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| REGIONAL INTEGRATION AND INTERNATIONALIZATION |
| a) RECOMMENDATIONS TO GOVERNMENTS |
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| * To implement policies and actions for the integration of Higher Education in Latin |
| America and the Caribbean, fostering the Latin American and Caribbean Area of |
| Higher Education (ENLACES). |
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| * To reject the use of education as a commercial service within the framework of |
| WTO agreements, and regulate the foreign capital investment in national higher |
| education institutions. |
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| * To highlight cross-border offering of Higher Education, analyzing specific |
| regulatory measures, to monitor the foreign capital investment and to implement |
| appropriate systems of assessment and accreditation in the Higher Education |
| institutions which are set up in the region. |
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| * To prevent and avoid brain-drain, implementing measures and public policies to |
| retain and repatriate qualified individuals and to facilitate their integration into |
| national development projects, as well as creating better options that encourage |
| the permanence and good use of talents. Moreover, official agreements for |
| training abroad should include dimensions such as reciprocity and obligations of in- |
| country service for graduates, including conditions for employment integration in |
| projects of interest. |
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| * To provide the creation of an alumni network comprised of students who |
| participated in internationalization programs, but who currently work abroad, in |
| order to encourage collaboration between their current institution and institutions in |
| their native countries. |
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| * To facilitate the incorporation of Latin American individuals, who received their |
| degree abroad and currently work abroad, in participating in networks and |
| graduate programs according to their qualifications. |
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| * To support the creation of wider exchange programs between Higher Education |
| institutions of the region, enabling professors, researchers, students, and |
| administrator’s mobility to promote integration and offering solutions to barriers |
| such as lack of financing, visa procedures, and enrollment among others. |
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| * To revise the 1974 Regional Agreement for the Recognition of Studies, Degrees, |
| and Diplomas of Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. |
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| * To promote solidarity-based internationalization of Higher Education in Latin |
| America and the Caribbean, strengthening existing programs for cooperation and |
| integration in the region, and establishing alliances for the development of |
| scientific-technological activity, considering the definition of regional priorities |
| favoring the efforts of different countries with the use of specific funding programs |
| and improvement of scientific quality of our institutions in order to slow down brain- |
| drain. |
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| * To strengthen the convergence process of national and sub-regional assessment |
| and accreditation programs with the purpose of creating regional standards and |
| procedures to ensure quality of higher education and research and to promote their |
| social and public role. |
| * To establish mechanisms for increasing cooperation in Latin America and the |
| Caribbean, with emphasis on regional cooperation with African countries and small |
| island nations. |
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| * To support university networks, regional higher education institutions, and the |
| liaison role of UNESCO-IESALC. |
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| * To develop joint initiatives of regional interest with regional and global university |
| networks. |
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| * To promote a better use and connection of HE to the international cooperation for |
| sustainable development. |
| b) RECOMMENDATIONS TO HEI |
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| * To promote a strategy of internationalization and international cooperation, and |
| implement proposals for integration. |
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| * To implement programs of solidarity-based cooperation with higher education |
| institutions of Latin America and the Caribbean, with special attention to developing |
| countries. |
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| * To strengthen the ties to allow productive interrelations in the areas of instruction, |
| extension, and research, leading to cooperation that fosters the Latin America and |
| Caribbean region to act as a block before the world. |
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| * To produce specific policies to offer attractive options to foreign students in the |
| countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, as a strategy for cultural |
| dissemination and development of an international environment in higher education |
| institutions. |
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| * To increase and actively participate in networks and think-tanks about the key |
| problems of higher education within the framework of integration of Latin America |
| and the Caribbean. |
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| * To encourage and consolidate academic association between graduate |
| programs, strengthening training activities, facilitating the mutual recognition of |
| credits, and stimulating joint degrees and cooperative graduate programs, |
| particularly in strategic areas. |
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| * To promote training of qualified human resources in the management of regional |
| integration, and solidarity-based international cooperation to ensure continuity and |
| quality. |
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| * To foster instruction and research in areas related to the integration of Latin |
| America and the Caribbean, sustainable development, intercultural studies, the |
| knowledge and recognition of the value of our cultural and environmental heritage, |
| and the study of contemporary phenomena. |
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| * To build technical and negotiation skills in order to participate more actively in |
| opportunities that generate international cooperation for sustainable development. |
| RECOMMENDATIONS TO NETWORKS |
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| * To widely disseminate the Declaration of CRES-2008 and the Action Plan so that |
| network members will accept them as reference and support joint initiatives, with |
| the same objectives, with global university networks. |
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| * To support implementation of the Action Plan through member activities, seeking |
| synergies with other networks and other involved players for the productive |
| articulation of efforts. |
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| * To cooperate with UNESCO-IESALC in the implementation, follow-up, and |
| assessment of the Action Plan. |
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| * To contact African universities and networks in order to develop joint programs |
| and discussion points for the World Conference on Higher Education in Paris |
| (WCHE-2009). |
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| * To contribute to the organization and development of ENLACES. |
| RECOMMENDATIONS TO INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS |
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| * To adopt the principles of the Declaration of CRES-2008. |
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| * To support implementation of the Action Plan and its activities. |
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| * To support regional meetings for the establishment of ENLACES, and similar |