Members of the Delegation of the European Union in Argentina received a representation of the FUE-UJI within the framework of the Project “Beekeeping entrepreneurship and circular economy to empower women and their families- ECOMAyA” in which the FUE-UJI participates as partner, together with the SOGRES-UJI group and coordinated by the Network of Professionals and Technicians of Emilia Romagna- PROTER. Luca Pierantoni, Miruna Rusen and Victoria Giussani welcomed Gloria Serra, manager of the Universitat Jaume I-Company Foundation, and Nela Gómez, director of the European and international projects office of the FUE-UJI, who traveled to Argentina for 10 days to develop a dissemination and impact agenda for the Project “Beekeeping entrepreneurship and circular economy to empower women and their families ECOMAyA”.
This work agenda has prioritized the transfer of knowledge and the link with institutions in the city of Mar del Plata, since it is a project whose basis is the beekeeping and activities linked to textile, food, construction and services production, the Municipalities of General Pueyrredon, Gral. Alvarado, Balcarce, Mar Chiquita and La Costa forming part of it. The activities within the framework of the visit began with the institutional welcome by the Vice Consul of Spain, Claudia Alvarez and later the Undersecretary of Human Rights, Daniela Zulcovsky, together with the Director of Gender Policies of the Municipality, Belen Berruti, with whom complementary action proposals were established on training issues.
Next, they met with UCIP Business Women; CAECE University, Deborah Sabsay, delegate of the Franco-Argentine Chamber of Commerce; Florencia Miconi, President of the Builders and Annexes Center of Mar del Plata, Eng. Ana Sanchez, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, ending with the visit to the new ClonAr laboratory, a center for biotechnological developments. In all these meetings, the different possibilities of joint work from the ECOMAyAy project and networking have been studied.
During this work agenda, various seminars and workshops have also been organized with the participation of the Spanish delegation. Stands out among the conferences presented by Nela Gómez and Gloria Serra, “Territorial Projects and International Financing in the European Union”, at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences- UNMDP. More than 100 students attended the presentation “Sustainable companies. Analysis of cases of accommodation companies in Spain” at the Higher Institute of Technical Training 222, in which the FUE-UJI emphasized the importance of working towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
Finally, FASTA University shared with the ECOMAyA team the great work of its Innovation Laboratory, offering a workshop for first-year students of the Faculty of Engineering under the digital entrepreneur model and the work on educational inclusion and education quality. Also as part of the project, we participated in the Mar del Plata Batán Women Entrepreneurs showroom, where more than 15 entrepreneurs were able to show their products and tell their experiences. At this point, Nela Gómez and Gloria Serra remarked: “It is a great effort that the entrepreneurial women in Mar del Plata make, we consider that they are doing a very great job and the entrepreneurship process that exists in the city is very enriching.”
