development and success of all those involved, and encourage the organizational development and modernization of universities in the region.

Soon it will be available the ORACLE project official website. For more information consult: https://goo.gl/PwJ4j7