Economic development 2011
The Faculty of Economics of the Universidad Veracruzana (UV) has signed a collaboration agreement with the National Chamber of Transformation Industries (Canacintra) and the National Network for Teaching and Research Institutions of Geography.
“The two agreements mark a course at the Faculty different because they create a platform for links to specific sectors, as we offer degrees in economics and geography,” said Lucia Tide Leon, director of the Faculty.
By agreement with Canacintra Faculty are expected to cooperate by making economic development work, business diagnostic studies on competitiveness indicators, among others. In addition, the career of Geography may support studies on regional and geo-referenced location in the different regions of the state.
In the case of agreement with the National Network, said: “The idea is to share the possibility of collaboration on curriculum and academic and student mobility, as well as publications and joint projects.”
This year it also signed agreements with the BUAP and the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where they have been very interested in receiving academic and student in the doctoral area, even considering the possibility of establishing academic advice and shared rooms, said Lucia Leon.
Arturo Bacardi, the coordinating academic liaison, said, “with the University of Florida in Gainesville did a deal with the economics department at where we are going to afford to have our Ph.D. students in public finance and exchange teachers.”
He stressed that this agreement contemplates the possibility of taking courses at the university, “is a great advantage because it is not always allowed in U.S. universities that students attend as listeners, but this will be formalized,” said the scholar.