A true university should be able to significantly strengthen its institutional and local identity by dialoguing and exchanging with international institutions. This dialectic relation between local and global realities characterizes the core of universities that integrate teaching to research and extension studies. Universities should be immersed in the problems and challenges that are part of their local and regional territories, by trying to understand them, thinking them over and responding to society’s cultural issues and technological demands with the construction of knowledge, innovative solutions, ethical values and many other aspects related to the integrated education of human beings. However, universities should not limit themselves to local challenges, repressing and suffocating their vocation to universality, rather, they should pursue it through permanent bonds with institutions from other continents and distinct territories. Supportive solidarity, committed to local challenges and to the communion and exchange of international experiences, is what nourishes and renews academic life. Through the existence of numerous university nets, today’s world shows us the need to open up to interrelations in order to exchange information, to educate and innovate, overcoming intramural paradigms and the fiefs of knowledge enclosed in the departments, institutes and research labs.
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