The National Administration of Public Education (ANEP) and the Uruguayan Mutual of Professional Soccer Players signed this Monday the 26th a cooperation framework agreement for educational reinsertion and the completion of cycles by young and adult athletes. In this way, the institutions will implement various programs and projects through the Más Mutual program, to achieve reintegration into the educational system.
The event took place in the auditorium of the ANEP building, with the presence of the head of that organization, Robert Silva; the general secretary of the Central Board of Directors (Codicen), Virginia Cáceres; the president of the Uruguayan Mutual of Professional Soccer Players, Diego Scotti; the person in charge of the Educational-Cultural Area of that institution, Maximiliano Ruso; among other authorities of the educational system and referents of the Uruguayan sport.
The proposal involves developing programs for reintegration into the educational system and the completion of cycles. The agreement will remain in force for three years, with renewal for three more, in accordance with both signing parties.
In his speech, Silva stressed that the educational system and the ANEP must consider the reality of many young people and adults who carry out sports activities, address the bureaucratic and formal reality and design specific instruments so that this population can reintegrate into the system and complete the cycles. established.
The hierarch explained that there are some instruments established by the body such as the Basic Cycle Accreditation test, by which 98% of the athletes who applied managed to advance in their studies. The objective of the agreement is to generate new opportunities and specific proposals for this sector of the population, he indicated.
“With this agreement, we are opening the way to break with that false dichotomy that exists between education and sports, the two are necessarily compatible,” he concluded.
For his part, Scotti stressed that the agreement allows teamwork, synergy between all parties to achieve greater opportunities for athletes and meet the objectives set by the mutual in educational matters, which arise from the needs of soccer players, he detailed.
In each sports activity there are particularities and, therefore, we must work together to generate more opportunities and design proposals as they allow the completion of educational cycles and awareness of the importance of training, he said.
