(l-r) Ricardo Zanfardini, Carlos Caballero, Prof. Gustavo Mesch, and Prof. Lily Orland-Barak, Dean of the Graduate Studies Authority.
The University welcomed two dignitaries from Argentina to the Haifa campus this summer, as part of stepped up efforts to expand partnerships in Latin America. Ricardo Zanfardini, Deputy Secretary for Children and Families in the Argentine Ministry of Social Welfare, and NGO leader Carlos Caballero of Gestion Educativa y Social (GES), came to explore the breadth of research generated at the University, in the areas of child development and education.
Over the course of their visit, they met academics from the Faculty of Education, the Center for Child Development and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Brain Research who presented their latest studies. The visitors also met Prof. Roni Strier, Director of the University’s Flagship Program Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion. Prof. Strier travelled to Argentina in July to meet with governmental officials and academics about developing opportunities for collaboration. They concluded by meeting a group of students from the Druze Academic and Social Leadership program, supported by the South African Cape Gate Foundation, who shared their experiences of volunteering in their communities.
The visit, arranged in cooperation with the Argentinean Friends of the University of Haifa, follows Prof. Gustavo Mesch’s tour of Latin American countries last fall, where he met academic leaders and senior government officials, including the Argentine Minister of Education, Esteban Bullrich.