About the Puentes Consortium

The Puentes Consortium is a binational consortium of universities from the U.S. and Mexico.                   

The Puentes Consortium was created as an academic space to provide a distinctive voice for a binational community of scholars to carry out multidisciplinary research on issues of importance to the relationship between Mexico and the U.S. and on the well-being of their inhabitants.

The distinctive nature of this consortium resides both in the high-level, regular dialogue that takes place between the university presidents and leaders in government, business and other institutions concerned with Mexico-U.S. relations, and in the sustained, active research carried out by binational teams of scholars. Together, these interactions will enhance the connections between higher education institutions in the two nations and lay the foundation for long-term, effective dialogue.

All participating institutions share the capacity and responsibility to improve the quality of life in these two nations by conducting research on issues of social, economic, environmental and political importance, and, communicating the findings to leaders and policy-makers.

Puentes Consortium Mission

All members of the Puentes Consortium:

• Are committed to addressing some of the most pressing social, economic, technological and political challenges facing the U.S.-Mexico region.
• Agree that these challenges are best confronted through collaborative binational and transdisciplinary research and action.

The Puentes Consortium seeks:

• To build knowledge about issues affecting U.S.-Mexico relations.
• To foster scholarly collaboration among institutions of higher education on both sides of the border.
• To incentivize joint research that addresses social, economic, political and technological challenges facing the binational relationship.
• To communicate research findings to leaders and policy-makers.