El nuevo plan de evaluaciones 2016-2020 anunciado por el Ministerio de Educación, que reduce la cantidad de pruebas externas aplicadas a las escuelas, es una buena noticia para un sistema educativo que corría el riesgo de estar al servicio de la evaluación y no al revés, como debería esperarse. Este cambio avanza en la dirección […]
La sequía en el norte de Chile afecta directamente a la agricultura y la economía de la zona. En este escenario, Fundación Chile, con el financiamiento del Fondo de Innovación para la Competitividad (FIC) de la Región de Arica y Parinacota, propone mejorar la calidad del agua del río con la instalación de una planta […]
Accelerate and boost the efficient lighting market is the objective of the international Project Enlighten, that Fundación Chile will implement at national level within three years. The program’s goal is to save 4,8% of the country’s electricity consumption and 34% of lighting, which results in 1,2 million tons of carbon emissions reduction and savings for […]
Creating public emblematic schools is not as hard as it looks. It is enough to select outstanding students, teachers and directors, a reasonable infrastructure and there you go. An economic and social effort way much powerful and complex is needed if the aim is looking for an educational system of excellence for everyone. To achieve […]
There is an old question in Chilean history: ¿ when will Chile become a developed country? Being a developed country is not simple arithmetic for reaching a certain per capita income, say US$ 25.000/inhab, for example. There are three crucial differences between developed and developing countries: (i) Existence of a long term perspective; (ii) innovative […]
Fundación Chile, together with Pro Chile and Achilles Chile, published the first Export Suppliers Report for the Mining Sector 2010-2014, a project developed within the High Grade Mining National Program, the one that is mainly intended to boost the mining exports, pretending to reach sales for US$10,000 million on year 2035. “The High Grade Mining […]
The objective that the students of Estado de Israel School in Valparaíso chose is very specific: they want the elevator of the school to start working properly again, so that Ignacio, a student of seventh grade who is in wheelchair, can move around easily. “What made me and my colleague happier is that the decision […]
The only way to obtain maqui nowadays is through harvesting wild trees, since so far has not been developed a technological package for its commercial production. For this reason, the volume obtained is limited and cost is high. With the presentation of first maqui clones in SAG (Agricultural and Livestock Service, the official Chilean State […]