With the objective of strengthening the actions of the Dual Education program in higher education institutions in the State, the Secretary of Education and Sports, Javier Gonzalez Mocken, met with authorities of the German Delegation, GOPA-GIZ. This educational modality is carried out in the Technical Career Subsystems: DGETI, CONALEP, DGETAyCM and CECyTECH, which operate in seven states: Chihuahua, Baja California, Yucatán, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Jalisco and Nuevo León. During the meeting, it was reported that in Chihuahua there is a close relationship and coordinated work between state and municipal authorities, business organizations and civil associations that operate as multiplier leaders of the Dual Education System. It was also announced that after one year of this project, more than 700 students from the different educational subsystems have benefited from it and more than 150 companies have been linked to it. This meeting took place within the framework of the Project for the Consolidation and Scaling up of the Dual Education System in Mexico, promoted by the Undersecretary of Higher Secondary Education and financed by the German Society for International Cooperation "GIZ" in Mexico, with the support of GOPA World Wide. Participants included Sanja Kruse, specialist planner of the Strategic Competence Center for Education, Vocational Training and Labor Market (FMB-GIZ); Wolfgang Schlegel, manager and consultant of INBAS GmbH / director of the INBAS office in Brussels; as well as Eduardo Calderón Cuevas, project manager at GOPA Mexico on behalf of the GIZ. Also present were Adriana Alejandra Ruiz Ramírez, general director of CECyTECH; José Alejandro Ponce Martínez, commissioner responsible for the State Office of the General Directorate of Industrial Technological Education and Services (DGETI) in the State of Chihuahua; Selma Mariana Ortega Mendoza, general director of the Chihuahua Youth Institute; and Cecilia Aguilar Cano, GOPA-GIZ consultant, among other authorities. Source: Chihuahua State Government https://chihuahua.gob.mx/prensa/estrecha-chihuahua-relacion-con-delegacion-alemana-gopa-giz-para-fortalecer-educacion-dual