Knowledge Communication Office

Presentation

This Office is in charge of consolidating knowledge communication from UAM’s General Rectorate; strengthening its dissemination to federal authorities. IES, productive sector and citizens. Furthermore, it communicates UAM’s research, education, and social impact, generates knowledge communication actions among different university areas and campuses so that knowledge communication becomes an innovative interdisciplinary activity.

Objectives achievement will be based on six axes/aspects:

• Sense of belonging and university identity generation, considering all the communities that are part of UAM.

• Prepare bidirectional communication channels between the university and the citizens.

• Consolidate the existing relationships and create new ones with external instance.

• Youth and institutional projection.

• Attract surrounding communities to the University Campus.

• Promote critical thinking and audiovisual communication.

The main benefits planned to be obtained are: Consolidate university interaction with federal offices, IES, the productive sector, and the citizens. Consolidate university community’s sense of belonging. Strengthen social networks in the university. Consolidate General Rectorate areas creation. Get concurrent resources. Position UAM as a national referent in knowledge communication. Optimize the use of resources.

Dr. Mario A. De Leo Winkler

Head of Knowledge Communication Office

Phone: 5554834000 ext. 1895, 1894 and 1863
Email: madeleowinkler@correo.uam.mx

Dr. Mario Andrés de Leo Winkler

Biographical Note

Astrophysics Ph.D. by UNAM. He was a postdoctoral researcher, professor and science communicator at California University as well as a coordinator and head of scientific education at FIELDS, NASA.

In the Federal Government, he worked as Head of Scientific Vacation y the National Researchers System at CONACyT.

Currently, he is Head of Knowledge Communication at UAM. His research and publications in indexed journals are on astrophysics topics, informal methods in science teaching, science communication methods and science access design for at risk and sub-represented groups.

Purpose

Making “Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana” a national and international referent in knowledge communication generation and innovation through a well-defined institutional policy.

Assignment

Sharing with general citizenry knowledge generated by “Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana’s” academic staff and students from basic sciences, humanities, social sciences, and engineering departments through different multidirectional models of communication. The communication channels could be dissemination as well as inter and transdisciplinary projects, research reports, horizontal collaborative actions, etcetera.

Perspective

Create state-of-the-art materials and activities which offer multidirectional, clear, useful, and continuous communication about the knowledge generated in the basic sciences, humanities, social sciences, and engineering departments.

Web Site

Knowledge Communication
https://conocimiento.uam.mx/