Launch of ALFA III´s new website

The program of cooperation between higher education institutions of the European Union and Latin America - ALFA III launches its new website that aims to be a portal for participants, beneficiaries and people who are interested in creating a more inclusive higher education system to find relevant information on completed and ongoing projects in this program. In this sense, the website describes the main objectives of the beneficiaries and the results of each project, with consideration of further information relevant to academia, the private sector, governments and the general public. The main features of the new website are:

- Content relating to Results
- Interactive map of results
- Feedback from beneficiaries
- Other sources of funding
- English, Spanish and Portuguese versions

The official website: www.alfa3programme.eu/es/

EDO-Team UAB is linked to ALFA III program through ACCEDES project "Access and academic success of vulnerable groups in risky environments in Latin America", developed in collaboration with 12 other universities (with the participation of 11 others, and a total number of 22 universities) and its main objective to improve levels of inclusion and retention of disadvantaged or vulnerable groups in some Latin American universities. The promise is with three concrete objectives:

1) To promote the enrollment and retention of disadvantaged groups in higher education institutions (IES);
2) To contribute to the development of inclusion in IEs;
3) To promote institutional networks focusing on the university inclusion.

The project, whose duration is planned to be three years, focuses to define and to develop a methodology that favours the adoption and successful retention of disadvantaged groups through actions and organizational development plans. It has to do with a network of mutual support and mutual help that will guide the adoption of the relevant measures, dissemination and subsequent institutionalization.

In addition to UAB, which acts as the coordinating institution, the ESC Rennes School of Business (France) and the University of Bergamo (Italy) from Europe also participate. In Latin America, some of the participating institutions are: Catholic University of Argentina (Argentina), Catholic University of Bolivia (Bolivia), University of Talca (Chile), Universidad de Cienfuegos "Carlos Rafael Rodríguez" (Cuba), Catholic University of Paraguay (Paraguay), Catholic University of Peru (Peru), ORT University  Uruguay (Uruguay), University of Andes (Venezuela), Autonomous University of Tabasco (Mexico) and the Specialized University of American(Panama). What should also be in consideration is, that the project has received the support from the Organization of American States, the Ministry of Education of Uruguay, the Ministry of Education of Cuba, RedAGE and various Latin American universities.

Organizational Development Team (EDO) of UAB has experience in development of projects in Europe and has participated in projects like Erasmus, Asialink, Leonardo and Comenius. It has also developed other projects in collaboration with the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation associated with activities of university and educational development in Latin America. What stands in its scope and influence the Support Network Educational Management - RedAGE (http://www.redage.org) involving more than 300 Latin American universities linked to educational management and Project of supporting and strengthening education in management and professional competencies in the Municipality of Coyhaique, Chile (http://blogs.uab.cat/coyhaique/).

For more information, please visit the website: http://edo.uab.cat/accedes