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128 4 | Sustainability at PRISA Second International Seminar on Education of Chile With the Telefonica Foundation and Radio ADN CHILE. Santiago de Chile, April 17 and 18 With the participation of experts Ricardo Cuenca, Marcelo Fontecilla, Rosario Navarro, Ernesto Tre-viño, Patricio Meller and Mario Martín Bris, among others, under the title Quality Education for All: Leadership and Educational Inclusion. The seminar provided updated information and successful experiences to share knowledge re-garding the priorities of Latin American education. These included strengthening school leadership to improve the management of schools, quality, equity and educational reforms, as well as how to achieve inclusive education and the transforma-tion of education. Second Education Week Lima With the Ministry of Education of Peru, OECD, Fundación Telefónica and El País PERU. Lima, April 20 and 21 Under the title Educational skills for better oppor-tunities. The inaugural keynote speech was given by An-dreas Schleicher, director for Education and Skills at the OECD and director of the PISA study, who presented the latest OECD report entitled Skills in Ibero-America: Analysis of PISA 2012 to more than two hundred attendees, primarily education autho-rities, school principals and education experts. The report, which is a first for the region, addres-ses the weaknesses of educational systems in Ibe-ro- America, particularly with regard to the impact of student socioeconomic backgrounds on their learning outcomes. VivaLectura Award With the Ministry of Education of Argentina and OEI ARGENTINA. Buenos Aires, May 5 In this ninth edition of the awards, there were 480 submissions and 300 projects on the best educa-tional experiences from all provinces. In selecting the winning entries, the jury evaluated the promo-tion of reading comprehension, creativity and dy-namism of the initiatives, the relevance of such ac-tion to the target community and its results, among other criteria. Seminar Education for Global Citizenship With UNESCO and El País BRAZIL. Sao Paulo, May 12 What education is required for the twenty-first cen-tury? What exactly is education for global citizens-hip? Experts, education managers and teachers debated these issues, and others, by analyzing citizenship skills, the importance of comprehensi-ve training and the development of public policies that promote learning. Other issues such as trai-ning for the labour market, social inclusion, public policy and the role of the school and educator to face these new challenges were also discussed. First Ibero-American Festival of Children’s and Youth Literature With the Miguel de Cervantes Virtual Library Foundation, the President of the Republic of Colombia, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Culture, Embassy of Spain in Colombia, Castilla y Leon Regional Government, OIJ, Unicef, CAFAM, Caracol Radio, El País, Best Western, Santillana and Loqueleo Colombia. Bogota, May 31 and June 1 The Santillana Foundation and the Miguel de Cer-vantes Virtual Library Foundation are behind the Ibero-American Festival of Children’s and You-th Literature, an initiative that aims to contribute to the promotion of this specific sector of literary creation, and which can make valuable cultural, educational and social contributions. This first edition was an enormous success. Held in the city of Bogota, it was attended by President Juan Manuel Santos 11th Latin American Education Forum With the OEI ARGENTINA. Buenos Aires, August 23 The 11th Latin American Education Forum, with the title The construction of scientific and techno-logical thinking in children aged 3 to 8, provided a space for reflection and debate on the current situation of the education system, and the political and educational challenges it faces.


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