📋 Tender Overview
The Ministry of Education (MEC) participated, on June 5 and 6, in Buenos Aires, the face -to -face meeting of the Basic Education Area Commission (CAEB) of the Mercosur educational sector. The meeting was held at the headquarters of the Argentine Ministry of Human Capital, in the context of the Presidency Pro Tempore Argentina (PPTA), with the objective of consolidating regional educational actions and preparing the transition to Brazil, which will assume the presidency of the bloc in the second half of 2025.
CAEB is represented by MECs general coordinator of Elementary Education (SEB) Secretariat, Tereza Farias, and is responsible for Mercosur Education groups that have actions related to early childhood education, the intercultural school project, the project to strengthen high school, the implementation of the educational integration protocol and the recognition of studies in basic education and the activities of the regional citizenship working group, which include the realization of the regional work group that includes Mercosur Youth Parliament.
The meeting was attended by the delegations of the four Mercosur member countries: Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay, and produced technical inputs that will be led to the meeting of Ministers of Education (RME), higher instance of the Blocks educational sector, integrated by the Ministers of Education of Member States and Associated countries.
In addition to the reports of each of the working groups and ad hoc committees that make up CAEB, the international stage of the Mercosur Youth Parliament was discussed, which will take place from August 11 to 14, in Foz do Iguacu (PR), in Brazil, with the participation of high school student delegations from all member countries.
The coordinator Tereza Farias evaluates that the meeting was another important step in consolidating regional integration and highlights an advance on the look of the block for math learning: Record an important consensus established at the CAEB meeting at the PPTA framework, which was the indication of creating an ad hoc committee to strengthen mathematics teaching, considering the common challenges faced by countries to ensure education math for education students Basic. The nomination will be taken to the ministers appreciation so that it can be effective from the Presidency Pro Tempore do Brasil.
