Explore NORTH RM – ACCDiS Open calls for its 2022 activities

The Explora Northern Metropolitan Region Project opens the calls for its 2022 activities throughout the month of May. Within the calls you can find the Scientific school clubs, initiative that seeks to support teachers and students through training, accompaniment and assignment of scientific advisors that allow them to learn to ask themselves questions, experience, draw conclusions and seek explanations to understand the natural world, social and/or technological based on their experiences and the PIPE First Age Indegation Program, initiative that seeks to contribute to the development of skills necessary for children to know and understand their environment from early childhood. Competences that allow children to be trained as citizens(as) of the XXI century through playful and active activities linked to the curricular bases of preschool education.

In its third year of implementation, Explore RM North of the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge and innovation, executed by the University of Chile through the Advanced Chronic Diseases Center (ACCDiS ) and the Faculty of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences of the same study house, aims to support school research and innovation that allow teachers to develop fundamental scientific competencies for the development of integral individuals, understand and question the world around them.

These initiatives seek to take advantage of the innate curiosity of children to continue promoting the development of a scientific-technological culture in the school community, developing skills necessary to know and understand the world that the(as) Surrounds, enchanting them(as) with the phenomena of the natural environment and awakening in them(as) amazement, emotionality and your ability to ask questions. Stimulating like this, effective communication between the scientific world and society.

Open calls:

Scientific school clubs

Under the "School Research and Innovation" initiative, the scientific clubs are aimed at teachers and students belonging to any of the educational establishments of the 17 communes of the project who want or are carrying out research work or technological scientific innovation in the area of natural sciences, social sciences, technology and innovation, arts and/or humanities. Each Club must have at least two students from 5th to 4th half, whose research questions will arise from their own interests.

All school clubs will have a scientific advisor who will accompany them throughout the activity. For this reason, the call to be part of the "Scientific Advisors 2022"

The scientific advisor must be a professional in the different areas of science, technology, arts and humanities that have the degree of Master or Doctor, who are currently pursuing postgraduate studies or who are specialists in the area of innovation and/or technology.

"From ACCDiS we are convinced that the sciences must come out of the four walls of the laboratory. That's why it's our responsibility as researchers, contribute to the development of integral individuals, understand and question the world around them," dr.. Sergio Lavandero, director of ACCDiS and academic at the University of Chile.

PIPE First Age Research Program - Social Sciences Module

PIPE is a science and technology teaching initiative, aimed at the mid-levels, heterogeneous and transitional parvular education, that delivers tools to educational and technical teams, as well as children in Early Childhood Education, to stimulate and support the development of scientific thinking in the classroom, along with transversal skills that allow them to function as active and responsible citizens.

Selected people will receive a comprehensive online program and advice on science pedagogical tools and a materials kit to work with, explore and stimulate the curiosity of the little ones.

All Explora RM North initiatives, are free and only participants are required to. Such calls, are aimed at the 17 communes of the Project: Lo Barnechea, Ñuñoa, Providence, Pudahuel, Quilicura, Recoleta, Renca, Santiago, Tiltil, Vitacura, Hill, Conchalí, Huechuraba, Independencia, The Queen, Lampa and Las Condes.

For more information go to https://www.explora.cl/rmnorte/