Author: mario de leon

Inauguration of the JUDUCA 2023

El Salvador City, July 11, 2023

 

After a day of games, the University of El Salvador inaugurated the VIII Central American University Sports Games -JUDUCA-, which take place in El Salvador City from July 11 to 15 of this year.


The inaugural act included the participation of one thousand six hundred athletes from different branches such as soccer, futsal, volleyball, basketball, karate, taekwondo, athletics, chess, among others. Being representatives of the different universities that make up the Central American Higher University Council, together with authorities, teams from the different universities represented and Salvadoran artists who performed at the ceremony.

 

To kick off the event, Roger Arias, rector of the University of El Salvador -UES-, mentioned ?This ability to generate integral professionals for our societies who not only operate with great leadership in the labor field, but are also professionals talent in sports, art, and culture?, emphasizing that integrity is what should characterize Central Americans.

While Carlos Alvarado Cerezo, Secretary General of CSUCA, reflected that universities are generators of universal knowledge, built collectively ?and our functionality in life in society is directly linked to the treaty of that knowledge for an adequate social and peaceful coexistence? .



For his part, Juan Rosa Quintanilla, UES Administrative Vice Chancellor, expressed his excitement at seeing the energy of the Central American athletes. In addition, he recalled his experience as a university student in which he highlighted values such as friendship, solidarity and fraternity among the Central American countries.

The event was also attended by Yamil Bukele, president of the National Sports Institute, who highlighted the energy and enthusiasm of student athletes, for which he invited them to enjoy their stay at the UES and in the sports venues where the competitions take place.

Admission to the competitions is free and it is expected that members of the university community, including students, teachers and workers, will particularly attend, as well as the Central American and Caribbean university community is invited to follow up on the development of sports activities through the page official JUDUCA 2023, through the following link: https://www.facebook.com/JUDUCA2023.

49th Regular Session CONREVE

El Salvador City, July 10, 2023

Today the 49th ordinary session of the Regional Student Life Council -CONREVE- was held, being the body of the CSUCA, in charge of advising, promoting, strengthening and generating initiatives, programs and projects that promote the development of the Student Life area of the member universities; contributing to the comprehensive training of professionals who participate with social commitment, in the transformation, development and Central American Integration.

To start the session, Roger Arias, Rector of the University of El Salvador, said ?I want to wish you the best of success in this day of work, but above all the best stay in this land of Cuzcatleca, together we are building that great homeland, that homeland dreamed of by General Francisco Morazán?.

While Eduardo Flores, President of CSUCA and Rector of the University of Panama indicated "This meeting marks the beginning of the sports meetings that increase our ties as Central American brothers, we feel very pleased and happy for the extraordinary work that our vice rectors have done for take the delegations to the Salvadoran people, I know that the participation of our boys will be very successful, since more than winning medals, the importance is the friendship and connection that they can generate between them?.

For his part, Carlos Alvarado, Secretary General of CSUCA, mentioned ?It is an honor for me to be present at the 49th ordinary session of CONREVE, whose mystique of work guides the generation of programs and projects that promote the development of student life in our region. , higher education has a strategic role in building more resilient societies, as an academic university community we must take a qualitative leap to build a safer, more democratic and sustainable world for everyone?.

Jorge Cortez, President of CONREVE, expressed ?The greatest satisfaction we have as a Regional Council is the participation of Belize, which fills us  very proud, because it means that as a council we are working for that regional integration?

With an established quorum and unanimous approval of the agenda, the meeting had the approval of the minutes corresponding to the 48th ordinary session of CONREVE, as well as the presentation of reports by the CONREVE Presidency, Assistant Secretary for Student Affairs, Presidency of the Federation of University Students of Central America and the Caribbean and the Eighth edition of the Central American University Sports Games -JUDUCA-, which will take place at the University of El Salvador- del  July 11 to 16, 2023.

Likewise, the election and swearing-in of the CONREVE Steering Committee took place, being elected Jorge Cortez from the University of El Salvador re-elected as President, Astrid Montero from the Francisco Morazán National Pedagogical University as Vice President, Mayanín Rodríguez from the University of Panama as Member 1 and Oswaldo Castro from the State Distance University of Costa Rica as Vocal 2.

One of the topics developed within the activity was the planning and logistics of the Fifth Meeting of Health-Promoting Universities, which will take place at the University of El Salvador from November 13 to 15 of this year; as well as the Sixth Central American and Caribbean Volunteer Meeting organized by the University of San Carlos of Guatemala and the Fifty Ordinary Session of CONREVE and the Eighteenth edition of the Rubén Darío Regional Award for Academic Excellence, both activities organized by the universities of Costa Rica.

It should be noted that the council is planning the organization of the Twelfth Central American Interuniversity Festival of Culture and Art -FICCUA- to be held during the year 2024, based at the Technological University of Panama.