Water Resource Management in Santander: Challenges Amid Abundance
Santander has historically been recognized as a region with abundant water resources. Its moorlands, high-Andean forests, wetlands, and a complex river system have sustained the department’s economic and social development for decades. In the current context, however, ensuring the long-term sustainability of this resource has become a strategic challenge. According to the assessment by the […]
Santander Vision 2050 Presents Its Diagnostic Phase to the Faculty of Health Council
As part of the Faculty of Health Council at the Industrial University of Santander (UIS), the Santander Vision 2050 team presented the findings of Phase I of the project during a session dedicated to analysis and discussion with the academic community. The event took place at the UIS Scientific Complex for Health and Life Sciences […]
Santander Prospective Vision 2050: from diagnostic collection to strategic architecture
Phase II will consolidate in 2026 the scenarios, indicators, and guidelines that will guide regional development toward 2050. After a year of regional outreach, social dialogue, and academic validation, the Santander Vision 2050 project led by the Industrial University of Santander (UIS) enters a decisive stage in 2026: transforming the information gathered in the region […]
Santander Vision 2050 moves forward: listening to the region to plan for the future
The Industrial University of Santander (UIS), under the leadership of Rector Hernán Porras Díaz and with the implementation of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies and Strategic Action for Development (IDEAD), continues to consolidate the Santander Vision 2050 project, a strategic initiative that seeks to build, in a participatory manner, a roadmap for the long-term development […]
Santander Vision Prospectiva 2050: Magdalena Medio as a route to the future
At dawn on 26 November, Barrancabermeja opened a new chapter in the territorial dialogue of the Santander Vision 2050 project. Social leaders, businesspeople, community representatives, and government officials gathered with a common purpose: to understand the territory in all its complexity and advance its transformation from the ground up, beyond debate, in an exercise of […]
The UIS kicked off the Pre-Congress on Territorial Prospects – Santander Vision 2050
The Industrial University of Santander (UIS) kicked off the Pre-Congress on Territorial Prospectives – Santander Vision 2050, an academic space aimed at reflecting on the possible futures of the department and promoting strategic dialogues with national and international experts. The opening took place in the Mechanical Engineering Auditorium on the central campus and was attended […]
Sign up for the Pre-Congress on Territorial Prospective and let’s build the Santander 2050 vision.
A space to build Santander’s vision for the future The Industrial University of Santander (UIS), with institutional support from ProSantander and the Bucaramanga Chamber of Commerce, invites the entire community to participate on November 20, 21, and 22, in the Pre-Congress on Territorial Prospective, a strategic space for reflection and collective construction that will bring […]
Journeys through the Territories: a trip through the voices and dreams of Santander
Dawn broke in Socorro amid the murmur of people getting ready to participate in the discussion. The chairs arranged in the auditorium of the Industrial University of Santander were soon filled with curious faces, peasant leaders, young entrepreneurs, women managers, and teachers who, with attentive eyes, waited to tell their stories. Thus began the second […]