Dear friends I am pleased to share with you, attached, the statement adopted on the occasion of the Autumn 2025 Session of the Conference of INGOs of the Council of Europe. This text expresses the Committee’s concern regarding the growing tendencies of democratic regression observed in Europe and the increasing instrumentalisation of migration, which undermines the fundamental (more…)
On Saturday, October 11, Alfonso Giraldo Saavedra, President of OMAEC, met virtually with María Isabel Pichardo Valdez, our correspondent in the Dominican Republic; Guillermo Gutiérrez Piraquive, Secretary General of OMAEC; Carlos Zea Montoya, our correspondent in Ecuador; Evangelina García Richard, Vice President of UNAEC-America; and Santiago Durini, Secretary of UNAEC-America. After an intense discussion, important (more…)
We thank the Catholic University of Santa Fe and the OMAEC for allowing us the wonderful opportunity to participate in the Diploma in the Social Doctrine of the Church. This is an excellent experience, packed with knowledge and learning, which further commits us to building a society of love, so that we can reach the (more…)
The President of OMAEC, Alfonso Giraldo Saavedra, resumed his duties on Saturday, August 16, at the Executive Council meeting. In the process of returning to work, he met with the Vice President (President of UNAEC-America), Evangelina García Richard, and the Secretary General, Guillermo Gutiérrez Piraquive, on Saturday, August 23, to discuss vital issues for the (more…)
January 2025 – The OMAEC Council approves the election of the new OMAEC Treasurer, Mr. Claudio Preto, a former Jesuit student from Italy. April 2025 – Ordinary General Assembly convened three months earlier. President Alfonso Giraldo Saavedra’s request for leave is received; in ted to his position for three months, extendable for an additional three (more…)
During the second term of President Alfonso Giraldo Saavedra, OMAEC organized the Departments of Solidarity and Social Justice, Permanent Training and Communication, and the Organizational Chart The Conversation organized by the Department of Permanent Training on the “Charisms of different Congregations” is held with Francisco Guarner, president of the Alumni of the Society of (more…)
The World Organization of Catholic Education Alumni -OMAEC-, a lay organization, defender of the evangelical values received in our academic formation in the different Catholic institutions in which we spent the happiest stages of our childhood, adolescence and youth, express with deep pain, disturbance and indignation for the horror of the war that day by (more…)
The new Global Education Monitoring Report which this year focuses on technology is now available. There are often bitter divisions in how the role of technology is viewed. These divisions are widening as the technology is evolving at breakneck speed. The 2023 GEM Report explores these debates, examining education challenges to which appropriate use of (more…)