Directorate for Scientific Cooperation and Internationalization

Objectives:

To manage, promote, follow-up, evaluate and report the international projection of the university's scientific training through the articulation of academic networks, cooperation programs and internationalization strategies of the postgraduate curriculum.

Features and services:

• Organization of agendas for visits by academic and scientific delegations.
• Coordination of the university's participation in international networks (AUIP, AMPEI, AUF, DAAD, etc.)
• Development of strategies to make scientific production and educational offer visible, through various spaces for institutional, national and international collaboration.
• Promotion of global curriculum schemes such as double degrees, co-supervision of theses, among others with social impact.
• Co-organization of conferences, weeks and academic fairs with national and international specialists to spread scientific areas and academic programs.
• Support for national and foreign students in graduate admission processes, analysis of educational systems and monitoring of academic trajectories.

Objectives:

Coordinate, manage and follow up on institutional collaboration agreements strengthening the university's scientific, academic and technological cooperation with international actors.

Features and services:

• Coordination of the University Observatory of Linkage for international institutional agreements.
• Review and validation of agreements in conjunction with the University Legal Counsel and the different academic dependencies involved.
• Management and preparation, analysis and formalisation of cooperation agreements with universities, research centres, companies and international organisations.
• Identification of opportunities for strategic linkage in coordination with the other areas of the DCCI.
• Monitoring, follow-up and evaluation of current agreements, supervising their duration, promoting their renewal when appropriate and assessing their impact in terms of academic, scientific and social impact activities to contribute to the strengthening of institutional linkage, university governance and the consolidation of science as a benchmark for social development.

Objectives:

Strengthen the participation of teachers, researchers, and university staff in research and scientific cooperation projects, promoting the link between academia, innovation, and social impact.

Features and services:

• Identification, analysis and management of calls and external sources of funding – national and international – for the development of research projects.
• Scientific spread, lectures and seminars, with special emphasis on innovative initiatives that articulate the university, the productive sector and the government.
• Promotion of the link between regional needs and the research capacities of the university, promoting strategic alliances with international institutions and organizations.
• Coordination of the activities of the international liaison offices.
• Coordination, management, monitoring, evaluation and reporting of the actions of the international classroom.
• Co-organisation of academic and scientific events making visible the social impact of university research and promotion of participation in academic networks, associations and consortia.
• Promotion of scientific cooperation funds as well as the management of research resources, as well as the development of spread and training initiatives for new generations of scientists, such as scientific vocation programs and the formation of networks of young researchers and disseminators, contributing to the strengthening of science with social impact, academic training and institutional governance.

Objectives:

To guarantee linguistic accessibility and the wide spread of scientific knowledge generated at the university, through specialised translation, outreach and multilingual communication strategies.

Features and services:

• Coordination of the academic translation office dedicated to the translation and adaptation of abstracts, scientific articles, papers, books and multimedia materials into various modern languages – such as English, French and German – as well as native languages such as Otomi, Nahuatl and Mazahua.
• Carrying out quality control and desk editing processes, which include reviewing the style and cultural adaptation of scientific texts, and organising scientific and academic writing workshops aimed at the university community.
• Co-organization with other instances of the Secretariat of Science events to strategically spread translated scientific materials through journals, repositories, institutions, communities and media, in addition to producing institutional materials for multilingual outreach aimed at both the academic field and society.
• Development of outreach strategies and events on the importance of language and its use in the original creation of science and its spread, as well as academic writing for scientific literacy and dissemination.
• Development and monitoring of translation memories, glossaries and open terminological resources to strengthen scientific communication in multiple languages, contributing to the consolidation of open science, the social link of knowledge and linguistic diversity in scientific outreach.

Objectives:

Function as operational nodes of the policy of linkage and internationalization, connecting the central office of national and international relations with the local academic communities. Therefore, their objectives, functions and services are usually aimed at facilitating the territorial implementation of academic and scientific cooperation strategies.

Features and services:

• International academic linkage: identifying opportunities, promoting participation and facilitating common projects between entities from different regions and countries.

• Management of academic mobility: advising students, seeking and outreaching scholarships for student and teaching mobility.

• Support for students in their integration into the destination academic space.

• Support for scientific cooperation: promoting participation in international calls, identifying opportunities for external funding, facilitating the formation of interdisciplinary and inter-institutional teams.

• Promotion of international classroom projects: promote, identify and coordinate activities of mirror classes, seminars, guest lectures, COIL, etc.

• International visibility of the UAEMéx through the spread of the educational offer of the institution, participation in fairs, congresses and scientific meetings and the multilingual outreach of the scientific-academic production of the UAEMéx.

• Dialogue between the Directorate for Scientific Cooperation and Internationalization: compilation of information on international activities, reporting of indicators and results of linkage and internationalization.
  
  At UAEMéx we have 4 international liaison offices attached to the DCCI:

1. Germany, Hildesheim based
2. Argentina, Cordoba based
3. United States of America, Detroit based
4. Italy, L'Aquila based