Considered by experts to be one of the most important and most complete meetings dealing with topics related to higher education, the fourteenth session of the International Universities Congress 2024 begins, as usual, on Monday, at the Palace of Congresses in Havana.
The reason for this evaluation is not only due to the high participation of experts – which on this occasion will number more than 2,000 from about 40 countries – but also to the breadth of the topics that make up the scientific program and their current importance. The main theme of this event is Higher Education for the Future: Social Transformation, Quality, Relevance and Sustainability.
According to the newspaper Juventud Rebelde, within the framework of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, and in line with the implementation of the road map proposed by UNESCO, higher education must strengthen its relationship with society in order to find more effective and innovative solutions to the problems of higher education.
Problems of every country.
In this way, comprehensive and quality education will be ensured, enhancing lifelong learning opportunities for all, the publication explains.
The commitment represented by this participation and demand obliges the University, as an agent of sustainable development, to enhance its relevance, effectiveness and efficiency of its operations, responsibility and comprehensive practices for the benefit of social transformation in all its dimensions, especially in the economic and social fields. Social, cultural and environmental.
Moreover, it upholds the status of higher education as a public and social good, a universal human right and a duty of states. All of this represents a challenge for many countries, which will not be able to immediately comply with these obligations, but efforts to achieve this are still underway.
The conference will be held in four forums and 27 workshops, and will promote bilateral meetings of presidents and the signing of cooperation agreements. In addition, it will host the final preparatory meeting for the Regional Conference on Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean, which will soon be held in Brasilia.
For our country, University 2024 is also a popular movement, since last year in every center of higher education academic meetings were held in which presentations were made on the most diverse topics, which contribute to a greater and better functioning of the national university life, the source highlights.
The best work of this process is part of the agenda of the international meeting mentioned above.
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