The present extended agreement will allow to interact in the fields of agricultural and forestry science, legal science, humanities, social science and engineering.

The Department of Psychology of the Universidad de La Frontera and its peers of the Universidad de Almeria (Spain) are celebrating their valuable relationship. The highest authorities of both educational establishments decided to extend the collaborative ties through a new international cooperation agreement.

This important partnership was established by Eduardo Hebel, rector´s representative of the Universidad de La Frontera, and Carmelo Rodríguez, rector of the Universidad de Almería, in presence of the deans of the six UFRO faculties, which participated in the ceremony held in the Vice-Rectorate´s board room.

This new agreement is very important, since both establishments of higher education assume their willingness and commitment to do exchanges at the student and academic level, and to enhance the interest in exploring new links of mutual benefit in the areas of postgraduate programs and research, starting in May 2017.

In this regard, the rector of the Universidad de Almeria, Carmelo Rodríguez, pointed out that one of the strategies of this educational establishment is internationalization. "This encourages us to comply with indicators of student mobility, because we believe that the training of students is not only based on knowledge, but also on their comprehensive development and in the case of PhD students and teachers (academics), networks and collaborative work to make transfer."

In this context, the authority of the Spanish university was optimistic about what this agreement will allow to concrete now and in the future and the rector´s representative of the UFRO, Eduardo Hebel, reaffirmed the importance of this cooperation, which contributes to a common process and goal.

"It is not any kind of internationalization that we are looking for. We are focused on those establishments of higher education in the world, where different fields and disciplines are covered", said Dr. Hebel, and emphasized that this agreement will allow interactions in the fields of agricultural and forestry science, legal science, humanities, social science and engineering.

According to the academic authority, this agreement fulfills the expectations of what is being sought in the context of international agreements, and the most important thing is to be cross-disciplinary in the aspect of being able to offer the possibility of doing internships for undergraduate students, and to have networks and collaborative partnerships at the postgraduate and research level.

The Director of the International Cooperation Office, Dr. Pamela Leal, said that this year at the annual meeting of the Inter-American Association of Universities, we expressed interest in the scope of this agreement, which specifically contemplates at least two places in each area for student exchange and support for joint research and mobility for postgraduate students and academics.

Written by: Pamela Carrasco Salas
Direction of Communications