The University of Piura participates in various projects co-financed by the Erasmus+ program of the European Commission, the 100,000 Strong in the Americas program, Horizon 2020, among others.
The aim is to foster the connection of 6 Latin American universities with the environment of the regions where they are located in order to address climate change and, at the same time, promote sustainable and inclusive development, through the activation of new processes and collaborations with local communities to co-create local, sustainable and intelligent solutions. This will be achieved through the development of a Specialization Course in Urban and Territorial Planning. At the same time, the knowledge obtained as part of the course is intended to be applied at a local level through the implementation of collaborative projects in 6 cities (Piura, Tacna, Iquique, La Serena, Guayaquil and Loja).
For more information visit https://proyectopolis.org/
 |
Inchipe
The “Program for internationalization in the Universities of Chile and Peru” (INCHIPE), subsidized by the European Commission within the framework of the Erasmus+ Program, Capacity Development Action in the field of higher education, addresses the needs of two partner countries ( Chile and Peru) for the systemic and organized internationalization of their universities. |
 |
Umetech
The “University & Media Technology for Cultural Heritage” project seeks to strengthen the role of Latin American universities as instruments of social and economic development in the cultural heritage sector, through the design and implementation of cultural heritage competence centers specialized in: intelligent systems , 3D, Big Data and human-machine interaction. |
 |
LinkYou
The project “Cooperation between Latin America and Europe to employability” seeks to improve the level of employability of young graduates in Latin America, through the strategy of applying crowdsourcing as a tool to create a network that aims to bring together industries, academics and students. |
 |
InnovaT
The “Innovative Teaching Across Continents” project seeks to enrich innovation in teaching and learning approaches by promoting the modernization of higher education systems, through the use of technologies for the development and acquisition of digital skills and the implementation of new methods. Learning. For more information visit http://innovat.education. |
 |
Mimir Andino
The project “Modernization of Institutional Management of Innovation and Research in the Andean Region and Latin America” aims to modernize the institutional management of innovation and research, promote excellence and propose actions in universities. For more information visit http://mimirandino.org. |
 |
BIOTRAPH
The project entitled “Increase knowledge and develop technology for the design and deployment of high-performance power transformers immersed in biodegradable fluids”, is funded by the Horizon 2020 Program of the European Union, under the Marie Sklodowska Curie RISE (Research and Innovation Staff Exchange) and seeks to strengthen international intersectoral and cross-border collaboration in R&D&I through exchanges of research and innovative personnel. For more information visit https://www.biotrafo.unican.es. |
 |
ELANET
The European Latin American Network in Support of Social Entrepreneurs (Elanet) project aims to convene, train and advise entrepreneurs in the Piura region with the international network that brings together 17 institutions from Europe and Latin America. In the Elanet initiative, co-financed by the Erasmus+ program of the European Commission, the University of Piura will play an important role in the region, as it will provide support and contribute to the decentralization of the Peruvian entrepreneurial ecosystem. More information: https://www.elanet-se.org/ |
 |
CODICES
The Codicis project: “Strengthening capacities for the Recovery and Conservation of Documentary and Bibliographic Heritage in Latin America” is co-financed by the Erasmus+ program of the European Commission and its main objective is to design and execute a specialization course in conservation and management of archives and heritage libraries and implement accessible conservation and restoration laboratories for archives and documents. |
Partner institution: Towson University.
Description: The program was developed in the months of July - August 2017. It was aimed at low-income students from both universities, as they are a population that often has obstacles to having an international experience. During the program, participants improved their language skills and studied environmental situations that affect both the campuses and their respective regions to ultimately design a project that leads to a concrete and operational solution to a particular problem.
Partner university: University of Northern Iowa.
Description: training program aimed at future teachers in environmental education. The target audience was students of the UDEP Teacher Vocation Scholarship program, who completed a period of study in the US. The program began with ten students who received a certification from the GLOBE program, a global science educational program for primary and secondary schools. secondary school, promoted by international scientific institutions such as NASA and NOAA, which contributes to developing scientific learning and increasing awareness about the impacts of climate change.
Partner university: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Description: Virginia Tech and UDEP combined their strengths to develop an innovative program that provided students with key behavioral economics and experimental economics knowledge related to environmental field design and evaluation, resource management, technology adoption, and educational policy in rural communities. The diversity of interconnected topics in this program provided students with a multidimensional understanding of the issues facing rural communities.
We firmly believe that the internet should be available and accessible to anyone, and are committed to providing a website that is accessible to the widest possible audience, regardless of circumstance and ability.
To fulfill this, we aim to adhere as strictly as possible to the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 (WCAG 2.1) at the AA level. These guidelines explain how to make web content accessible to people with a wide array of disabilities. Complying with those guidelines helps us ensure that the website is accessible to all people: blind people, people with motor impairments, visual impairment, cognitive disabilities, and more.
This website uses various technologies that are meant to make it as accessible as possible at all times. We use an accessibility interface that allows persons with specific disabilities to adjust the website's UI (user interface) and design it to their personal needs.
Additionally, the website uses an AI-based application that runs in the background and optimizes its accessibility level constantly. This application remediates the website's HTML, adapts Its functionality and behavior for screen-readers used by the blind users, and for keyboard functions used by individuals with motor impairments.
If you've found a malfunction or have ideas for improvement, we'll be happy to hear from you. You can reach out to the website's operators by using the following email
Our website implements the ARIA attributes (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) technique, alongside various different behavioral changes, to ensure blind users visiting with screen-readers are able to read, understand, and enjoy the website's functions. As soon as a user with a screen-reader enters your site, they immediately receive a prompt to enter the Screen-Reader Profile so they can browse and operate your site effectively. Here's how our website covers some of the most important screen-reader requirements, alongside console screenshots of code examples:
Screen-reader optimization: We run a background process that learns the website's components from top to bottom, to ensure ongoing compliance even when updating the website. In this process, we provide screen-readers with meaningful data using the ARIA set of attributes. For example, we provide accurate form labels; descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc.); validation guidance for form inputs; element roles such as buttons, menus, modal dialogues (popups), and others. Additionally, the background process scans all of the website's images and provides an accurate and meaningful image-object-recognition-based description as an ALT (alternate text) tag for images that are not described. It will also extract texts that are embedded within the image, using an OCR (optical character recognition) technology. To turn on screen-reader adjustments at any time, users need only to press the Alt+1 keyboard combination. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on as soon as they enter the website.
These adjustments are compatible with all popular screen readers, including JAWS and NVDA.
Keyboard navigation optimization: The background process also adjusts the website's HTML, and adds various behaviors using JavaScript code to make the website operable by the keyboard. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key. Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. The background process also handles triggered popups by moving the keyboard focus towards them as soon as they appear, and not allowing the focus to drift outside of it.
Users can also use shortcuts such as “M” (menus), “H” (headings), “F” (forms), “B” (buttons), and “G” (graphics) to jump to specific elements.
We aim to support the widest array of browsers and assistive technologies as possible, so our users can choose the best fitting tools for them, with as few limitations as possible. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users.
Despite our very best efforts to allow anyone to adjust the website to their needs, there may still be pages or sections that are not fully accessible, are in the process of becoming accessible, or are lacking an adequate technological solution to make them accessible. Still, we are continually improving our accessibility, adding, updating and improving its options and features, and developing and adopting new technologies. All this is meant to reach the optimal level of accessibility, following technological advancements. For any assistance, please reach out to
EN 
ES