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Main achievements

  • Driver of multiple collaboration initiatives between European and Latin-American universities

  • A consolidated network: 4500 University leaders involved in our projects; several of them have accessed governmental positions in their countries

  • An international reference in the identification and development of innovations in quality of teaching, enterprise incubators and spin-off activities, regional development, research management, Continuing Education, etc.

  • International projects 12 Alfa/@lis EU projects

  • Training programs financed by the Inter-American development bank, World Bank, and governmental agencies

  • Subsidies : 2250 000 Euros (EU, Grupo Santander, Compagnia di San Paolo, etc.)

What members appreciate

the most about Columbus …

Helping your university to move forward

Columbus Association

Vision

Our services

external financing-

-Development of projects with

-Training

programs-

-Study

visits-

-U-Benchmarking

Club-

-UNISCAN

(Strengthening of external financed research)-

-Tailor-made services:

Research conferences, deployment

of strategies, processes management-

-Columbus Partners:

Consultancies for institutions, governmental agencies and international organisations-

Join Columbus!

For more information please visit:

http://www.columbus-web.com/index.php

Or contact us:

d.samoilovich@columbus-web.org

Training programs with

proven methodologies

Since 1990,

Columbus supports

the professionalization University Management with action-learning methods and, more recently, on a web environment

*On-going:

Recent work areas:

Internationalization

Entrepreneurship

Collaboration with

the University Paris Descartes for

the impact assessment of training programs developed by Columbus

between 2010 and 2012, among 700 university top managers

Continuing Education

Research Management

Social Responsibility

Fundraising

A clear approach towards results

Broader Outlook of Higher Education in Europe and Latin America

Sharper focus on members´ strength and interests

Clustering in a favorable environment

Ideas may come from anywhere in the network,

propelled by interaction

Priority to collaboration among members

Funneling the necessary energy for their implementation

The road to successful projects

1.

Monitoring of financial mechanisms at

European and National Level (in EU and LA)

2.

Identification of relevant

issues and champions

Example:

19

50%

-Alfa Guide Project-

universities collaborating to fight against dropout during the first year of studies

members of Columbus, Cost: euros, financed by Alfa Program

-Food-

-Green Campus-

1.520.000

3.

73,61 %

Networking organization

& proposal development

Other projects:

Biblioteca de Babel

INTEGRA

COLPAC

Mirror

MANUFIN

Gradua2

Forthcoming: ERASMUS +, HORIZON 2020...

"Networking

to improve relationships

between Universities

as well as with other

public and private stakeholders"

"El compromiso firme

con el ánimo de entendimiento, colaboración

y asociación en el contexto

de un mundo globalizado"

"Su capacidad de

adaptación

y flexibilidad en entender

la problemática de las

universidades para generar

productos y servicios"

-Ernesto Martínez Ataz, Ciudad Real-

-Gonzalo Rodríguez,

Sonora-

-Laura Montanaro,

Torino-

"La capacité

à créer des liens et

construire des réseaux

créateurs

de valeur ajoutée"

"Su entusiasmo para hacer trabajar juntas a personas e instituciones de distintos países y culturas, ... y con éxito."

-Georges Blanc,

Paris-

-Alfons Stinus,

Barcelona-

"La experiencia y profesionalidad del secretariado de la red"

"Creatividad para

brindar un servicio

muy actualizado

e inteligente"

-Senén Barro-

Stgo. de Compostela

-Francisco Gatto,

Ushuaia-

"Its capacity to anticipate and analize relevant issues for universities in the near future"

"Its high level trainning programs in strategic areas and the support to establish relations with international partners "

"La posibilidad de establecer

contactos con las mejores

universidades para intercambiar experiencias y poder replicar

buenas prácticas institucionales"

-Marí Parellada,

Barcelona-

-Ilse Wisotzki,

Lima-

-Jannette Velez-

Bogotá

Columbus Association

What are we?

The first

multilateral network

of European and Latin-American

University´ Leaders

countries

in

We are

universities

15

47

In which

8

1.280.000

Students

languages are spoken

post-graduates students

250.000

Staff

115.000

Our database contains over

9500

contacts

How is your university coping with an increasingly complex world?

Facing competition

  • Diversifying its funding base
  • Increasing its connections in target regions

Building

  • Attracting international students

International alliances

  • Improving its performance in accreditation processes or rankings

Together With knowledge and competences,

connections are a very important asset.

The number of students enrolled outside their country of citizenship has risen at an annual rate of 7.1% during the period 2000-2010

Accreditation processes & rankings

have major impact on

the attraction of national and international students

There are 15.000 Higher Education Institutions in the World, but we are only worried about less than 100

Helping your university

to move forward

Columbus Association

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