Newsletter for the General Coordination of Cooperation and Internationalization of the Autonomous Univeristy of Yucatan for the January-July 2017 period.

1. blé Cauil from the community of
Xoy, showed some of his pro-
ducts such as "gallito corn", "two
and a half", watermelon seeds,
melon, pips, as well as medicinal
plants to alleviate cold, diarrhea,
asthma and others. "With these
plants I have cured many sick
people, they are remedies that
were taught to me since I was a
boy and that are true," he said.
The coordinator of the Degree
in Agroecology, Jesús Caamal
Maldonado, emphasized that
this type of activity in which the
students are involved in all the
organization and execution are
fundamental. He recalled that
the first edition of this fair was
organized by the student coun-
cil and student society,
Professor Jorge Cetz explained
that the objective is to establish
a close link between producers
and students to learn about the
experiences they have in the field
and that young people broaden
their vision on the challenges and
difficulties, such as climate chan-
ge.
Producers from the communities
of Peto, X-Boox, Yaxcabá,
Tahdziú, Sabacché, Tixmehuac,
Telchaquillo, Umán to name a
few, participated in the fair.
Mérida, Yucatan, May 11,
2017. To preserve the knowledge
of the Mayan people and promote
a fair trade of their products, the
Campus of Biological and Agri-
cultural Sciences held its Sixth
Annual Agro-Diversity Fair, in
which a hundred of producers of
the most remote communities of
the interior of the State partici-
pated.
Men and women from the coun-
tryside exposed their products,
including seeds and plants,
which were offered for sale, as
well as promoted the exchange
of these products among com-
munities.
The campus director, Marcos
Torres León, explained that this
meeting is a fundamental part of
the commitment of the universi-
ty’s social responsibility with the
Mayan people. “Fortunately, this
fair is already a tradition and is
one more manifestation of the
commitment that the University
has with this deep Mexico,” he
stressed.
“This exchange of knowledge
between the student community
and the producers is extremely
enriching, since young people
listen to the experiences of rural
men, but also the needs and chal-
lenges of the activity,” he ex-
plained. “The fair,” he added, “is
also an effort to promote fair trade
in the products of Mayan commu-
nities.”
One of the producers of the X-
Boox community, Ricardo Piña
Kab, carried a variety of seeds of
pumpkin, chiapaneco, tongolip,
dzolitos, as well as dwarf buu, ho-
ney and corn.
"We are here to demonstrate that
the Mayan people continue to pro-
duce, we continue to do what our
ancient grandparents taught us be-
cause the seeds are necessary to
feed the people of Yucatan," he
said. "And since I was born I saw
my grandfather and my father who
were planting, and we do not want
to stop because we see that a seed
is one hundred percent improved,
does not prick fast, does not spoil,
is resistant and hold it all," he said.
Another producer, Benjamin Cha-
Mayan producers share their knowledge with UADY
students
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General coordination of cooperation
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January-June 2017

2. Mérida, Yucatan, March
23, 2017-. The Network,
Education, Training and
Development Seminar
(REDFORD by its Span-
ish acronym) and the
Colloquium "Education
for all and all throughout
life" were held to
strengthen ties of collab-
oration between institu-
tions of higher education
in Latin America and
Europe.
These events were held
at the University Cultural Center and
at the Faculty of Education of the
Autonomous University of Yucatan
(UADY), respectively. Experts from
France, Chile, Brazil, Colombia,
Italy, Haiti and Mexico participated,
analyzed, exchanged and shared in-
formation and experiences in the
field of education.
From March 22 to the 24 there were
38 presentations, of which eight
were given by members of the Net-
work; Redford has consolidated a
dynamic of sustainable collaboration
and at the same time contributed to
the development of projects oriented
to the formation of relevant research
cadres.
