The Universidad.es Foundation and its German counterpart, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), along with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, have just made public a new directive aimed at higher education institutions in both countries.

This initiative intends to offer a training course on the topic of faculty management for deans and vice-deans from Latin American countries. The course will be divided in three modules that will take place in Germany, Spain, and Latin America, and will include a wide range of topics that will allow the participants to develop skills and acquire specific knowledge necessary for improving the management of university institutions.

An international committee of experts will be in charge of forming an association that will lead this project and will be composed of a Spanish university and a German institution of higher education. A Latin American institution will also be able to join this team.

Applications will be accepted until May 31, 2011. The rules and regulations can be consulted at this web address: www.unviersidad.es/deans.

Universidad.es is a public sector foundation that aims to promote the Spanish university system throughout the world. The foundation was set up by the Spanish government with the support of Spain’s regional governments and of the universities themselves, on 23 December 2008.