The course “Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic: geopolitics, sovereignty and development in the twenty-first century” was opened, aimed at teachers from universities all over Argentina. The opening was attended by the Secretary of Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic of the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Daniel Filmus, the coordinator of the Quality Promotion Unit of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Marcelo Miguez, and the Secretary General of the Federation of University Teachers (FEDUN), Daniel Ricci.
The new training proposal, organized by FEDUN, with the support of the UBA and coordinated by Filmus, will have ten lectures that will take place every Thursday until July 1st, and will be in charge of the experts on the subject Telma Luzzani, Facundo Rodríguez, Pedro Brieger, Alicia Castro, Natalia Tini, Guillermo Carmona and Pablo Fontana. It will also have presentations by Edgardo Esteban, Ernesto Alonso and Jorge Taiana. The Malvinas Question will be approached from the international political, historical, legal and economic perspectives.
During the presentation, which was broadcasted online, Miguez highlighted the role of Argentine universities in supporting these policies and, in this sense, he made reference to the signing -last October- of a mutual cooperation agreement between the University of Buenos Aires and the Secretariat of Malvinas, Antarctica and South Atlantic to promote research, training and dissemination.
Next, Ricci celebrated this activity that is “necessary to cultivate the exercise of national sovereignty”, he thanked the efforts of all the participants, and recalled the work of Filmus when he was Minister of Education.
Then, as a formal presentation of the training and before starting the topics of the first class, Filmus reaffirmed “the importance of the role of public universities in the training of teachers committed to reality, with national awareness and sentiment”.
He then highlighted that “working on the Malvinas Question in these institutions allows the development of a national model that is focused on all kinds of sovereignty” and explained in general terms the proposal of the course organized from a multidisciplinary perspective that also includes the South Georgias and South Sandwich Islands and the South Atlantic.
