Banco BHD León and the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo started the first Valora Ser neuroethics course, in which 350 teachers from the Faculty of Educational Sciences of this higher education center participated, responsible, in turn, for facilitating the co-curricular program to the more than 35,000 students enrolled in the education career.
This program is taught as part of the recently signed agreement between Banco BHD León and UASD.
The opening ceremony of the values education program based on neurosciences was chaired by Josefina Navarro, Senior Vice President of Corporate Communication and Social Responsibility of Banco BHD León, and Lesly Altagracia Mejía, Dean of the Faculty of Educational Sciences.
“For those of us who make up Banco BHD León, the principles and values are essential for society to achieve economic success and human success. This is how we preach it with Valora Ser, a training program in human values that was born to support this comprehensive progress of people based on ethics, respect for life, human rights, truth and individual differences; solidarity, dignity, justice, and equal rights”, said Josefina Navarro.
Likewise, Mejía said that “with this continuous training program we assume the responsibility of forming human beings of integrity and committed to society and the world. We are committed to modeling and promoting ethical and moral behavior in the exercise of citizenship and to transmit this knowledge and learning in the classrooms of our UASD, primate of America”.
The commencement ceremony of the diploma course in neuroethics featured a dissertation by Fabián Román, doctor specializing in psychiatry, PhD, researcher, teacher and trainer of professionals through different universities and scientific societies around the world and director of the Ibero-American Network of Cognitive Neuroscience, who offered the conference “Neuroeducation. Adversities and opportunities”.
Present at the virtual meeting were Alejandro Antunes, founding partner of the consulting firm Cacatú and specialist in neurosciences; Juana Encarnación, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Educational Sciences and Kirssys Abreu, Second Vice President of Social Action of Banco BHD León.
ABOUT VALUE TO BE
The Valora Ser program is an initiative consolidated by universities and by the Ministry of Education (MINERD) and Banco BHD León with the purpose of promoting the development of a culture based on values in the training spaces of the Dominican educational community. With this program, more than 900 thousand students, 5,610 teachers, 2,499 educational centers and 423 community leaders have been impacted.
Valora Ser has been established in the schools of the educational regions throughout Santo Domingo, in the North Zone in Santiago, Puerto Plata, Montecristi, La Vega, Cotuí, San Francisco de Macorís, Mao and Nagua. Likewise, in the southern region in Bahoruco, Barahona, Azua and San Juan de la Maguana.
In 2019, the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (INTEC) integrated the subject of Neurodidactics and Education in Values, Valora Ser, as a compulsory subject in the curriculum of the Bachelor of Education and as an elective subject for the rest of the careers that are they teach at the university. In 2017, Valora Ser was taken to higher education with the training of students from the Salomé Ureña Higher Teacher Training Institute (ISFODOSU) in the subject of Neuroethics, for the training of practicing teachers and aspiring teachers.
2022: 50th anniversary of Banco León
This year is one of celebration and gratitude for Banco BHD León. The entity celebrates 50 years of its foundation as the first mortgage bank in the country and later as the first multiple bank, which supported the transformation of the national financial system to the current model of universal banking. The BHD León celebrates 50 years carrying out its main commitment to society: Promote human progress through responsible, innovative and close banking.
The entity was founded on July 24, 1972, then it was known as Banco Hipotecario Dominicano. For five decades it has been a pioneer in the local financial sector: from being the first mortgage bank and first multiple bank in the Dominican Republic to being a pioneer company in the implementation of a corporate governance model. Its avant-garde vision places it as the national financial entity with the greatest international support. Its policy of alliances, mergers and acquisitions makes it the second private capital financial institution in the country.
