Guanajuato, Gto., April 26, 2016.- Dr. Javier Corona Fernández, Rector of Campus Guanajuato, inaugurated on Tuesday, the Academic Journeys of Internationalization in the Auditorium of the Department of Languages from the Division of Social Sciences and Human studies (DCSH), event which had as special guests' diplomats from the Embassy of the Republic of Italy.

In his message, Dr. Corona Fernández celebrated the establishment of links of the University of Guanajuato with other educative institutions in Mexico and the world through several processes of academic cooperation, such as exchange and research agreements, which strengthen the institutional bonds and the promotion of our students' mobility.

For that reason, he thanked the Embassy of Italy in Mexico for accepting the invitation and being part of these journeys and for sharing the richness of a language, a culture and a history. The rector from Campus Guanajuato, reminded that in 2008, with Dr. Arturo Lara López as UG's Rector and Ezio Pelizzetti as rector of the University of Turin, signed an academic collaboration agreement to create joint research programs and strengthen the educative and cultural bonds between the institutions, through programs of academic mobility and the opportunity to develop joint research works for professors organized in academic bodies.

He equally quoted the "II Inter-University Forum Torino-Guanajuato II Messico verso iI XXI secolo", at the end of 2015, with the signing of the renewal of a specific agreement for the collaboration between the Division of Social Sciences and Human Studies (DCSH) and Division of Law, Politics and Government (DDPG) from UG with the Department of Politics, Culture and Society from the University of Turin.

Dr. Corona shared the opportunity he has as a student and a college professor when analyzing the life and works from central characters of the universal culture such as San Anselmo de Aosta, Giordano Bruno, Vico Giambattista and Antonio Gramsci, among others.

Dr. Aureliano Ortega Esquivel, Director of the Division of Social Sciences and Human studies, also thanked the presence of the delegation of the Embassy of Italy, and the taste because the Department of Italian had the initiative to make these journeys, which prove that the area of continuous education, brand a path towards their consolidation.

He also reminded that the relation Italy-Mexico has been fruitful, at least in the academic and cultural ambiance and as an example, he mentioned two: Lorenzo Boturini Benaduci, antiquary and chronicler of the indigenous cultures of the New Spain and promoter of the cult of "Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe" of Mexico and the communist photographer Tina Modotti, who came to Mexico to know the Mexico whose government emerged from a revolution.

During the journeys, Dr. Marco Marica, cultural attaché of the Italian Embassy and the Italian Institute of Culture of the City of Mexico, spoke about the Italian university system, and Prof. Riccardo Canelli, from the same Institute, have a conference about the Italian company after WWII.

This Wednesday, Dr. Emilia Georgetii, scientific attaché from the Italian Embassy, will dissert about the scientific research in Italy and again, Prof. Canelli about Italians in Mexico.

Also present at the ceremony were, Carlos Armando Preciado de Alba. Academic Secretary of DCSH, M. Irma Lorena Josefina Hernández Ornelas, Director of the Department of Languages and aldermen Jaime Emilio Arellano and Juan Carlos Delgado, from the Commission of Culture of the City Hall of Guanajuato.