President Alberto Fernández announced yesterday that the 21 national universities located in the territory of the province of Buenos Aires will receive funds to improve their infrastructure for some 3,000 million pesos, during the period 2019-2023.
Among the houses of high studies contemplated in the announcement is the National University of La Plata (UNLP), which will receive $ 140,013,865 for the enhancement and expansion of buildings B and C of the Bosque Este group, located on the former property of the Water Authority (ADA), on diagonal 113 between 64 and 66.
Sources from the Platense University detailed that research, transfer and productive innovation initiatives with added value knowledge of teachers, researchers and university graduates operate there.
The plan presented by Alberto Fernández and the ministers Gabriel Katopodis (Public Works) and Nicolás Trotta (Education) is called the National Program for Investment in University Infrastructure and contemplates an investment of 9.6 billion pesos in four years, with financing from the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF). The UNLP president, Fernando Tauber, also participated in the videoconference.
As EL DIA learned from official sources, in addition to the UNLP, the initiative includes the universities of Avellaneda, Quilmes, Tres de Febrero, Hurlingham, José C. Paz, Lomas de Zamora, Mar del Plata, Moreno, La Matanza and San Martín , among other.
“The path that Argentina has to embrace is public education,” assured the President when presenting the program from Olivos’ residence, while defending the need to invest in university infrastructure because “we believe that Argentines should not go to the university, but the universities must go to the Argentines. Argentina became strong the day the worker’s son became a doctor. “
For his part, Katopodis assured that “in the midst of this pandemic, we are committed to doing public works taking care of those who work in it.” Along the same lines, the national minister stated: “The reconstruction of Argentina comes from the hand of an ambitious plan of works throughout the country.”
While Trotta stressed that the Government’s policies in education are “fundamental steps to deepen the development of research in universities and expand the right of access to higher education. Our challenge and our commitment is to re-transit the prioritization of the educational agenda. ”
The announced measures contemplate the realization of 63 works in 47 national universities distributed in the Province, the city of Buenos Aires, Catamarca, Chubut, Corrientes, Córdoba, Entre Ríos, Jujuy, La Pampa, La Rioja, Mendoza, Misiones, Neuquén, Río Negro, Salta, San Luis, San Juan, Santa Fe, Tierra del Fuego and Tucumán.
In Buenos Aires territory, the sources consulted specified, the universities Arturo Jauretche (Florencio Varela), del Oeste (Merlo), Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (Morón), General Sarmiento (San Miguel), the Center (Olavarría) and the Northwest (Parchment).
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