GENERAL AGREEMENT FOR COOPERATION BETWEEN THE INTER-AMERICAN CHILDREN’S INSTITUTE AND THE LATIN AMERICAN CENTRE FOR HUMAN ECONOMICS. CLAEH INSTITUTE OF UNIVERSITY STUDIES


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MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING Nº 1  

Alejandro Bonasso, Director General (Head) of the Inter-American Children’s Institute (IIN), and Andrés Lalanne, Academic Director of the CLAEH Institute of University Studies, 

IN VIEW OF that established in Article IV, Section b, of the General Agreement for Cooperation between both organizations currently in force, which establishes the following: 

`In accordance with Section b, Article I, the execution of specific projects will be regulated by Memoranda of Understanding which must specify, for each case, the objectives, activities, forms of participation, PARTIES’ obligations, technical and financial contributions (as well as contributions with human resources), budgets and financing, including the corresponding indirect administrative and technical costs and all the other elements that ensure compliance with the agreements in a regular and appropriate manner. Such memoranda of understanding will be signed by the IIN’S Director General on behalf of the IIN, and will be exempt from the approval procedure by the IIN’S Directing Council’. 

CONSIDERING that different planning meetings have been held with the purpose of jointly starting the Program of Diploma and Master’s Degree in Public Policies for the Prevention of Improper Use of Drugs for the year 2003; 

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT that an agreement has been reached in connection with the curriculum core of the abovementioned Program; 

ESTABLISH THE FOLLOWING RESPONSIBILITIES FOR EACH PARTY: 

1.CLAEH

1.1.  To promote, administer and finance the academic program

1.2.  To register the candidates for this program, who must fulfil the requirements stated in the university regulations that are currently in force.

1.3.  To be in charge of the payment of fees to the teaching staff.

1.4.  To provide (jointly with the IIN) the academic certificates corresponding to the courses included in the academic curriculum.

1.5.  To have some courses corresponding to subjects that are shared with other diplomas and master’s degrees be taught in its Head Office. 

1.6.  To accept a quota of students who will be scholarship holders, sent by the IIN and belonging to non-profit organizations. 

2.IIN

2.1. To make its building facilities available for the development of the courses on Tuesdays from 6 PM to 9:30 PM, from April to November 2003.

2.2. To allow the use of the facilities of the Library `Dr. Luis Morquio’, and of the documental database in order to support teaching activities.

2.3. To participate in the coordination of the teaching staff corresponding to the Area of Specific Studies in the curriculum core. This teaching staff comprises the team of professionals holding a Diploma of Specialization who have been carrying out pilot experiments.

2.4. To publish and distribute support material (mostly on magnetic format) for the Courses that are coordinated by the IIN.

2.5  To coordinate the distance-learning courses that have been arranged, in order to omplete curricular studies or, in case of a delay, to reach the requested level.

2.6    To coordinate the practice area for primary prevention with the Uruguayan association for the Prevention of Alcoholism and Drug Addiction.

2.7    To coordinate the practice area for secondary and tertiary prevention with the IZCALI Treatment Centre.

  

Montevideo, 31st March 2003.

 

 

Alejandro Bonasso                                                               Andrés Lalanne
Director General of the                                                          Academic Director of the
Inter-American Children’s Institute                                          CLAEH Institute for

                                                                                           
University Studies