Cooperation with Brazil: prominent professor at UFMG in the Faculty of Psychology at UNR, within the framework of the ESCALA Teaching Program.

Marcelo Ricardo Pereira, Full Professor of Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Education from the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, carried out a collaborative work stay at the UNR Faculty of Psychology, last March.

Among the scheduled activities were: 

- Conference: “What does a teenager want? Knowledge and body in crime”, promoted by UNR and the Secretary of Justice of the Province of Santa Fe and "With what symbolic resources does a school with teachers, boys and girls continue to bet on a project for the future in Rosario today?" in the Provincial School N 57 "Juana Elena Blanco" within the framework of an extension project of the UNR.

– Meetings with the work teams of the Provincial Directorate of Juvenile Criminal Justice of the Specialized Center for Juvenile Criminal Responsibility; and from the project: "Student Trajectories Referentxs Program". Conversation with teachers and students of the Perspectives in Education Chair - Current forms of malaise in education.

– Research exchange table on adolescence/psychoanalysis/education presenting the research of the chair in conjunction with the IRICE (CONICET) "Trajectories and wanderings: adolescents on the edges/borders of school" and international research coordinated by Professor, "Attention to subjects with social problems: educational action, clinical intervention and social work - Brazil, Spain, France and Argentina". Prof. Cecilia Augsburguer, a professor at the Faculty of Psychology also a beneficiary of the Teaching Scale, participated in this instance, sharing the progress of the project “Programs for the prevention and promotion of health, social inclusion and citizenship rights in middle school. Evaluation of the experience from the testimonies of the young participants”.

– Meeting with authorities of the Faculty of Psychology, where the negotiations for the celebration of Framework Agreements y Specific between Universidad Nacional de Rosario and the Federal University of Minas Gerais.

– Within the framework of your visit, the presentation of the book "The challenged subject: educational action, clinical and social intervention" (authors from UFMG, UNR and others), publication produced by a team with the participation of Prof. Cristina Ronchese, professor at the Faculty of Psychology.

Referring to the book, Ilaria Pirone from the Paris 8 University states: “Each author illustrates from their research experiences linked to a clinical practice, the need for a psychoanalysis linked to the field of care, education, and social work. They describe a practice of psychoanalysis linked to the City, which is basically its only possibility of continuing to exist (...) We can say that we suspect that psychoanalysis has contributed in part to its own exclusion from many institutions and this precisely because of a progressive loss of its capacity to have a political conception, understood as the capacity to articulate individual destiny and collective destiny, unconscious and context (…).”

In the words of the teacher “I can say that it was a real exchange. There was a lively exchange of experiences, a book presentation with authors from UFMG and UNR, visits to institutions where UNR maintains projects and the establishment of a Framework Agreement and an Exchange Agreement between UFMG and UNR. It was intense, but, as always, Rosario received me very well. I came back really happy. Thanks for everything!"

Based on the experience of each one of the beneficiaries of the Montevideo Group Association of Universities programs, the impact generated by the mobility is notorious, as well as the fruits of the efforts made by public universities to carry out these programs.