ACHIEVING 17 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS BY 2030
Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota, COLOMBIA, May 11 - 28, 2019
RETREAT IN VILLA DE LEYVA
The last 3 days of the course were spent in Villa de Leyva, where students from Purdue and Los Andes worked together in groups extracting conclusions and presenting their original ideas for achieving the 17 sustainable development goals by 2030.
In SACHICA: We learned about the grography of Boyaca and the rock paintings of Muisca natives.
BOYACA 2000-year old Muisca rock paintings
Prof. Silvia Restrepo
Vice-President for Research, Universidad de Los Andes Doing research in Agriculture in Colombia: A hurdle race?
Prof. Enrique Forero
President, National Academy of Sciences Science Academies in a Changing World
Prof. Sonia Monroy
Deputy Director of Colciencias Colciencias: Leader of the National Science, Technology and Innovation System, in the time frame of its transformation into the ST&I Ministry
Dr. Victor Hugo Malagon
Director of Colombia Científica Colombia Científica: Global Knowledge for Development
Prof. Angela Camacho
President, Colombian Network of Female Scientists The role of women scientists in Latin America
Prof. Juan Manuel Pedraza
Professor of Biophysics, Los Andes Systems and Synthetic Biology: Promise and Challenges
Prof. Natalia Ruiz
Former Deputy of Education of Colombia Could science really have a positive effect on the culture for sustainability?
Prof. Moises Wasserman
Former President, National University of Colombia Science and the curious idea of progress