Binational education leaders say they’re ready to train 10,000 for Port of Brownsville companies
Guillermo Rico-Leal, director of business development and marketing at the Port of Brownsville, speaks to South Texas and Tamaulipas education and economic development leaders during a COSTEP meeting. Photo Credit | Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza

Now that South Texas economic development leaders have helped secure several major companies to invest in the region, the details about how the local educational leaders can help train a workforce to ensure companies meet their hiring goals of more than 14,000 employees are starting to solidify. 

The Council for South Texas Economic Progress, or COSTEP, held a binational meeting on Thursday with executives representing higher education in both Texas and Mexico about what types of skills companies will need. 

To help showcase the workforce training landscape, COSTEP is refining a public online dashboard highlighting all the universities in both the Mexican State of Tamaulipas and South Texas. 

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Rio Grande Valley Business Journal news reporter Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza interviewed Nester Leao Contreras, CEO of the Universidad del Atlántico in Tamaulipas, Mexico, who attended a summit hosted by COSTEP the Council for South Texas Economic Progress of Rio South Texas in Brownsville, Texas, to reconnect South Texas educational leaders with universities in Mexico and collaborate to train workers for the next 10,000 jobs.

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