As part of the sector’s projections in the province, located 278 kilometers east of Havana, the contribution of the Villa Clara Scientific-Technological Park stands out, the third existing in the country and the first with an essentially industrial focus.
The territory works on strategic development lines directed towards sectors such as food production, energy, tourism, industry, science, technology and innovation, natural resources and the environment, infrastructure and sustainable social development, all with priorities in the transformative impact of society.
According to Edelys Saavedra, president of the Scientific-Technological Park, the articulation between academic research with the business system and the Government will be of the first order in order to develop the economy, as well as the continuation of the focus on sustainable innovations and efficient communication work so that they reach a greater number of clients.
The existence in the province of unique industries of their kind in the country, such as “Planta Mecánica”, “Ciclos Minerva” or the Empresa Electroquímica de Sagua la Grande, represent another area of work in the year to contribute to territorial development and municipal autonomy.
María del Carmen Velasco, delegate of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment in Villa Clara, explained that improving the functioning of the technical advisory committees and the transformation of the science plan in the business sector are equally fundamental to face technological obsolescence. The province of Villa Clara has 39 proposals for the development of science for the production of goods and services, as well as 27 groups linked to scientific development and 15 science, technology and information entities, figures that place it among the most outstanding in the country for the diversity of contributions to the science-based government system.
Only in terms of academic training, the Central University “Marta Abreu” of Las Villas (UCLV), the most multidisciplinary in Cuba, has 22 doctoral programs, 42 master’s programs and seven specialties, while medical sciences provide two doctoral programs, seven master programs and 67 specialties.
Cuba will celebrate Science Day on January 15 after a year 2024 in which 5,960 research projects were carried out, with more than twenty results with a high impact in the areas of knowledge and the provision of services.
Among these achievements, the Welding Research Center, belonging to the UCLV, contributed the technology for manufacturing abrasive powders for polishing floors and terrazzo, based on aluminothermic processing of Cuban industrial waste and minerals.
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