The city of Valencia will become this week the world epicenter of higher education. For two days, the incomparable setting of the City of Arts and Sciences, where the V International Meeting of Universia Rectors will be held, will bring together 700 rectors and university academics from 14 countries, among other personalities from politics, business, and national and international institutions.
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, together with the president of Banco Santander and Universia, Ana BotÃn, will inaugurate the event this Tuesday in Valencia accompanied by the rector of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and president of the International Meeting Committee, Enrique Graue.
Under the slogan University and Society, the V International Meeting of Universia Rectors will become a great space for debate in which attendees will talk about the keys that will once again turn the university into a motor of progress for society and sustainable growth.
Scientist and academic Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web; former US President Bill Clinton’s Treasury Secretary and World Bank Chief Economist Larry Summers; the Prince of Asturias Award for Scientific Research 2006, Ignacio Cirac, or the person in charge of the conversational AI research strategy at Google AI, Pilar Manchón, will be some of the speakers who will participate in the event that will turn the city of Valencia into the world capital of education for two days.
From the organization it is reported that “it will be one of the largest meetings of rectors in the world and all of them are called to lead an unprecedented debate to provide solutions on how the university can contribute to facing some of the challenges of humanity, for the sake of a more inclusive, just and sustainable society”.
At the meeting there will be three academic lines of debate: ‘Accompanying training throughout life’, ‘Promoting entrepreneurship and innovation’ and ‘Promoting networks and interconnection’.
The objective is that the conclusions of the meeting will be included in the Declaration of Valencia, in which various areas of action will be identified where the University can develop value proposals to contribute to a more sustainable social and economic progress of society from training, research or innovation.