La Cooperación Educativa Internacional entre la Universidad de La Laguna y universidades públicas africanas desde 2015 hasta 2018

Résumé

This study has the overall purpose of presenting a research in process, which pretends to improve the international educational cooperation between public universities of the world. As the Direction of Cooperation of the University of La Laguna was created in 2015. The research question will focus particularly on the international educational cooperation, from 2015 until now between the University of La Laguna and the public universities of nine countries of North West Africa: Sahara, Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Cape Verde, Guinea Conakry, Guinea Bissau y Liberia. This research recently started in the framework of a doctoral thesis, and it pretends to fill the gap of academic knowledge which exists on international educational cooperation between public universities of the world and public African universities. As it could not be found any PhD thesis or academic research on this matter. The conclusion of this project is expected to provide a general view of the circumstances, conditions and results of these processes. In addition, this knowledge can help to increase the international educational cooperation between public universities of the world and public African universities to impulse education, employment, health, nourishment, wealth, etc. As public universities are entities with no unlimited autonomy but with independent powers. Also, they can cooperate without the intervention of states (Fielden, 2008).