Installing a campus of the Center for Research and Advanced Studies (Cinvestav) in Chiapas is strategic to trigger science and technology in the Mesoamerican region, according to the director of the Digital Technology Agency of the State of Chiapas (Aditech), Jovani Salazar. In an interview with Quadratín México, the director said that together with other institutions they are working on a project with the intention of building in San Cristóbal de las Casas what would be the 11th Cinvestav in the country.
A Cinvestav in Chiapas would have repercussions on higher education in the Mesoamerican region, which includes Campeche, Chiapas, Guerrero Oaxaca, Puebla, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, Veracruz and Yucatán, and in the Central American countries: Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, for being a first-rate institution in exact and natural sciences. Current indicators show us that the Mesoamerican region is the least developed in science and technology,” stressed the head of Aditech.
At the headquarters of the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation in Mexico City, accompanied by a delegation of academics, businessmen and former federal deputy Emilio Ulloa, this Thursday, February 6, Jovani Salazar participated in a meeting with the Undersecretary of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation, Juan Luis Díaz de León Santiago and Abdel Pérez Lorenzana, Academic Secretary of Cinvestav, with whom they strengthened ties of institutional collaboration and expressed the interest of the Government of Chiapas in establishing this high-level study center to offer master’s and doctoral degrees. Jovani Salazar with Juan Luis Díaz de León According to Jovani Salazar, within three months, the promoters of this initiative will present an executive project to federal authorities where the scope, budget and impact that Chiapas would have to have a Cinvestav will be established. One of the allies that we are going to add is UNESCO, because this project will have a regional impact.
For example, we are sure that researchers from Guatemala or Honduras, when they find out that there is a Cinvestav in Chiapas, will raise their hand to want to do a postgraduate degree,” he considered. The academic offer of the Cinvestav of Chiapas could start with a curricular proposal of basic sciences, starting with subjects such as physics, mathematics, chemistry and biology. We propose to have first-rate research areas.
Cinvestav has been characterized in Mexico, in its 10 representations in the country, for having several first-rate developments and Chiapas cannot be left out in subjects such as biology, biodiversity and climate change, among others,” said the academic. At the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation in Mexico City The meeting held in the country’s capital was attended by the president of the Science and Technology Commission of the State Congress, Ana Karen Ruíz; the rector of the Polytechnic University of Chiapa, Indra Toledo and the director of the Mexico campus of the Regional Center for the Teaching of Space Sciences for Latin America and the Caribbean (Crectealc), José Silvano Guichard, as well as the research professor of the Institute of Nuclear Sciences of the UNAM, Alejandro Frank Hoeflich.
Source: chiapas.quadratin
