Training of 1,000 young Latin Americans in Inclusive Development and Integration

(Buenos Aires, August 9, 2012). The president and CEO of CAF, Enrique García, and the dean of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (FCE-UBA), Alberto Barbieri, signed an agreement that will promote a program for training 1,000 young students of economic and management sciences in the new ideas of shared and inclusive development via a network of public and private universities.

Enrique García said during the signing ceremony, “The training of a young population prepared for participating in democracy is vital for sustainable development and regional integration. It is for that reason that we are seeking, with this agreement, to create a critical mass of young people with qualities as multipliers and agents of change in UNASUR countries, who master and apply new areas of knowledge in development and the management sciences from an ethical, social responsibility, and regional integration perspective.”

Alberto Barbieri, for his part, said, “It is a tremendous pleasure for our faculty to be able to count on CAF’s support in order to continue developing our projects of training professionals who are committed to the community of which they are a part and which they maintain.” He also emphasized the relevance of being able to share extracurricular programs of this type with all the universities in the region, thus providing them with the opportunity to share knowledge and comprehensive and regional solutions.

García stressed the social aspect of this initiative as an essential component of CAF’s comprehensive agenda for sustainable development in the region, which aims to achieve a high level of sustained, efficient, inclusive growth that creates employment.

“It gives us enormous satisfaction to make synergy with FCE-UBA, an institution that has been working on university social responsibility issues,” concluded CAF’s president and CEO.

In turn, Barbieri highlighted the university’s and the Argentine Government’s permanent commitment to promoting these undertakings that make it possible to take a qualitative leap in university training with commitment to the development and sustainability necessary for growth with equity and inclusion that the region needs.

This agreement will implement the extracurricular program as part of the drive to strengthen regional integration by training young Latin Americans and, at the same time, creating a network that will make it possible to reinforce the execution of projects in the region.