Second FLAUC Council Meeting Report

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos

November 8^th, 2018

Lima, Peru

Vision

The overall vision of the Consortium is to promote closer ties and understanding between Latin America and China, by means of joint research projects and educational activities. Furthermore, the Consortium seeks to promote Latin American culture in China, and the Chinese culture in Latin America.

FLAUC Council Meeting and Annual Meeting (with rotating chairing system)

Each year, the FLAUC members will have two compulsory meetings. The Secretariat Office at FDDI will be responsible for organizing Council Meeting each May. The first Council Meeting was held by Fudan University at Shanghai Forum 2017. At the meeting, the establishment of the Consortium was announced.

Each November, one of the members in Latin America will take the position of chair and host an annual meeting on their campus. All the members of the Consortium will attend the meeting, concluding the accomplishment of the year, and making plans for the next. The Second Annual Meeting was chaired by Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, on November 8^th, 2018.

AGENDA OF THE MEETING

1.Welcome

2.Proposals of collaboration strategies from each Member University

3.Preparation Annual Meeting 2019, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

ATTENDEES (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER BY COUNTRY OF MEMBER UNIVERSITIES)

-Ignacio Villagran, Director of the Center of Studies Argentina - China of the Faculty of Social Sciences – Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

-Angelica Torresin, International Cooperation Officer - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, UNICAMP, Brasil

-Johannes Rehner, Director Center for Asian Studies – Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile

-Eduardo Vera, Director International Affairs – Universidad de Chile, Chile

-ZHANG Yi，Executive Vice Dean of Fudan Development Institute – Fudan University, China

-WANG Zhengxu, Professor of Department of Politics, School of International Relations & Public Affairs - Fudan University, China

-LIU Siyuan， Policy Analyst of Fudan Development Institute – Fudan University, China

-Ann Manson, Member of the University Board Directors (Consiliatura) – Universidad del Rosario, Colombia

-Jochen Kleinschmidt, Professor of the Faculty for Political Sciences, Government and International Relations – Universidad del Rosario, Colombia

-Carolyn Finck, Director of the Office International Affairs – Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

-Mauricio Cervantes, Chair Research Center Fudan – TEC de Monterrey, – Instituto Tecnológico y de EstudiosSuperiores de Monterrey, México

-Miguel A. Montoya B, Director of Incubation and Development of Centers, Business School – Instituto Tecnológico y de EstudiosSuperiores de Monterrey, México

-Adriana Oviedo, Senior Advisor for Academic Cooperation – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México

-Peter Yamakawa, Dean of ESAN School Business

-Otto Regalado, Director of Graduate School of Business – Universidad ESAN, Peru

-Orestes Cachay Boza, Rector – Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru

-Felipe San Martín Howard, Vicerector for Research and Graduate Studies – Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru

-Elizabeth Canales Aybar Academic Vicerector of Undergraduate – Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru

-Heli Jaime Barrón Pastor, Head of the General Office of Cooperation and Interinstitutional Relations – Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru

-Juan Diego Zamudio Padilla, Head of International Technical Cooperation Office - Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru

1.WELCOME

Words of the Rector, Orestes Cachay Boza, Dr.

Appreciates the presence of each of the representatives of the member universities of the Fudan-Latin America University Consortium at the National University of San Marcos

These days have been hectic, with a tight schedule, but the results are positive. We are going to conclude this Annual Meeting, with conclusions from each of the tables that have been developed today that are challenges for the country. Thanks to you, who, as exhibitors or commentators, have been able to contribute to transmit experiences and knowledge.

Peru and San Marcos will be waiting for you as many times as you like. In that sense, greet each one of you and your university community.

Words of the Vicerector for Research and Graduate Studies, Felipe San Martín Howard, PhD

The National University of San Marcos, after the meeting in Shanghai last May, we have worked hard on topics of Asia. We had contacts and relations with Asia, however, not as a policy of our University.

However, these months have been profitable, we are very happy with the meeting and have come to it with the purpose of strengthening this consortium at the Second FLAUC Annual Meeting in Latin America.

