On 2010, UNAM Canda is celebrating its 15^th. Anniversary of presence in Canada. Beginning in April of this commemorative year, the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Canada is expanding its efforts to disseminate the Mexican culture in Canada through the medium of radio broadcasting. The program will be heard on CHIN radio, 97.9 FM, and will be available through the Internet, each Friday morning between 11 am and 12 am. The program will be hosted by César Benítez, a Spanish teacher at UNAM Canada. The Project Radio UNAM Canada has taken its first steps by joining Onda Latina, a Spanish language program of CHIN radio. In its weekly time slot the university will give an account of its overall activities and its academic and cultural programming in the Ottawa/Gatineau region. In particular the program will announce the upcoming calendar of activities and courses available at the school and will comment on various Mexican cultural and social topics, such as the music of major composers and interpreters, films, sports, history and art. At the same time the program will discuss themes of interest to the entire Latin-American community, with interviews by wellknown people in the Spanish speaking community or with an interest in our culture. 

The Project Radio UNAM UNAM Canada also seeks to make Mexican culture and the UNAM’s productions more accessible to the English and French speaking publics To this end, programs and podcasts are being prepared in these languages so that other Canadian university radio stations who work in collaboration to UNAM Canada may also broadcast the programs to their respective audiences.    The project benefits from the support and the experience of Radio UNAM (www.radiounam.unam.mx), the most important university radio station of Latin America, and follows in the footsteps of the UNAM Chicago Extension School which recently launched its own, similar program.