HEP 2019 THEME: INCLUSION & SUSTAINABILITY Climate • Community • Diversity • Gender • Innovation Monday, September 30 1:00PM-4:00PM
Registration
6:00PM-9:00PM
Welcome Cocktail
Speed Dating activity followed by welcome cocktail accompanied by music with hors d'oeuvres
Tuesday, October 1 8:00AM-6:00PM
9:30AM-10:00AM
Registration Opening Ceremony JOHN MCPHAIL President and CEO of Partners of the Americas Professional group & individual photos
10:00AM-10:30AM
Coffee Break and Expo Inauguration
10:30AM-11:20AM
Building international partnerships to leverage access and equity in Higher Education. Best Practices from Partners of the Americas.
11:20AM-12:10PM
Fighting climate change through higher education: the role of international partnerships
12:10PM-1:00PM
Lunch
8:30AM-9:30AM
1:15PM-2:25PM
2:40PM-3:30PM 6:00PM – 8:00PM
Plenary Panel DR. WAYNE JOHNSON, JULIANA ARAUJO How governments and higher education institutions can advance policies and strategies to promote international partnerships in higher education in the Americas? Building sustainable partnerships through students and scholars exchange programs Happy Hour Meet your fellow HEP 2019 Participants!
Wednesday, October 2 8:00AM-6:00PM 8:30AM-9:20AM
9:30AM-10:20AM
Registration Gender, race, inequalities and affirmative policies in Higher Education in Latin America.
Immigration and higher education: removing the barriers to international education in Latin America.
10:30AM-11:00AM
Expo Coffee Break
11:00AM-11:50AM
Networking Game
12:00PM-1:00PM
Lunch
1:15PM-2:250PM
Plenary Session SUSTAINABILITY: Climate, Energy, Agriculture, and Development: Investing in sustainable development. How to make a difference?
2:40 PM-3:30PM
The impact of higher education on sustainable development in Latin America.
4:00PM-6:00PM
Networking Activities
Thursday, October 3 8:00AM-6:00PM
Registration
8:30AM-9:40AM
Technology and social innovations for inclusion and sustainable development: how higher education is responding to the 21st century global challenges.
9:50AM-10:40AM
How the use of technology has impacted international partnerships, exchange programs and knowledge transfer.
10:40AM-11:00AM
Expo Coffee Break
10:40AM-3:30PM
Sign Partnership Agreements
11:00AM-11:50AM
The new agenda for climate change: how to engage higher education institutions, governments, private sector, NGOS and civil society?
12:00PM-12:30PM
Networking Game
12:40AM-1:50PM
Lunch
2:00PM-3:10PM
Plenary Panel-Closing Ceremony MATT CLAUSEN, JOHN MCPHAIL Opportunities and Challenges for Human Rights in Latin America. The role of partnerships.
6:00PM – 8:00PM
Dinner at any Hotel RIU Restaurant
8:00PM-12:00AM
Noche Tika