Denver, Colorado. Panamá was part of The Conference and Annual Exposition of NAFSA in 2022.
NAFSA is the largest reunion in the world of professionals in international education The country comes standing under the slogan: KNOWLEDGE IN PANAMA where representatives will meet from the City Foundation of Knowledge, The University of Santa María La Antigua, The Technological University of Panamá, The Technological University of Oteima (from the Chiriquí province), and for the first time the University of Panamá.
The Minister of External Relations through the Direction of International Cooperation has made it so that Panamá could be present as an exhibitor in this most important meeting. The Embassy of Panamá in the United States has also helped both logistically and in connection with the North American universities present.
During the first three days of NAFSA, meetings have been held with more than 80 Centers for Higher Learning with the majority of the programs from the United States being interested in forming partnerships with exchange students including exploring scholarship opportunities for university-age Panamanian students, postgrads, masters degree, and doctorate programs; in this way, many out-of-country research opportunities also exist for these students.
Panamá offers innumerable opportunities for foreign students in developing their research projects and meeting with well-established STEM career programs from SENACYT, City of Knowledge, the UTP, and the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), making Panamá
the only country outside of the United States to have a research headquarters of such a prestigious organization.
Additionally, Universities in Turkey, Spain, Catalan, Ecuador, France, England, and Dubai have demonstrated interest in exploring academic connections with Panamá.
At the end of the event, more than 100 universities were able to meet, among which Panamanian participants had the opportunity to present and promote their academic offerings to the rest of the world.
NAFSA 2022 counts more than 200 exhibitors that represent hundreds of organizations from all over the world, including colleges, universities, foreign studies and intensive English programs, embassies, governmental agencies, and more. The theme of the conference for 2022 was ¨Constructing Our Sustainable Future¨, and it took place in the newly developed Convention Center of Colorado in Denver from May 31st to the 3rd of June.
Panamá has participated in NAFSA as an exhibitor since the year 2016.