The UR International Summer School offers an academic and international experience to undergraduate and graduate students interested in deepening their knowledge of global and regional trending topics. Taught by highly qualified national and international speakers during the months of June and August 2017 in Colombia – South America, the Summer School offers short courses with credit transfer and/or experiential workshops designed by the university’s 7 Schools with a duration of one to two weeks.

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A unique experiential learning experience, in a fascinating and unforgettable country

The main objective of the workshop is to promote the creation of a community interested in Big Data, bringing together the academic, industrial and governmental sectors. Big Data-CO will bring together students, researchers, teachers, and experts from the industry and the public sector who are interested in Big Data from different perspectives and experiences. The workshop program includes poster sessions where researchers will have the opportunity to present the results of their latest research.

Workshop in Big Data-CO School of Natural Sciences and Mathematicsand School of Economics June 5 - June 9, 2017 Hours: 9:00 am - 4:00 pmLanguage: SpanishDuration: 35 hours

Sponsored by the Ministry of Information Technology and Communications from Colombia, MINTIC.

Lecturers:

Santiago Gallón PhD, Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia)Jorge Gallego PhD, Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)Iván Mantilla PhD, Departamento Nacional de Planeación – DNP (Colombia)Adriana Crespo PhD, Facebook USA (México)Juan David Martínez, Departamento Nacional de Planeación – DNP (Colombia)Francisco Barrera MSc, Quantil (Colombia)Marco Cristancho PhD, Centro de Bioinformática y Biología Computacional – BIOS (Colombia)Clara Corzo PhD, Banco de la República de Colombia (Colombia)Mateo Restrepo PhD, Grupo Bancolombia (Colombia)Daniel Jiménez PhD, Centro de Investigación en Agricultura Tropical – CIAT (Colombia)Julián Ramirez-Villegas PhD, Centro de Investigación en Agricultura Tropical – CIAT (Colombia)

International Business Management School of Business June 5 - June 16, 2017 Hours: 8:00 am - 5:00 pmLanguage: EnglishDuration: 80 hours

The purpose of the program is to offer an international training experience to national and international students. The course modules are taught by highly qualified international professors from top business schools in the world and who will share the emerging and future trends in business management.

Lecturers: Christopher Robertson PhD, Northeastern University (USA)

This course is an introduction to the modern models and tools of the Empirical Industrial Organization. The approach of the course is practical and ideally, students will end up estimating basic models of each type. We will provide examples with real databases for each case. The course is organized in six three-hour sections. The first part of each section will be devoted to introducing the models, the second part to introducing programming and the use of the estimators, and the third part will discuss the results, practical problems and extensions.

Lecturers: Jordi Jaumandreu PhD, Boston University (USA)

An Introduction to Empirical Industrial Economics School of Economics June 12 - June 16, 2017Hours: 8am – 12pm Language: SpanishDuration: 20 hours

The main objective of this workshop is to promote the creation of a community interested in the digital security, from an academic, governmental and industrial point of view. Cyber-CO will bring together students, researchers, professors and experts from the industry and the public sector who are interested in cybersecurity and cyberdefense from different perspectives and experiences. The workshop program includes lectures given by renowned national and international professors, conferences by entrepreneurs and experts from the public and private sector, and workshops.

Workshop on cybersecurity: Cyber-COSchool of Natural Sciences and MathematicsJune 12 - June 16, 2017 Hours: 9:00 am - 4:00 pmLanguage: SpanishDuration: 35 hours

Lecturers:

Juan Cayón Peña PhD, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija (Spain)Luis A. García Segura PhD, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija (Spain)Bernardino Cortijo Fernández, Universidad Antonio de Nebrija - Telefónica (Spain)Andrés Umaña Chaux MSc, Microsoft Colombia (Colombia)Valérie Gauthier Umaña PhD, Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)

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Sponsored by the Ministry of Information Technology and Communications from Colombia, MINTIC.

This conference workshop offers techniques and disciplines for focusing, memory, mental arithmetic, logic and mathematical motivation to its participants, with a novel technique that led the workshop professor Jaime García Serrano to achieve 6 Guinness Records in calculation.

