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Academic meetings in France expanded academic and scientific cooperation, promoted faculty and student mobility, as well as explored joint research projects and programs.Informative Note 1492-25
Thanks to the coordination of the Embassy of Peru in France, a delegation from the Catholic University of Santa Maria (UCSM) of Arequipa, led by its rector, Dr. Jorge Luis Caceres Arce, made a working visit to the country from November 10 to 13 to hold meetings and visits with the Paris Cite University, the educational platform AulaEdumalin, Toulouse Business School, the Universite ToulouseCapitole and the Catholic University of Toulouse (UCT).
During the visit to the bicentennial Faculty of Pharmacy of the Paris Cite University, it was agreed to develop a framework agreement and a specific agreement for joint research in medicinal plants, pharmaceutical biotechnology and drug development. For his part, the dean of the Parisian faculty accepted the invitation to participate in the Pharmacy Congress that the UCSM will host in August 2026.
With the educational platform AulaEdumalin, the delegation discussed initiatives for pedagogical innovation and educational analytics with artificial intelligence. In this sense, negotiations were agreed to begin for an agreement to develop a digital platform for teaching and monitoring progress with tools assisted by artificial intelligence.
In the meetings with the authorities of the UCT, the Universite ToulouseCapitole and Toulouse Business School (TBS Education), the interest in inter-institutional cooperation agreements between the centers and possible areas of academic cooperation such as Law, Social Sciences, Economics, Administration, Engineering and Education, as well as teacher and student mobility programs and joint research and training projects, were explored.
The ambassador of Peru in France, Rolando Ruiz Rosas, highlighted the potential for opportunities that derive from the meetings held to expand the relationship of the main Arequipa private university with French counterparts in a diversity of subjects and modalities. Likewise, he thanked the visit, which had the support of the National Inspector of Education of France and the honorary consul of Peru in Toulouse, Josselyn Zeballos.
