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Santo Domingo, May 11 (RHC)-- A Cuban representation participates in the Caribbean-Brazil forum organized by the Dominican Republic's Open University for Adults, to share experiences on the linking of higher education centers to local development processes.

Kirenia Rodríguez, director of Training of the teaching vice-rectorate of the University of Havana, said that it is also an opportunity to present the main results regarding the fulfillment of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

He added that, in the case of Cuba, these factors are synthesized in six major national social development programs.

During the event, Rodriguez spoke to participants about the network of knowledge management and innovation for development, which brings together the main centers of higher education in his country.

She also spoke about the implementation of a program in which science is the center and from which they try to promote undergraduate and postgraduate research with a view to solving problems.

The Cuban professor commented that one of the fundamental contributions of this school, declared a National Monument in 1978, was in the organization of the country's legal body, particularly in the writing of the new Family Code, approved by popular referendum in 2022.

Likewise, he highlighted the support from science to the control of COVID-19 with the monitoring that - based on mathematics - made it possible to make forecasts, models and that to a great extent helped governmental decision making for the control of the disease.

In this sense, he also referred to the collaborations made by the Faculty of Geography, particularly with the mapping of the epidemiological situation and the analysis of the multifactorial causes that could accentuate the spread of the virus.

Rodríguez considered that the university has a lot to show, offer and share thanks to the commitment of its students and professors with social development and the transmission of their knowledge for progress.

He told Prensa Latina that from May 29 to June 2 a convention will be held in the Cuban capital under the slogan "Knowledge, soul and dedication", on the occasion of the 295th anniversary of the founding of that institution, which has historically played a fundamental role in the construction of the Cuban nationality.

Also for the way in which, from its daily work and a very contemporary projection, the school is committed to social development, justice and equity as fundamental principles, he added.