58 SIRCIP General Assembly

On October 20 and 21, 2022, the LVIII General Assembly of the Central American and Caribbean Regional Research and Postgraduate System -SIRCIP- is held, in hybrid mode, with face-to-face headquarters at the National Council of Rectors of Costa Rica -CONARE-.

The General Assembly of SIRCIP is made up of the research and postgraduate vice-chancellors of the CSUCA member universities, who through the system seek to strengthen, guide, support, coordinate, harmonize and integrate research and postgraduate studies with a regional focus.

?It is a challenge for higher education to carry out high-level scientific research that contributes to the economic, social and cultural development of our countries. The SIRCIP should ensure specialized teachers and researchers, to face the demands posed by today's society? mentioned Carlos Alvarado, Secretary General of CSUCA in the opening remarks of the LVIII General Assembly of SIRCIP.

While Jorge Herrera, President of SIRCIP reflected ?Universities are generators of knowledge by foundational mission, highlighting the importance of research, only through the generation of knowledge can we nurture and keep our study plans updated at the postgraduate level, providing feedback mobilization processes through university extension?.

For his part Francisco González, President of CSUCA indicated ?The public university is born anchored to research to this task of developing in the different fields, research process in social sciences, exact sciences, humanities, among others, for the improvement of the conditions of life of people in our societies?

The General Assembly will have a day of 11 hours of work divided into two days, where a space can be provided to the four permanent commissions by strategic objective of the program ?Research, science, technology and innovation for regional integration and development? of the Fifth Plan for the Regional Integration of Higher Education in Central America and the Dominican Republic -PIRESC V-, as well as the conference ?Research data management? by Marcela Alfaro Córdoba, such as the approval of the proposal of indicators for the research and postgraduate observatory by the UNAH and UNAN-León and the election of representatives of public universities in the Accreditation Council of the Central American Agency for Research and Postgraduate (ACAP), among others.