Gladys Guerrero Walker, director of
the Faculty of Education, indicated
that the activities are aimed at creat-
ing a dialogue and collaborative
work directed at public authorities
and the education, training and de-
velopment sectors. On the other
hand, he added that the main theme
to be addressed at the Colloquium is
lifelong education. In that sense, he
emphasized that during these three
days the students and academics that
participated had the opportunity to
know different perspectives of the
education in other countries, as well
as relevant points on this subject.
Marcel Pariat, president of the Net-
work, said that the Colloquium is a
space for the international university
community to reflect on this funda-
mental topic in the development of
any country and above all to assist in
the implementation of strategies that
guarantee the Fulfillment of the goal
for all people to learn throughout their
lives.
Carlos Estrada Pinto, general director
of academic development at UADY,
stressed that the Faculty of Education
is an important pillar thanks to the
results obtained in recent years as the
accreditations of its educational pro-
grams, national recognition, as well as
its graduates and students. He also
pointed out that UADY scholars have
achieved over four years the imple-
mentation of the Educational Model
for Integral Training (MEFI) in the
schools and faculties of this house of
studies, which covers six main axes:
learning, skills, Flexibility, innova-
tion, university social
responsibility and
internationalization.
Finally, he thanked
academics and spe-
cialists for choosing
this University and
forming part of this
network composed of
prestigious institu-
tions from Latin
America, the Carib-
bean and Europe,
"with these actions
we strengthen the
educational innovation that UADY
seeks", he said.
It should be noted that a lecture
entitled "Multicultural Education:
Implications in Educational Quali-
ty" was given by Oswaldo Lorenzo
Quiles, professor at the University
of Granada, Spain, in which he em-
phasized that the two major chal-
lenges of Education at present are:
learning to learn and learning to
live with others.
"Education is not only teaching, but
also learning attitudes, values and
standards that enable the integra-
tion of individual and community
dimensions, this will result in coex-
istence and solidarity among peo-
ple," he said.
This network was created in 1995
under the bilateral agreements be-
tween the Paris XII-Val de Marne
University and the participating
Latin American universities. In
2000 an agreement was signed with
the Universidad Autónoma de Yu-
catán (UADY) and in 2001 it inte-
grates into the Redford network.
UADY, host of the seminar and colloquium Redford
International 2017
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3. of internationalization. He asked to take
advantage of their stay with the purpose
of combining their academic studies with
the cultural exploration in museums and
historical sites of the city and the State.
Jesus Leonardo Loyola Lamas of the
UPN, Ajusco Unit of the Federal District,
who is a student of Pedagogy and came
to UADY to join the Faculty of Educa-
tion, commented that he chose this insti-
tution because of its interest to know
more the southeast region, the prestige
that the university has and the programs
of study that they provide. The exchang-
es really are wonderful because they
open our geographic field, to other peo-
ple and cultures, he said.
Corina Vianey Rascón Juárez, from the
Autonomous University of Ciudad Juá-
rez, commented that before deciding on
UADY, she set the task of investigating
their programs. I was able to confirm that
here they provide quality programs, with
an international focus and with social
responsibility, said the young woman
who will be in exchange in the Faculty of
Psychology of this House of Studies.
About her expectations, she said, she
wants to learn about culture, meet more
people and make friends.
Lauriane Colas of INSA, France, opted
for UADY to study more about Compu-
ting in the Faculty of Mathematics. "I
want to find out
more about their
programs and
overall, about
their culture,"
she said.
Of the total
number of stu-
dents, 138 come
from national
universities
such as the Na-
tional Polytech-
nic Institute,
National Autonomous University of
Mexico, Juarez Autonomous Universi-
ty of Tabasco, Autonomous University
of Coahuila, National Pedagogical
Institute, Autonomous University of
Aguascalientes, as well as the Be-
nemérita Autonomous University of
Puebla Tlaxcala, Querétaro, Morelos,
Nuevo León, Chiapas, San Luis,
among others.
