Closing Diploma in Economic Integration

Central America November 18, 2022

Today the Diploma in Economic Integration culminated, 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 in 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 the closing remarks, Edith Flores, Director of the Center for Knowledge Generation Studies at SIECA, expressed the importance of the diploma in economic integration, being a tool that is now part of the knowledge of a significant group of teachers ?To socialize economic integration among the teachers from the universities that make up the CSUCA, 181 teachers participated in this training activity, with the interest of making economic integration available as an input in the new cadres 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, taking into account that this is only the first step that is being worked collaboratively with SIECA,  Was the opportunity 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 a greater articulation that promotes its own integration discourse, being a true development in scenarios of joint collaboration.

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