The initiative is aimed at young undergraduate students who are in the last two years of their degree and who wish to carry out their paid professional practice in companies in the country.

Banco Santander invites you to participate in the call for the Santander 2018 Practice Scholarships, an initiative that seeks to collaborate with the insertion of students into the world of work.

The initiative, which is part of the Higher Education Support Program, offers scholarships for each university invited. It is aimed at young undergraduate students who are in the last two years of their degree and who wish to carry out their paid professional internship in companies in the country, for a period of three months.

For this, the student must be in charge of managing, according to the requirements of the institution to which they belong, their professional practice with companies. The amount of the scholarship amounts to USD $1.000 for the beneficiary students.

The process of application, selection and registration of the scholarship holders must be carried out through the website www.becas-santander.com. It is a requirement for applicants to complete the form on the website and deliver the documentation to their home of studies.

The application will be extended until November 23, 2018. Universities must award and send their selections to Santander Universities no later than Friday, November 30, 2018.

The call and selection of scholarship recipients will be the exclusive responsibility of the participating institutions. The results will be published in www.santander.cl y scholarshipssantander.universia.cl and by the universities themselves.

The bases are available here.

Higher Education Support Program (PAES)

Banco Santander is the company that invests the most in supporting education in the world (Varkey/UNESCO-Fortune 500 Report). Through Santander Universities it maintains more than 1.200 collaboration agreements with universities and academic institutions around the world and in Chile it collaborates with 53 universities throughout the country.

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The student body was able to appreciate and record the different music, especially rhythms, according to the characteristics of each type of Religious Dance, as well as a diversity of musical instruments and sound objects of artisan manufacture.

Last Sunday, October 7, the traditional Fiesta Chica de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Andacollo was held, an opportunity in which a group of 32 first-year students of the Pedagogy in Music Education career at the U. de La Serena, who are studying the subject Musical Ethnography I, carried out a Musical Ethnographic Fieldwork.

As explained by the academic from the Department of Music of the ULS, Lina Barrientos, the Fiesta Chica de Nuestra Señora del Rosario de Andacollo is “organized by Jaime Guerrero, Cacique General of Religious Dances, where once again, perhaps before 1584, uninterruptedly, devotees will fulfill the promises and/or thanks to the chinita, as the Virgin is affectionately distinguished. Chinita comes from the Chinese Quechua word that connotes server.

Various Religious Dances grouped into Chinese since 1584, Turbans since 1752, Dance since 1798, typical of the Coquimbo Region participate in this Festival; Modern of Thick Instrumental since 1960 with influence of the Dances of Indians, Morenos and Gypsies of La Tirana; and since the year 2000 Dances with Bronze Bands influenced by the Dances of the Ayquina Festival, in the Antofagasta Region, who in turn have taken them from the Religious Dances and Carnival of Oruro-Bolivia, in which it is possible to appreciate the syncretism or hybridization of the Andean-Afro-Catholic.

As in the pedagogical professional training of the Musical Education Pedagogy student body, the sound-musical observation of their own environment is considered in relation to the context in which it is present, the group of first-year students made records of the observations based on a guideline and previous preparation in the classroom.

"In this way, the students were able to appreciate and record the different music, especially rhythms, according to the characteristics of each type of Religious Dance, as well as a diversity of musical instruments and sound objects of artisanal manufacture, in addition to the individual songs of alférez and group greeting and farewell events in a responsorial format,” said academic Lina Barrientos.

In addition to the teaching aspect of this trip to Andacollo, the ethnomusicological aspect was also present, related to the ongoing project: Turbans and Dances of Andacollo in its music. Aesthetics and emotions of a popular faith, by teachers Daniela Banderas and Lina Barrientos, a project financed by the Fund for the Promotion of National Music of the MCAP, sponsored by DIDULS and the Department of Music of the state campus, a study that also includes with the consent of the General Chief and the heads of Dances involved in the study.

The fair is a means for young people to stimulate their own learning capacity and to link the course contents with their field of specialty.

In the vicinity of the tunnel that connects the Isabel Bongard and Ignacio Domeyko campuses, the Materials Innovation Fair was held, organized by the students of the "Material and Structure" course of the Design major and their professor Marco Gutiérrez Cocq.

The academic explained that the fair is an entertaining means for young people to stimulate their own learning capacity and link the contents of the course (properties of materials and operation and analysis of structures) with their field of specialty.

The activity allowed second-year students to exhibit their work and dialogue with the university community.

The activity, which is expected to be attended by a significant number of researchers, aims to foster a space for debate, multidisciplinary updating and encouragement of scientific and technological research.

On November 6, 7, 8 and 9 of this year, within the framework of the Agua Negra Pass Integration Committee - Higher Education Institutions Commission, the II Chile - Argentina Binational Scientific Research Congress will take place.

This congress aims to promote a space for debate, multidisciplinary updating and stimulation of scientific and technological research in a wide spectrum of areas of knowledge, promoting exchange and integration between Argentine and Chilean researchers, thus generating opportunities for academic development. related to regional, national and international interests.

