ITESM (Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey – Campus Mexico City

Contact: Yuriko Taniguchi Ponciano - Cooperative Services Coordinator/ International Office

Joaquín Guerra, Director for International Affairs (Vicerector equivalent)

Joaquin.guerra@itesm.mx

Ricardo Swain, Dean, School of Design, Engineering and Architecture, Campus in Mexico City Metropolitan Area

Hugo Elizalde, Dean, School of Design, Engineering and Architecture, Mexico City Campus

Dora García, Research Director, School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences

Alejandra Vilalta, Director of Internacionalization, Campus in Mexico City Metropolitan Area

Yuriko Taniguchi, Cooperation Services Coordinator

Welcome by the Director for International Affairs ITESM

ITESM presentation

VUB presentation

Visit to Campus Facilities

Round table for cooperation opportunities

Lunch
OVERVIEW AVAILABLE – ANNEX 8 & 9

ITESM	VUB
-private (but non-profit) -31 campuses -95.000 students: 55.000 Ba; 12.500 Ma+PhD; 27.000 high school -9.200 professors -52% have scholarship -51% of class 2014 have international experience -21% of alumni are PARTNERS or FOUNDERS of a company after 6 months of their graduation -160.000 linked In contacts students & alumni -27% of top 100 companies in Mexico are run by alumni -antenna in Germany; Fudan; Paris (closed for the moment) -From the incoming students, 42% come from Europe -15% of the courses are taught in English - Board of directors: industry - Linked-in: 160.000 alumni	We can learn from them in the area of entrepreneurship and knowledge transfer – Hugo Thienpont, Marc Goldchstein, Thomas Crispeels, Nicholay Dentchev … …
VISION: -entrepreneurial spirit -human sense (social responsibility, ethics) -international competitive PLUS interaction between these features Started with: Business, Engineering; Now comprehensive 7 strategic keys a.o. - social (e.g. full tuition scholarship for ”<1000 dollar” family income -inspiring faculty – new teaching methods -educational flexibility (challenge based learning) ** - spill-over to the region (distrito tec) - fund raising and alumni **Example: i-week = one week out of classroom doing challenges (30 challenges for engineering) in groups of 10. Is immersion in activity: making own instrument involving ergonomy, electronics,… Also int’l office had challenges: Mexico through your eyes with a video as result. Soon a pilot will start with one i-semester.	Maybe a destination for INISOL in the future? Extension of urban studies to another continent? Concept of i-week? Teaching staff exchange?
Research: is issue driven, applied and connected with industry Collaboration with MIT in nanotechnology
Networks: European Consortium for Innovative Universities (ECIU) – For details see ANNEX 2	To check by VUB – no Belgians in this network now – send to DOZ or Education Department as idea for best practice
Summer school available (PPT is available upon request to IRMO) ip.chiapas@servicios.itesm.mx sary.ruiz@itesm.mx coordinator: Sara Gabriela Ruiz	Exchange info on summer schools
Possibility for faculty mobility to ITESM for short stays, up to 2 years, employed by ITESM
By 2014: 50% of the students had an international experience By 2020: 100% of the students will have in international experience
ITESM is interested in 3 + 2 model. FLOW: 3 Ba at ITESM 1 exchange year at VUB (taking up 1st Ma courses) and result is Ba of ITESM 6 months to one year at ITESM 1 year at VUB taking up 2nd Ma courses (possible with inversion of semesters, doing thesis first)	VUB does suggestion of model in areas of interest, backed with research collaboration; primarily fac. ES.

TO DO: Networks: European Consortium for Innovative Universities (ECIU), propose to DOZ as best practice, or Koen Lombaerts, to see if we can be part Advice a visit to ITESM by the ES faculty (Include Leo Van Hove, Joel Branson, Michael Doms) e-mail and send ITESM presentation) Exchange information on summer schools for promotion

Parallel session Ann Peeters

12.00 – 13.00 Meeting with Dora García, Research Director, School of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences– PhD program in Humanities

CONTACTS	VUB
Dora García Roberto DOMINGUEZ (rdomingu@itesm.mx)	Ann Peeters
PhD : Doctorado en Estudios Humanisticos: Literature Ethics Communication Studies Cultural Studies  Multilingual Master with double degree as a possibility for students who intend to start a PhD at ITESM and are particularly interested in literature.

