Guanajuato, Gto., April 6, 2017.- The University of Guanajuato (UG) is one of the two selected institutions to participate in an international project which involves 16 universities of Latin American and Europe, whose purpose is for the students to participate in sustainable urban projects.

Hence, starting from the next school period, they will teach the subject "Sustainable urban projects" in two division of Campus Guanajuato, the Division of Architecture, Art and Design (DAAD) and, Engineering (DI).

The Director of the Division of Engineering, Dr. Luis Enrique Mendoza Puga, explained that in 2015 the European Union, through the Antwerpen University (Belgium) and Universidad del Rosario (Colombia), launched a summon to collaborate in sustainable urban projects. In May 2016, they signed the Agreement of Association Erasmus+Citylab: "Involving students in sustainable cities in Latin America"; where two Mexican universities participate, one of which is UG.

The project Erasmus+Citylab's objective is to support the participant universities in implementing a teaching method known as Learning Based in Problems within their syllabuses, with which they'll generate great benefits, among others: collaborative and interdisciplinary work, learning of students through real problems and academy-actors-institutions collaboration.

This, together with UG's Educational Model that favors the formation of professionals with skills to solve problems and build their own knowledge.

While presenting the project, the DAAD's Director, Dr. Francisco Javier González Compeán, emphasized that the topic of sustainable cities worries everyone, hence, its relevance to be addressed from an interdisciplinary perspective, which is, also, a world trend to solve problems.

To achieve this, a specialized team has been put together with professors from DAAD and DI, which have made the design of the subject "Sustainable Urban Projects", which will be taught next August this year to students in the last terms of the major (starting from the seventh).

28 eight students will be able to take this subject, divided in groups of four; each team will have an assigned project related with a problem with the theme of a sustainable city. After two school periods (a year) they'll select the best to represent Mexico, in the international final, next to the winners from the other Latin American institutions.

The winning team of this contest (professor and students) will have the opportunity to publish their project in an international magazine, detailed Dr. Velia Yolanda Ordaz Zubia, Professor of the Department of Architecture and Coordinator of the Citylab Project.