The selected teachers receive full scholarships to carry out their mobility throughout the year 2026.
La Universidad Nacional de Rosario The list of selected faculty members who will be awarded full scholarships under the 2026 ESCALA Teaching Program of the Montevideo Group Association of Universities (AUGM) is hereby announced. This program, established as a strategic tool in 1993, promotes regional cooperation and integration among member universities through academic mobility and exchange. Specifically, it aims to contribute to strengthening the teaching, scientific, and technological capacity of universities, consolidating critical masses of researchers in strategic areas of regional interest, and fostering inter-institutional collaboration among network universities by sharing teaching and research teams.
The implementation of each edition has strengthened academic relationships, consolidated new disciplinary areas, and promoted joint research projects among institutions in the region. Furthermore, the AUGM office at UNR has prioritized activities related to curriculum internationalization in recent calls for proposals.
The following is the list of teachers selected to complete their mobility this year:
ARMAN, Joana Marcela (Faculty of Humanities and Arts) towards the Federal University of Pará, Brazil;
CAMARGO ANGELUCCI, Thalita (Faculty of Humanities and Arts), towards the State University of Campinas, Brazil;
CARIGNANO, Bruno (Faculty of Psychology), towards the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil;
CARPINETTI, Juliana Eloísa (Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Design), towards the State University of Campinas, Brazil;
DEUX MARZI, María Victoria (Faculty of Political Science and International Relations), towards the University of the Republic, Uruguay;
FINA, Federico (Faculty of Agricultural Sciences), towards the University of the Republic, Uruguay;
MARCHETTI, Viviana Merced (Faculty of Political Science and International Relations), towards the University of the Republic, Uruguay;
MINGORANCE, Ivana (Faculty of Humanities and Arts), towards the University of the Republic, Uruguay;
MITCHELL, Clara (Faculty of Exact Sciences, Engineering and Surveying), towards the University of Santiago de Chile, Chile;
OCANTOS, Ariel Octavio (Faculty of Agricultural Sciences), towards the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil;
PONISIO, Mariana Alicia (Faculty of Humanities and Arts), towards the University of Santiago de Chile, Chile.
The selected teachers submitted the corresponding Letter of Invitation issued by the host university and an activity plan endorsed by the authorities of their respective faculties and by the AUGM Advisor Delegate of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, in compliance with the requirements established by the program in general and by the AUGM-UNR office in particular.
Strengthening regional cooperation
The participation of UNR faculty in the ESCALA Program is a fundamental tool for the internationalization of the university and is part of an institutional strategy aimed at deepening the internationalization of the curriculum, understood as the systemic integration of perspectives, content and academic practices of regional scope in the teaching and learning processes.
With this new call, UNR reaffirms its commitment to Latin American university integration and the strengthening of academic cooperation within the framework of AUGM.