CONGRESS INFORMATION

Congress. The academic program features conferences, discussion panels and simultaneous thematic sessions. Among participants invited to attend the sessions are civil servants and renowned academics from higher education institutions, intellectuals, businessmen, political leaders and members of Parliaments as well as senior officials from higher education international organizations.

Meetings of members. Assemblies of the eight IOHE regions will take place on Sunday, November 9^th. The Executive Council of the College of the Americas and the Council of the Institute for University Management and Leadership (IGLU) will meet on the same date. The General Assembly of members will be held over two sessions, scheduled for Tuesday, November 11^th and Wednesday, November 12^th.

IOHE-Expo. A fair held at the World Trade Center will offer higher education institutions, businesses and non-governmental organizations the possibility to introduce products and services related to higher education to executives and senior officials from the entire continent and present them with an opportunity to establish strategic alliances.

Gilles Boulet Prize. Awarded in memory of the founder and first president of the IOHE, the 2003 Gilles Boulet Prize rewards the exceptional quality of the Professional Work or Intervention Project accomplished by a participant in the IGLU Course.

Interamerica Prize. This distinction is awarded to an academic, a politician, an intellectual or a social leader whose professional accomplishments have contributed to the advancement of continental integration, in accordance with the IOHE mission and statement of values. This year, the Prize will be awarded to Dr. José Sarukhán Kermez, National Coordinator of the Comisión Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad (CONABIO), Mexico. He was recently appointed member at large of the Royal Society of the United Kingdom.