The Catholic University of Murcia graduates the second promotion of the University Technician in Gastronomy and Cuisine of Cuba, thanks to the project ‘The Cuban Currency: Youth Program Training’. The program was acknowledged in 2016 with an award of “par excellence”. Through this program, the students that don’t have a job or a professional formation, can complete formative cycles in the protection of UCAM, where they can specialize in different areas such as cuisine, gastronomy, languages or protocol.

Antonio Alcaraz, vice-rector of the University Extend; Gonzalo Wandosell, dean of the Faculty of Business and Legal Sciences at UCAM; Pablo Gómez, professors from the Gastronomy degree at UCAM, and representatives from the sector of gastronomy in Cuba participated in the graduation ceremony.

It’s to be remembered, that the Catholic University has been educating in postgraduate courses for eleven years with collaborating with cuban ecclesiastical, academic, social and scientific institutions.

Request of public concern

Regarding the work UCAM is doing in Cuba, Ángel Aguilera, president of the Popular Catedral Council in Havana, and coordinator of the ‘Local Development Project of the Cuban Currency’, in which he requests that the Catholic University of Murcia would be acknowledged as public interest for their contribution through social projects completed in the capital of the caribbean country.