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Yunus Centre Press Release (14 July, 2019)
Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus was in Spain during the first week of July 2019. He was given an honorary doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) at the University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain in an elaborate special convocation ceremony on Saturday, 6th July 2019, held at the beautiful Summer Palace of the King of Spain which was converted into Cantabria University in 1936.
In his acceptance speech Yunus drew the attention of the audience made of leading citizens of the city, Professors and students of the university, that university is the contact point between the young generation and all the accumulated knowledge of the previous generations. He said, we must not forget that university is the place where wrong theories and ideas are shattered into pieces to redesign new theories and new ideas. He said flaws in economic theory has created problems of poverty, wealth concentration, and the crisis of global warming. It is the job of universities to redesign economic theory to overcome those problems.
University authority gave copies of Spanish edition of Prof. Yunus’ book “ A World of Three Zeros” to the participants to have a better understanding of Professor Yunus’ philosophy and actions.
During his visit to the beautiful city of Santander on the coast of Atlantic Ocean, two Universities made formal announcement of creating Yunus Social Business Centres (YSBC) and signed Agreement with Yunus Centre in Dhaka. These universities are Cantabria University and Murcia University, both in Santander. They joined the network of already existing 76 Yunus Social Business Centres (YSBC) in 31 countries.
From Santander Prof. Yunus proceeded to Madrid, where he was given a high level reception with the Mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez Almeida along with a group of leading professionals, industrialists and social activists. Representatives from public and private sectors were present at the reception. Among the notable guests were Pablo Alonso, Founder and President, Eurocapital Advisors; Armando Fandos Suárez, Head of Philanthropy at CaixaBank; Felicidad Cristobal, CEO and Founder of Consciousness for Happiness; Francisco García Paramés, President and CEO of Cobas Asset Management; Manuel Márquez, Founder of V3Leaders; María Ángeles León, Co Founder, Open Value Foundation; José María Márquez, Founder, Africa Direct; Antonio Garrigues, President of honor of UNHCR and Brígida Moreta, Volunteer in Peoples United.
During the reception participants exchanged views on impending danger of global warming, youth unemployment, rise of popularism, future of social business, future of present version of capitalism, role of businesses in the society.
Caption for Photo : The Menéndez Pelayo International University (UIMP) of Santander, Spain awarded honorary Doctorate “Doctor Honoris Causa “ to Nobel Laureate Porofessor Muhammad Yunus for his extraordinary contribution in the field of economics, for being the driving force of microcredit, microfinance; and for their efforts to encourage social and economic development on 06 July, 2019. He was given an honorary doctorate (Doctor Honoris Causa) at the University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain in an elaborate special convocation ceremony held at the beautiful Summer Palace of the King of Spain which was converted into Cantabria University in 1936.
Caption for Photo : Professor Muhammad Yunus holding the signed MoU of new YSBC (Yunus Social Business Centre) at Cantabria University, Santander, Spain. They joined the network of already existing 76 Yunus Social Business Centres (YSBC) in 31 countries.
Caption for Photo 3: Professor Muhammad Yunus holding the signed MoU of new YSBC (Yunus Social Business Centre) at Murcia University, Santander, Spain. They joined the network of already existing 76 Yunus Social Business Centres (YSBC) in 31 countries.
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