A side event of the #WHEC2022
OBREAL Global co-organised together with the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the African Association of Universities (AAU) and the Latin American and Caribbean Higher Education Area (ENLACES), and with the support of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Spanish Service for the Internationalisation of Education (SEPIE), the African Union, the EU-LAC Foundation, the University of Barcelona, the HAQAA initiative and the Colombian Association of Universities (ASCUN) a Cocktail-Debate on the Sustainable Development Goals – SDGs -.
During this event, participants had the opportunity to listen to interventions from experts from different parts of the world, who constituted a high-level and inter-regional panel.
The panel was composed of Dr. Michael Harms (Deputy Secretary General, German Academic Exchange Service – DAAD), Prof. Olusola Oyewole (Secretary General, Association of African Universities – AAU), Prof. Gaspard Banyankimbona (Executive Secretary, Inter-University Council for East Africa – IUCEA), Dr. Zakari Lire, (Director for Quality Enhancement, African and Malagashy Council for Higher Education – CAMES), Dr. Oscar Dominguez (Secretary General, Association of Colombian Universities – ASCUN), Executive Committee of ENLACES) and Dr. Myriam Moise (Secretary General, Universities Caribbean).
This cocktail debate, entitled Higher Education and the SDGs: interregional perspectives, brought together more than 150 representatives from leading higher education institutions, and served as a networking space in which synergies were generated between the different regions of the world represented at this event.
The meeting took place in the Ferran Soldevila gardens of the Historic Building of the University of Barcelona.
OVERVIEW OF THE EVENT
INTERREGIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON SDGs
Joan Guàrdia
Rector of the Universitat de Barcelona
Vidya Yeravdekar
Pro Chancellor, Symbiosis International University, India and Chair of the Chapter India of OBREAL Global
Olusola Oyewole
Secretary General of the Association of African Universities and Chair of the Chapter Africa of OBREAL Global
Kiran Gopakumar Rajalekshmi
Dean, Middle East College, Oman and Vice-president of OBREAL Global
G Thiruvasagam
President of the Association of Indian Universities
Michael Harms
Deputy Secretary General of the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
Oscar Alpa
Secretary of University Policy, Ministry of Education of the Argentine Republic
Myriam Moïse
Secretary General of Universities Caribbean and Chair of the Caribbean Chapter of OBREAL Global
Jimena Estrella Orrego
Secretary of Research and Postgraduate Studies, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina
Mónica Marquina
Board member of the Argentinean National Commission of Evaluation and Accreditation (CONEAU)
Zakari Lire
Head of information and documentation Centre & Quality assurance, Conseil Africain et Malgache pour l’Enseignement Supérieur, Burkina Faso
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