September 2013 Newsletter for the General Coordination of Cooperation and Internationalization, featuring Mexico as the Country of the Month.

1. UADY Global
General Coordination of Cooperation and Internationalization
UADY Global
September2013
Volume 1, no. 1
UADY, within its effort to develop an institutional internationalization proyect, has created UADY
Global with the purpose of incorporating under the same concept the many activities that the university is partaking in within its various substantive areas and functions; activities that may be of
interest to foreign institutions so that they can establish academic partnerships and research
through partnerships or strategic alliances. Similarly, UADY Global seeks to project to the university on a global level to acquire greater presence and visibility as an institution of social importance
and relevance to local, regional, national and international.
UADY Global acts as liaison between universities, students, researchers, and other organizations,
that are found throughout the world and have an interest in the Autonomous University of Yucatán. Our main purpose is to provide the necessary information in a clear and concise manner, in at
least the English language (besides Spanish), that users are looking for and strengthen and promote
cooperation ties between UADY and international organizations.
Our identity as a university project is reflected in our logo that imitates the union of two hands
confirming our commitment to students, academics and other institutions worldwide.
We want UADY Global to be an area of academic and cultural convergence, and that is why from
September 2013 we are at your disposal through our webpage to continue strengthening the bonds
of global cooperation that are already established and new opportunities academic and international research projects.
We would like to extend an invitation to the university’s community to participate in this new project of international collaboration through their questions, comments and suggestions.
General Coordination of Cooperation and Internationalization
News from UADY Global
During the month of July CGCI Coordinator, Andres Aluja, and the university president, Alfredo Dájer, visited China for the meeting of the directors of the Confucius Institute. During this
meeting, 20 scholarships were granted for short stays in China for students from Confucius Institute at the Autonomous University of Yucatan.

2. Country of the Month: Mexico
Mexico is one of the countries with the largest cultural tourism in the world. The cultural, geographical and
historical wealth of our country can be seen broadly through its tourist destinations, cuisine, architecture, traditions and everything that conform the people.
Mexico has a vast supply of archaeological sites. Among these sites are amazing settlements such as Tulum, Chichen Itza, Palenque and Monte Alban, of which some
are recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
You can enjoy the crafts produced in some of the cities in Mexico where the creation processes remains intact from centuries and that are transmitted from generation to generation. Similarly, you can admire the creations in black mud in Oaxaca, musical instruments in Paracho, Michoacan, leather
goods in Guanajuato and colorful crafts of indigenous peoples such as the Huichol.
Far and wide across the country are hundreds of places with their churches, municipal palaces and kiosks.
You can admire the colonial architecture, historic buildings and libraries, silent witnesses of the development
of the life of Mexico.
Mexico has one of the richest cuisines in the world. Their proposals are different from region to region and pre-Hispanic ingredients fused with European
influence brought by the Spaniards after the conquest.
The Southeast of Mexico
The Southeast Region of Mexico has great potential, with its 1338.14 Km of coast
bathed by the Pacific Ocean and totaling over 2,600 by the coastline of the Gulf of
Mexico and Caribbean Sea. The potential inherent in the coastal areas has specific
and measurable benefits in areas such as tourism, logistics and commercial development.
The development of this potential has resulted in the existence of important tourist destinations of Mexico to international markets such as Acapulco and Mayan Riviera.
This region has a great geopolitical importance, its direct connection to Central America
through Chiapas, and its backbone status among the states of North and South of Mexico,
through the State of Puebla.
For a quick overview of Mexico you can see the following video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=3jBUZHsuGgE&hd=1
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3. France receives UADY students
María Ricalde Cural, Abraham Echazarreta Moreno,
Josué Omar Verduga
Dorantes and Christopher
Guadarrama Moreno, students of the Faculty of Economics at the Autonomous
University of Yucatan
(UADY), traveled to France
in mid-August for a two-year
stay at the University Toulouse, under the Toulouse
Latin America Economics
program (PETAL), with support
from the French and Mexican
governments, the later channeled through the Consortium
of Mexican Universities
(CUMEX).
This was reported by Andrés
Aluja, general coordinator of
Cooperation and Internationalization at UADY and Eraclio
Cruz Pacheco, academic secretary of the Faculty of Economics,
adding to a total of 14 students
performing academic campus
stays of two years in a college nes-
tled in an important economic
and industrial area of France. It
should be noted that this is a
program that will give them a
double degree.
For this edition, there were 36
students involved of the 28
member institutions of CUMEX
of which 20 were selected. These
are the students of the UADY,
who previously were prepared in
learning French and have overall
minimum average of 85 out of
100 points in as their average
grade. Part of the process was
carried out in Mexico City, in
the French Institute for Latin
America where IFAL members
successfully interviewed the
submitted two projects training and development. The
projects were also evaluated by
CUMEX academics, and representatives of Toulouse and
the French government.
" They carry the representation of UADY, the state, the
region and the country, they
do their best to make up the
name of our institution," said
Aluja Schunemann who announced that for the next besides students of Economy and
International Trade, students of
Law may participate as well.
With this, the commitment of
UADY shows itself through
open new scenarios for learning
and application of knowledge to
university students, so that they
get a comprehensive education
and thus promote their personal
and professional growth.
Mobility Tips
If you decide to apply to the mobility program you must meet
certain requirements to be sure
that you are eligible to apply to
the process.
Depending on the curriculum
you study, and that the rules of
your Faculty permits it, you must
have covered 60% of total credits
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of your degree program or
25% of the graduate program.
We invite you to approach
the person in charge of
mobility in your faculty or
the Coordination of Integral Attention to Students at UADY so
you can inform yourself on this
and other requirements to partic-
ipate in the mobility program of
the university.
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4. Mobility Agreements of UADY in México
The Autonomous University of
Yucatan has several agreements
at the national level that allow
students, both of our institution
and institutions in other states,
to conduct academic stays.
Some of the national networks
of mobility that has UADY
agreement are:
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Consortium of Mexican
Universities (CUMEX):
CUMEX's mission is to
build a strong alliance of
quality higher education.
They are aided in this purpose by a group of experts
in seven areas of
knowledge and a team of
distinguished personalities
from academia and professional advisory board. Institutions that participate
in CUMex share the vision
of a common higher education flexible and good
quality, socially relevant to
the major problems facing
Mexico and the challenges
posed by globalization and
the knowledge society XXI
century.

