Cienfuegos, Cuba, Mar 8 (Prensa Latina) Two female researchers from the Center for Environmental Studies of Cienfuegos (CEAC) are participating in the event “For more women in nuclear energy”, developed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The event is being held from March 7 to 8 in Vienna, Austria, to commemorate International Women’s Day.

Liana Beatriz Carballo Rosado and Eng. Anamary Acosta Valladares, CEAC’s Aspiring Researchers, are participating as delegates in the meeting, which is being held within the framework of the IAEA’s “Marie Skłodowska-Curie” and “Lise Meitner” Fellowship Programs.

Both Cuban participants were awarded a scholarship from the Agency’s Skłodowska-Curie Program, which aims to increase the number of women in the nuclear field, thus contributing to create an inclusive workforce to participate in and drives scientific and technological innovation on a global scale.

The IAEA works to address the underrepresentation of women in the nuclear field through the IAEA Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship Programme (MSCFP) and the Lise Meitner Programme (LMP); by enabling more women to access careers and pursue studies in the nuclear field, the programs contribute to building the future nuclear workforce.

The CEAC was recently designated “IAEA Collaborating Center for the Application of Nuclear and Isotopic Techniques in the Study of Coastal-Marine Ecosystems in the Latin American and Caribbean Region”.

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Havana, Mar 12 (Prensa Latina) Cuba is preparing to hold the first International Workshop on Quality and Sustainable Professional Training, a topic that today is of vital importance for the better preparation of educators to face their students.

The event will be held in hybrid modality (face-to-face and virtual) from November 26 to 28 this year in Havana.

According to Alexander Manso, director of Technical and Professional Education of the Ministry of Education (CUBAMINED), the conclave aims at socializing experiences on pedagogical and didactic strategies that contribute to the development of inclusive quality professional training with a gender approach.

Manso, quoted by CUBAMINED, said that in the context of the international meeting, four symposiums or workshops will be held, which will address topics such as Comprehensive Quality Vocational Training as an axis for social economic development.

Participants will also analyze the improvement of teachers for Technical and Professional Education, the realities and challenges in professional training and the transition to a sustainable economy, as well as the use of 21st century technologies in the preparation of young people.

Under the slogan “train and employ”, the workshop proposes four pre-event courses that will also be held in the hybrid modality and will be linked to the area of training of the qualified middle-level workforce and will be taught by Cuban and foreign specialists.

It is foreseen to have a Cuban delegation of approximately 200 teachers. The number of foreigners will be open in correspondence with the requests received.

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Havana, Mar 12 (Prensa Latina) The Cuban Foreign Ministry congratulated the people and government of Mauritius on Tuesday, on the occasion of the 56th anniversary of its independence.

On its X profile, the Foreign Ministry reaffirmed Cuba’s willingness to continue to work to strengthen relations and establish bilateral collaboration ties.

Mauritius, an archipelago in the southwest of the Indian Ocean, gained its independence from the United Kingdom on March 12, 1968.

Port Louis established diplomatic relations with Havana in 1976.

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Havana, Mar 12 (Prensa Latina) Cuba is preparing to hold the first International Workshop on Quality and Sustainable Professional Training, a topic that today is of vital importance for the better preparation of educators to face their students.

The event will be held in hybrid modality (face-to-face and virtual) from November 26 to 28 this year in Havana.

According to Alexander Manso, director of Technical and Professional Education of the Ministry of Education (CUBAMINED), the conclave aims at socializing experiences on pedagogical and didactic strategies that contribute to the development of inclusive quality professional training with a gender approach.

Manso, quoted by CUBAMINED, said that in the context of the international meeting, four symposiums or workshops will be held, which will address topics such as Comprehensive Quality Vocational Training as an axis for social economic development.

Participants will also analyze the improvement of teachers for Technical and Professional Education, the realities and challenges in professional training and the transition to a sustainable economy, as well as the use of 21st century technologies in the preparation of young people.

Under the slogan “train and employ”, the workshop proposes four pre-event courses that will also be held in the hybrid modality and will be linked to the area of training of the qualified middle-level workforce and will be taught by Cuban and foreign specialists.

It is foreseen to have a Cuban delegation of approximately 200 teachers. The number of foreigners will be open in correspondence with the requests received.

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San Jose, Mar 11 (Prensa Latina) Bringing young people closer to the life and work of Cuban independence fighter Antonio Maceo (1845-1896) and his passage through this Central American nation is a priority of the Costa Rican Movement for Solidarity with Cuba, its directors announced on Monday.

The residents in the northern city of Nicoya, in Guanacaste province, will have the opportunity to learn about the settlement of Lieutenant General Antonio Maceo and a group of 100 Cuban families in La Mansion for about four years to organize the Necessary War in 1895, aimed to end Spanish colonialism in Cuba.

In a meeting to redirect the organization’s work and increase aid to Cuba, the Solidarity Movement was also set to study the thoughts of Cuban independence fighter José Martí (1853-1895), who visited Costa Rica twice.

To achieve that goal, Milagros Solís of the Yamileth López Bolivarian Circle told Prensa Latina that they will reach out to neighborhoods, the educational sector, universities, trade unions, and the people’s movement.

The idea is to strengthen with their new initiatives the virtual media and communication, in general, to inform about the progress and struggle of the Cuban people against Yankee imperialism.

They will also work and support the campaigns of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and the Continental Network of Solidarity with Cuba and fair causes in actions to denounce the economic and commercial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba, for more than 60 years, which hinders the progress of its society.

The movement’s ten organizations also seek to denounce the US occupation of the Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba, and to achieve Cuba’s removal from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism (SSOT). This sanction, among other consequences, limits Cuba’s financial and economic life with the rest of the world.

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