Infrastructure of the Heidelberg Latin America Center Significantly Enlarged

On 3 May 2007 the Heidelberg Latin America Center in Santiago de Chile will be inaugurating its new quarters in the former residence of historian Sergio Fernández Larrain in the presence of higher-education minister Prof. Frankenberg and Rector Prof. Hommelhoff

The Chilean graduates of the University of Heidelberg have every reason to celebrate. The presence of Heidelberg in Chile is developing into a platform for the whole of Latin America. On 3 May the Heidelberg Latin America Center in Santiago de Chile will be inaugurating its new quarters in the former residence of historian Sergio Fernández Larrain in the Providencia district of the city. This move represents a threefold enhancement of the Center’s infrastructure for doctoral and postgraduate programmes.

The Center is of such major significance to the University of Heidelberg that Rector Prof. Dr. Peter Hommelhoff will be travelling to Santiago to inaugurate the new building, together with Baden-Württemberg’s higher-education minister Prof. Dr. Peter Frankenberg.

High-ranking personalities from Chile will be attending the inaugural ceremony, as will the “Heidelberg boys and girls”, the name given by the Chilean press to the Heidelberg alumni, some of whom have maintained their links with the University for decades. They include the psychiatrists Otto Dörr, Rafael Parada and Fernando Lodas, the political scientist Carlos Huneeus, former minister Mario Fernández, sociologist Marta Lagos, Roberto Mayorga and Ernesto Moreno, the deputy director of Chiledeportes.


Please address any inquiries to:
Dr. Walter Eckel
Director of the Heidelberg Latin America Center
Avda. Los Leones 1035, Providencia,
Santiago de Chile
phone: 0056/22343466, fax: 22343781
heidelberg-center@heidelbergcenter.cl
http://www.heidelberg-center.uni-hd.de

Dr. Michael Schwarz
Public Information Officer
University of Heidelberg
phone: 06221/542310, fax: 542317
michael.schwarz@rektorat.uni-heidelberg.de
http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/presse

Irene Thewalt
phone: 06221/542310, fax: 542317
presse@rektorat.uni-heidelberg.de