130 academic and cultural events during "TeleWeek"

Quito, jueves 18 junio 2020
Poster of the event
Poster of the event

 

During the first week of June, the Student's Federation (FEUPS) - Quito organized an event titled "2020 Student Tele week", whose aim was to promote creativity and solidarity among the university community. Students from all majors prepared 130 online academic and cultural events.

In the opening event, Karla Altamirano, FEUPS president, pointed out that as young people we must be predisposed to change and above all learn from our environment and from others in order to continue our education. The event began with the forum "What is diversity in UPS?, where Fr. Javier Herrán, UPS president, pointed out that we can create freedom with diversity and this makes us different as human beings, to act in a life that is diverse", to change and above all to learn from our environment and from others in order to continue educating ourselves. 

Professors Aurora Iza and Miriam Gallego, students Nahomy Angulo, Danilo Bohórquez and Xavier Paredes attended this forum. The moderator was Sebastián Granda, director of the Bilingual Intercultural Education undergraduate program. Also, the Inclusive Education Research Group presented its proposal that seeks to reduce student loss and dropout rate for students with disabilities.

Paz Guarderas, professor, and psychology students Daniel Romero, Carolina Cruz, Jorge Varela, Karina Yépez and Harold Rodríguez participated in the second meeting. The webinar focused on the importance of putting emotions into words because when words fails, violence sets in.

Another topic was "Life after quarantine" with José Juncosa, and Juan Pablo Salgado, head of research. Salgado said the cooperation of everyone is needed as well as the support of science and technology to monitor what is happening and to assume individual, collective and institutional policies based on the dynamics of the emergency.

"It is a time for autonomous learning, to recover the value family and seeking common good. It is time to do as much as possible with what you have and to include collaborative work, sustainability, creativity, that is, work on the values that UPS has been developing," said Juncosa.

The topic: "Environmental responsibility" was attended by professor Carlos Ulloa and Civil Engineering student Deysi Chicaiza. Ulloa spoke about the relationship of air pollution and Covid 19, while Chicaiza shared the university's achievements on issues of environmental responsibility, including highlighting sustainable mobility, waste management, coefficient building and good environmental practices. to reduce the carbon footprint. "The four R"s" were applied: reduce, reuse, recycle and recover, but we need to add: repair, renovate and redesign, as well as the four R's of a person: resilient, smiling, real and respectful.