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The internationalization in the University of America it is conceived as a constitutive part of its origin and of the name “America”, generating a relationship between strategic institutional contribution to the continent's regional integration, strengthen the culture and national identity, and promote the competencies of their educational community to a world that is increasingly globalized. It is fundamental to an international vision that addresses everyday situations from a broader context and not merely particular.
Our purpose is to obtain the active participation and mass of all the members of the community Uniamericana missions, academic, international seminars, forums, exchanges, summer schools and winter and, of course, to obtain scholarships and opportunities by entities and IES domestic and foreign for studies within and outside the country.
At the same time, the University of America welcomes the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) as part of the curricular design of their different programs and committed to their students and alumni to integrate them in their academic and professional performance.
We propose the institutional strategy and accompany your projection unit.
We support you in the search of financial resources and in-kind to the internationalization institutional.
We find and promote opportunities to own and external to the benefit of the Community Uniamericana.
We provide scenarios for the relationship of the High Address.
We promote the internationalization of the academic community through projects that works the Coordination or related to internationalisation into the curriculum.
So that any member of the Community Uniamericana can promote the establishment of strategic relations for institutional interest.
We encourage permanently the consolidation of internationalization by means of the strategic thinking of all the processes, so that decentralize the management.
We promote the training of teachers on issues of internationalization.
Centralised and guide the support requests for the Chapters Student to the institution, to ensure a greater reach.
We work in network for the implementation of cooperation projects of local, national, and international levels.
The University of America is the first institution of higher education in Colombia, which is governed under the model education Bilingual, International, Innovative and Sustainable (BIIS), being recognized in directing their full educational strategy responding to the trends of the international labour market, implementing actions to develop global competence and intercultural your educational community.
To do this, we have designed a path for our students to live the Internationalization throughout their academic process so that its impact extends to his professional life: the Journey of America's Global Training is our internationalization strategy to develop competencies that allow us to understand global phenomena, through various options of programs and projects to which the student can access according to their interests and capabilities.
These activities contribute to the realization of the Field of Global Training raised from the guidelines, institutional, that is to say, the appropriation of: the Multicultural, Global Citizenship, the Complex Thinking, Sustainable Development and Networks Connectives.
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Through different programs, and bilateral or multilateral alliances with Institutions of Higher Education, promotes the mobility of virtual and face-to-face in order to live an international experience.
The students have the possibility to participate in several projects focused on solving problems of global order, in the form of challenges to national and international students from other cities or countries.
Training gaps, intensive or semi-intensive to learn about the latest trends and developments in different areas of knowledge. They tend to be certified as an incentive academic for students.
By external agencies at the local, national and international levels. Are short term courses with national and international entities that are related to the area of discipline of the student. These are some of them.
Groups of students of a University program of America, by the will of their own, come together to develop activities, trainings, and projects in their area of knowledge, from the hand of an association or Chapter to macro international, which coordinates academic activities, research, among others. Makes it easy to connect with the union of professionals that will belong to the student when they graduate. The University of America with campus Chapters in the areas of Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Chemical Engineering, which are ACIPET, SPE, EAGE, AICHE, ASME, IEEE, OASIS and ILSE.
The University of America is connected daily with entities and organizations which promote scholarships for the development of graduate programs, academic exchanges, training courses, missions, academic as well as other resources to strengthen the professional profile. You can browse them by clicking here.
Focuses on the integration of international practices in the classroom and on the campus. This includes activities such as class mirror, where teachers and experts from different institutions collaborate to impart lessons on set, as well as programs COIL (Collaborative Online International Learning), which facilitate the collaboration between the students of different countries through projects and joint activities online. Its goal is to enrich the educational experience of students by exposing them to international perspectives and to promote cultural exchange and academic.
Subjects who develop global competence and intercultural, which are found in the curriculum of the Field of Global Training. These academic spaces can be virtual or face-to-face, providing skills required by the labour market, facilitating the participation of students in activities of international academic mobility, and promoting the awareness and the commitment of the students with the contemporary global challenges.
The Resource Center for Learning and Research (CRAI) offers training in skills in search, management, analysis, and retrieval of information from a simple search on the internet to a specialized search in a database of academic, on the other hand, to know and to manage different networks academic research for participation in calls, national and international.