San Marcos will have a very strong activity, we will need your support and help in this relationship with the Asian world, and find in the third FLAUC meeting a better understanding between Latin America and Asia.

Words of Head of the General Office of Cooperation and Interinstitutional Relations, Heli Barrón Pastor, PhD

We know this consortium was created with a general vision to promote relationships between China and Latin America. We worked hard with the launch of the Asian Studies Center and the framework agreement with Fudan University. This agreement strengthens relationships and we can obtain all of the objectives that we will start next year. So, for us, internalization is not only mobility, we will want to do more activities to increase opportunities for students, academics, researchers and staff. We hope to cooperate in the future with all member universities of the Consortium in postgraduate, masters or PhD programs, as well as technology transfers.

2.PROPOSALS OF COLLABORATION STRATEGIES FROM EACH MEMBER

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Peru

Econ. Juan Diego Zamudio, Secretary of the Second Annual Meeting of Fudan–Latin America University Consortium.

Achievements:

1.Creation of the Asian Studies Center.

2.“University and Development”, as the main topic of the Second Annual Meeting of Fudan–Latin America University Consortium – FLAUC.

3.Agreements of cooperation with Fudan University and ESAN.

Proposals for collaboration:

1.“The way of Mario Vargas Llosa” as an international cooperation program to show Peru: language, culture, literature and improve the Spanish language.

2.We will open the range of opportunities of the RUNAi network that we will launch on 9^th November for access to all of Peru in cooperation.

3.Joint research among the members.

ESAN Business School, Peru

Peter Yamakawa, Dean of ESAN School Business, said ESAN was the first Business School in Latin America. We have great expectations about this consortium because of the qualified universities of FLAUC, we can work together for international exchange programs and research projects.

Otto Regalado,Director Graduate School of Business, mentioned the participation of ESAN Business School in the Consortium.

Achievements:

1.Work with colleagues of Tec de Monterrey and Fudan University on the book China and Latin America: Paths to overcoming the Middle-Income Trap, which will be published by China Social Sciences Press, and will hopefully be released by the end of this year.

2.Participate an editor for the special issue of the journal competition and regulation Embassy.

3.Co-organize the call for paper panel on “The other side of the Silk Road: Chinese investments in Latin American Infrastructures” on November 8th.

Proposals for collaboration:

1.Share production with a colleague of University of Chile.

Universidad del Rosario, Colombia

Ann Manson was in the representation as the new president of Universidad del Rosario and the Director of Relations (Vice rector), Sonia Duran. This initiative is difficult, but it offers tremendous opportunities, to really make significant advances in specific research projects and development programs.

Achievements:

1.Created an online Scientific Production Repository (SPR): Facilitate access to scientific production of members and promote academic visibility of member institutions and of FLAUC itself. Facility networking among faculties, researches.

2.FLAUC Collaborative Teaching Program in May 2018 with 2 UR Professor at Fudan University

3.UR Delegation to FUDAN, May 2018

4.UR Participation in Shanghai Forum, May 2018

5.Participation in a Call for papers: Public goods in times of power transition with Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile in the Second FLAUC Annual Meeting in Latin America.

Proposals for collaboration:

Four priorities

1.Online FLAUC Scientific Production Repository with a google group.

2.Faculty & Doctoral Student Exchange Fellowships UR & Partner Co-funding in three categories:

a.Doctoral Students Fellowships

b.Innovative Pedagogical Experience Fellowships

c.Visiting Teaching and Research Fellowships

3.FLAUC Round Table in Shanghai Forum in next May.

4.Develop a rotating FLAUC Summer School among all universities of the Consortium with thematic and academic priorities.

Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

Carolyn Finck, Director of International Affairs, emphasized the importance of more opportunities for this Consortium.

Proposals for collaboration:

1.Opening of the Center for sustainable development of Universidad de Los Andes. This center is going to play a main role in the university. The director of this center will be Alejandro Gabrilla, farmer and minister for health in Colombia.

