PONCHO INTERNATIONAL WEEK – ASUNCIÓN (PARAGUAY)

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When:
6 May, 2019 – 10 May, 2019 all-day
2019-05-06T00:00:00-04:00
2019-05-11T00:00:00-04:00
Where:
Jejuí 667
entre O’leary y 15 de agosto
C.P. 1255
Cost:
Free

On the first day of the event, the official opening of the week will be held with an opening ceremony, keynote addresses and interventions in the field of the Internationalization of Higher Education and relations between Europe and Latin America. Likewise, there will be a meeting of Institutional Representatives that will symbolically inaugurate the PONCHO Network and the commitments acquired for the sustainability of the project.
On days 2, 3 and 4 of the event, the PONCHO Student Camp will be held. This activity represents an intercultural and mobility experience for the selected students of the partner Universities, in which specific activities related to the academic dimension of internationalization will be developed. In addition, activities and talks will be held to promote the participation of the student community in the internationalization process. On the 4th day of the event, the PONCHO partners will hold the last face-to-face project management meeting.
On the 5th of the event, the PONCHO Fair will take place, which will represent the occasion to involve other stakeholders in the region and / or international and disseminate the results of the PONCHO project. The students, together with the technical staff of each University, will participate in the preparation of the PONCHO International Fair, in which they will represent their institution and their country of origin. Finally, on the same day, the official closing ceremony of the week will take place.
The activities and technical contents to be implemented in each of the parts of the week, have been agreed on jointly by the partnership through specific commissions (Student Camp, Fair, Institutional Day).
The PONCHO International Week represents the closing event of the project and will allow the partnership to consolidate the scope of the expected objectives, disseminate the results of the internationalization process to all the academic categories involved, as well as encourage the participation in it of other relevant actors and institutions.