UCAM received the visit of Armando Rangel, director of the Montané Anthropological Museum (Cuba) and professor/researcher of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Havana this week at its campus in Murcia to finalise the last details of the double degree in Anthropology and Heritage that both institutions will jointly teach from January 2025 onwards in the Cuban capital.

Professor Armando Rangel held a meeting with María Dolores García, UCAM president, and Antonio Alcaraz, UCAM Vice-Rector of University Extension and academic director of several of the projects that the Murcian institution has been developing in Cuba for years.  

This meeting is the result of the virtual meeting that the UCAM President held at the end of last year to establish the strategic lines of the agreement, with Miriam Nicado, Rector of the University of Havana. Also present at this first institutional meeting on the Cuban side were Alejandro Barro, Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Dionisio Zaldivar, Vice-Rector of International Relations, and on the Spanish side, Antonio Alcaraz and María Mendoza, member of the UCAM Governing Council.

This is the second edition of this double degree, together with the University of Havana, which was previously part of another agreement.

Other initiatives in Cuba

Hundreds of young Cubans have already managed to enter the labour market thanks to the training provided by UCAM in Havana as part of the project 'La Moneda Cubana: Youth Training Programme'. The two-year programme is similar to vocational training in Spain and is attended by young Cubans who do not work nor have any vocational training. The students attend training courses under the supervision of UCAM to specialise in tourism, hotel and catering, gastronomy and languages. This training began in the Caribbean country at the initiative of the UCAM founder, José Luis Mendoza, and is now being continued by its president, María Dolores García.