The initiative tries to generate a collaborative work space between students and academics from different higher education institutions, and mainly considers the creation of a digital magazine that will be published through a web platform on the Internet.

With a meeting for the coordination of activities, one more step is taken in REDEES (Network for Digital Magazines of Higher Education Students), an initiative that seeks to contribute to student research in higher education contexts at the national level, becoming an instance of dissemination, through semiannual publications on research and work, which will be available to all who require it.

Yanett Leiva, academic at the Department of Education at the University of La Serena, pointed out that REDEES is “a project that was born as a proposal within the work plan for 2018 in the Department of Education, and its objective is to create a network of collaborative work that is aimed at students and academics from different higher education institutions, with which, through a web platform, information or products derived from the students themselves can be hosted, systematized, for example, in a digital magazine. She added that “the development of all these support tools for the project has been possible thanks to a team of professionals from Campus Digital ULS, and this has allowed us to extend the invitation to colleagues from other institutions with something more concrete.”

REDEES will connect students and academics from different higher education institutions throughout the country. Andrea Vega, academic at ULS, commented that “because REDEES has a collaborative nature, academics and students from different higher education institutions can participate.” Regarding the institutions participating in the Network, Adriana Herrera, an academic at the University, pointed out that “the coordination team of this project has already contacted some colleagues from institutions, such as the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, the University of Playa Ancha, Alberto Hurtado University, INACAP Technological University, DUOC, Federico Santa María Technical University and the Ovalle State Technical Training Center, among others, who have shown great enthusiasm to participate and present this proposal to their respective institutional authorities.

The project is already taking a clear direction and more and more people are joining REDEES. “An initiative that is closer to materializing and providing a contribution to training, through new technologies and connectivity between higher education institutions,” said Rodrigo Vega, academic at the Department of Education at the University of La Serena, who He also added that “we will try to establish collaborative criteria between the universities, the idea is that the networks are strengthened, there are many more options so that students can build based on commitment and union”, expressing in his words the seal of REDEES .