Closing Ceremony of the Diploma in Economic Integration

Central America, November 18, 2022

Today marked the end of the Diploma in Economic Integration, which aimed to train more than 160 teachers from the universities that make up the Central American University Confederation, with the purpose of integrating university teachers into the subject in order to be able to replicate the importance of integration in the students of the public universities of the SICA region.  This initiative being one of the actions to be carried out collaboratively between SIECA and CSUCA.

In her closing remarks, Edith Flores, Director of the SIECA Center for Knowledge Generation Studies, expressed the importance of the diploma program in economic integration, noting that it is now a valuable tool for a significant group of teachers. She stated, “The goal was to promote economic integration among the faculty of the universities that make up CSUCA. This training activity involved 181 teachers, with the aim of making economic integration available as an input for the new generation of experts who will lead the states of the region.”.

For his part, Carlos Alvarado, Secretary General of CSUCA, called on the participants to share their impressions of the diploma course, taking into account that this is only the first step in a collaborative effort with SIECA.,  “The opportunity was seen to exchange efforts through this training exchange, allowing the necessary changes for the Central American region, building a representative space of substantive aspects, where we have a meeting point between peace and justice in our societies,” mentioning that this exchange generates greater articulation that promotes its own discourse of integration, being a true development in the face of joint collaboration scenarios.

The closing ceremony culminated with two conferences, the first being “State of the Central American Economic Integration Process, Perspectives” by Edith Flores, Director of the Center for Knowledge Generation Studies of SIECA, and the second “Initiatives and Importance of Central American Integration in Higher Education” by Francisco Alarcón, Deputy Secretary General and Academic Director of CSUCA.