This webinar seeks to identify and discuss how different regional integration initiatives could foster the effective implementation of the right to academic freedom and university autonomy in the LAC region. Such initiatives may include the mobility of teachers and students, protocols for responding to attacks on academic freedom suffered by members of the university community, the strengthening of research on academic freedom, among other aspects. It seeks to emphasize the relationship between academic freedom and university autonomy and its contribution to the strengthening of democracies in the region. Understanding academic freedom and university autonomy as one of the pillars of democracy implies including these issues in the center of public debates in the region.
Agenda:
Coordination: Camilla Croso, Executive Director CAFA.
Presentations:
- Sandra Goulart Almeida: President Latin American and Caribbean Space for Higher Education
(ENLACES) - Rui Oppermann: Director of International Relations of the Brazilian Ministry of Education-CAPES
- Estela Miranda: Coordinator of the Nucleus of Studies and Research in Higher Education (NEIES-
Mercosul/ National University of Córdoba) - Alexander Guevara: Observatory for Participation and National Incidence (OPINA)
Comments: - Celio da Cunha: Professor Catholic University of Brasília
- Francesc Pedró: Director UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America
and the Caribbean (UNESCO IESALC)
Event in Spanish and Portuguese, with English translation.