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In the next few months, the UNAM's Extension School in Canada will be approaching the Mexican community in the Ottawa-Gatineau region, the municipalities from both cities, Canadian sport associations and the Embassy of Mexico in Ottawa, with the purpose of exploring the possibility of starting a soccer school for children, following the tradition of the "Pumitas", a well-known school that was initiated at the UNAM in Mexico. Several professional soccer players that are now members of Mexican national teams were at one time "Pumitas". Hugo Sánchez, Manuel Negrete and Luis García are just some of its well-known alumni who have participated in Soccer World Cup games. More than just foster future professional soccer players' talent, "Pumitas Canada" also wishes to introduce children and young people from Mexican, Latin-American and Canadian origin to sport as part of an integrated approach to education that keeps young people away from less profitable hobbies.    

 

 
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Until now, the ESECA has produced researches on education and consequently published material for tutorial books and audio programs to learn Spanish as a foreign language. In the near future, UNAM Canada will launch a research program to locate active working groups in some Canadian universities in the region that are interested in themes investigated by UNAM researchers. We will begin with the following themes, which are a priority for Mexico and in which Canadians are leaders:
a) Forest Management and Conservation;
b) Multicultural Integration.
In addition, we have developed another program of interest for Mexicans, Canadians as well as Americans: Migration.
We believe that in the mid-term, student and academic exchanges could arise from this kind of projects funded by recognized organizations.
 

 

On 2010, UNAM Canda is celebrating its 15th. 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.

 

 
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