Topics of the Center:

-Urban Sustainable development

-Climate change priorities

-Issues related to agropecuary systems and sustainable enterprises.

2.The first area to work is the participation in research call with members of the Consortium.

This center will generate an incident in public policy so we want to have a direct impact in the society. The Center for sustainable development is for Latin America and Caribbean.

3.The students are involved in all projects in the areas of work of the campus sustainability. We have a great opportunity to strengthen relationships.

Universidad de Chile, Chile

Eduardo Vera, Director for International Affairs, mentioned the importance of the network because it is the essential into internalization, also the long term and deep goals to improve the quality of the countries and the society.

Achievements:

There are issues that are becoming more important, as environment, so we welcome sustainable development center of the Universidad de Los Andes because it is a big topic, specifically in countries, in which we can share experiences and cooperate, for this reason the collaboration is essential.A specific topic is the health of the ocean, monitoring and creating policies that will help stop the deterioration, which is very important, for this the UChile belongs to another network, APRU, Association of Pacific Rim Universities, of which Fudan University is a member and Tecnológico de Monterrey as well. We hope that new Latin American Universities of this Consortium will enter this network in the future.

As we know to the APEC efforts summaries and presentations, from your international affairs. Peru has been an active member, and for 2019, APEC Presidential Summit is going to be held in Chile.

Proposals for collaboration:

UChile will be working with Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile as a host team for FLAUC Annual Meeting 2019.

Universidade Estadual Campinas, UNICAMP, Brasil

Angelica Torresin, International Cooperation Officer explained the results of the UNICAMP.

Achievements:

1.UNICAMP hosted the Seminar of the Institute of Economics of UNICAMP in last June with the coordinator Bruno Martarello De Conti. We had collaboration with Zhang Ping from School of International Relations and Public Affairs of Fudan University.

2.Bruno Martarello De Conti is going to travel to China and he is going to have a meeting on next Monday (12^th November) for joint projects.

3.Mariana Hase was a PhD. Student of UNICAMP. She studied one semester at Fudan University.

Proposals for collaboration:

1.UNICAMP will send the information of the Digital Repository to Universidad del Rosario in a few weeks.

Universidad de Buenos Aires

Ignacio Villagran, Director of Center of Studies Argentina - China of Faculty of Social Sciences, was in representation of the International Cooperation Office. He explained about the internationalization process of Universidad de Buenos Aires in particular with partnerships with Chinese institutions and the Strategic Approach for cooperation with China: FLAUC-ICUBA-Research Centers.

Proposals for collaboration:

1.Student exchange

2.Intensive postgraduate courses

3.Doctoral and Research Stays

4.Faculty exchange

5.Short training courses

6.Linkage with the productive sector

7.Short Programs for language training & Chinese cultural promotion

8.Proposals to balance knowledge between our countries

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Adriana Oviedo, Senior Advisor for Academic Cooperation mentioned the importance of cooperating with Chinese institutions. This way is going to help us to increase internationalization and identify more areas to collaborate.

Proposals for collaboration:

1.Double degrees

2.Exchange students programs

3.Spanish courses

Tec de Monterrey

Miguel Angel Montoya, Director of Incubation and Development of Centers, mentioned the collaboration of Tec de Monterrey.

Achievements:

1.We were to push the researchers in the consortium,which means six different professors participated in the Call for Papers in the Second FLAUC Annual Meeting in Latin America (UNMSM).

2.The book CHINA and LATIN AMERICA: Paths to overcoming the middle-income trap that we co-edited with Fudan Development Institute will be soon in the market.

3.We prepared the call for the papers with ESAN University and a regulation special issue

4.Dr. Daniel Lemus, who is one of the faculty members of Tec de Monterrey travelled to China in Sabbatical Semester, and did a seminar on Chinese globalization and China Latin America cooperation at Fudan University.

5.PhD. student was in an exchange semester at Fudan University.

Proposals for collaboration:

1.We will collaborate in the call for papers, panels or discussions in the next FLAUC Annual Meeting in Chile.

