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The agreement is part of the programmatic lines "Training for the professionalization of cultural management and sustainability", and the program "Culture, Art and Migration"
In order to create a strategic alliance focused on strengthening the professionalization of the country's cultural sector, on Thursday, June 5, 2025, the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, through the General Directorate of Training and Cultural Management, and the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez (UACJ) signed a collaboration agreement that includes training programs that promote the recognition of cultural rights. diversity, sustainability and territorial work in this border entity.
In her turn, the general director of Training and Cultural Management of the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, Lucina Jiménez López, celebrated that the agreement has as its fundamental axis the professionalization of cultural management and also recognizes the "territory as the place in which the public is built and where diversity is recognized, as well as the contributions of the people who inhabit these spaces and give an absolutely vibrant sense to our cities."
The official presented the diploma course "Cultural life, public space and communities in movement", which seeks to professionalize cultural agents who work in contexts of human mobility, from a perspective of human rights and intercultural dialogue. It is a response to discourses that reduce migration to violence or crisis, in addition to vindicating territories in transformation, memory, knowledge and cultural practices as the foundation of territorial justice and cultural rights. Likewise, a second diploma course dedicated to "Performing Arts and Digitality" will be implemented in collaboration with the UACJ, which seeks to strengthen the ecosystem of cultural and artistic management, in its link with technological innovation and the cycle of creation and scenic production.
"The fact that we can add tools to expand the capacities of institutions to work with cultural diversity makes us feel that we are fulfilling a fundamental work and that, together with the knowledge and experience of the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez, without a doubt, will give rise to new aspects of collaborative work," added the official.
The agreement is part of the programmatic lines of the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, "Training for the professionalization of cultural management and sustainability" and the program "Culture, Art and Migration". The UACJ agrees on the importance of assuming the territory of diversity, in the border city, as a workspace of the University and on the need for professionalization.
Thus, the rector of the institution, Daniel Alberto Constandse Cortez, stressed that as a result of the work of the PIDE, the Directorate of Training and Professionalization of the UACJ was created, which is "the platform and the structure to be able to carry out all these academic acts and diplomas that will help the talents who are in the City and give them recognition and certification in their field of work."
"We want to continue strengthening this part, combining culture with academia, with research, with mobility and population to be able to help people, the university community and the community in general," said the rector.
At the signing of the agreement, held in the Esmeralda Building of the Los Pinos Cultural Complex, the Director of Contents, Lluvia Sepúlveda, and the Director of Research and Development of Pedagogical Resources, Mireille Bartilotti; while the UACJ was represented by the general secretary, Salvador Nava Martínez; the academic secretary, Guadalupe Gaytán, and the general director of Cultural Dissemination and Scientific Dissemination, Alejandro Castillo.
The dates and bases of the call for the diploma will be announced on the digital platforms of the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico and the UACJ.