The quality of this context in financial crises merely focuses in their two day meeting in the place of Barcelona of this global leaders opening, online and distance education who entirely be forming this portion of International Council towards an Open and Distance Education (ICDE). Around 80 presidents, the chief executive officers, and rectors officers of this universities from nations as being diverse in Israel, Nigeria, Barcelona, and China in order to debate this ways of guaranteeing this educational levels of quality and even university services have this context towards scarcity of economic resources. This ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents (SCOP) of this 2009 was still being organized through their Universitat Oberta de Catalunya or known as the Open University in Catalonia, UOC and ICDE. This entirely took place in Hotel Majectic last November 20 until 21. Those who have taken part along the side of President Imma Tubella of UOC and ICDE President Frits Pannekoek entirely include this Catalan Minister towards Innovation, Universities and Business and Josep Huguet. With that, this keynote speech entirely entitles Innovation and Education, and The Financial Crisis was entirely been provided by Xavier Sala i Martin who is the economist.

The conference that forms on this portion of celebrations towards their UOC’s fifteenth anniversary have took place in the time during their crisis have already raises this series of challenge towards this university community that must be able to face on this strategic changes. With that, this is even more in the case either opens or online education that undergoes towards expansion and even deemed on for their fundamental tools towards educating this population in 21st century. Thus, this SCOP 2009 have debated on towards answering that challenge like on how they will be ensuring and even assessing the quality towards open educational processes or how will this universities can ever contribute towards overcoming this current economic challenge.

This ICDE Standing Conference of Presidents and SCOP are now taking place in yearly basis and able to provide those rectors for presidents and chief executive officers of these ICDE member universities that provide opportunities towards exchanging information, sharing over their expertise, establishments for benchmarks, development for new cooperative projects and be able to decide about the direction of advocacy. The UOC or Open University in Catalonia in this Global Online University will entirely be offering an online college and university career courses in languages of Spanish, Catalan, French, and English.