Lecturers: Jaime García Serrano, Guinness world record “Human Calculator”

Workshop How to Attain a Super Brain School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics June 20 - June 23, 2017Hours: 8am – 12:30pmLanguage: SpanishDuration: 16 hours

The objective of this course is to understand and analyze the causes and consequences of the use of the various alternative institutional mechanisms for strengthening democracy in the

Democratic Innovations: Confronting the Crisis of Representative DemocracySchool of Political Science, Government and International RelationsJuly 10 – July 22, 2017Hours: 9am – 12pm Language: SpanishDuration: 30 hours

contemporary world. We will use the inputs of comparative politics, institutional approaches and spatial models of aggregation of interests.

Lecturers: David Altman PhD,Pontificia UniversidadCatólica de Chile (Chile)

This course will address the dynamics of civil wars or internal armed conflicts and their consequences on populations that have lived in conflict areas. We will explore various dynamics of civil wars such as the use of violence by armed

The Dynamics of War and their ConsequencesSchool of Political Science, Government and International RelationsJune 12 - June 23, 2017Hours: 9am – 12pmLanguage: SpanishDuration: 30 hours

actors, displacement, the recruitment of combatants, governance by insurgent and paramilitary groups, and the support and resistance of the civilian population to the armed actors. Likewise, we will consider the consequences of this type of conflict on the social and political behavior of individuals and communities, identifying challenges and opportunities for the conflict in Colombia.

Lecturers: Ana María Arjona PhD, Northwestern University (USA)

The course provides tools to those interested in playing an active role, either as investors or as consultants in the capital market. Therefore, they will understand its operation, the main indicators that are followed by the investor community. The course seeks to familiarize participants with one of the most recognized trading platforms in the world, SaxoBank. The course is offered in partnership with the firm Global Securities S.A.

Lecturers:Daniel Escobar MSc, Global Securities Group (Colombia)Agustín Vera, Global Securities Group (Colombia)

Tools and Basic Trading Strategiesfor International Markets School of Economics June 20 - July 5, 2017Hours: 5pm – 8pmLanguage: SpanishDuration: 30 hours

In partnership with

This course will make it possible to recognize the look of Ibero-American experts, particularly Colombians, on the scope of Primary Health Care. We will explore the main characteristics and features of PHC: coverage of health services, intersectional coordination, integration of health service networks, social participation, organization and participation of the community, family and community care, among other aspects, through an experiential work with healthcare programs developed at the district and municipal levels.

Lecturers:

Dr. Armando de Negri Filho MD, Hospital de Corazón, (Brasil)Dra. Ana Lucía Casallas PhD, Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)Ivonne Maritza Caro, Secretaría de Salud de Bogotá (Colombia)Jaime Hernán Urrego, Asesor de Organizaciones Indígenas interculturales.

Primary Health Care in Colombia: Working Experiences in Urban and Rural AreasSchool of Medicine and Health Sciences June 20 - July 13, 2017Hours: 8am – 12pm / 8am – 5pmLanguage: SpanishDuration: 78 hours Amparo Mogollón Perez PhD,

Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)Angela María Pinzón MD,

Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)Catalina Latorre Santos MD, Hospital Universitario Mayor

Méderi (Colombia)Iris Andrea Moya,

Universidad EAN (Colombia)Angela Gonzalez,

Red Hospitalaria MéderiEberto Elías Guevara,

Universidad del Rosario(Colombia)Nancy Jeanet Molina,

Universidad Nacional (Colombia)Kimberly Piñeros,

Universidad Nacional (Colombia)Claudia Beatriz Naranjo

The course aims to complement and update participants in the use of techniques in basic research having as main topics of study the following: molecular biology and biochemistry of microorganisms, receptor-ligand interactions of peptides and proteins, 3D structure of peptide fragments and biologically relevant analysis of the immune response in the assessment of vaccine candidates against different pathogens. We will focus on synthetic vaccine against malaria and its animal model, the Aotus monkey. The course includes key lectures, lab practices and a field trip to the FIDIC primate station in the Amazon.

