On Saturday February 6, the María Cano University Foundation, the CES University and ASCOFAPSI – Colombian Association of Psychology Faculties – inaugurated the XVI Mercedes Rodrigo Colombian Chair of Psychology «Psychology 4.0: the revolution of an evolving science», one of the most important academic events of Colombian psychology, which for this version has more than 5,000 registered from 80 Colombian universities and presentations by important researchers from Colombia, Puerto Rico, Spain, Mexico and Paraguay. The event was attended by the directors Jorge Julián Osorio Gómez, Rector of the CES University; Carlos Julio Escobar Noreña, Vice-rector of Extension and Social Projection of the María Cano University Foundation; Diego Alveiro Restrepo Ochoa, Dean of the Faculty of Psychology of the CES University; Andrés Felipe Londoño Vélez, Director of the Psychology program of the María Cano University Foundation; Nelson Molina Valencia, President of ASCOFAPSI and Andrés Felipe Marín Cortés, guest speaker at the opening session.

In the first session, the presentation “A new world: digital technologies challenge modern psychology” was presented, which undoubtedly set the tone for an important thematic line and a masterful level of the chair. In the activity, more than 1,500 people were connected live and during the first 48 hours of being located on social networks, it has had more than 6,362 reproductions by students, teachers, managers and psychology professionals at a national and international level.

On its website, ASCOFAPSI highlights the importance of this academic activity in the following way:

• Promote curricular flexibility among Psychology Programs and generate extracurricular training spaces through a chair that presents the significant developments and advances of Colombian Psychology, with current topics and interest for teachers, graduates and professionals in general.
• Strengthen networking between member universities of the Colombian Association of Psychology Faculties – ASCOFAPSI.
• Generate an academic space for dissemination and discussion among students, teachers, graduates and professionals of Psychology and other disciplines around psychosocial intervention.
• Reflect and critically analyze the current state and advances of Psychology in Colombia in the work of the psychologist when intervening psychosocially.
• Create a series of books that, based on the memoirs of the chair, provide the academic community and the general public with the knowledge and reflections discussed in its development.

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