In addition, there are 104 students
from universities in Argentina, Germa-
ny, Brazil, Colombia, China, Chile,
Costa Rica, United States, Spain,
France, Peru, United Kingdom, among
others. The student mobility program
of UADY is held every semester with
students who come from the rest of the
country and from any part of the world
to make short stays such as Spanish
courses or mobility stays that last for
six months or more.
In the welcoming ceremony, they were
also provided with information and
guidance by representatives of the
Student Care Centers and the lan-
guage, volunteer and other cultural
programs offered by UADY. Also
participating in the event were Norma
Navarrete Demara, responsible for
PIMES (The Student Exchange Pro-
gram) and Gabriela Quintal Avilés,
responsible for PISVI (The Interna-
tional Students Program).
Mérida, Yucatan January 16, 2017. As
it is a tradition, for a little more than
15 years, the Autonomous University
of Yucatán (UADY by its Spanish
acronym) opens its doors to receive
239 students from 27 institutions in the
country and 43 foreigners from Coun-
tries such as France, Spain, UK, Chi-
na, Cuba, Brazil, Chile and the United
States, among others. In a reception
and orientation ceremony for the
young visitors, the General Director of
Academic Development, Carlos Estra-
da Pinto, stressed that the mobility
programs endorsed the prestige and
quality of UADY, a line in which the
institution is the sixth nationally by the
number of students, both those who
are received and those who are sent for
an academic exchange.
The coordinator of the System of Inte-
gral Attention to the Student of
UADY, Jorge Carlos Guillermo Herre-
ra, said that "this position arises from a
survey conducted by ANUIES, which
becomes more relevant at the moment
in which the image of Mexico abroad
could be going through a complicated
situation. " This is a great effort of the
university, which involves organiza-
tion and investment, but also reflects
the perception of the institution and its
students, which show a good academic
and research role in their stays, he
added.
The students, he said, "will be here at
a university of high prestige and global
focus, where almost all programs are
accredited for their quality and innova-
tion." He considered that student mo-
bility allows young people to strength-
en academic skills, as well as research
networks and in general, brotherhood
ties.
Estrada Pinto, congratulated the stu-
dents for undertaking their profession-
al projects and doing so in UADY
means to integrate into that approach
UADY among the favorites for mobility studies
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4. Mérida, Yucatan, February 9,
2017.- In order to give pertinent
attention to the problems that
affect the organizations of the
country and, in particular, the
family and small companies of
the state and the region, in the
Faculty of Accounting and Ad-
ministration (FCA) of the Au-
tonomous University of Yuca-
tan (UADY), started in recent
days a new postgraduate pro-
gram that aims to improve the
management and performance
of this type of business.
The Master in Management
and Organizational Change
seeks to meet the need to have
specialized professionals who
can identify the problems faced
by these organizations, formu-
late and conclude plans and pro-
grams of change that allow a
better performance of these
businesses.
The postgraduate curriculum
will form human resources that
can contribute to the adaptation
and transformation of these com-
panies, with criteria of competi-
tiveness, innovation and social
responsibility.
The proposal for the creation of
this new postgraduate program is
articulated using the National De-
velopment Plan 2013-2018, the
State Development Plan 2012-
2018 and the Institutional Devel-
opment Plan of UADY, which
present the guidelines, goals, pol-
icies and strategies that will
guide the way forward for devel-
opment at the national, state and
institutional levels in the coming
years.
The Master's Program in Man-
agement and Organizational
Change is recognized by the Na-
tional Postgraduate Program of
Quality (PNPC) of the National
Council of Science and Technol-
ogy (CONACYT). It should be
noted that this recognition is
granted to programs that show
they have met the highest stand-
ards of quality and relevance.
The FCA director, MA. In Fi-
nance Aureliano Martínez Cas-
tillo, said that the entrance of
this postgraduate program in
the PNPC, represents a public
recognition of its quality, "is a
reliable reference about the
quality of our educational offer
in the field of postgraduate stu-
dies, which helps and guides
the different sectors of this re-
gion of the country, so that
they opt for the benefits that
the formation of human resour-
ces of high level gives. "
There are 14 professionals
from different areas of
knowledge such as public ac-
counting, marketing and inter-
national business, psychology,
administration, chemical engi-
neering and social communica-
tion enrolled in this first class
of the Master.
