Since the triumph of the Revolution in 1959, fighting to eradicate illiteracy in Cuba and increasing people’s literacy were the first milestones intended to deliver culture to the Cuban population, pursuant to the legacy of our National Hero Jose Marti, “Be cultivated to be free”. Later on, more concrete efforts were made for certain media, due to their reach, to become direct ways to teach certain subjects and even to make up for lack of teachers for some subjects. This experience therefore summarizes two important revolutionary criteria: opening the gates to wisdom for all society and putting the most modern communication and information technology at the service of such a noble purpose.

The project UNIVERSITY FOR THE PEOPLE is one of the programs that, resulting from the Battle of Ideas our people is currently waging, is being carried out in order to contribute to socializing access to knowledge. Our best professionals, college professors, scientists and technicians in a wide range of specialties have been involved in developing the courses of University for the People. Millions of tabloids with the basic contents of the subjects taught have been printed, which has been welcomed very well by our people, who are increasingly learning and increasing their cultural level.

All given as well as forthcoming courses have environmental dimension added to their contents. Also, specific courses on environmental issues have been prepared due to the importance and attention the State attaches to environmental protection, which definitely has repercussions on the people’s life quality.

The course “Introduction to Environmental Knowledge”. It was developed by a group of authors working directly in scientific research and environment management in our country. The course encompasses the basic contents on environment constituents, global environmental problems and their causes, and the environmental situation in Cuba as well as actions taken in our country to enforce the Cuban environmental policy, which is focused on enabling sustainable economic and social development.
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It provides the basics on this topic, characterizing the Cuban Biological Diversity and its relation to socioeconomic development in our country out of its conservation, sustainable use and management. Together with other topics, It also addresses: The concept of Biological Diversity – the genetic, the specific, and the ecological or ecosystem-based concepts –; the ways to preserve Biological Diversity in situ or ex situ; integrated conservation systems; and aspects related to Biological Diversity management, conservation and sustainable use.
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Its goal is to increase knowledge on the marine and coastal environment, on fundamental elements characterizing oceans, seas and coastal areas, on the main phenomena and processes developing there. This course will also be about the latest breakthroughs, knowledge and discoveries of marine sciences and technology at both global and national scales. The Sea and Its Resources  addresses topics like the origin of the Earth, the seas and life; Sediments in the world ocean; Oceanic fumaroles; Hydrography and nautical cartography; Sea chemistry and physics; The ocean, climate and climate change; Life in the sea; Fishing resources; Marine pollution; Marine sciences and technologies and their relation to marine and coastal resources; among other things.    
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So as to achieve efficient protection and conservation of nature and its associated historical and cultural values and resources, it is necessary to encourage special protection of ecosystems and natural habitats being home to high or fragile genetic diversity, of species, of evolutionary processes and genetic resources.

This is mainly why protected areas are set up; interrelated protected areas constitute a system making it possible to fulfill certain conservation goals at the national level, thus contributing to national sustainable development in the environmental, economic and social areas.
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A fascinating world stretches below our feet. Thousands of kilometers of underground galleries built by the slow action of surface water hold a universe of unbelievable beauty and unsurpassable natural and social richness that is still far from being known and explored. The last frontier of discovery.

It conveys, to all citizens, basic knowledge to protect the impressive speleological heritage of our country and the natural resources of the Cuban karst. It offers the tools to adequately preserve thousands of caves, the aboriginal, untamed, and rebel legacy of our history, the heritage of the Cuban fossil flora and fauna and virtually all groundwater resources, distributed within a unique, exclusive and splendid landscape encompassing almost 70% of the country.
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Organized by Cubaenergía, with the participation of other institutions from CITMA, MINBAS, MES and MINED, this course is intended to contribute to improving the population’s comprehensive overall culture by providing basic knowledge of energy and energy efficiency, with 42 TV hours.
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Improving knowledge of Meteorology and Climatology means being more prepared to face those atmosphere generated events, it means using climate better as a natural resource, it means having the capacity of looking after the atmosphere, which is an important constituent of the environment where we live.
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The discovery of the DNA structure (1953) and genetic code deciphering gave rise to a series of applied research in the 1960s. Molecular Biology became important and those technologies applied to the study of the different life dimensions came to be at the topmost level. Since the 1970s, the most important field of biotechnology came to be the so-called Genetic Engineering  
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