Maria Inmaculada Gonzalez Perez
Vice-Rector for Internationalization and Cooperation
María Inmaculada González Pérez holds a PhD in Pedagogy with a thesis entitled "International Educational Cooperation in the Face of Cultural Rebellion." Prior to her teaching role, she worked for several years as an international expert for the ILO in Bolivia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Panama, and El Salvador, and for the AECI (Spanish Association of Civil and Political Scientists) in Costa Rica. She has also collaborated with several NGOs, implementing awareness-raising projects in the Canary Islands and cooperation projects in Peru, Cuba, Mauritania, and Cape Verde.
1. Calls for and hiring of staff to carry out activities related to international projects.
2. Internationalization of teaching and research. Coordination of international teaching and research strategies. Institutional services for students, researchers, faculty, and administrative and international services staff. Scholarships and grants for teaching and research staff and administrative and administrative staff in the areas of internationalization and cooperation.
3. Internationalization of learning. International learning programs.
4. Attracting and recruiting international students and promoting the internationalization of our students. Scholarships and grants for students related to internationalization and cooperation.
5. International promotion of the university, especially in forums, social networks, conferences, fairs, and events.
6. Promotion of international postgraduate degrees in strategic areas, as well as the provision of short-term courses.
7. Agreements and international cooperation. Alliances and agreements with socially responsible companies, non-governmental organizations, local, national, and international public institutions, and academic and scientific institutions. Development cooperation.
8. International volunteering.
9. International mobility for students, teaching and research staff, and administrative and administrative staff. International internships. Agreements and commitments with international partners.
10. Access to postgraduate degrees. Authorization for access to postgraduate degrees when the qualification is from a previous university or does not originate from the European Higher Education Area.
11. Languages and international and intercultural skills. Planning and coordinating learning strategies and promoting languages and skills for students, teaching and research staff, and administrative and service staff. Promoting the inclusion of both types of skills in new curricula and teaching guides.
12. Contracts and acquisitions. Those arising from the functions that, in the area of administrative contracting, the legal system attributes to the contracting authority in procedures relating to supply, service, and works contracts within the scope of its powers and the budgetary appropriations allocated to the Expenditure Units for which it is responsible, up to the amount of fifty thousand euros.
13. Grants and aid. Application for grants and aid related to the Vice-Rector's activities. Grant management.
14. In general, any functions assigned to the Rector in matters of Internationalization and Cooperation that are not expressly assigned to another body.
- Judith Mendoza Aguilar
- Director of the Internationalization Secretariat
- (+34) 922 31 96 32
- diseinter@ull.es
- Alba Rodríguez García
- Director of the Secretariat for Cooperation and Mobility with Africa and Latin America
- (+34) 922 31 96 32
- disecoop@ull.es
- José Sigut Saavedra
- Director of the Secretariat for Mobility and Cooperation with Europe and North America
- (+34) 922 31 96 32
- disemov@ull.es
- María Isabel Rodríguez Amez
- Secretary of the Vice-Rectorate
- (+34) 922 31 96 32
- secretaria.internacional@ull.es
She holds a PhD in Pedagogy with a thesis entitled International Educational Cooperation in the Face of Cultural Rebellion. Prior to her teaching role, she worked for several years as an international expert for the ILO in Bolivia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Panama, and El Salvador, and for the AECI (Spanish Association of Civil and Industrial Organizations) in Costa Rica. She has also collaborated with several NGOs, implementing awareness-raising projects in the Canary Islands and cooperation projects in Peru, Cuba, Mauritania, and Cape Verde.
In terms of University Cooperation, she has coordinated the AECID-funded project "Networks for the Institutional Strengthening of the Universities of Cape Verde and the Canary Islands" (2012); the European SEMACA project "Networks for Training and Research in International Educational Cooperation and Development Education between the University of Cape Verde and the University of La Laguna" (2013-2015); and the Canary Islands-funded project "Canary Islands-Africa Interuniversity Cooperation Networks: Research, Innovation, and Evaluation Using Collaborative Methodologies in Equality Policies" and the current project "Challenges from Innovation and Transfer in Equality Policies: University-Society Networks in the Canary Islands and Africa." The latter have enabled the creation of the CIMPI Network, which involves more than 50 researchers from the Ivory Coast, Cape Verde, Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, and the Canary Islands, which received the 8th ULL Internationalization Award 2023.
Her teaching career has focused on Comparative Education, Education for Cooperation and Development, and Intercultural Education at the University of La Laguna. She places particular emphasis on the dissemination of Human Rights. She has also taught in various Master's and Doctoral programs at the ULL and UAM, including the following: "Peoples, Cultures, and Development: Our Creative Diversity"; "Education and Development in a Globalized World"; and "International Development Cooperation."
She is currently a member of the Center for African Studies and the ULL Research Groups: "Migrations, Gender and Identities: Policy Analysis and Evaluation" and "International Educational Cooperation."
