• Inter-institutional work is strengthened to transform Hidalgo with science and technology
• It contemplates the sending of Hidalgo residents for four-month stays at NASA, and satellite projects
The Mexican Space Agency (AEM), a decentralized body of the Ministry of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation (SICT), will develop space projects in partnership with the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo (UAEH).
The general director of the AEM, Salvador Landeros Ayala, and the rector of the UAEH, Dr. Octavio Castillo Acosta, signed a Memorandum of Understanding towards this objective, thus formalizing their mutual interest in promoting education and the development of space science and technology in the entity.
The space projects that it will enable include research and exchanges, as well as four-month stays for young people from Hidalgo at the US Space Agency (NASA) and other agencies on the planet, by virtue of their agreements with the AEM.
The instrument also paves the way for the development of educational and/or postgraduate products in space matters, as well as participation in space projects and satellite programs, individually and with other universities, institutions or companies, from the country or abroad.
Through this collaboration, the possibilities for the establishment of space development facilities in Hidalgo will also be explored, in line with the AEM agenda for the training of young people in new technologies in different entities of the republic.
Landeros especially appreciated the great support for the space issue provided by the director of the UAEH Science and Technology Park, Marivel Solís Barrera, from her previous responsibility as president of the Science, Technology and Innovation Commission of the Chamber of Deputies.
This cooperation will have special emphasis on contributing to the development and education of new generations of Hidalgo in advanced technologies, with strategies that open up a wide range of possibilities for space projects, he highlighted.
To strengthen these inter-institutional works, there is the political will of Governor Julio Menchaca Salazar, to transform Hidalgo with science and technology, create a new state productive vocation, and turn the entity into an educational benchmark, he concluded.