CNU approved new postgraduate courses to be taught at the IVIC
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Published at: 22/12/2025 09:00 AM
The National Council of Universities (CNU) approved, during an extraordinary session, new postgraduate programs, which will be taught by the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC).
According to a press release from the Ministry of Science and Technology (MINCYT), the Master's degree and doctorate in science, mentioned catalysis; Master's degree in science, mention molecular biomedicine and the Master's degree and doctorate in science, mention biotechnology, are some of the new programs approved.
The Sectorial Vice President of Science, Technology, Ecosocialism and Health, Gabriela Jiménez, these postgraduate courses “are so fundamental and vital for the new era of technical and scientific training in the country. In particular, the five new postgraduate courses that are approved for Venezuela within the framework of the IVIC, carried out at the IVIC, have to do with the continuity of technical training, of the careers that you approved today from the Dr. Humberto Fernández Morán University of Science”.
The Minister of Science and Technology also reported that the country has 1,082 research, development and scientific and technological innovation projects, linked to the 14 engines of the Bolivarian Economic Agenda.
Of these, 475 projects are directly related to university academic spaces, representing an investment of approximately 5 million dollars allocated exclusively to the university environment.
In terms of digital transformation, he noted that during the year, 10 sovereign and secure software classrooms were given to universities, benefiting more than 1,500 students who are currently training in programming and are preparing to enter the digital world and the development of artificial intelligence.
“This is an incredible opportunity to stimulate the development of artificial intelligence, in Venezuela with its own capacity,” he said.
He recalled that Venezuela was recognized by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) when it declared the Biotechnology Center for the Production of Agamic Seeds (Cebisa) as a category II open science center, a space that had collaboration with three universities.
Jiménez also called on universities to strengthen purposeful science, oriented from the local level to the generation of research and development projects, and invited schools to promote, within the scientific community, to register with the National Observatory of Science and Technology, as a fundamental space to make visible the data of Venezuelans who do science in the country.
In this context, he proposed the creation of a Science and Technology Commission within the CNU, as well as the promotion of bioethics committees to accompany academic and research processes.