On April 28, FGV Projetos participated in a Conference on Higher Education in Latin America - an event that took place at the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo under the initiative of the French Development Agency (AFD). FGV Projetos was present as knowledge partner of the event, whose focus was to discuss the role of the private sector in improving quality, access and employability in the context of higher education in Latin America.Organized into two panels, the conference addressed the challenge of expanding access to a higher education of excellence in Latin America and the link between higher education and employability, seeking ways to encourage young Latin Americans to develop the skills demanded by the labor market and contribute to their long-term employability.The debate on education and employment featured a lecture and moderation by FGV Projetos' project coordinator, Luis Fernando Rigato, who outlined an overview of the main trends of higher education in Latin America and Brazil in recent decades, and the importance of facilitating the transition of young people between educational institutions and the labor market.According to Rigato, there are several studies in the economic literature indicating that countries with higher educational experience higher rates of economic growth as well as higher returns associated with higher education. Thus, in Latin America we can observe a massification process of such teaching thanks to an increase in public investment and private participation in the sector in the last decades. Within this context lies the challenge of employability, that is, the parallel between the professional and technical skills developed in higher education institutions and those needed to insert young Latin-Americans in a labor market in constant transformation.Other views about the employability challenge were offered by Eduardo de Oliveira, Educational superintendent of the Centre for School-Company Integration (CIEE); Dionísio João Parise, of the Administration of Strategic Alliances of SENAI; Father Luis Fernando Múnera, professor of Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia); and João Ricardo de Siqueira Cavalcanti, director of Human Resources at Lafarge (Brazil), completing the second panel discussion.