I am involved in a project which is establishing cooperations between European Higher education institutions and latin American higher education institutions: WINDS-LA.

Now I am invited to talk about European Higher Eudcation Quality policies in Columbia, in a conference for Universities staff in Bogota on AUG 15-17th.

The presentations are live streamed and recorded. You can watch them here. http://www.colombiaaprende.edu.co/seminario2007/

Columbis is an extremely interesting experience. The Ministry of Education launched a 10 year plan to improve the educational opportunities for the Columbians. the plan was put up after a participative apraisal phase in which the all columbians were asked to contribute suggestions. A free phone line was set and 30000 people called. the resuts were analysed and put togthere by a group ofexperts and online discussed by over 20000 participants. Afterwards the MoE made a plan out of it.
The team involved is a team of young rsearchers who is spending a certain time - internship- in the ministry and have the responsibility to implement the plan. This team is the most impressive and energetic group of devoted people I have met in a long time. It is impressisve to see with which enthusiam they move forward, the make allies and they try to motivate people to use e-learning in the universities.