North American Center for Collaborative Development Announced at NALS

During the 2016 North American Leaders Summit, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, President Barack Obama and President Enrique Peña Nieto announced the creation of the North American Center for Collaborative Development (NACCD), a CONAHEC initiative, in collaboration with the three governments of North America.  Among other activities, CONAHEC organized three high level international conferences:

Connecting Indigenous Peoples in North America: Crafting a Community of Shared Knowledge
celebrated June 12th-13th, 2017 in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
generously hosted by First Nations University of Canada and the University of Regina

Education 4.0: Enhancing North American Competitiveness, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
celebrated March 21-23, 2018
generously hosted by the Jalisco Consortium for Cooperation and Internationalization of Higher Education comprising:
Secretaría de Innovación Ciencia y Tecnología del Estado de Jalisco (SICYT)
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO)
Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (UAG)
Universidad de Guadalajara (UDG)
Universidad del Valle de Atemajac (UNIVA)
Universidad Panamericana (UP)

and

Climate Resilience and Clean Energy
celebrated April 2-4, 2019
generously hosted by New Mexico State University

We thank the federal governments of the USA and Canada for their generous support and look forward to resuming work addressing these and other important grand challenges shared by North Americans as funding permits.