"Lavras will go wherever it wants," says Slovak consul during visit to the city
Renato Werner, who heads the honorary consulate in Belo Horizonte, cited GPS to talk about Lavras' potential
Automatically translated from Portuguese. Read the original in Portuguese
"Lavras' vocation is whatever Lavras wants to be and do, and it will go wherever it wants." The quote is from Consul of Slovakia Renato Werner, in an interview with Revista da Cidade on Monday (9), on Rádio Cultura.
Werner, who has headed the country's honorary consulate in Belo Horizonte for 11 years, came to Lavras at the invitation of councilman João Paulo Felizardo, president of the Union of Councilmen of the State of Minas Gerais.
To justify the quote, the consul cited Slovakia, which, in his words, few people know, but which was the birthplace of one of those responsible for inventing GPS, used today in cell phones, drones, and military and civilian applications.
Editorial note: GPS was developed by a team at the U.S. Department of Defense. Among the system's fathers is physicist Ivan Getting, son of Slovak immigrants, whom the consul referred to. Another decisive contribution came from American mathematician Gladys West, whose model of the Earth's shape gave GPS the precision it has today. We thank listener Odair for the reminder.
Werner also said he has visited more than 60 countries and that Lavras already has a productive arrangement that brings the university closer to companies, with potential to go further.
Watch the Revista da Cidade excerpt in this article's video.
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