15:30 – 16:30 BST, 10 September 2026 ‐ 1 hour
Room: Castle 1, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Ground floor
Session
✅ Included for all participants
Egalitarian dialogue and mutual collaboration are expected among higher education professionals. However, faculty and staff from different backgrounds attest to how seemingly 'civil' interactions can mask prejudice and structural and interpersonal inequalities. This session will discuss how inequalities translate into microaggressions and prejudice, and we will provide lessons on awareness raising and intercultural communicative competencies.




Lunex University, Luxembourg
Jessica Price is an academic and counselling psychology practitioner with more than fifteen years of experience in the development of mental health and wellbeing interventions, supporting highly diverse and multicultural groups, drawing from counselling psychology; organizational health; positive psychology and narrative therapy approaches.
Universidad del Rosario, Colombia
Sandra Guarín Tarquino is the vice president for International Affairs of Universidad del Rosario (UR). She has twenty years of experience in internationalization of higher education, international cooperation, leadership of partnerships and networks, glocal stakeholder connections, and project and grant management. She is co-founder of the Latin American Initiative for the Internationalization of Higher Education (INILAT), vice president of the Advisory Council of the Inter-American Organization for Higher Education (IOHE), and chair of the NAFSA’s Latin America and Caribbean Forum, 2024. She was recognized by the Colombian Association of Universities (ASCUN) "For her committed, dedicated and generous leadership as National Coordinator of the Colombian Network for the Internationalization of Higher Education (RCI) between 2018 and 2022", and in 2024 received the RCI ASCUN Outstanding Contribution Award. She has served as consultant and lecturer in comprehensive internationalization, international cooperation, and non-state diplomacy. She holds a bachelor's degree in International Relations, a graduate degree in European Studies and a master’s degree in Management and Development Practice.
Universidad Nacional de las Artes, Argentina
Daniela Vanesa Perrotta, PhD, is a political scientist and international relations scholar specializing in the internationalization of higher education, regional integration, and the governance of higher education, science, technology, and knowledge. Her work examines how universities and scientific systems can contribute to more equitable knowledge systems, sustainable development, and greater epistemic autonomy in an increasingly multipolar world.
She is Secretary for Institutional Development and Strategic Engagement at the National University of the Arts (UNA), Argentina, where she leads internationalization strategy, institutional development and evaluation, strategic partnerships, and international cooperation across teaching, research, artistic creation, and community engagement. She is also an Independent Researcher at Argentina’s National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), based at the Institute for Research in Educational Sciences (IICE), University of Buenos Aires.
Perrotta coordinates the Latin American Forum on Scientific Evaluation (FOLEC) at the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), leading regional initiatives on responsible research assessment, open science, multilingualism, and knowledge as a global public good.
Previously, she served as Argentina’s National Director for International Cooperation at the Ministry of Education (2020–2021), was a member of the Executive Committee of the International Affairs Commission of the National Interuniversity Council (CIN), and coordinated the Argentine Network for International Cooperation of Universities (RedCIUN). She is also a member of INILAT.
Her publications and international collaborations address higher education internationalization, regional integration, knowledge governance, science diplomacy, and Global South cooperation. She regularly participates in international academic and policy dialogues across Latin America, Europe, and Asia.