2.We can work with members of this Consortium in another association named Triada: El Tecnológico de Monterrey, la Universidad de Los Andes y la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in specific topics.

Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Johannes Rehner, Director of Center for Asian Studies, explained about the notes of the achievements and possibilities to work together in the next FLAUC Meeting.

Achievements:

1.Joint Session in the Second FLAUC Annual Meeting in Lima

a.Nicole Jenne, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

b.Arlene Tickner, Universidad del Rosario

2.Center for International Relations was invited in this meeting; the director of this Office is a representative in the APEC 2020.

3.Four presentations in the Second FLAUC Meeting in Lima:

a.Francisco Urdinez (ICP UC)

b.Nicole Jenne (CEA UC)

c.Maria Fernanda Muñoz (CEI UC)

d.Johannes Rehner (CEA UC)

Proposals for collaboration:

1.Start to work on joint proposal for session in Shanghai Forum.

2.Prepare the research proposal for next year.

3.Preparatory meeting for the next Annual meeting with Universidad de Chile.

Fudan University

LIU Siyuan, Policy Analyst of Fudan Development Institute, explained about the achievements and initiatives of Fudan University.

Achievements:

1.FLAUC website: http://flauc.fudan.edu.cn

2.Series of seminars:

a.China-Latin America relations heading into a new era: current situation and outlook

Dr. GUO Cunhai, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

b.The Magical Latin America: A Wide World for Sino-foreign Exchanges

Prof. LU Jingsheng, Shanghai International Studies University

c.Latin American Communication from a Global South Perspective

Dr. ZHANG Zhihua, China Communication University

d.Chinese globalization and China- Latin America cooperation

Prof. Daniel Lemus, Tec de Monterrey

e.Whose Magic? Whose Reality?- From Yellow Butterfly to Godzilla“

Dr. FAN Ye, Beijing University

f.Latin American Studies in China - Expansion and Development

Prof. YU Man, Shanghai International Studies University

g.The Role of Development Banks in the Current World Scenario

Sr. Enrique García, president of the Board of the Council on Foreign Relations of Latin America and the Caribbean

h.Latin American Literature, Third World and Intellectual Issues in 1968

Dr. WEI Ran, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Proposals for collaboration:

ZHANG Yi, Executive Vice-Dean of Fudan Development Institute, talked about the “Seed Fund”, which is the best way to cooperate according to our aim.

-FLAUC Fellow is about a joint research between one Chinese researcher and one Latin American researcher (priority for FLAUC members) in topics related to Latin America and China. This initiative allows international publications, especially articles, which will help us to improve our university rankings. The achievement of this initiativewill be publications and conferences.

        --“Idea Lab” is about a cross-disciplinary research platform, which will be built up by FLAUC member universities.

3.ANNUAL MEETING 2019 PREPARATION, PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE

Host: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile & Universidad de Chile

Date: November 11^th and November 12^th, 2019

Concept:

A.Academic Panels.

4-5main topics (see next slide). For each topic, we invite FLAUC members to propose session.

B.Young Researchers Sessions.

Involve former and current exchange students, Master and PhD students, perhaps postdocs or other junior faculty.

C.Outreach / Side Event: “Doing Business with China”

Praxis experience with some academic input (example. International and Chinese Law, Intercultural Communication). The target group will be business, diplomacy and policy.

Draft Agenda:

Next steps & time frame:

Possibilities of main topics in FLAUC Annual Meeting 2019:

-Transpacific Relations, Development Models and Challenges

-Multilateralism, Peace and Global Governance

-Financial Markets and Changing global financial institutions

-Cooperation for Sustainable Development

They aim to bring together scholars from relevant research centers from both host universities.

The core element is the participation of researchers from Latin American Universities and Research Centers from Fudan University.

Publication of selected papers in an edited volume.

The rector of the National University of San Marcos gave a speech at the end of the second Annual Meeting of FLAUC in Latin America and wished the best for FLAUC next year.

Edited by Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos