Led by the University Extension and Social Projection Network – RUEP, the Regional Meeting of University Extension was held on Thursday, August 28, in the virtual modality that, on this occasion, the topic revolved around the necessary articulated relationship between the University , the State, Companies and Society. The meeting featured top-level speakers such as the Rector of Unilasallista, Pedro Juan González; the Manager of the Institute for the Development of Antioquia, Julián Santiago Vásquez; the Executive Director of the Antioquia Federation of NGOs, Carlos Andrés Monsalve; the Executive Director of the Corporación Empresarial Pro Aburrá Norte, Luz Yaneth Giraldo; and the Technical Secretariat of CUEE Urabá, Liliana Marcela Palencia.

The event had a closing panel in which some of those responsible for Extension and Social Projection of the Higher Education Institutions of the Antioquia region established their position regarding the central theme. On behalf of María Cano, the Vice-Rector of Extension and Social Projection, Carlos Julio Escobar Noreña participated, who was accompanied at the same table with the representatives of the Luis Amigó Catholic University, the CES University, the University of Medellín and Uniremington.

The University Network of Extension and Social Projection – RUEP, is an organism that brings together heads, directors and vice-rectors of Extension and Social Projection of the Institutions of Higher Education of Antioquia, who represent the department before in the line of university extension of the Association Colombiana de Universidades –ASCUN, with the objective of generating strategies and programs, from higher education, that respond to the needs of the region, the department and the country, in the search for the professional qualification of those who lead the organizations; as well as activities that generate community well-being.

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