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• W263460022 abstract "The European program Amerique Latine-Formation Academique (ALFA) has provided 12 Latin-American and 10 European universities and colleges with a framework for creating an International Master in Rural Development. Globalization, regional integration, and sustainability have created a new set of questions for rural areas, both in Europe and in Latin America. The practical problems to integrating master's degrees from 12 different countries have been solved by coming back to fundamental questions: What is an engineer? What is rural development? and How can institutions converge? The result of two years of cooperative work is an international master's degree based on existing curricula. Integrated courses for students, exchange of professors, and research in foreign countries are considered efficient and well-known tools. Two annexes list internal documents discussed in the network and institutions in the network. (SAH) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. :011 ENGINEERS FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT Europe and Latin America getting in tune U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as eived from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. Gilles MARECHAL AGRENA Association des Etablissements d'Enseignement Superieur et de Recherche Agronomique, agro-alimentaire, horticole et veterinaire de Rennes, Nantes et Angers. Ecole Nationale Superieure Agronomique de Rennes 65 rue de Saint-Brieuc 35042 RENNES FRANCE ABSTRACT The European programme ALFA (Amerique Latine Formation Academique), has provided 12 Latinamerican and 10 European universities or colleges with a frame for creating an International Master in Rural Development (IMDR). Globalization, regional integration (EU, MERCOSUL, NAFTA) and sustainability create a new set of questions for rural areas, both in Europe and Latin America. Though different in the two continents, those problems are now linked and cannot be addressed with old paradigms, nor with « traditional » graduates. International mobility and interdisciplinarity are the main tools used by the ESTRELA network to educate rural development specialists. The practical problems to integrate master degrees from 12 different countries have been solved by coming back to fundamental questions. What is an engineer ? Relations to physical and human environment as educational means, active pluridisciplinarity,. lifelong learning are main lines for tomorrow's engineers. What is rural development ? On the theoretical point of view, European professionals generally insist on agricultural development, when Latin-American colleagues are keener on socio-economical studies. Those fundamental options generate different standards for practise. How can institutions converge ? On the basis of different concepts and practise for defining an engineer as well as rural development, it has been chosen to try to make existing courses converge instead of creating a new curriculum. The result of two years of co-operative work is an international master based on existing curricula, in order to integrate innovation in the institutions. Integrated courses for students, exchanges of professors, research in foreign countries are efficient and well-known tools. The European programme ALFA (Amerique Latine Formation Academique), has provided 12 Latinamerican and 10 European universities or colleges with a frame for creating an International Master in Rural Development (IMDR). Globalization, regional integration (EU, MERCOSUL, NAFTA) and sustainability create a new set of questions for rural areas, both in Europe and Latin America. Though different in the two continents, those problems are now linked and cannot be addressed with old paradigms, nor with « traditional » graduates. International mobility and interdisciplinarity are the main tools used by the ESTRELA network to educate rural development specialists. The practical problems to integrate master degrees from 12 different countries have been solved by coming back to fundamental questions. What is an engineer ? Relations to physical and human environment as educational means, active pluridisciplinarity,. lifelong learning are main lines for tomorrow's engineers. What is rural development ? On the theoretical point of view, European professionals generally insist on agricultural development, when Latin-American colleagues are keener on socio-economical studies. Those fundamental options generate different standards for practise. How can institutions converge ? On the basis of different concepts and practise for defining an engineer as well as rural development, it has been chosen to try to make existing courses converge instead of creating a new curriculum. The result of two years of co-operative work is an international master based on existing curricula, in order to integrate innovation in the institutions. Integrated courses for students, exchanges of professors, research in foreign countries are efficient and well-known tools. PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) 111 le Rural development has always been a challenge for agricultural universities or colleges. In an academic world where disciplinary excellence is considered the top ability (and happens to be the. one and only way), rural development studies are sometimes considered out of time. As they focus on an object instead of an approach, a method or a discipline, they seem harder to define and even to integrate in the educational organisations. Nevertheless, a network of 22 universities and colleges have been working together for two years, in order to define a new profile for rural development specialists and the way to educate students within this frame. They come from 12 different countries : 5 from Latin America (Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela) and 7 from Europe (Belgium, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain). The ALFA (Amerique Latine Formation Academique ; see server www.alfaprogram.com) programme of the European Union has given the opportunity to develop prospective thinking. This programme aims at strengthening cooperation between European and Latin American universities, for institutional organisation, graduate and post-graduate studies, research. This paper is a personal view of a complex process, from an active participant. It cannot be considered an « official history » of the network's projects, but a contribution to this history that still has to be written. In spite of their different traditions, or may be because of them, the institutions in the ESTRELA network had to define first a set of new challenges for rural development. Most of these challenges are common concerns for all academics of our late XX century, though expressed in a specific way through the rural development filter. Globalization creates a different scale for space and time. While some dream of Mac Luhan's planetary village, merchants concretely build up a planetary market place. As a science traditionally focused on local questions, rural development is threatened in its deeper roots. Trying to understand reality here (« hic ») in order to act on it now (« nunc ») is the dominant" @default.
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