The Industrial University of Santander, UIS, is the host of the IV Inter-University Meeting of the Sounds for Peacebuilding Program, which will be held on November 28 and 29, 2024 on the university campus. This event will be attended by delegates from the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Knowledge and the directors of six public universities that operate the Program in the country, with the purpose of closing the activities for this year and projecting what is to come for 2025.
The universities that will participate in the IV Meeting are the universities of Caldas, Antioquia, UPTC of Tunja, Atlántico, Cauca and UIS. The meeting will be attended by the directors of the Program and their pedagogical, psychosocial, administrative, communications, goals, systematization and legal teams.
Agenda for Thursday, November 28
The day, which will be held in the Guillermo Camacho Caro auditorium of the central campus of the UIS, will be attended by the rector of the University, Hernán Porras Díaz, who will receive the delegations and officially open the event. At 10:00 a.m., the conference ‘Metas’ will be held, in which experts will talk about the use of information and communication technologies to collect data in social projects, following the experience with the Sonidos para la Construcción de Paz (Sounds for Peace Building) Program.
At 11:40 a.m. there will be an artistic presentation by the Pamplona Choir, which will close the morning session.
At 2:00 p.m. the Meeting will open with the ‘Pedagogical Conversation’, in which the professionals who lead the pedagogical routes of the PSCP will share their experiences during the implementation of the project.
At around 4:30 p.m., to close the day, the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Knowledge will present the progress of the ‘Arts for Peace Building’ project.
Agenda for Friday, November 29
Friday’s meeting will begin at 8:30 a.m. in the Bienestar Pro building with working tables distributed as follows: University Directors; Training and Pedagogy; Psychosocial Accompaniment; Construction of Social Memory, reports and goals; Territorial, population and gender approach; Legal-administrative; and Communications Strategy.
At around 11:00 a.m., the results of each of the roundtables will be socialized and the conclusions will be presented to the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Knowledge and the Ministry of Education.
To end the day, at 2:50 p.m. delegates from the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Knowledge, Ministry of Education and delegations from the six universities will move to the Agora Auditorium to participate in the ‘Fourth National Meeting of Children and Youth Literature: Song, Creation and Territory’, led by the Co-Libris Seedbed, which will have artistic samples of children, adolescents and young people of the Sounds for Peacebuilding Program of Zone 7 operated by the UIS.
The Regional Director of PSCP – UIS, Angélica Mora Dionisio, said that it is an honor for the UIS to receive the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Knowledge, the Ministry of Education and the delegations of the universities to talk about the progress of the Program in this closing stage of 2024 and projections for 2025. “We welcome the public universities that operate the Sounds for Peacebuilding Program and we hope that the sessions will be very productive to continue articulating, sharing knowledge, experiences and thus getting ready for what would be the operation of the Program for 2025,” he said.
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