The University of Granma strengthens its links with state companies and private economic actors, based on the development of that eastern territory.
This is how Wilfredo Manuel Castro Villa, vice-rector of the center declared exclusively to the Cuban News Agency, which celebrated its 45th anniversary last December and provides advice to producing entities, mainly from the food industry, mini-industries and organizational forms that have emerged in the non- state.
From the stand presented by the institution at the 2022 University Congress, he said that they have fruitful working relationships with the Granma Conservas y Vegetales company, which despite the adverse context is committed to improving its productions of the Taoro line, of tomato-derived foods , mango and vegetables.
In addition, the university collaborates with the Jiguaní Agricultural Company and an associated mini-industry that produces peanut nougat, cassava, natural juices and sweets in syrup, and whose sales through electronic commerce are gaining strength.
The main contributions of the house of higher studies are related to economic and financial advice, the articulation of projects for the development of management models in order to make the productive chains a reality and the training of the human resources of the entities, he pointed out. Castro Villa.
From the technical and agricultural sciences, he said, there is research that contributes to the reuse of raw materials, and the production of medicines and oral liquids through Chemistry.
The main goal of the strategy to be followed by 2025 is to achieve Center of Excellence certification, the vice-chancellor specified.
Currently, more than 11,000 students welcome this Higher Education institution, which has three master’s programs and the same number of doctorates.
In this sense, Castro Villa reported that postgraduate research is defined based on its impact on territorial development.
Regarding the progress of the localities, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, President of the Republic, has mentioned on numerous occasions that the implementation of government policies at a territorial scale also demands the mobilization of the knowledge of experts in those spaces, as well as extending the scientific advice to organizations and companies through Technical Advisory Councils, where the university participates.
In the 2022 University Congress, which is in session until next Friday as a hybrid event, 34 countries participate and more than 1,780 papers will be presented, distributed in seven symposiums.
