UADY Global

News from UADY Global During the month of July CGCI Coordinator, Andres Aluja, and the university president, Alfre-do Dájer, visited China for the meeting of the directors of the Confucius Institute. During this meeting, 20 scholarships were granted for short stays in China for students from Confucius In-stitute at the Autonomous University of Yucatan.

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UADY Global Genera l Coordinat ion of Cooperat ion and In ternat ional izat ion

UADY, within its effort to develop an institutional internationalization proyect, has created UADY Global with the purpose of incorporating under the same concept the many activities that the uni-versity is partaking in within its various substantive areas and functions; activities that may be of interest to foreign institutions so that they can establish academic partnerships and research through partnerships or strategic alliances. Similarly, UADY Global seeks to project to the universi-ty on a global level to acquire greater presence and visibility as an institution of social importance and relevance to local, regional, national and international.

UADY Global acts as liaison between universities, students, researchers, and other organizations, that are found throughout the world and have an interest in the Autonomous University of Yuca-tán. Our main purpose is to provide the necessary information in a clear and concise manner, in at least the English language (besides Spanish), that users are looking for and strengthen and promote cooperation ties between UADY and international organizations.

Our identity as a university project is reflected in our logo that imitates the union of two hands confirming our commitment to students, academics and other institutions worldwide.

We want UADY Global to be an area of academic and cultural convergence, and that is why from September 2013 we are at your disposal through our webpage to continue strengthening the bonds of global cooperation that are already established and new opportunities academic and internation-al research projects.

We would like to extend an invitation to the university’s community to participate in this new pro-ject of international collaboration through their questions, comments and suggestions.

General Coordination of Cooperation and Internationalization

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Country of the Month: Mexico

UADY Global

Mexico is one of the countries with the largest cultural tourism in the world. The cultural, geographical and historical wealth of our country can be seen broadly through its tourist destinations, cuisine, architecture, tra-ditions and everything that conform the people.

Mexico has a vast supply of archaeological sites. Among these sites are amazing set-tlements such as Tulum, Chichen Itza, Palenque and Monte Alban, of which some are recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

You can enjoy the crafts produced in some of the cities in Mexico where the crea-

tion processes remains intact from centuries and that are transmitted from generation to generation. Similar-ly, you can admire the creations in black mud in Oaxaca, musical instruments in Paracho, Michoacan, leather goods in Guanajuato and colorful crafts of indigenous peoples such as the Huichol.

Far and wide across the country are hundreds of places with their churches, municipal palaces and kiosks. You can admire the colonial architecture, historic buildings and libraries, silent witnesses of the development of the life of Mexico.

Mexico has one of the richest cuisines in the world. Their proposals are differ-ent from region to region and pre-Hispanic ingredients fused with European influence brought by the Spaniards after the conquest.

The Southeast of Mexico The Southeast Region of Mexico has great potential, with its 1338.14 Km of coast bathed by the Pacific Ocean and totaling over 2,600 by the coastline of the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. The potential inherent in the coastal areas has specific and measurable benefits in areas such as tourism, logistics and commercial develop-ment. The development of this potential has resulted in the existence of important tourist destinations of Mexico to interna-

tional markets such as Acapulco and Mayan Riviera. This region has a great geopolitical importance, its direct connection to Central America through Chiapas, and its backbone status among the states of North and South of Mexico, through the State of Puebla. For a quick overview of Mexico you can see the following video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=3jBUZHsuGgE&hd=1

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María Ricalde Cural, Abra-ham Echazarreta Moreno, Josué Omar Verduga Dorantes and Christopher Guadarrama Moreno, stu-dents of the Faculty of Eco-nomics at the Autonomous University of Yucatan (UADY), traveled to France in mid-August for a two-year stay at the University Tou-louse, under the Toulouse Latin America Economics program (PETAL), with support from the French and Mexican governments, the later chan-neled through the Consortium of Mexican Universities (CUMEX). This was reported by Andrés Aluja, general coordinator of Cooperation and Internationali-zation at UADY and Eraclio Cruz Pacheco, academic secre-tary of the Faculty of Economics, adding to a total of 14 students performing academic campus stays of two years in a college nes-

