CALL FOR PROPOSALS

CAIE-2025: Transforming Knowledge into Development

The Conference of the Americas on International Education (CAIE) is an event that brings together various actors and decision-makers involved in the internationalization of higher education in the Americas. The Conference incorporates the dialogue and analysis of trends, challenges, paradigms, strategies, and practices that contribute elements of strategic reflection to international education for the promotion of international collaboration and thus the transformation of knowledge into sustainable and comprehensive development in the region.

CAIE-2025 Costa Rica invites HEIs, professionals in international education, academics and researchers, representatives of central and local governments as well as civil society to submit proposals for parallel sessions. On a national and international level, contributions will move towards better multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary educational practices, more internationalized and inclusive education systems, as well as updating international and inter-institutional collaboration in accordance with the trends and challenges in the current context of higher education.

Main Conference Theme

The central theme of CAIE-2025 is “Transforming knowledge into development”, which implies the transition from centralized knowledge to the universalization of science as an element of social transformation and human development. It invites the permanent reconceptualization of education and research as generators of knowledge and drivers of innovation leading to more intercultural societies with environmental, economic, political, social, sustainable and sustainable development.

Important Dates

Conference Subthemes

1. Transcending the frontiers of knowledge: HEIs in internationalization processes for development

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have capacities in their substantive areas and their social commitment that have allowed them to be open to the updating of new approaches, paradigms, and practices, as well as their contribution in terms of national and international projects and actions, based on the
internationalization of knowledge.

The exchange of knowledge in recent years represents successful processes of collaboration both in the field of education, as well as in academic production in research and university extension projects. This reflects the potential of international collaborations while positioning a path that must be maintained for integral development based on the transformation of knowledge.

For this topic, proposals are sought that demonstrate the importance of collaboration and internationalization of knowledge for the improvement and strengthening of international education for the development of societies. Furthermore, proposals should address how HEIs can continue and strengthen internationalization processes for the benefit of society and academia while considering their impact on issues such as climate change, for example, and their contributions to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

2. The future of higher education

The changing global context and the experience of the post-pandemic period have highlighted challenges for higher education that encourage educational innovation through new modalities, technologies, and methodologies that permanently drive the transformation of teaching and learning.

“Education Futures aims to rethink education and shape its future. The initiative is catalyzing a global debate on how knowledge, education, and learning need to be rethought in a world of increasing complexity, uncertainty, and precariousness (UNESCO, 2023).”

Therefore, for this topic we seek the incorporation of experiences that reflect innovative practices in education, as well as proposals that address digital transformation. Hence, reflections from equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), and the use of technologies for education from open innovation, STEAM methodologies, active pedagogies, alternative credentials, digital credentials, micro and macro credentials, and artificial intelligence in terms of its ethical and responsible use.

3. Research networks for knowledge transformation

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have great strengths in research, production, and transfer of knowledge. Based on this, it is necessary to strengthen the integral analysis for international collaboration and integration. For this, it is necessary to break with endogamic paradigms that limit scientific development and move towards collaborative routes that not only allow the enrichment of knowledge from different perspectives, disciplines, and contexts, but also promote the dialogue of knowledge in different educational and social realities.

The current international context has marked the consolidation of collaboration and integration networks that promote new forms of research production. These result in the transfer and exchange of knowledge with different social, public, and private actors, thus expanding the strengths to address existing challenges.

Some of these challenges are linked to the production and dissemination of knowledge, the promotion of Open Science, which promotes the dissemination of scientific knowledge, free, accessible online, and reusable, as well as the future of scientific publications in languages other than one's own, such as Spanish, French, and Portuguese. It is also important to highlight the role that national, regional, international, and
continental networks play in the promotion and valorization of knowledge production and educational programs in other languages that consider and recognize linguistic and cultural diversity, in contexts where English predominates as the universal language.

Therefore, it is expected that proposals question challenges around the theme and reflect the work, experiences, knowledge, and products of partnerships, collaborations, and integration of HEIs with different actors at the national and international level, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

4. Technological innovation for sustainability and sustainable development

Innovation, from its general perspective, represents the incorporation of new elements that transform reality by adding value to the existing or providing new visions and solutions. Hence, it is fundamental for society as it represents progress in all fields with a perspective of integral development, protection, and preservation of the different existing ecosystems and their inhabitants.

For this topic, proposals are expected to reflect the use of innovative technologies that focus on projects, products, devices, convergent technological and scientific strategies that allow accelerating the processes of internationalization of higher education, and that contribute to sustainability and sustainable development in accordance with the global agenda for sustainable development.

It is also expected to receive examples and evidence of strategies or mechanisms implemented by higher education institutions that involve organizations and counterparts from different sectors, as well as evidence of their participation in the design, implementation, and monitoring of local, regional, or
international strategies to contribute to the advancement of the United Nation’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

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Publication Conditions

Publication

  • The title and executive summary of approved proposals, including those that have been merged, will be published on the Congress platform and/or electronic program in their original format or in a modified version that meets the requirements.
  • Files with presentations and final documents will be published on the CAEI website.

Traducción

Due to logistical limitations, the organizers cannot guarantee simultaneous translation services for all activities. The use of Spanish or English is highly recommended.

Política Comercial

The CAEI is recognized as an academic forum; therefore, it will not be possible to allocate spaces in the academic program for the presentation of commercial programs or services, even if they are of interest to the higher education and international sectors. Instead, promotional and sponsorship opportunities are available for interested parties. The CAEI Secretariat is available to provide further details.