ORACLE
Regional Observatory for the Quality of Equity in Higher Education in Latin America
The Regional Observatory for the Quality of Equity in Higher Education in Latin America aims to be a space for exchanging experiences, preparing studies and proposing lines of action focused on improving inclusion and equity in Latin America’s higher education institutions. The focus of analysis will be the students, the administration and service personnel and the teaching staff forming part of the analysed institutions. In its initial phase, the observatory comprises 30 Latin American institutions, with five European universities taking part as associates.
The development of the ORACLE project is arranged into three phases, which coincide with each of the three years of the project. In each phase, three specific objectives are identified, from which different activities emanate that help to put into effect the actions to be developed.
Phase 1 - Creation of structures:
1.1. Making viable the creation of the Quality and Equity Unit in the university institutions
1.2. Providing the institutional observatories with functionality
1.3. Linking the Quality and Equity Units to create a regional support and collaboration network.
Phase 2 - Studies and analysis:
2.1. Establishing a protocol for diagnosis and improvement according to strata involved and institutional functions
2.2. Setting up the Regional Observatory for Quality and Equity in Higher Education (ORACLE)
2.3. Applying the methodology of diagnosis, assessment and improvement of equity.
Phase 3 - Modernization of the higher education organizations:
3.1. Contributing to the organizational development of the region’s higher education institutions
3.2. Applying and validating the modernization and development model
3.3. Institutionalizing and disseminating a protocol for diagnosis and improvement according to strata and functions.
Project Partners
- University of Applied Sciences – FH JOANNEUM https://www.fh-joanneum.at
- Universidad Católica de Bolívia http://www.ucb.edu.bo/Nacional/Forms/Index.aspx
- Universidad Mayor Real y Pontificia de San Francisco Xavier de Chuquisaca https://www.usfx.bo/
- Universidade de Brasilia www.unb.br/
- Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita Filho” http://www.unesp.br/international/
- Universidad de Tarapacá https://www.uta.cl/
- Universidad de Talca http://www.utalca.cl/link.cgi/#/link.cgi/
- Universidad de Antioquia www.udea.edu.co/
- Universidad de Tolima http://www.ut.edu.co/
- Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica https://www.tec.ac.cr/
- Universidad de Costa Rica https://www.ucr.ac.cr/
- Universidad de Cienfuegos https://www.ucf.edu.cu/
- Universidad de la Habana ; Aalborg University http://www.en.aau.dk/
- Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral http://www.espol.edu.ec/
- Universidad Estatal de Milagro http://www.unemi.edu.ec/
- Universidad de El Salvador http://www.ues.edu.sv/
- Universidad Dr. José Matías Delgado http://www.ujmd.edu.sv/
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona http://www.uab.cat/web/universitat-autonoma-de-barcelona-1345467954774.html
- Facultad de Ciencias Sociales http://www.sociales.uba.ar/
- Universidad Rafael Landívar http://principal.url.edu.gt/
- Universita’ degli Studi di Bergamo https://www.unibg.it/
- Universidad Juárez Autónoma de Tabasco http://www.ujat.mx/
- Universidad Veracruzana https://www.uv.mx/
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Nicaragua – León http://www.unanleon.edu.ni/
- Universidad Especializada de las Américas http://www.udelas.ac.pa/
- Universidad Interamericana de Panamá https://www.uip.edu.pa/
- Universidad Católica del Paraguay http://www.universidadcatolica.edu.py/
- Universidad Nacional de Asunción http://www.una.py/
- Instituto Politécnico de Leiria https://www.ipleiria.pt/home/
- Instituto Universitario Asociación Cristiana de Jóvenes http://www.iuacj.edu.uy/
- Universidad ORT Uruguay https://www.ort.edu.uy/
- Universidad Central de Venezuela http://www.ucv.ve/
- Universidad de los Andes https://uniandes.edu.co/en
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