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The core conference programme, which starts on Thursday afternoon, 17 September, contains over 100 sessions covering a wide variety of topics currently affecting international education. Attendance is included in the conference fee and pre-registration is not required. The conference is built around 11 thematic streams. Most of the sessions have also been assigned to the EAIE Professional Section (PS) or Special Interest Group (SIG) for which they are most relevant. The PS and SIG abbreviations are included after the session titles.
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9.05
EDC IRM Mobility IntermediateBridging higher education between Europe and Latin AmericaSaturday 19 September 11.00–12.30
París, floor 1
The Santander Group - European Universities' Network is an association of 36 Universities from 16 countries, with rich and successful 20-year experience in higher education management and mobility programmes for students and university staff. The SG has been involved in numerous projects as co-ordinator or partner both in Europe and worldwide.
For the last ten years, the SG Network has put much focus on co-operation with Latin America, as the co-ordinator of the AlBan Programme, the EU initiative of high level scholarships for Latin America. Over 3000 students from 18 countries were offered the opportunity to study up to 2010 for a Masters or Doctorate degree in more than 300 European universities of their choice.
Building on this important co-operation experience, the SG Network together with four Latin American networks participates in the recently selected project, under component III of the EU ALFA III Programme, to implement the Alfa Observatory. This project aims at disseminating best practices identified in all ALFA editions, creating synergies among projects of this third phase, and ensuring systematic collection, centralisation and distribution of ALFA III results. With a main office in Europe at the University of Porto in Portugal and four antennas in Latin America, a website, a hotline and an e-help desk will offer constant support to all project co-ordinators.
These are two challenging examples of "Connecting Continents" through higher education, which fosters regional integration towards an EU-LA common area of higher education. Aims, experiences and results of these projects will be detailed and thoroughly analysed in the proposed session to the audience of the EAIE event.
Chair: John Tuppen, Santander Group Network, Belgium
Speaker: Alberto Sereno, Santander Group European Universities Network, Portugal ; Julio Theiler, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina ; Suzana Queiroz Monteiro, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil ; Guillermo Morones Díaz, Anuies, Mexico
