Guanajuato, Gto., January 18, 2016. In the school period January – June, the University of Guanajuato will receive 172 students from 88 institutions from Mexico and abroad, while 135 UG students will have the opportunity to study in universities from countries such as Germany, Spain, France, Greece, Russia, Canada, Norway, United States, Japan, Argentina and Ecuador, among others.

In a ceremony performed at the institution's General Auditorium, authorities lead by the General Rector, Dr. Luis Felipe Guerrero Agripino, welcomed the students that will have an academic residence in the institution, at the same time, they offered total support and back up for UG students that will participate in the mobility programs with foreign universities.

General Rector from the University of Guanajuato highlighted that every house of studies must be open to inter-institutional cooperation, and remarked that the mobility program offers students learning beyond the academic, and reveals, among other things, the importance to respect diversity.

In his intervention, Director of Academic Cooperation of the University of Guanajuato, Dr. Sergio Antonio Silva Muñoz remarked that internationalization provides the student new tools to face the challenges in a globalized world and thanked the students that arrive from other institutions for choosing the University of Guanajuato to live this experience.

Representing UG students, Iván Fuentes Santana –student of Electrical Engineering from Campus Irapuato-Salamanca—said that the mobility program represents an opportunity to show the talent of Mexicans and rise the name of the University.

On his behalf, Yann Luiz Nogueira de Oliveira, from the "Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro", Brazil, who will make a residence in the Spanish Letters and teaching Spanish as a Second Language degrees, said that the mobility program is a learning opportunity in the broadest sense of the word.

Seeking new perspectives

Carlos Achurra and Miguel Ángel Cuéllar, students from the Medicine degree, are two UG students that participate in the exchange program. They will be in the "Universidad de Fortaleza" in Brazil for a semester, where they expect to learn more about their culture, but above all, know different forms to practice medicine and enrich the formation received from UG.

In the same way, Karen Vázquez, Jorge Aguilar and Juan José Alcolea, from the "Institución Universitaria Pascual Bravo" from Medellin, Colombia said that in the six months they will be UG students, they expect to learn a lot from their professors, classmates and Mexicans in general. Karen will be ascribed to Industrial Relations in Campus Guanajuato, while her classmates will be taking classes in Mechanical Engineering at Campus Irapuato – Salamanca, which they choose for its proven academic level.