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Student Selected by the Botín Foundation to Participate in the Program for Strengthening the Civil Service in Latin America

June 26, 2015
Natalia Cohn, a student in the Bachelor’s Program in International Studies, was selected in June 2015 by the Botín Foundation as Uruguay’s sole representative to participate in the Program for Strengthening the Civil Service in Latin America. Meanwhile, Daniel Vivas, a student in the Public Accounting program, was selected as an alternate candidate. The foundation selected 32 Ibero-American university students with high personal and academic potential and a commitment to public service. This year, more than 5,300 candidates from 353 Latin American universities applied.

Starting on October 3, 2015, the selected participants will take part in an eight-week training program in the United States, Spain, and Brazil. The program will cover the following areas: political, legal, and historical foundations; political and public service skills and competencies; society; economics; institutional strengthening and the civil service; and ethics and political philosophy.

This is the sixth edition of the program; in the five previous editions, 200 students from more than 80 universities in Latin America have participated.

This is the fourth time a student in the Bachelor’s Program in International Studies has received this scholarship. The other recipients were: Juan José Riva, Matías Eustathiou (see interview), and Ilan Bajarlia.