The prestigious university transferred its activities to Montevideo from Buenos Aires. It will work in LATU.
President Luis Lacalle Pou participated in the inauguration of the Latin American Research Center at Harvard University in Uruguay, after his transfer from Buenos Aires to Montevideo, in the technological park of LTechnological Laboratory of Uruguay (LATU).
Already in November of last year, the transfer of this important research center had been announced —in English, Latin American Research Center (LARC)— to the country, to be an office from which Harvard Business School link with “professors and students with the region” to organize “networking activities” and provide “support” to different investigations with “professors of the institution”, as reported by LATU in a statement.
The inaugural activity began at 11 a.m. and had as its central moment the cutting of the ribbon by Lacalle Pou, together with Michael Chu, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Also present were the secretary and deputy secretary of the Presidency, Alvaro Delgado and Rodrigo Ferres, and the Ministers of Industry, Energy and Mining (MIEM), Omar Paganini, and of Education, Pablo da Silveira.
During the event, Chu recalled that the center “was in Buenos Aires for 20 years and moved to Uruguay.” Likewise, he pointed out that being in the country “is being in an environment where freedom and thought are respected and protected, and the expression“and where the”Intellectual capital can grow without asking anyone’s permission and without fearing the repression of power. That is why LARC is in Montevideo.”
What will be the role of the LARC in Uruguay?
The Montevideo headquarters will be the reference for the region, and from there topics from all over Latin America will be covered. On the one hand, it will provide research support with professors from Harvard Business School, with income inequality, the environment and renewable energy, and digitization as priority aspects, in line with the issues that the Uruguayan government has been dealing with.
On the other, it will carry out issues related to the networking; research projects for which the center will bring professors and students; or support admissions to one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Likewise, they will work with the academic area and local universities for institutional collaboration, in addition to doing so with companies in the country to identify case studies and transfer them to pedagogy.
Source: Ambito
