Annual Report 2012 - 2013
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Universidad de las Américas Puebla
UDLAP OUTREACH
the latter had the presence of the writer Adriana
Macías. We also had the forum on the analysis of
the labor reform bill "The Agreements that Mexico
Requires", in conjunction with the Puebla Busi-
ness Coordinating Council (CCE) and the Seminar
"Reforms to the Federal Labor Law" by experts from
the firm Santa Marina y Steta.
At the end of 2012, we had the following events: 3rd
Fair on Innovation and Creativity, Marketing Day: Im
Marketing, and the Global Entrepreneurship Week
UDLAP 2012. With the participation of over 6,000
attendees, the UDLAP congress Transforma XXUNO
Be One from Sistema uno was carried out on campus,
and also the Fair of Education Services, in coordina-
tion with the Undersecretary of Higher Education
and the United States Embassy in Mexico.
Also, personalities from different areas came to lec-
ture. Such was the case with the 1991 Nobel Prize
in Chemistry, Dr Richard Ernst; the Chancellor of
the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, Monsi-
gnor Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo; Manuel J. Clouth-
ier Carrillo, independent candidate to the Mexican
Presidency in 2012; Dr Alan Knight, historian and
professor at Oxford University; Antonio Gali Fayad,
Ministry of Infrastructure of the Puebla State Gov-
ernment; Ambassador Gioconda Ubeda Rivera, Gen-
eral Secretary for the Agency for the Prohibition of
Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Carib-
bean (OPANAL); José Antonio Ardavín Ituarte, Direc-
tor of the Organization for Economic Co-operation
and Development (OCDE) in Mexico for Latin Amer-
ica; the former Minister of Public Education, Dr José
ngel Cordova Villalobos; the Undersecretary of For-
eign Relations, Ambassador Lourdes Aranda Bezaury;
ngel Trinidad Saldivar, Commissioner of the Federal
Institute of Access to Information and Data Protec-
tion; Dr Aarón Dychter Poltolarek, President of Adhoc
Consultores Asociados, S.C., among others.
SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE OUTREACH
Strengthening UDLAP´s mission, and with the partic-
ipation of companies, institutions and organizations
committed to social responsibility, programs based
on the ethics and values that distinguish our Univer-
sity were conducted for the community.
The second edition of the Leadership Program for
Young Indigenous People took place. The objective
of this program is to strengthen the participant´s
abilities and train them to become active agents of
change who contribute to the development of their
communities. UDLAP students participated in this
program, and through the experience in social entre-
preneurship they were not only part of the program,
but also gained professional experience.
Our campus was the seat of the "Jóvenes en Acción
2012" (Young People in Action 2012) program, in
conjunction with the United States Embassy and
the Ministry of Public Education. In this program,
40 young people from different parts of Mexico par-
ticipated in academic activities led by our profes-
sors. The objective was to track the development of
projects that address community problems, promot-
ing teamwork, effective leadership, communication
through social networks, time management and cre-
ation of resources needed to execute the program.
As a result of a joint effort between UDLAP, Micro-
soft de México and Ilumina Foundation, for a second
time the Office 2007 accreditation exam took place
