They agreed to establish and develop mechanisms and instruments for mutual collaboration.
The strategic cooperation agreement was signed between the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI) and the Chamber of Mines of Peru.
Eng. César Gallardo Vela, Executive Director of the Chamber of Mines of Peru, and Dr. Jorge Alva Hurtado, Dean of the Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (UNI). They signed the Framework Cooperation Agreement to jointly develop a series of cultural and social responsibility activities. As well as facilitating the constant exchange of technical assistance and training.
The celebration of this important inter-institutional agreement took place during the opening of the II International Mining Congress GEOMET 2016 organized by the CMP at the university’s theater. “This agreement will allow us to guarantee the best education for our students. In addition to keep betting on the sustainable and modern development of the country”, said the Dean of the UNI, Dr. Jorge Alva Hurtado.
The Dean also added that having the CMP as a strategic partner, following the cooperation agreement, will allow the university to stay updated and take a step forward in the academic and professional training of its students.
For his part, CMP’s Executive Director Eng. César Gallardo, assured that: “It is crucial that future professionals in the mining activity are trained in a comprehensive manner, focused on a modern, and global mining. Following the environmental standards, and always up to date with technology. This agreement aims to develop the students and faculty’s skills; as well as to find creative solutions to the great challenges that the mining sector faces in Peru and the world”.
Other figures present at the ceremony were Congressman Clayton Galván; the President of CMP’s Advisory Council, César Campos; the Ambassador and former President of CMP’s Advisory Council, Luis Iberico Núñez; the mining businessman Guido Del Castillo; Countess Isabel de Mauléon de Bruyères, among others.
Overall, the CMP has signed 25 inter-institutional cooperation agreements with Peru’s main universities. All in favor of the training of future specialists in the mining sector. It has also signed similar agreements with universities in Spain, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.
In addition, it maintains a strategic alliance with the Congress of the Republic to organize and disseminate activities that favor a global and sustainable mining for the benefit of all Peruvians.