UADY Launches new graduate program
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5. ment signed by the Rector of the
UADY and vice-president of the
University of Zheijing, China, Zhou
Jiamin.
The vice president of the China insti-
tution expressed his enthusiasm for
strengthening the relationship. "It is
very important for our university to
develop ties of cooperation, especial-
ly with an institution as recognized
as UADY," he said. In front of repre-
sentatives of the media, he said that
he is impressed by the development
that drives the university, as well as
by its programs of study.
In attended for the visiting institution
was Lou Shaomin, a professor at
Zust University; Yang Zhixiang, di-
rector of the Office of Student Af-
fairs and Administration; for UADY,
the general director of Cooperation
and Internationalization, Andrés Alu-
ja Schunemman; the director of the
Confucius Institute, Zhang Zhe; and
a professor of the same institute, Mi-
guel Carrillo.
The Zhejiang University of Science
and Technology (ZUST) has an en-
rollment of 21 thousand students, of
whom more than 1,700 are for-
eigners from 104 countries. This
university has two campuses which
are Xiaoheshan, located in the his-
torical and cultural city of Hang-
zhou, the capital of Zhejiang prov-
ince, which is one of the most
prosperous provinces of China;
and the Anji campus, located in the
county of the same name; This last
campus won the United Nations
Habitat Award of Honor.
After the protocol meeting in the
Central Building, the delegation of
visitors moved to the Campus of
Exact Sciences and Engineering
with the purpose of touring and
getting to know the faculties of
Engineering, Mathematics and
Chemical Engineering, both in
their plans of study and facilities,
as well as their laboratories and
equipment.
It is worth noting that in addition
to this agreement, agreements have
been signed with the universities
of Sun Yat-Sen, Anhui, East China
Normal University, Zhejiang Nor-
mal University, Guandong Phar-
maceutical University and the
General Office of Confucius Insti-
Mérida Yucatan, April 24, 2017.-
With the objective of strengthen-
ing mobility and exchange of
knowledge with foreign institu-
tions, the Autonomous University
of Yucatan signed a collaboration
agreement with its counterpart of
Science and Technology of
Zhejiang, China, which is recog-
nized for its great international
projection and its impulse in the
engineering fields.
The Rector of this House of Stud-
ies, José de Jesús Williams, said
that this linkage is fundamental in
the integral training of profession-
als because it expands the oppor-
tunity for exchange and experienc-
es with other communities in other
countries.
Zhejiang University is public, mul-
tidisciplinary with emphasis on
engineering incorporating disci-
plines in science, arts, economics,
administration and education. It
has 11 schools and offers 54 un-
dergraduate and 10 graduate pro-
grams, and currently maintains a
cooperative relationship with more
than 80 universities around the
world.
After signing the agreement, the
Rector stressed that achieving
these alliances is part of the institu-
tional commitments established in
the 2014-2022 Development Plan.
This new agreement with the insti-
tution of China opens a great op-
portunity for students, academics
and researchers to enter different
spaces of learning, said the Rector.
The Rectors' Hall of the Central
Building was the seat of the agree-
UADY expands student and academic mobility
options with China
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6. Mérida, Yucatan, April 07, 2017.-
The socio-community activities
are a hallmark of the UABIC (High
School Academic Unit of Commu-
nity Interaction) of the Autono-
mous University of Yucatan
(UADY by its Spanish acronym),
and involve a commitment to the
training of young people as indi-
viduals and citizens, as well as, an
opportunity to strengthen their aca-
demic training.
These actions have generated inter-
est from Princeton University
teachers and Rotary Club volun-
teers, who jointly with 50 UABIC
students, who have mastered the
English language, participated for
three days in different socio-
community activities aimed at fos-
tering social responsibility.
