Matias Petersen, María Consuelo San Martín, María Francisca Valenzuela, Verónica Vidal and Ximena Farfán were the ones called up
The Directorate of Innovation awarded the second call for BiCI Funds -Bidirectional Commitment in Innovation- in its modality oriented to researchers.
In this new call, the researchers Matías Petersen, María Consuelo San Martín, María Francisca Valenzuela from the School of Social Sciences, Verónica Vidal from the School of Medicine and Ximena Farfán from the School of Nursing and Obstetrics were awarded the funds.
Projects
The Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Matías Petersen, presented the project ".Shared Voices: Weaving the Past and Future of Mutual Societies in Chile". The novelty of this project lies in the development of a platform that allows the participatory rescue and preservation of the oral and documentary heritage of these organizations, facilitating the contribution of users through the uploading of documents, oral testimonies and digital memories. This type of experience is new in Chile, but is inspired by a similar experience being developed by the British Library.
María Consuelo San Martín, a researcher at the School of Social Sciences, was awarded the funds for her proposal "The Social Sciences of the Americas".A Pathway to Inclusion: Addressing the mental health needs of people with intellectual disabilities."This project seeks to highlight the difficulties faced by this community in accessing mental health care, as well as the knowledge and practices of mental health professionals with this community. The results of this project will contribute to the future training of mental health professionals and the development of accessible and adapted services for people with intellectual disabilities.
The director of the Center for Research and Innovation in Reading, CIIL, M. Francisca Valenzuela, presented the project ".Solidarity Reading Clinic"This project is inspired by international initiatives of "reading clinics" in which teachers and students of education carry out practical experiences by diagnosing, planning and tutoring real students within university campuses. This project will pilot a reading clinic in the districts of Las Condes and San Bernardo, with the participation of students of the Master's Degree in Psychopedagogy in order to evaluate the technical and financial feasibility of its installation.
Meanwhile, Verónica Vidal, a researcher at the School of Social Sciences, was awarded the funds with the project ".Neurodiversity awareness program for school communities"This proposal seeks to develop and pilot in an educational establishment, a program of sensitization and adaptation of educational environments for neurodiversity, in order to feed it back, package it and scale it to new educational establishments.
Ximena Farfán, a researcher at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, presented the proposal ".Care Manual: Guidance and support for family members or volunteer caregivers of people at the end of life."The project seeks to develop a manual and a formal training program for volunteer caregivers of dependent persons, in collaboration with caregivers and palliative care professionals.
The objective of this competition is to support applied research projects committed to society (R&Dc), i.e., that address problems or opportunities close to society and that are developed with the participation of the groups or territories involved, seeking to increase the possibilities of effectively impacting end users with the results obtained.