Through calls or specific agreements, the University promotes mobility for internship research outgoing and incoming, congresses and International meetings of students, researchers, internships, youth volunteer, publications and presentations joint between students, teachers and researchers. The Program Dolphin is the badge of this milestone, and an initiative that seeks to promote collaboration between HEIS and research centers at national and international level. The program offers students undergraduate and graduate the opportunity to participate in projects led by well-known researchers. Participants can do internships within or outside your country of origin, allowing them to gain practical experience, develop academic skills, and establish professional networks.
Students can participate in formative processes of research through the Seed-beds, which are aligned with the research work developed by the Research Groups of the University. Each one of these groups to match, and aims to answer questions that give account of the foci and strategic goals set out by the SDGS.
Advice and guidance for development of thesis, with a focus on what is postulated by the SDGS.
Are processes of accompaniment shared in the academic training, both at the national and international level. Involve collaboration between two or more tutors of different educational institutions or countries to guide and supervise a student in their research or academic project, enriching their education through interdisciplinary perspectives, access to professional networks and opportunities of internationalization.
Participate in the authorship of scholarly articles in magazines offers students the opportunity to develop skills, establish professional connections, gain academic recognition, contribute to knowledge in your field and improve their future opportunities for graduate school and employment.
Participation in seminars, conferences, webinars, and other formats of its own or external, taking the opportunity to develop skills, keeping up to date with advances in their field, share ideas with colleagues and establish professional connections that can open doors to future career opportunities and study.
Involves collaborations with educational institutions for learning languages such as English, French, German, Portuguese, among others, as well as the programs offered by the CLUA of the UAmérica. These partnerships provide students with the opportunity to improve their language skills, broadening their opportunities for employment, international studies and academic collaboration in an increasingly globalized world.
Offer the opportunity to gain practical experience and make a significant contribution to the community. In addition, from the University promotes and gives proof of these activities, giving students the official recognition of his social commitment and his contribution to the welfare of the society. An example of this is the program MIVI that the network offers DOLPHIN, which puts at the disposal of students, hundreds of social and environmental projects around the world, short and long term, to contribute time and expertise.
Allow an additional training in skills of being and doing, strengthening the overall profile of the student. Badges certify the development of additional skills that are valued in the professional and academic, enabling students to excel and improve their competitiveness on the labour market increasingly demanding and globalized.An example of these badges are offered by the IDB, Edx, Coursera, Banco Santander, AFS Colombia, among others.
The University of America, from the Center of Professional experience leads agreements with HEIS, international or multinational companies with headquarters in Bogota, so that students can participate in their selection processes in order to perform their practices. The organization IAESTE provides students with finding internships, paid internships abroad, with which the University has an agreement. These possibilities allow you to live an experience not only professional but also intercultural, which may include the strengthening of a second language.
We promote the recognition of Bogotá as a city, the birthplace of the University of America. We have several cultural heritage sites that we maintain, and have for students, teachers, colleagues and society in general, to know the history of the country: the House of the Rights of Man and of Antonio Nariño, Casa Eduardo Santos, Casa de Manuelita Sáenz and the Museum of Costumes.
Promotes spaces approach to culture and idiosyncrasy, bogotá and colombia. The University and its partners offer a different agenda and enriching of these events, giving students the opportunity to explore and participate in cultural activities that enrich their college experience and strengthen their connection with the local and national community.
Internationalization is a key factor in the High-Quality Education, is the facilitator of effective relationship, collaborative work, the associativity without borders, the convergence of opinions and knowledge, the development of cultural and academic, to be able to be placed in a global context from the local, to dare to propose solutions to problems of the planet and, ultimately, the strategy of an Institution of Higher Education to the university community to interact with their immediate surroundings, the national and international levels.
The commitment from the Coordination of Internationalization of UAmérica is to strengthen the culture of the relationship between institutional purpose on the part of all the actors that make up the University, that is, to accompany students, teachers, employees and graduates, in the consolidation of its links, partnerships, agreements and networks connectives that contribute to a greater visibility to natural persons, private and public entities; highlighting our identity as colombians, who in turn make you part of a collective greater called society.
We are a University open to the world, in which we have prioritised five units of competence for the comprehensive development of the university community: multiculturalism, citizenship global, complex thinking and systemic networks connectives and sustainable development; which pervade the development of programs, projects and activities that integrate the different professional disciplines and establish cooperation as a vehicle to serve the society.
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