It will be attended by the general director of UTU, Juan Pereyra, the rector of Udelar, Rodrigo Arim, the vice rector Álvaro Mombrú and the dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administration (FCEA) Jorge Xavier. A framework agreement and a specific one will be signed between UTU and Udelar, with the purpose of the FCEA training UTU officials through a tailor-made course called “Development, innovation and training from a territorial approach”.
The course will last 25 hours in total and will train 45 workers. Meanwhile, the agreement also includes cooperation activities between both institutions, which “will strengthen the relationship between education and work from the joint work between the FCEA and the DGETP, generating discussion instances of educational, social, economic and labor interest” . The agreement aims to “stimulate interdisciplinary experiences, focused on generating actions committed to problems of social interest.
A close link with the environment is sought, decentralizing the accumulation of professional and university technical knowledge, betting on its territorialization and diversification, through joint actions, with a strong commitment to the productive problems of the country, social development and the generation of actions and knowledge of a high academic level”, the agreement reads.
Cooperation activities will include: exchange of general and specific information related to education and work; technical support and processing of data of interest to both parties; advice and participation in activities and research projects and generation of knowledge between both institutions; organization of courses, conferences, seminars, or other activities of national, regional or international interest, linked to the sphere of competence of both institutions and their academic interest; preparation and execution of specific projects of reciprocal interest to the parties, or sponsorship in the preparation and execution of joint projects; and any other modality of cooperation that is considered of interest to both institutions.