Monthly Archives: October 2016

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  • InteRDom Participates for the Fifth Year in a Row in the Annual Baruch College Work Abroad Fair

    InteRDom attended the ninth annual Baruch College Work Abroad Fair on October 20th, 2016, where different institutions met with students to showcase their study, intern and volunteer abroad programs available for 2017. The fair was hosted by the Baruch College Weissman Center for International Business,  at the Information and Technology Building in New York City. The event attracted the participation of more than 40 students mostly from the Business Academic
    Department of Baruch College, which included Marketing, Finance and Accounting majors.

  • Newest GFDD Fellow Sergio Morales Will Research Environmental Impact Assessment Tools in the Dominican Republic

    The Fellows Program, an initiative of GFDD and FUNGLODE, in collaboration with the Instituto Global de Altos Estudios en Ciencias Sociales (IGLOBAL), is glad to introduce its latest scholar Sergio Morales, PhD candidate in Law and Political Science from the University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Sergio’s research will focus on the environmental impact assessment as a tool for environmental risk management situations of uncertainty in scientific and in the fight against
    climate change around the in the legislative reality of Spain and the Dominican Republic.

  • Dr. Leonel Fernández Suggests Strengthening Strategic Alliance between Dominican Republic and Florida

    The President of Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) and Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode), and former Dominican president, Dr. Leonel Fernández, met in Tampa Bay with members of the business, academic, and political communities as well as Florida government representatives and Dominican cultural leaders, to whom he suggested strengthening the strategic alliance between his country and this southernmost American state.

  • More than 1000 Students Get Ready to Discuss Sustainable Development at CILA 2016

    The United Nations Association of the Dominican Republic (UNA-DR) together with Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo (Funglode) and its sister institution in the United States, the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD) will hold the twelfth annual edition of its recognized International Conference of the Americas (CILA) 2016. CILA is the student event on global issues of greatest importance in Latin America and the Caribbean.

  • Dominican Student Participates in One of the Most Prestigious Transnational Law Programs in the US through the GDAE Program

    Kelmer Messina, a Dominican law student, participated from September 2-16 in Seattle, Washington, in the Summer Institute in Transnational Law and Practice developed by the University of Washington (UW) School Law— one of the world’s leading centers for innovative teaching and research on international, comparative, and U.S. law, as stated by the academic institution. The Global Dominican Academic Exchange (GDAE) program provides law students, and legal professionals and researchers
    from all over the world a strong foundation in the structure, culture and thinking of the U.S. legal system and practice.

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