Convened by the UNESCO International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (UNESCO-IESALC), the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Argentina, representatives from the Member States of the Region, observers, and international organizations will be attending the Conference.

The Minister of Education, Culture, Science and Technology of Argentina, Mr. Alejandro Finocchiaro, will be present at the meeting, as well as the recently appointed Director of UNESCO-IESALC, Dr. Francesc Pedró. Among the themes included in the agenda for the three-day conference are the challenges of higher education (HE) mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean, including quality assurance, as well as the discussion on the specific content of the new Convention.

The document is the result of the consensus accumulated in previous meetings since 2016 by the workgroup in charge of reviewing the text of 1974. The workgroup was created at the High-Level Ministerial Meeting held in Brazil in 2015, date on which IESALC was requested to coordinate the group as the Secretariat of the Convention.
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