Proceedings of the IV Congress of the University Network for Development Cooperation (CUCS) “Rinforzare il capitale umano nei paesi a risorse limitate: health and wealth for all by the year 2030”

As a university network, we strongly believe that, apart from technology transfer and global economic strategies, women and men, girls and boys living in a given territory are its true treasure and represent the genuine engine for development. Not by chance, the main focus of the Congress in Brescia will be the “strengthening of human resources”, as the true key component of development at any level and in any discipline. Not by chance the introductory keynote speech will be addressed by the Assistant Director General for External Relations and Public Information of UNESCO, the United Nations specialized Agency for Education and Research. This Congress is therefore dedicated to all men and women in the developing world struggling to make the life of their children better through education and research. Long ago, in 1978, the pivotal Conference organized by the United Nations in Alma Ata (former URSS) launched the slogan “Health for All by the Year 2000”, to be achieved using the Primary Health Care Strategy. As we still believe that bottom-driven strategies are still now, after 37 years, the winning strategies of development, we have also given our Congress the slogan “Health and wealth for all by the year 2030”, echoing the thematic mission that the University of Brescia adopted in 2014.