This activity was called "Building
Bridges" and it is the first time that
it is carried out in the Academic
Unit informed Guillermo Contreras
Gil, coordinator of this campus. He
commented that the idea of this
dynamic was to “motivate both
UABIC students and Princeton
professors to understand the im-
portance and benefits of helping
the community," he added. He ex-
plained that the dynamic was that
the students of the unit of the
UADY shared what was learned in
their classes with the North Ameri-
can university students and put into
practice different community pro-
jects.
He emphasized that one of the main
characteristics of the socio-
community programs is that the
young people go to different popula-
tions to know them and, from this, to
develop social projects that this time
they shared with the visitors of the
University of Princeton. In that
sense, he recalled that since the crea-
tion of this Unit, where in addition to
the general baccalaureate includes a
specialized approach to community
development, "the goal has been to
generate agents of change that impact
positively on the community," he
said.
"UABIC assumes its commitment to
the University’s Social Responsibil-
ity by implementing projects, pro-
grams and activities where the pro-
tagonists are the students, who with
the advice of their teachers, have
positioned themselves as referents of
action and change in society," he
added.
In an interview Contreras Gil pointed
out the socio-community programs
that are currently implemented on
campus:
 Community school BIC, a
space through which peda-
gogical strategies are de-
signed to advise primary
school children through
play activities and are sup-
ported by UABIC students
to carry out their tasks.
 Hands on the land, whose
purpose is to promote a
system of organic food pro-
duction, with nutritious
quality and without any
contamination or chemical
alteration.
 Small species, in this pro-
gram they sensitize the
community in the care of
species such as dogs and
cats.
 Socialize yourself, action
that contributes to the res-
cue of culture, environmen-
tal education and preven-
tion of violence.
 Integral Health, promotes
healthy practices and life-
styles.
The High School Academic Unit
of Community Interaction
(UABIC) forms students with an
integral educational, humanistic
and quality approach. Its graduates
are responsible, committed to the
environment and have the skills
and competences they acquire for
belonging to this program of stud-
ies and the academic and cultural
activities in which they participate
during their training.
UABIC is visited by professors from Princeton
University
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UADY and the NAAAS establish partnerships
Mérida, Yucatan, February 7,
2017.- Directors of the Auton-
omous University of Yucatan
(UADY by its Spanish acro-
nym) met with Lemuel Berry
director of the National Asso-
ciation of African-American
Studies and Affiliates
(NAAAS) with the purpose of
establishing collaborative ties
between both institutions in order to
Promote bilaterally the mobility of
students and teachers, as well as re-
search programs. The National Asso-
ciation of African American Studies
and Affiliated (NAAAS) was founded
in 1992 at Campus of Virginia State
University in Petersburg. It is made up
of 91 institutions including Beijing
Universities, Guangxi Medical and
Chung-Shan (Taiwan), universities
from California, among others.
Lemuel Berry visited UADY as part of
a first approach in which topics were
discussed and focused on the joint col-
laboration of projects and research fo-
rums, as well as the strengthening of
educational programs.
The objective is to conduct African-
American, Hispanic, Latino, Chicano, as
well as Native American and Asian
studies, oriented to promote globaliza-
tion through international forums. The
director of the NAAAS said that this
association aims to promote knowledge
and stimulate greater public interest and
information on these issues.
He recalled that the association
has cooperation agreements
with Chinese Universities that
give 35 Asian students the
opportunity to hold academic
stays in one of the 91 institu-
tions affiliated with this body.
He emphasized that they re-
cently signed an agreement
with the University of Madras
in India.
"Among the goals of this partnership
is to strengthen its mobility program,
create links with universities in other
countries to increase the flow of stu-
dents and provide quality education,"
he said. In his visit to the UADY
Lemuel Berry, toured the facilities of
the Institutional Language Center
(CIL) and the Confucius Institute,
where he learned about the services
and curricula of both university de-
partments.