Twenty-three seminars will be held over the course of a month by twenty Ibero-American universities coordinated by the La Laguna University in Tenerife

Mexico, the star country of Campus America 2022

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Campus America is an international programme of the University of La Laguna, which is committed to the internationalisation of knowledge and culture, supported by the traditional relationship that the Canary Islands have with the American continent, and the interest of Canarian society and the university in maintaining and intensifying this relationship.

The third edition of this project will be held between 20 September and 21 October. Although it is a biennial event, the pandemic interrupted the series, which began in 2017 and continued in 2019, and now finally resumed with the participation of a dozen countries of the American continent and twenty universities.

The presentation ceremony for this event was held at the Madrid headquarters of the Casa de América, where after a welcome from its director general, Enrique Ojeda, the vice-rectors of the University of La Laguna, Lidia Cabrera and Ernesto Pereda announced the voluminous and intense content that this edition will cover.

The twenty-three seminars organised cover, among other topics, migration, free-living amoebas, logistics, transport, students with high abilities, challenges in agriculture, emotional education, the new frontiers of anthropological research, historical memory, social identity and the legacy of exiled scientists. All of them will be given by renowned specialists from American and Spanish institutions, as well as the University of La Laguna itself. In addition to being face-to-face, the seminars will be transmitted interactively online, so that universities on both sides of the Atlantic can follow them and contribute their papers and conclusions in real time.

According to its promoters, Campus America has a global orientation in all senses: because it encompasses activities of different natures; because in its scientific aspect it is open to all branches of knowledge, and because it focuses its interest on the entire continent.

In each edition, special attention is paid to one of the American countries. That is why in 2022 Mexico will play a special role in the programme, especially in its cultural aspect: art exhibitions, film cycles, concerts, dance recitals and gastronomic tastings featuring Mexican artists and intellectuals will mark all the days of the campus celebrations.

In addition to meetings with philologists such as Concepción Company, writers of the stature of Socorro Venegas and multicultural tributes, such as the one to be paid to Chavela Vargas, the promoters of the event are hoping that all of this will mean a significant increase in academic and scientific activity, a commitment to innovation and development and a notable intensification of relations with America.

A sea of shared knowledge is the motto of this year's event, which also aims to strengthen the Canary Islands' international links. In this respect, Francisco Trujillo, Director General of External Relations of the Canary Islands Government, insisted that the University of La Laguna and the autonomous institutions are very aware of the tri-continental situation of the Canary Islands, and for this reason has always tried to maintain and strengthen close links with Africa and America, as well as with Europe.

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