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of enterprising leaders in Canada and around the Collaboration and decentralization world through facilitating The success of the QES Program has been attributed to its unique partnership lasting local and global model and project decentralization. [...] Jaime Escobar and Natalia Hoyos Botero University of Regina (QES-AS) Natalia Hoyos Botero and Jaime Escobar are part of the group of researchers who won the Colombian National Prize for Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences of the Alejandro Ángel Escobar Foundation, in recognition of the book "Hace tiempo. [...] from Guatemala , who splits About her QES-AS-supported project, she says one of the her time between her home toughest jobs has also been one of the most rewarding: Getting country and the University of to know and winning the trust of the Mayan people, whose food Saskatchewan. [...] at the Law and Society Program “The important highlight I would note is the importance of at the University of Victoria international relationships in the exchange of ideas and theories and one of the founding faculty between different scholars,” he says. [...] 15 >> ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 QES-AS Longitudinal research study Universities Canada continues to conduct a longitudinal study to look at the implementation and outcomes of the QES-AS program by examining the gains accrued by scholars and participating institutions, as well as the design and implementation of gender-sensitive, equitable and inclusive international scholarship programming.