After the visit from Katie Orr and Zoran Kondali of Nova Scotia Community College a few weeks ago, this week I assisted Patricia Bowron, Director International at College of the Rockies, for a few days in Bogota. One of the meetings was at Universidad Iberoamericana with whom Pat signed yesterday an MoU for exchanges, technology transfer and possible work together on Corporate Social Responsibility projects. She signed the agreement with Rafael Stand Nino, the Rector:
Rafael, who is also President of the "Centro Internacional de Responsabilidad Social & Sostenibilidad" invited us for one of their events this week. Three companies presented the work for which they were rewarded with CSR awards by the center that Rafael started. One of the presentations was by CEMEX, a Mexican owned company doing interesting projects in construction reaching out to vulnerable populations.
The CSR was presented as part of a holistic thinking about the quality of work the private industry must be doing to thrive in today's realities. Pat did her best to follow everything in Spanish...
Next to the work we were able to also enjoy a bit of what a big city like Bogota offered despite the constant rain these days. The photo above is a group of music students performing beautifula Andean music. Pat, it was fun to have you here a few days!
The EFE program is progressing well. Tomorrow we have a meeting with the new SENA Director overseeing all the international cooperation projects, and next week Monday we will have a full day meeting with the SENA team on our work for the coming 3-4 months. Two of the team members will have to miss this meeting because they will be in Canada all of next week visiting a college in Quebec, having a meeting with colleagues of other EFE programs in Africa and the Caribbean, and attending a Forum of the North-South Institute in Ottawa.
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