The General Director of the Technological Innovation Park (PIT), belonging to the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS), obtained a scholarship from the Intensive Blended Learning University Leadership and Management Training Programme (UNILEAD), which is proper to the Carl Von Ossietzky University (Oldenburg, Germany).

The master of Business Administration José Ramón López Arellano specified that his work, Internal administration of applied research projects, was 1 of the 25 chosen, among the 400 international proposals that were sent. In addition, just two Mexican universities were accepted in the programme and the UAS is the only public institution of higher education in.

“The objective is to promote innovative projects in the field of organizational and administrative development … Specifically in my case, the research I’m going to participate with is about internal administration within the framework of applied research projects, in developing countries”, declared.

He explained the transcendence of such initiative, due to the great experience of the Carl Von Ossietzky University, internationally one of the most important in projects administration issues, field this institution has being working already for over thirty years.

The MBA emphasised that coursing this academic programme will serve so, in a near future, a culture of applied research is promoted within the UAS, as well as relationships with national industry, intellectual property and, also, an academic culture of entrepreneurship and intra-entrepreneurship for the creation of new sustainable technology- based enterprises.

López Arellano mentioned that the UNILEAD is going to have a duration of 10 months, during which he will work online; in complementation, he will make two stays and the first one is to be carried out from February 28^th to March 18^th: “We are going there to adjust the project; and we will continue applying the recommendations they are going to give us. Then, on September we will go back to Germany to expound the final project”, detailed.

Finally, it is noteworthy that the expenses of research and academic stays in Germany are paid by the institutions that jointly develop the initiative: Carl Von Ossietzky University, German Academic Exchange Service and Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.

Written and Translated by Belem Ruiz (Edition and Communication, PIT-UAS).