Internationalization of Latin American peripheral Universities through sustainable integration and inclusive implementation of International Relations Offices Erasmus Project

Project Title

Internationalization of Latin American peripheral Universities through sustainable integration and inclusive implementation of International Relations Offices

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Capacity Building in higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2015

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics:

Project Summary

The main objective of the PONCHO project is to encourage the process of internationalization of Latin American Universities partners in the project, with special focus on the Universities of peripheral areas of the region, whose geographical position or the volume of students have been unable to develop their internationalization in the same way as capital universities or major universities in the region. The PONCHO consortium is then composed mainly with universities having no experience in project of capacity building (former Alfa) and only 4 Latin American institutions have experience: Asuncion, Goias, San Simon and Nacional del Sur. Hence the exchange of good practices from the more experienced partners to the not so experienced partners is highly valued in order to increase, not only EU-Third country cooperation, but also Third country-Third country cooperation.To develop its objectives, PONCHO will work at three levels: at technical level: through the training of the IROs staff; at academic and students level: through the organization of Info days and Students Camp where academics and students will receive training and awareness session to approach them to internationalization, intercultural and integration using non-formal training tools; and finally at institutional level: through an online platform and the organisation of International Fair where the institution will be able to develop on one side their support process for a good internationalization and on the other side, through international marketing and network, to increase their international presence. The focus of active participation and collaborative decision making of the project will be implemented in the preparation, management, dissemination and optimization and quality control and through the PONCHO platform the consortium will not only be able to work together but also to develop new collaborations with other universities of the region.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 912575 Eur

Project Coordinator

UNIVERSIDAD DE LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA & Country: ES

Project Partners

• UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE TUCUMAN
• UNIVERSIDAD AMAZÓNICA DE PANDO
• UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN SIMON
• FUNDACAO UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE CIENCIAS DA SAUDE DE PORTO ALEGRE
• UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE GOIAS
• FUNDACAO UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA GRANDE DOURADOS
• UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DE MINAS GERAIS