TO DO Ann Peeters to follow up with Dora García contacts Ann Peeters after having discussed this possibility with her colleagues.

Wednesday September 30^th (MEXICO CITY)_____________________________________________
IBERO (Universidad Iberoamericana)

#3 in México, (QS) # 22 in Latin America, 551 worldwide

Prolongación Paseo de la Reforma 880, Lomas de Santa Fe, 01219, México DF, entry #9 on Vasco de Quiroga street.

Contact: Sonia Fernández Orozco, Sub-director of Cooperation and Academic Relations

+(52)555950, extension 4014; soniae.fernandez@uia.mx

http://www.uia.mx/about-ibero

10:15 Welcome Meeting

Sonia E. FERNÁNDEZ OROZCO, Director of Academic Cooperation Sub-Director of Cooperation and Academic Relations

11:00 Martin SCHEER, Assistant Director, Student Mobility

Florian Dittmar, exchange coordinator incoming students

Claudia Castillo Ayala, special programs coordinator

12:00 Sala de Juntas Direcciones Divisionales

-Ana Bertha PÉREZ LIZAUR, Director, Graduate Studies

-Rafael Iván QUEVEDO PARTIDA, Professor/Researcher, Department of Engineering & Chemical Sciences

-Jorge Andrés MARTÍNEZ ALARCÓN, Director, Engineering Department

-Luis Felipe CANUDAS OREZZA, Director, Literature Department

-Jane-Däle LLOYD DÄLEY, Director, History Department

- Ing. Miguel Ángel Álvarez Gómez, Secretario Académico del Instituto Politécnico Nacional

- Dr. José Guadalupe Trujillo Ferrara, Secretario de Investigación y Posgrado

- Dr. Francisco José Plata Olvera, Secretario de Extensión e Integración Social

- Dr. Juan Silvestre Aranda Barradas, Director Postgraduate Studies
OVERVIEW AVAILABLE – ANNEX 11

IPN	VUB
-founded in 1936 -180.000 students -7.000 engineers graduate/year -moto: ‘the technique to the service of the nation’ -tv channel with 70% of country coverage -Ba and Ma - 32 joint degree programs - network of regional centers (SME support and permanent education) that focus mainly on hospitals and public organizations - they never went further than joint labs and would like their students to go abroad (but they may not have the appropriate language requirements) - to set up double degrees is one of their main priorities.
Research areas: Biotechnology Computer Sciences Energy Environmental Sciences Nanosciences and Micronanotechnologies Health Sciences Telecommunications Robotics and Mechatronics Aerospace Engineering
Research centers: Genomic Biotech center Computer Sciences (demand for collaboration from IPN) Economic, Administrative and Social Sciences Applied Science and advanced technology Marine Science Integral regional development Environmental studies Digital technology development Center for cleaner production Aerospatial development Nanoscience, micro and nanotechnology	Send info on: -VIB-plant genetics -BRUWIND -Water related groups -PL5 info: center for joint research valorization Contact Geert Angenon, Jacques Langhendries, Willy Bouwens
Collaboration with UCL and Liège Haute Ecole (student exchange)
IPN strong areas: -biotech; chemical engineering; materials -upcoming: electronics and computer science
Created 9 research networks: Biotechnology Computer Sciences Economics Energy Environmental Sciences Nanosciences and Micronanotechnologies Health Sciences Telecommunications Robotics and Mechatronics
Involved in technological-social programs that focus on: water diabetes (type 2) energy production obesity

TO DO Areas considered at the meeting as the starting point: Computer Sciences and Electronics Send brochures on: -VUB-plant genetics -BRUWIND -Water related groups -Big Data, ICT, IOF groups Send info on Pleinlaan 5 & 9: center for joint research valorisation

FIT
Evening: dinner with Tom Van Daele, FIT attaché (contact: mexico@fitagency.com)

gsm: 5554178420

Embajada de Bélgica
Flanders Investment & Trade
Tel: +55 52815922 |  F: +55 52815993
Av. Alfredo Musset 41, Col. Polanco - CP11550 México D.F.
-Arturos: Cuernavaca No. 68 Col. Condesa (closed on Wednesday)

-Maximo Bistro, Calle Tonala 133 (corner with Zacatecas)