Mario Delgado Carrillohead of the Ministry of Public Education (SEP)together with the head of the Ministry of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation (Secichti), Rosaura Ruiz Gutierrezsigned the agreement called “Declaration of Cuernavaca”with the objective of promoting the innovations that exist in the country and linking them to the national development of the federal government.
Institutions of Higher educationuniversities and centers of inresearch and innovation.
During the signing, the head of SEP explained that the agreement was also signed by 174 rectors, rectors, directors and directors of technology centerswithin the framework of National Meeting of Higher Education Institutions and seeks to give visibility to the great innovation that is generated in higher education institutions and establish strategic cooperation.
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Likewise, he expressed that the boost to science It is not just a matter of budget, but of ensuring that the innovations produced in the country become technological developments that impact daily life and contribute to solving national problems.
“That is where this strategic alignment and this joint work between everyone —coordinated by the Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovationthe Ministry of Public Education and the Ministry of Economy – are going to facilitate the objective of becoming, as the President of Mexico proposes, a innovation and technology power”, he stated.
For this reason, he said, it is essential to recognize the speed with which knowledge is generated and with which developments advance. technological developments.
“The educational system cannot remain oblivious to this change, because we run the risk of becoming obsolete. There must be a permanent effort to update the educational offerthe curriculum, and ensuring that young people find what we are offering relevant, because the country needs it,” highlighted Delgado Carrillo.
Science in the country’s public decisions
At the event, the Secretary of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation, Rosaura Ruiz Gutiérrez, stated that “we have a great responsibility to ensure that science and technology are directly involved with public decisions for the resolution of the problems that afflict us as a country.”
In addition, he called on the more than 120 rectors present to extend your academic activities beyond the classroom and bring science and the humanities to all corners of the country, particularly to historically marginalized areas.
“The idea is that we reach all corners of the country, holding workshops, talks, science fairs. An example of this is the Michoacán Plan for Peace and Justicein which we participate with scientific dissemination activities to contribute to solving the state’s problems,” he expressed.
One of the greatest forms of discrimination that currently persist is the exclusion from access to knowledgescience and technology, so the official expressed her confidence that this National Meeting of Higher Education Institutions becomes a space aimed at improving people’s living conditions.
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Cuernavaca Declaration
The “Declaration of Cuernavaca”, also signed within the framework of the InnovaFEST LATAM 2025, held at the Morelos Convention Center, establishes four strategic axes:
1. Training specialized in priority areas, with relevant, interdisciplinary, inclusive programs with a territorial sense.
2. Investigation scientific, humanistic and technological oriented to national development.
3. Collaboration inter-institutional and networking, to share infrastructure, experiences, capacities and agendas both nationally and internationally, especially with Latin America and the Caribbean.
4. Disclosure of scientific culture, so that knowledge circulates, is socially appropriated and awakens vocations from an early age.
The project constitutes a commitment of the scientific, humanistic and technological sector, as well as the Mexican academic community, to promote the development of all regions of the country.