Methods in theDevelopment of Synthetic VaccinesSchool of Medicine and Health Sciences June 27 - July 15, 2017Hours: 9am – 5pmLanguage: SpanishDuration: 80 hours

Lecturers:Manuel Elkin PatarroyoM.MD, Fundación Instituto de Inmunología de Colombia – FIDIC Diana Diaz PhD, Fundación Institutode Inmunología de Colombia – FIDIC Darwin Andrés Moreno (cPhD), Fundación Institutode Inmunologíade Colombia – FIDIC Manuel A. Patarroyo MD, DrSc. Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)Magnolia Vanegas PhD,Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)

Marisol Ocampo PhD,Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)Adriana Bermúdez PhD,Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)Hernando Curtidor PhD,Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)Carlos Fernando Suárez cPhD, Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)

Transitional Justice and the ColombianPost-Conflict:Colombia´s Future in PeaceSchool of Law July 4 - July 14, 2017Hours: 8am – 12pmLanguage: EnglishDuration: 32 hours

Enrique Prieto Ríos PhD,Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)Maria del Pilar Venegas LLMs, University of Johannesburg (Sur África)Samuel Augusto Escobar MSc,Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)Juan Ramón Martínez Vargas, Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)

This course will address the institutions, processes and mechanisms of transitional justice developed in the Peace Agreement signed between the Republic of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) from an interdisciplinary (criminological, historical, and legal) point of view that is attentive to International Public Law and compared to the experience of other countries.

Lecturers:Juan Carlos Forero PhD,Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)Lina María Céspedes S.J.D.,Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)Pamela Alarcón Arias MSc,Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)María Angélica Prada MSc,Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)Felipe Tenorio Obando MSc, Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)Germán Darío Casas MSc,Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)Juanita María Ospina PhD,Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)

Photo by: Ministerio TIC Colombia, Flickr

This course examines the situation of Gender-based Violence (GBV) in Colombia and seeks to bring participants closer to issues such as the situation of violence against women, violence in same-sex couples, the representation of gender-based violence in the media, sex work and sex

Violence against Women and Post-Conflict in ColombiaSchool of Human Sciences July 17 – July 28, 2017Hours: 8am – 12pmLanguage: SpanishDuration: 40 hours

trafficking. The course ends with a characterization of the situation of gender-based violence in post-conflict Colombia. It will involve the participation of experts from the Social Integration Secretariat and UN Women Colombia.

Lecturers:Danghelly Zúñiga Reyes MSc, Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)Natalia Idrobo, Asesora Técnica en Implementación de Políticas Públicas Territoriales (Colombia)Diana Salas, Secretaría de Integración Social (Colombia)Marianny Sánchez. ONU Mujeres (Colombia)

This course introduces students to the major concepts and approaches of social policies. After analyzing the concepts of well-being, State and Welfare regimes, social rights, citizenship and the origins of the main systems of social protection in the world, we will study the main approaches on the emergence and transformation of welfare and social protection systems.

Lecturers: Rossana Castiglioni PhD,Universidad Diego Portales (Chile)

Social Policy in Latin Americain Comparative PerspectiveSchool of Political Science, Government and International Relations July 10 - July 22, 2017Hours: 9am – 12pmLanguage: SpanishDuration: 30 hours

The objective of this course is to show, how ethnic community processes are one of the types of nonviolent action in the current context of endorsement and implementation of the Peace Agreements in Colombia. The course modules will take place in the heart of the Arhuaco indigenous community, at the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta (Colombia) and they will address the study of peace from a perspective that dovetails pedagogies for peace, gender studies and indigenous studies in the context of post-conflict.

Lecturers:Ángela del Pilar Santamaría PhD, Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)Bastien Bosa PhD, Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)Dunen Kaneybia Muelas, Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)

Peace School: Gender and IndigenousPeoples in the Post-Conflict Group of Interdisciplinary Studies on Peace, Conflict and Post-Conflict - JANUS July 30 - August 4, 2017Hours: 8am – 5pmLanguage: Spanish Duration: 60 hours

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