Seminar on International Studies and Cooperation
On Friday, February 1st, the 1st International Studies and Cooperation Seminar was inaugurated within the framework of the continuing education course "Expert in International Cooperation for Local Development".
The speakers at the opening of the seminar, which lasts 120 hours and is coordinated by the professor of the International Studies career Diana García Orellana, were Sara Caria, Alexandra Velasco, Silvana Tapia and Jara Rodríguez.
The first conference was titled "Ecuador and the middle income trap" and was in charge of Caria, who is a graduate in International and Diplomatic Sciences from the University of Trieste, magister in Cooperation and Development at the University of Pavia, and a Ph.D. Social Sciences at the University of Salamanca.
Velazco -who is an ecologist and environmental communicator at the San Francisco University of Quito, holds a master's degree in Transportation Infrastructure Planning from the University of Stuttgart and in Senior Management from the IAEN- spoke later about "German cooperation in development projects in Ecuador".
Then Tapia took the word to analyze the theme "Gender and development". The professor and researcher of the Faculty of Legal Sciences of the UDA is a master in Criminal Law and specialist in University Teaching by the University of Azuay, and PhD in Philosophy in Socio-Legal Studies from the University of Kent.
Jara Rodríguez, a professor and researcher at the University of Cuenca (with an International Ph.D. in Globalization and Social Change, and a master's degree in Studies and Social Intervention in Immigration, Development and Vulnerable Groups, both titles awarded by the University of Huelva), closed the day with the conference "Ecuadorian Transmigrants and Transnational Protection Networks".
Miriam Briones, Director of the Department of Continuing Education, explained that both the Seminar and the Expert Course in International Cooperation for Local Development have common objectives:
"They allow the participants, among other things, to understand the international dynamics, to generate articulation processes in the territory, to develop cooperation and internationalization programs of decentralized autonomous governments as actors of foreign relations," concluded Briones.
