LUMEN, will work to position the University of Cauca as an intellectual and scientific benchmark through studies, reports and documents containing the analyzes, conclusions and recommendations, to public and private entities for a better quality of life for fellow citizens.

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The Association of Alumni of the University of Cauca, ASECAUCA Bogotá Chapter in alliance with the Alma Mater “caucana” began activities of the LUMEN Center for Thought, which seeks to generate and consolidate a space for deliberation, generation of knowledge and proposals, aimed at strengthening the University considering its social and community impact.

The Center for Thought will promote and positively influence education, the construction of the country and the improvement of public policies and knowledge networks at the regional, national and international levels. "It will work to position the University of Cauca as an intellectual and scientific benchmark through studies, reports and documents containing the analyzes, conclusions and recommendations, to public and private entities for a better quality of life for fellow citizens, in addition to ensure that the University of Cauca is called to participate in the most important decisions of the country due to its objectivity and transparency, ”said Carlos Enrique Manquillo, President of ASECAUCA, Bogotá chapter.

To achieve its goals of opinion, LUMEN integrates Graduates, Researchers, experts and professionals, who will form study groups on major topics such as Competitiveness, Sustainability, Leadership and Innovation and that include science, technology and innovation, infrastructure, ICTs among their areas , Agriculture and farming, energy, medicine, environment and sustainable development and professional ethics among others.

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The LUMEN Thought Center began its activities with a series of highly relevant conversations and conferences, the first of which was called "The University after the Pandemics", carried out on May 9 through YouTube platforms and Facebook and included the participation of Engineer Hernán Otoniel Fernández, former rector of Unicauca, Magister Danilo Vivas, former rector of Unicauca, current rector José Luis Diago and Engineer Carlos Enrique Manquillo, President of Asecauca Chapter Bogotá.

This activity was possible thanks to the collaboration and spaces that have been opened through the Graduate Area, led by its coordinator, Professor Juan Carlos Varona and his team of collaborators, as well as the communications team and its coordinator Pilar Campos. “In this activity, it was allowed to pose a series of questions about the university's past, the current role and the predominant role that the university must assume in the construction of the future, working for the common good in an integral way, to fulfill its social work to serve the country ", concluded the graduate Carlos Enrique Manquillo

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