Today we met with SENA colleagues at their campus in Rio Negro in the area near the airport of the city of Medellin. Great team of professionals with whom we brainstormed about cooperation options. We will start with ESP (English for Special Purposes) training for the aviation program instructors. The campus offers a variety of programs they showed us but we will first focus on their aviation team and then see if we can also link them to aircraft maintenance programs in Ontario.
This campus is also one of the 15 "Techno Parque" sites they have throughout the country with a focus on robots/automation and environmental research (including sustainable energy).
The campus research center has some excellent equipment such as the above displayed water (and other fluids) assessment and testing tools. World class. They also have mechatronic programs.
Two years ago they started some programs in aviation, for the time being with an initial focus on aircraft maintenance but with an interest to start airport operation programs which is a strength area for Seneca. We will focus first on getting more applied English in their programs and down the road can maybe find funding to start other programs in which Seneca can assist.
This was a week of introductions to SENA for our project manager Quinn. For her now to further develop this partnership. Our first visitors from them will come to Toronto in January. It was a good week to be back in Colombia (after four years). On we go....
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