This is how to date almost a hundred investigations have been received to seek to be selected to be presented in the context of this meeting.

“We are working to promote scientific exchange, which enables the enrichment of research experiences generated by young researchers from different scientific-academic institutions in Chile and Argentina, in addition to being an inspiration to increase vocational interest in the study and development of the sciences, as a source of knowledge and development”, explained the president of the Commission for the Integration of Higher Education Institutions, Adriana Ledezma.

Activity Details

The meeting is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students of various university and higher education careers, who are developing or have recently completed research activities in their respective houses of study in both Chile and Argentina; and researchers and research teachers from universities and Higher Education institutions in both countries.

A call for close to 200 attendees is expected, from both countries, who will participate in master classes, presentations and posters, the thematic axes being: Binational Economic Development; Education and culture; Turistic development; Social development; State, Society, Power and Politics; Medicine and health; Present and Future Energy; and Geoscience, Environment and Environmental Sustainability.

In this II Binational Congress of Scientific Research, the regional organization will be in charge of the Higher Education Commission, belonging to the Paso Agua Negra Integration Committee - made up of the University of La Serena, Universidad Católica del Norte, Universidad Central, Universidad Santo Tomás, Technological University of Chile INACAP, Pedro de Valdivia University, Aconcagua University, Bolivarian University, IPChile Professional Institute of Chile, AIEP Professional Institute and Central Valley Professional Institute-, through the Subcommittees: Research and Postgraduate, Links with the Environment, Academic and Communications. In addition, the National University of San Juan and the Catholic University of Cuyo are incorporated into the organization.

The activities of the meeting will take place in the Gabriel González Videla Conference Room of the Regional Administration, in the Gabriela Mistral Regional Library and in the offices of the U. de La Serena, the U. Central, the Santo Tomás University and Inacap.

This plan is an annual program that was prepared based on the survey carried out in January 2018.

In an extraordinary meeting, the Bipartite Training Committee and the Human Resources Department of the University of La Serena decided to reschedule the training scheduled for this last semester of the year, in such a way as to give all officials the opportunity to participate in said courses.

In this regard, Pablo Sánchez, president of the Bipartite Training Committee, highlighted that "the mobilizations generated a significant delay in carrying out the plan; however, the Human Resources area has made a significant effort to maintain all the committed offer, the which will be executed in this last semester.In this sense, as a Committee, we have met to support the diffusion and logistics that allow to facilitate the information for all the officials of our University”.

In addition, the professional took the opportunity to "invite officials to participate in said training, reminding them that they are free opportunities for staff, where our institution gives them the chance to improve their job skills."

People interested in learning about this training program can download the plan here or consult with the person in charge of Internal Training, María Graciela Zúñiga Leblanc, by phone 2 204526 or by email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The Municipality of Canela will provide its infrastructure so that students in the health area can make use of them, learn about primary care and acquire fundamental experiences for their professional training.

The students of the Nursing, Kinesiology, Odontology and Psychology careers of the University of La Serena will be able to carry out their basic practices and professional internships in the Community Health Network of Canela, thanks to a teaching assistance agreement signed by the state university and said municipality.

Thanks to this agreement signed by the Rector of the ULS, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés Pizarro, and the mayor of Canela, Juan Bernardo Leyton Lemus, the municipality, through the Department of Health, will provide its infrastructure (clinical fields) so that students can make use of them, get to know primary care on the spot and acquire fundamental experiences for their professional training. Likewise, municipal officials will be available to contribute to this training, which will be of relevant importance in the development of their future professions.

The university institution, for its part, will develop face-to-face training for municipal officials, according to the Annual Training Program (PAC) prepared by the Department of Health.

The signing of the agreement was valued by the Rector of the U. de La Serena, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, who pointed out that the agreement will strengthen the training of students, "promoting spaces for the development of professional practices in other communes and localities of the Coquimbo Region, where young people can perform differently, knowing the other reality of the Health system”.

The highest university authority also highlighted that the alliance established with the Municipality of Canela is one more example of the strengthening of the Link with the institutional environment, "assuming the social responsibility that falls to us as an educational institution committed to the development of the region and its community.

While the mayor of Canela thanked the will of the University of La Serena to sign this collaboration agreement "in which students, mainly from the health area, will be able to carry out their internships in our family health centers, in the posts of our commune. We all benefit from this: the people who will have more professionals working in our commune, and the students of the university institution”.

For the Dean(s) of the Faculty of Sciences, Dr. Héctor Fabián Reyes, this is a great opportunity that is opening up for macro-unit careers "because it allows participation in the training process of our students." And he added that from this agreement "we seal a working relationship and commitment that we hope to maintain for a long time, and also expand it to other areas that have to do with the development of the commune."

University authorities, directors and academics of the ULS participated in the signing ceremony of the agreement held in the offices of the Central House of the state campus, as well as councilors and officials of the Municipality of Canela.