Coordinating Institution: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain
Project period: January 2016 – June 2019
The PONCHO Project is an institutional capacity-building project under the European Union’s Erasmus+ Program, Key Action KA2 – Capacity Building in the Field of Higher Education.
The project aims to promote the internationalization of Latin American universities by strengthening their technical, academic, and institutional capacities at the national, regional, and international levels.
Universidad ORT Uruguay as a full partner in the PONCHO project, alongside the following institutions from Latin America and Europe:
- University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain (Coordinator)
- Université Bretagne Sud, Lorient, France
- Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland
- University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
- National University of San Luis, San Luis, Argentina
- National University of the South, Bahía Blanca, Argentina
- National University of Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina
- Amazonian University of Pando, Cobija, Bolivia
- Universidad Mayor de San Simón, Cochabamba, Bolivia
- Porto Alegre University of Health Sciences Foundation, Porto Alegre, Brazil
- Federal University of Goiás, Goiânia, Brazil
- Federal University of Greater Dourados, Dourados, Brazil
- Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
- Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil
- Diego Luis Córdoba Technological University of Chocó, Quibdó, Colombia
- Central University of Valle del Cauca, Tuluá, Colombia
- Antioquia University of Technology, Medellín, Colombia
- Eloy Alfaro Secular University of Manabí, Manta, Ecuador
- National University of Chimborazo, Riobamba, Ecuador
- Autonomous University of Asunción, Asunción, Paraguay
- National University of Itapúa, Encarnación, Paraguay
- National University of Cajamarca, Cajamarca, Peru
- Andes University of Technology, Abancay, Peru
- Catholic University of Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay
- Universidad ORT Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay
- International Institute for Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (IESALC-UNESCO), Caracas, Venezuela.