National Association of
Universities and Institutions of Higher Education
(ANUIES): The National
Association of Universities
and Institutions of Higher
Education, since its founding in 1950, has participated in the development of
programs, plans and policies, as well as the creation
of agencies oriented in the
development of Mexican
higher education.
ANUIES is a nongovernmental association
that unionizes to major
institutions of higher education in the country,
whose common denominator is their willingness to
promote their overall improvement in the fields of
teaching, research and extension of culture and services. The association is
composed of 175 universities and higher education
institutions, both public
and individuals around the
country.

Common Area of Higher
Education (ECOES): The
purpose of ECOES is to
establish a national educational space that allows
joint efforts to raise academic standards, strengthen education and public
duty as a task for the benefit of students, academic
communities and participating institutions.
The ECOES is also a promoter that seeks to extend
the proposal to include
this effort to other universities.
For more information on national associations to which the University belongs consult:
http://
www.uadyglobal.uady.
mx/en
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5. Mobility Agreements of UADY in México
Some of the national universities where UADY students can go for academic stays are:
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Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de
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Puebla
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de
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Universidad de Colima
Ecatepec
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Universidad de Guadalajara
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Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes
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Universidad de Quintana Roo
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Universidad Autónoma de Baja California 
Universidad de Sonora
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Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas
Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás
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Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila
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Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León
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Universidad Autónoma de Campeche
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Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de
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
Chiapas
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Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro
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Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí
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Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa
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Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas

Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas
Did you know…
...México “advised” the
creators of Google during
their early projects?
Mexican professor of
Stanford University, Héctor García Molina; advised the doctoral thesis
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of the then students and
later founders of the
search enterprise that later
gave us Android Larry
Page y Sergey Brin. Professor García is also and
adviser for Yahoo!
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6. General Coordination of
Cooperation and
Internationalization
Address: Km. 1 Carretera
Mérida-Tizimín tramo Cholul
C.P. 97305.
Telephone: (999) 928-2711
Extension: 1351
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can
see the place you came from with new eyes
and extra colors. And the
people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started
is not the same as never leaving.”
― Terry Pratchett
We are online
www.uadyglobal.uady.mx
For more information you can contact the following
people:
Coordinator
Andrés Aluja
andres.aluja@uady.mx
Interinstitutional Relations
Alfredo Ramírez
raraiza@uady.,x
Foreign Students
Gabriela Quintal
aquintal@uady.mx
UADY and National
Students
Norma Navarrete
ndemara@uady.mx