The career seeks that its students participate in instances where they apply the knowledge acquired, along with offering courses to complement the training of students and graduates.

The Kinesiology career at the University of La Serena actively participates in different instances with the community, where students have the opportunity to put into practice the different knowledge provided by the house of studies.

One of these instances was the "Master of Athletics", an activity held at the La Portada stadium in La Serena and in which students of the career and the Student Center participated, through a kinesic care stand for the contestants this competence.

Another of the activities in which they have worked for the 3rd time is the basic practice of pediatric kinesiology, where the students of the career carried out evaluations and kinesic attention to boys and girls from the Papayitos Garden of the University of La Serena.

These instances seek to generate spaces where students can learn in a practical way the professional work of the kinesiologist, in addition to generating instances of connection with the community, demonstrating the work carried out by the career and the University.

Training for students and professionals

Together with the work with the community, the Kinesiology career seeks to complement and specialize the training of its students, graduates and professionals, implementing various professional training courses.

One of these courses was Musculoskeletal Ultrasound for kinesiologists, taught at the Central Anatomy Laboratory of the University of La Serena, an activity organized by the house of studies and the Kinnet Kinésico Center, within the framework of collaboration between both entities. This is an area of ​​kinesic specialization at an international level that has become a fundamental tool for kinesic evaluation and rehabilitation.

In this way, the University works to provide spaces for practical and theoretical training, generating contact with the regional community.

Written by Tomás Rodríguez, DirCom

Like every Thursday, in the premises of the Ignacio Domeyko Campus, the Linkage with the Environment subcommittee worked on the details to present the first task of the self-evaluation process in plenary session on June 19.

With an average attendance of 26 people, the subcommittee has worked on the analysis of key informants relevant to this matter. Focused on a participatory, objective and realistic process, the dialogue between attendees made it possible to contribute to the identification of the main informants and the opportunities that can be opened thanks to this instance.

“I find it important, relevant and very hopeful, because it has allowed us to get to know each other and recognize ourselves in the task that the University is doing, as relevant actors in this process, since as members of the institution, because we are the ones who make it up and do it.” "We have the purpose of looking at how the University is linked to citizens," said Desiree López de Maturana, professor at the Faculty of Humanities.

Likewise, Francisco López, Coordinator of the Pedagogy degree in Biology and Natural Sciences, emphasized that “it is tremendously important to meet in a systematic and organized manner as a long-term work plan since we have established a way of doing things that will "contribute to this accreditation process, which has also allowed us to learn in greater detail about the initiatives we carry out, which are many and quite well aligned, which will serve to establish interactions between the different instances of links with the environment."

The plenary session set for this Wednesday, June 19, will allow us to know the progress of each of the subcommittees regarding this process, which will allow us to carry out a work plan, promoting interaction and dialogue between attendees.

Each of these sessions has meant a commitment on the part of the attendees, which encourages raising the opinion of the university community based on objective and verifiable elements, which lead to collaborative work and which represent all institutional levels. This is how María Elena Munizaga, Academic Secretary of the Faculty of Sciences, expressed it: “it is relevant because we also know everything that the University itself does, since not all of us know what each of the units of the University does. Thanks to this process I feel inserted in this group and in the institution, with a great sense of belonging because I also like the subject and because I have always worked on it."

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The seminar sought to explain what the fundamental rights of water are and allowed a direct dialogue with key actors in the rural sector of the Coquimbo Region.

With the presence of Senator Adriana Muñoz, the Rector of the University of La Serena, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, the former Director General of Water, Carlos Estévez, the Executive Director of the Sustainable Chile Program, Sara Larraín Ruiz-Tagle, the leader of the National Federation of Rural Drinking Water, Marcos Landeros, university authorities, neighborhood leaders and water associations of the Coquimbo Region, students and guests, the Seminar “Human Right to Water:” was held at the University of La Serena. A democratic demand for Chile.”

