The University of Murcia and the Foundation Center Local Historical Studies and Research in the Region have signed today in the building of the Rectory an agreement for this courses, mainly postgraduate degree programs are recognized as the University.
The collaboration is promoted by the director of the Foundation, also a professor of history at the University of Murcia, Francisco Chacon, who has stressed the university character of the Foundation - the rector José Antonio Cobacho is vice president of honor of the Board, and its nature " border. "
"Character border in the sense of bringing together and bring different organizations with similar goals to ours, which are carrying out activities of historical knowledge and cultural communication, which in turn would spark local and regional collective sense," said Chacon .
During the ceremony, in which all participants recalled with emotion to Antonio Perez Crespo, former president of the Foundation who died last March, the dean of the Faculty of Arts, José María Jiménez Cano, noting the social function of Foundation and its strength, has referred to the Local Studies Chair John Torres Fontes, driving the signatories.
President of the Foundation Antonio Montoro, expressed his gratitude to José Antonio Cobacho rector and the University of Murcia, "it means a lot to us university recognition of qualifications."
Cobacho, who closed the ceremony, announced that the Foundation for Historical Studies will play an important role in the centenary celebrations of the University of Murcia, which falls in 2015 and plans to organize a tribute to Perez Crespo, the first autonomic president of the Region.
Source: Universidad de Murcia. Fotos: Juanchi López