University creates bridges for Regional Integration and International Cooperation

Abstract

In this paper we propose to analyze the experiences of integration and regionalization of higher education network comprising a group of universities in the region of the triple border Argentina/Brazil/Paraguay, convened by the National University of Misiones, with funding from the Secretariat of University Policy of Argentina. The analysis puts in dialogue border universities MERCOSUR and its context, to understand the incidence of institutions of higher education in the process of development and consolidation of regional integration, and its projections as social, cultural and economic dynamic agents. The study identifies sustainable development, strategic resources, renewable energy and the cross-border integration as priority areas of academic interest of university/community cooperation in this border region. Although there is much to walk, are being built solid foundations for institutionalizing and systematize important actions that long are in front of random, discontinuous fashion. In this sense, targets in the medium and long term brand North of the immediate inter-institutional academic agenda and orients the efforts toward internationalization and regionalization of higher education in which every action makes sense and brings to the set.