To meet convened by the Rectory and Senator Muñoz, Leaders from different APRs in the region attended and the purpose was to activate dialogue regarding the rights that residents have to the use of rural drinking water, as well as the mechanisms with which they can confront in order to protect this natural resource, which due to Due to different factors, it has been decreasing and detrimental to the population in general.

Throughout the country there are more than 1.500 services administered under the figure of committees and cooperatives, which have the task of safeguarding this natural resource so that it reaches the affiliated families, and there are more than 7 thousand neighborhood leaders who help in this process. .

For the Senator and member of the Special Commission on Water Resources, Desertification and Drought of the Senate, Adriana Muñoz, this type of seminars and spaces to be with those who know the subject in situ from their territories, is of vital importance so that decision makers decisions can do their job.

The authority thanked the ULS for providing a space for conversation and discussion about water, “having the willingness to make this link between citizens, rural drinking water organizations of all the communes of Elqui, including Combarbalá, Ovalle and people who have been linked to the water problem in their territories for some time, and also with government, university and academic authorities. For us, as decision makers, it is very important to bring them all together, because this is how we understand and reach a common diagnosis, and take charge of the crisis that the scarcity of water for human consumption is causing in the territories."

The Rector of the University of La Serena, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, valued the call and highlighted that “in particular, our Coquimbo Region has suffered in recent years great impacts due to drought in the agricultural field and social impact on the drinkability of this. It is our mission to anticipate greater difficulties and we must combine scientific knowledge with public policies for a common benefit, being emphatic that we must do something now and do it well, because if it is not done, our next generations will be the ones who will suffer.”

The university authority concluded with the premise that the University, being the only state one in the Coquimbo Region, has a commitment to the territory, from the academic and training role, strengthening and promoting research, thus becoming an educational agent in the society. “Our institution is characterized by being a Complex University, and in it different curricular programs for undergraduate, diploma and doctoral programs have been developed, elementary guidelines that allow us to train socially and environmentally responsible professionals with the ideal knowledge to face the challenges that we face. The demands for transverse water purification define us today,” he expressed.

During the meeting, the former Director General of Water, Carlos Estévez, presented: “Human Right to Water in the Water Code Reform Bill”, and the Executive Director of the Sustainable Chile Program, Sara Larraín Ruiz-Tagle, who referred to “Water in Chile: Between Human Rights and Market Rules.” The latter, the main promoter of the defense of the environment and sustainability in Chile, belongs to and director of the Sustainable Chile Program, an initiative of environmental organizations, activists committed to changing certain paradigms in relation to the environment.

“It is important that this type of meeting be more frequent and that representatives from all areas can be present, know the challenges of public policies, achieving a balance to be able to reach agreements. The University should take an active role in opening spaces, delivering experiences and knowledge to the population and at the same time they should open the rooms so that the communities can enter to show their experiences and their territorial challenges,” said Larraín regarding the role of the universities. public regarding the issue of sustainability and water.

Written by Patricia Castro, DirCom

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This initiative sought to generate a contribution to the social inclusion of people with disabilities.

Equality in the right to fully live sexuality and reproductive life for people with or without disabilities was the central axis of the discussion “Talking about Sexual and Reproductive Health of People with Disabilities in the View of Human Rights”, a meeting organized by the University of La Serena, with support from the National Disability Service.

The activity included the participation of the Regional Director of SENADIS, Jorge Juárez, the Integrated Sexual Education team of the Universidad Católica del Norte and the academic from the University of Chile, Carolina Pérez, who spoke about the reality of the rights of life sexuality of people with disabilities, seeking to break existing myths on this topic.

The academic of the Department of Education and coordinator of the 1799 project, Dr. Georgina García, referred to the commitment that the University has to integration. “Working for the right of people with disabilities is not only theirs, but also a civil society that is empowered and believes that all people have the right to comprehensive development, in education, at work, in sexuality and emotions, and being able to have spaces where these discussions take place is important for the ULS,” he said.

The activity took place in the Auditorium Room of the “Gabriela Mistral” Regional Library and included the participation of members of different organizations focused on integration, as well as students from the university.

Written by Tomás Rodríguez, DirCom

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