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For more than a decade, the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) of Argentina has been developing and promoting e-learning and blended-learning actions for students and professionals in Physics and Nuclear Engineering in the country and the Latin American and Caribbean region. In 2008, one of CNEA's academic institutions, the Balseiro Institute, received the Sadosky Prize in Educational Innovation for its online education initiatives. In 2010, CNEA pioneered the creation of the Latin American Network for Education and Training in Nuclear Technology (LANENT), holding its presidency for two consecutive terms and hosting its website and educational portal. While the students at the Academic Institutes of CNEA have direct access to its five nuclear research reactors (NRRs), e-learning and blended-learning initiatives were created with remote operation of two of them for students and professionals from other countries in the region. Distance training initiatives are also carried out for teachers and intermediate level students, through slides, didactic sequences, and other on-line resources. These are just some few examples of remote nuclear education, training, and outreach (NETO) activities provided and supported by CNEA, which have become so necessary in the wake of the COVID pandemic in a region characterized by a common language and similar social and economic circumstances that define and shape all its educational levels.
| Key words | Nuclear, Education, Training, Outreach, Latin-America |
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| Region | Other part of world |
