The U.S. Harvard University (Massachusetts) and the Cuban Ministry of Higher Education (MES) agreed this Saturday to collaborate in future scientific researches and to promote joint publications.
\nAs part of the agreement, both parties also agreed to promote academic ties through the training of postgraduate students, according to the Cuban News Agency.
\nThe memorandum of understanding between the MES and the United States\u2019 oldest university center was signed in Havana by Harvard Vice Provost Mark C. Elliot and Cuban Deputy Minister of Higher Education Aurora Fern\u00e1ndez.
\nElliot said that in Harvard they felt very proud of Cuba\u2019s work in terms of academic and research development and he recalled a similar agreement signed by his institution and the University of Havana in 2006.
\nThe vice provost added that this is an occasion to celebrate that collaboration, which needs to be strengthened in the \u201cdifficult times\u201d of relations between both countries, in which the Trump administration has rolled back part of the bilateral rapprochement promoted by his predecessor in the White House.
\nCuban Deputy Minister Aurora Fern\u00e1ndez highlighted in turn that this memorandum \u201cis the result of months of understanding.\u201d
\nFern\u00e1ndez insisted that, \u201cdespite how tense diplomacy between both governments has become with Donald Trump\u2019s ascent to power, the agreement will expand the U.S. university\u2019s relations with other academic institutions in the country.\u201d
\nCuba and the United States boosted a \u201cthaw\u201d in bilateral relations in late 2014, whose climax was the resumption of diplomatic relations, the reopening of the embassies and the visit of Obama to Havana in 2016.
\nBoth countries\u2019 governments agreed to collaborate in several areas, among them education, health, culture, the struggle against drug trafficking and migratory issues.
\nHowever, Trump\u2019s arrival to the presidency has brought a turnabout in the U.S. policy toward the island.
\nThe effects of this change in policy include the reduction of the trips to Cuba by Americans after registering a spectacular growth in the two previous years. Cooperation in the areas of health and the environment has also practically been paralyzed.
\nHowever, there still exists a will for joint collaboration by institutions from both countries, particularly in the scientific and cultural spheres.
\nAn example of this was the signing last October of a memorandum of understanding for bilateral collaboration in research and academic areas by the New York Lehman College and the Jos\u00e9 Mart\u00ed University of Sancti Sp\u00edritus.
\nEFE \/ OnCuba
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