Fransisco Salgado, president of Universidad del Azuay (UDA); Javier Herran, president of Universidad Politecnica Salesiana (UPS); Pablo Vanegas, president of Universidad de Cuenca; and Enrique Pozo, president of Universidad Católica de Cuenca, met at UDA to sign the agreement on the creation of the University and Citizenship Network of Ethics and Bioethics, as well as a letter of commitment for inter institutional cooperation for research and implementation of projects. 

The aim of creating the Network is to study ethics and bioethics as fundamental elements in all fields, position ethics and bioethics in society and strengthen these issues in people´s everyday lives.

The signing of the agreement for inter-institutional cooperation seeks to find technical - scientific and effective solutions regarding mobility, for the benefit of the entire population in the city of Cuenca. 

The university presidents stated that signing these two documents shows that higher education institutions are committed to working together for the common good of all citizens, by applying fundamental factors such as ethics and bioethics, which seek to improve coexistence.