The president and chairman of the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (FUNGLODE), Leonel Fernández, signed agreements with two institutions based in Miami, with the intent to strengthen relations and join efforts towards common goals in the economic and higher educations fields, respectively.

The firs agreement, signed with the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, indicates that both organizations share the common goals of promoting bilateral trade and investments between their respective geographical regions, and coordinating the entrepreneurial development among their respective members."

FUNGLODE and the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce shall promote the exchange of information, website links, and entrepreneurial development missions such as the Americas Linkage.

Other projects that will also be in place include the organization of joint or associate programs and the support to the promotion of entrepreneurial development events, as well as any other mutually agreed mean for the development of a service economy in both countries.

The agreement was signed by J. Antonio Villamil, Chief Executive of the Washington Economics Group, Inc.

Community College

Furthermore, a three-party inter-institutional cooperation agreement by and between FUNGLODE, Daytona Beach Community College, and the Santo Domingo Entrepreneurial Council was also executed by Fernández. Under such agreement, the three parties are bound to establish a community college in the new province of Eastern Santo Domingo.

According to this project, which includes the participation of the University of UNIBE and is the product of the Floridian-Dominican Alliance, the three institutions acknowledge the importance of higher education in the social, political, and economic development of a nation, as well as the need for interaction and collaboration for the accomplishment of their respective goals.

Such agreement provide for the exchange and sharing of documents, information, and experts from various areas, the organization of conferences, seminars, and workshops, joint research, publications and college research. Also the promotion of scholarships, training courses, programs, and internships, among others.

Signing for Daytona Beach Community College was the college president, Kent Sharples, and for the Santo Domingo Business Council, also the organization's president, Nelson Beltrán.

SANTO DOMINGO, SEPTEMBER 22, 2003.

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