The arrival of the Provincial University in San Francisco, through the creation of a regional headquarters announced by Governor Martín Llaryora at an event in that city, will elevate higher education in the San Justo department and contribute to the productive, cultural and economic development of the region.
The San Francisco regional headquarters of the Provincial University will also be a major complement to the “San Francisco Educational Center” project, which is currently made up of numerous educational institutions with a wide range of academic offerings in engineering, health, technology, art, social sciences and humanities, natural and exact sciences, economic sciences and languages.
The presence of the Provincial University will make it possible to have high-quality academic proposals in higher education in relation to the specific productive needs of the eastern region of Córdoba and neighbouring provinces.
“We are in a difficult economic moment, but in those difficult moments, when the blanket falls short, you have to know which place to cover. And if you have to choose a place to invest and not leave out in the cold, that place is education. And at a time when national universities are discussing whether they will be able to pay salaries, in Córdoba we are federalizing the University,” said Llaryora at an event attended by the vice-rector of the UPC, Daniel Artaza; the Secretary of Government of the province, Augusto Pastore; the Minister of Community Relations, Daniel Pastore; the provincial Minister of Education, Horacio Ferreyra; and the mayor of San Francisco, Damián Bernarte, among other political and academic authorities.
“When my term ends, there will not be a department of Córdoba that does not have a university education. To sow infrastructure, to sow works, is to sow the future,” added the governor. “No one will be left without the tools to be able to progress, study, grow,” he affirmed.
Vice-Chancellor Artaza highlighted the value of the regionalization process of the Provincial University and stressed a paradigm shift in which the educational system, the productive system and social organizations converge.
The UPC’s San Francisco regional headquarters joins those already established in Arroyito, Morteros, Río Tercero, Cruz del Eje and recently in Capilla del Monte, Villa Dolores, Mina Clavero and Deán Funes, as well as the one inaugurated in May in Bell Ville. The actions are part of the UPC Federal Program, for the expansion of the university through the creation of regional headquarters in different towns in Córdoba with the purpose of promoting the hierarchicalization of higher education in the province.
The land where the San Francisco regional headquarters of the Provincial University will be located, located on Avenida De la Universidad and Avenida Rosario de Santa Fe, consists of an exterior area of 16,195 m2, with an interior covered area of 2,515 m2 that will have two floors.
On the ground floor there will be an Assembly Hall, hybrid classrooms, mixed toilets, a canteen, a Teachers’ Lounge, workshop classrooms, a Technical Space, an Archive, a Tutor’s Office, UPC Coordination and Management, and an Administration sector.
The upper part will have a Computer Cabinet, Meeting Room, hybrid classrooms, Nursing Room, Library, workshop classrooms, mixed toilets and Student Center.
In the construction of the San Francisco regional headquarters of the Provincial University, sustainability criteria will be applied for environmental care and the use of natural resources: construction with thermally and acoustically efficient materials; inverter air conditioners; LED outdoor lighting with solar panels; public space with landscape design and tactile tiles to facilitate signage; esplanade for respectful and environmentally friendly celebrations; environmental station with differentiated waste collection; sustainable mobility and cycle paths to encourage the use of bicycles; glass surfaces with DVH and renewable energy certification; grey water reservoir for reuse; and rainwater accumulation system for irrigation of green spaces. It will also have accessibility for people with reduced mobility.
