The meeting took place in the city of Temuco and brought together researchers from several Chilean universities.
In order to establish collaborative work between institutions, around research into healthy aging, academics from different state universities met at the University of La Frontera to show the progress made in this area and propose strategies. to increase scientific productivity.
The University of La Serena was present at the meeting, represented by the Director of the Kinesiology program, Dr. Alfredo Gary, who, together with representatives of 16 universities from different areas of the country, made projections regarding this year's work, highlighting who already have publications in the field of aging biology.
The Research Network has 835 researchers nationwide and the Healthy Aging Roundtable tries to convert applied research into background information that contributes to decision-making at the country level, in order to improve the quality of life in old age of citizens. .
The University of La Serena has actively participated in the Researchers Network since 2017 and since that date four days of coordination and promotion have been held with researchers and coordinators from all state higher education institutions in Chile.
Written by Patricia Castro, DirCom
"The initiative seeks to recover the meaning of education, but in a different way, which is not about breaking with tradition, but rather giving it a new reorientation, where our education and schools begin to think more about the family, the environment , in the boy and girl, in what it means to be educated in a community and not only through content in a classroom. That is why this meeting also opens the doors to ethnicities, to sounds, to art, to expression, to emotions, to thought, and to everything that is part of the human being, but that is generally not considered in schools." , highlighted the academic of the Department. From Education, Silvia López de Maturana, who together with the Director of Teaching, Yanola González and Professor Carlos Calvo (former ULS academic), were the promoters of bringing this experience to the facilities of the University of La Serena.
For the rest, the meeting considered various spaces for political, academic, social and cultural reflection, called tribes, in which the participants worked on various educational proposals around the three axes of the meeting, which were finally shared in plenary sessions. Recreational activities were also carried out, which were soaked in music and biodance.
Mariano Rodríguez, co-creator of the adapter, stated that the important thing about this project is to be able to contribute to the teaching of science at all educational levels. “The initial idea is that the student makes his own sample and can photograph microscopic images, because being able to do your own preparation in situ is very beneficial for learning science,” he said.
The Rector of the ULS indicated that this is a very important project that will bring the study of science closer to children and young people in a didactic way. "Our task as a state university in the region is to help convey the image that science can be taught in a didactic way through the significant learning that is obtained from experimentation and real contact with the object to be studied," stated the highest university authority, who valued the work carried out by the Micro-Hoek team.
