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The Catholic University, as a university, is an academic community that, rigorously and critically, assists in the protection and development of human dignity and cultural heritage through research, teaching, and various services offered to local, national, and international communities. She possesses that institutional autonomy necessary to perform its functions effectively and guarantees its members academic freedom, safeguarding the rights of the individual and the community within the confines of the truth and the common good. By its very nature, it is a community. It proposes to work in harmony, united in diversity, to which it opens respectfully and spontaneously from its members, genuine in that all must act following the principles that govern and Christian in the spirit it encourages. The UCA community seeks to grow in sincere dialogue, reflection upon itself to deepen its achievements, correct courses whenever necessary, and help each member reach its fullness. Ultimately, it leads to a vibrant and creative university, committed to society and culture in which it is inserted. In an active synergy with private companies, NGOs, government agencies and other entities, UCA offers its students through agreements with more than 940 institutions, and the possibility to complete the academic training doing internships to strengthen and develop the knowledge acquired and develop the skills they need for an adequate job insertion. The purpose of the Internship System of UCA is to provide a service to other companies and integrating them into our educational community entities to associate training and professional practice. Moreover, the system satisfies the needs of different types of organizations, covering new ways to optimize resources, increase their employability, and build a better society for all. This is done with the cooperation and work of the administrative staff of each academic unit. We form a group in constant interaction, collaboration, and mutual support that aims to provide practical solutions to provide more opportunities for our students and with them. The productive forces and services cooperate in building our nation. Our system has as one of its primary goals to offer personalized contact, both students and companies, and agencies, to achieve high standards in the quality of our human monitoring and treatment provided to our users. These approaches closely follow the guidelines of the Institutional Project 2011-2016 UCA on students' teaching and training. We also collaborate with the Project from the notions of Public Presence and Social Responsibility. The University organizes education and comprehensive training to prepare youth and all those with a college vocation in the specific work of culture, scientific research, the ministry of higher teaching and in the exercise of liberal professions, caring to promote its scientific specialization, professional, artistic or, its university culture or higher, making it able to exercise its vocation with competence and a straight Catholic sense of one's duties and thus to play a leadership role in society. By its own identity, the Catholic University must respond appropriately to the severe contemporary problems, particularly in Argentina and the regional situation, in the complex field of modern intellectual culture, discovering in the revealed word of God an interpellation, a mandate, and a livelihood. The University seeks to achieve "a presence, so to speak, public, continuous and universal of Christian thought to promote higher learning and be men distinguished for learning, ready to play responsible roles in society and witness to their faith in the world. As an institution under the Argentine Episcopal Conference, the Catholic University of Argentina, as it may be eventually requested by the diocesan bishops, as far as possible and complying with the canon and civil law, may create faculties throughout the country, when reasonable academic and economic feasibility of each project is met. For this, it has to be an authentic community, a human space vitalized by faith that provides a balanced and comprehensive development of the individual. In its mission, the University is animated by an evangelical missionary spirit of openness and pluralism. Therefore, it has to provide an environment where dialogue between believers and nonbelievers is promoted, without sacrificing the truth, in the highest charity. The National Assessment and Accreditation Commission (COMEAU, by its Spanish acronym) states that "the institutional project includes underlying proposals which have been present since the institution's origin, the practices that define it and rebuild it daily as well as its future projection." However, its realization may require further determinations and a variety of operational channels. This Project has sought to further attention to the underlying proposals and future projection of the Institution, which make its identity a specific one. This Project only indicates some practical lines of action based on the institutional Self-evaluation, representing the interests of many members of the University Community. These are lines of different levels, which will require the Superior Council to devise other tools for their development, application, and evaluation. This Project was reached after a process of continued and broad participation, the first phase of which took place between 2008 and 2009. Subsequently, as a decision taken by the new authorities, a second stage was developed which lasted for the whole of 2010 and which consisted of further consultations with the community through various workshops organized by the Vice-Rectorate for Academic Affairs, and a lengthy debate within the Superior Council about the identity of this University. This debate was open to the entire community through a call from the Institute for the Integration of Knowledge (IPIS, by its Spanish acronym). The recommendations of the last CONEAU External Evaluation (June 2003) were also carefully considered. View full university