tled in an important economic and industrial area of France. It should be noted that this is a program that will give them a double degree. For this edition, there were 36 students involved of the 28 member institutions of CUMEX of which 20 were selected. These are the students of the UADY, who previously were prepared in learning French and have overall minimum average of 85 out of 100 points in as their average grade. Part of the process was

carried out in Mexico City, in the French Institute for Latin America where IFAL members successfully interviewed the submitted two projects train-ing and development. The projects were also evaluated by CUMEX academics, and rep-resentatives of Toulouse and the French government. " They carry the representa-tion of UADY, the state, the region and the country, they

do their best to make up the name of our institution," said Aluja Schunemann who an-nounced that for the next be-sides students of Economy and International Trade, students of Law may participate as well. With this, the commitment of UADY shows itself through open new scenarios for learning and application of knowledge to university students, so that they get a comprehensive education and thus promote their personal and professional growth.

France receives UADY students

of your degree program or 25% of the graduate pro-gram.

We invite you to approach the person in charge of mobility in your faculty or the Coordination of Integral At-tention to Students at UADY so you can inform yourself on this and other requirements to partic-

ipate in the mobility program of the university.

Mobility Tips If you decide to apply to the mo-bility program you must meet certain requirements to be sure that you are eligible to apply to the process.

Depending on the curriculum you study, and that the rules of your Faculty permits it, you must have covered 60% of total credits

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The Autonomous University of Yucatan has several agreements at the national level that allow students, both of our institution and institutions in other states, to conduct academic stays.

Some of the national networks of mobility that has UADY agreement are:

Consortium of Mexican Universities (CUMEX): CUMEX's mission is to build a strong alliance of quality higher education. They are aided in this pur-pose by a group of experts in seven areas of knowledge and a team of distinguished personalities from academia and profes-sional advisory board. In-stitutions that participate in CUMex share the vision of a common higher edu-cation flexible and good quality, socially relevant to the major problems facing Mexico and the challenges posed by globalization and the knowledge society XXI century.

National Association of Universities and Institu-tions of Higher Education (ANUIES): The National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education, since its found-ing in 1950, has participat-ed in the development of programs, plans and poli-cies, as well as the creation of agencies oriented in the development of Mexican higher education. ANUIES is a non-governmental association that unionizes to major institutions of higher edu-cation in the country, whose common denomina-tor is their willingness to promote their overall im-provement in the fields of teaching, research and ex-tension of culture and ser-vices. The association is composed of 175 universi-ties and higher education institutions, both public and individuals around the country.

Common Area of Higher Education (ECOES): The purpose of ECOES is to establish a national educa-tional space that allows joint efforts to raise aca-demic standards, strength-en education and public duty as a task for the bene-fit of students, academic communities and partici-p a t i n g in s t i t u t i o n s . The ECOES is also a pro-moter that seeks to extend the proposal to include this effort to other univer-sities.

For more information on nation-al associations to which the Uni-versity belongs consult:

http://www.uadyglobal.uady.mx/en

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Mobility Agreements of UADY in México

UADY Global

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Some of the national universities where UADY students can go for academic stays are:

Mobility Agreements of UADY in México

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Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de

Puebla

Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de

Ecatepec

Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes

Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas

Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila

Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

Universidad Autónoma de Campeche

Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de

Chiapas

Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro

Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Po-

tosí

Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa

Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas

Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas

Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Mé-

xico

Universidad de Colima

Universidad de Guadalajara

Universidad de Quintana Roo

Universidad de Sonora

Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás

“Why do you go away? So that you can co-

me back. So that you can

see the place you came from with new eyes

and extra colors. And the

people there see you differently, too. Co-

ming back to where you started

is not the same as never leaving.”

― Terry Pratchett

Address: Km. 1 Carretera

Mérida-Tizimín tramo Cholul

C.P. 97305.

General Coordination of Cooperation and

Internationalization

Telephone: (999) 928-2711

Extension: 1351

We are online

www.uadyglobal.uady.mx

Coordinator Andrés Aluja andres.aluja@uady.mx

Interinstitutional Rela-tions

Alfredo Ramírez raraiza@uady.,x

Foreign Students Gabriela Quintal aquintal@uady.mx

UADY and National Students

Norma Navarrete ndemara@uady.mx

For more information you can contact the following people: