National University of the Northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
National University of the Northwest of the Province of Buenos Aires (UNNOBA). Public University of Argentina, created in 2002 as a modern educational institution aimed at guaranteeing equal opportunities and free access to higher education. With headquarters and Rectorate in Junín, it also has headquarters in Pergamino. Organized under the bipartite structural scheme of Schools and Departments.
History
It was created on December 16, 2002 by Decree of the National Executive Power No. 2,617, and its creation was ratified by Law No. 25,824 of November 19, 2003. It has its headquarters in the city of Junín, where the seat of its central authorities is located. and a headquarters in the city of Parchment. It is organized with a structure of Schools and Departments.
The concretion of the institutional and academic project of UNNOBA has as its antecedent the organization of two Regional University Centers, the Junín Regional University Center (CURJ), and the Pergamino Regional University Center (CRUP), which developed university higher education activities since 1990 and 1991 respectively.
In 2003 the organization stage began and in 2005 the dictation of its own academic offer. In 2007 the representatives to the University Assembly and the Superior Council were elected and on April 26 of that year the first Rector was elected by the University Assembly. At the end of 2008, the organization of the Schools began. The normalization of the same materialized during the month of October of the year 2010.
On March 11, 2011, the University Assembly elected Dr. Guillermo Tamarit as Rector for the period 2011/2015, which began on June 9, 2011.
Academic venues and structure
The university, whose academic headquarters are located in the cities of Junín and Pergamino, is organized under the bipartite structural scheme of Schools and Departments. The Schools of Agricultural, Natural and Environmental Sciences, Social and Human Sciences, Economic and Legal Sciences and Technology; They are the teaching units where the different careers of the university are taught. Teaching, which includes the dictation of undergraduate and technical courses, constitutes the academic offer of a national, public and free university conceived with a strong regional anchor.
Junin Headquarters
UNNOBA has its headquarters in the city of Junín. The Rectorate is located there and the main authorities have their seat. 80% of the activities are carried out in that city, where the center of the educational project is located. In 2014, 2 out of 3 UNNOBA students chose to study in Junín.
In part of its infrastructure, the activities of the Junín Regional University Center (CURJ) were developed. Other buildings and properties were added and built later.
Parchment Headquarters
The UNNOBA headquarters in the city of Pergamino has an infrastructure made up in part of buildings and surfaces where activities of the Pergamino Regional University Center (CRUP) were carried out. Other buildings and properties were added later. In 2014, 35% of students chose to study at this venue.
Research
The Research Area integrates, together with the Academic Area, the main hierarchical structure on which the operating structure of UNNOBA is developed, regarding the production of knowledge, widening and transcending institutional borders. Both areas have different rates of development, requiring much longer times to form and consolidate groups and lines of research.
National Institute of Agricultural Technology
On April 30, 2009, UNNOBA signed an agreement with the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) for the creation of the Integrated Unit, an initiative that will enable the creation of a scientific-technological complex aimed at strengthening agricultural production and contributing to development. regional.
The School of Agrarian, Natural and Environmental Sciences will be held at the Pergamino Agricultural Experimental Station belonging to INTA’s Buenos Aires Regional Center, and in the academic area of UNNOBA’s Pergamino headquarters, located 4.5 km from EEA Pergamino.
National Institute of Human Viral Diseases=
Agreement with the National Institute of Human Viral Diseases “Dr. Julio I. Maiztegui” (INEVH) of Pergamino. It is one of the centers in the network of the National Administration of Laboratories and Health Institutes, dependent on the Ministry of Health of Argentina. It had a historic role in the study of Argentine hemorrhagic fever during the 1960s and 1970s, and its work on hantavirus, dengue, yellow fever and other arboviruses has positioned it as a national and regional center of reference in laboratory diagnosis in these illnesses.
Higher Experimental Institute of Food Technology
Research agreements with the Experimental Higher Institute of Food Technology (ISETA) of July 9, the Abraham Piñeyro Interzonal Hospital in Junín, the San José de Pergamino Interzonal Hospital, the Faculty of Agronomy of the University of Buenos Aires, the Research Commission (CIC) and the Center for Research in Basic and Applied Genetics (CIGEBA) of the National University of La Plata.
International relations
The institution has an International Relations Service that reports to the Directorate of Institutional University Relations, which promotes links and cooperation with universities, research centers and international organizations dedicated to higher education, teaching, research, the promotion of culture and other activities related to university extension.
