With the aim of expanding the educational offer in Tafí Viejo, the mayor Alejandra Rodriguez inaugurated the Leandro Rossi Metropolitan Center for Higher Studies, located in the last block of Santa Fe. This project arises from an Educational Cooperation agreement between the Government of Tucumán and the Municipality of Tafí Viejo, with the purpose of facilitating access to higher and technical education in the region.
“Today with great pride and emotion because it bears the name of Leandro who left a great legacy, it means a lot to youth and we want to honor his strength and drive. It is aimed at our neighbors and people from all over Tucumán, it will be a place of knowledge and meeting, we believe that it is the starting point on the path towards a National University of Tafí Viejo, which is an idea that still stands,” Rodríguez indicated.
The main objective of the Metropolitan Center for Higher Studies (CeMESU) is to promote the roots and technical training of the Taficean community, adapting to the demands and needs of the local territory. Through a variety of programs and workshops, including university preparatory courses, English classes for adults, and virtual courses for degrees in education, promoting the creation of mechanisms that facilitate access to information, professionalization and job placement .
Marcos Acevedo, Secretary of Cultural Management and Educational Management, highlighted the “commitment to providing higher education, improvement courses, courses to our young people. This space is named after Leandro Rossi, a 22-year-old young man from Tafica who graduated as a lawyer in December and who died unexpectedly. He was the Diversity Director of our municipality, and in a short time he left a strong mark on a path of hope, commitment and defense of public education.”
The commitment of the Municipality of Tafí Viejo to the consolidation of this project is reflected in the allocation of a new operating space for the center, which will have modern facilities, including study classrooms, workshops, a streaming studio, kitchen and a recreation yard. With this initiative, it is expected that CEMESU will become a multifunctional space that strengthens the educational paths of young people and adults, as well as an area for the expression of artistic and cultural activities for the community.
The name of the building is a tribute to the memory of Leandro Rossi, a young man noted for his academic brilliance and his activism in favor of human rights and the LGBTIQ+ community. His legacy inspires the spirit of this project, which seeks to promote inclusion and equality in a context of profound social crisis.
With the opening of the Leandro Rossi Metropolitan Center for Higher Studies, Tafí Viejo reaffirms its commitment to education as an engine of development and social transformation in the region as it seeks to strengthen technical training and access to higher education.
They participated in the opening ceremony Sofia Solorzano, Secretary of Government; Paula Chein,undersecretary of Government; Deborah SolorzanoSecretary of General Administration; Oscar Barrionuevo, Cabinet advisor; Luigi Pisoni, dean of the UNT Faculty of Humanities; Viviana Pérez, director of the IES; Walter Robledo, Adult supervisor; Augusto Bellomio, director of Conicet; Ezequiel FloresLeandro’s father, councilors and officials.
