The Program is designed to provide a solution to an education-related problem through the development of an innovative education solution carried out by an interdisciplinary team of researchers includes undergraduate and/or graduate students.
What is a challenge?
A challenge is a need and/or problem posed by an outside partner, whose solution involves innovation in education. Teams will have eight months to solve the challenge during the course of the program.
Challenge
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Aptus Challenge
Description of Partner Institution: Aptus is an organization specializing in educational empowerment.
We work on improving the quality of education in Chile’s schools, focusing our actions on the schools as agents of systemic change.
To achieve our goal, we work to share best practices in school education with teams of school administrators while also offering training and tools to boost the quality of school education.
Challenge: Today, the amount of information available is practically limitless and sometimes it is difficult to find what we need and what is most important. That is why Aptus’ Studies Department has taken on the task of systematizing and disseminating evidence in simple and easy-to-read formats to make it easier for school administrators and teachers, members of school boards and faculties (target audience) to access to relevant information that will help them do a better job.
The challenge consists of increasing the consumption of information among teachers working with Aptus.
This calls for developing an information delivery model that is efficient in achieving a high rate of reading and consumption of the information delivered.
Expected deliverables: The expected outcome is a manual explaining the model, along with a prototype for teachers and administrators that incorporates the model, including examples, sample formats and demos for newsletters, infographics, videos, etc.
Premio: $1,000,000 per project to develop a prototype solution.
Benefits
- 1,000,000 per project to develop the prototype solution. No more than $200,000 of this amount may be used for paying team member fees, which will be paid once the final report is approved. The remainder of the funding is earmarked for operational and mobilization expenses.
- The workspace at EduLab has an observation room for testing prototypes and a co-work area. The availability of this space will depend on the health situation in the country.
- Access will be granted to pilot the solution at the facilities defined by Aptus.
Requirements
- There must be at least two members on each team.
- Teams must be interdisciplinary and demonstrate that they have the necessary skills to develop the solution.
- At least one team member must be a UC researcher with a contract of 22 hours per week or more.
- At least one team member must be a student enrolled in the UC School of Design, or who has completed his or her studies at least one year before the application deadline. Therefore, every team must have at least one researcher-student combination. At the time of evaluation, preference will be given to teams that also have researchers belonging to other academic schools or careers.
- The project submitted must have an original approach and be the creation and property of at least one of the student applicants.
- The project must have the corresponding ethics or safety approvals, according to the procedure stipulated at http://eticayseguridad.uc.cl/proceso-de-evaluacion.html. Ethics approval, if required, is granted when the project is awarded. An ethics ID must be submitted as requested on the application form attached.
- The final result of the project should be a manual/user guide or a tutorial explaining how to use the technological product, in addition to the final version of the product they present.
- Funds allocated for operating expenses will be granted by Diseño UC and will be managed by the applicants through a fund that will be set up.
- The application must be supported by the respective academic units, which entails submitting a mandatory internal declaration signed by the dean of the faculty of each participating researcher.
- By applying, all contestants authorize the use of their personal image by contest organizers in photographs and videos in any format to promote the contest and accept that all photographs and videos taken during the contest are property of the UC, and therefore may be used in different formats and dates for broadcasting purposes.
- By applying, team members agree that they are aware of and accept these rules and regulations.
- Applicants will accept and abide by all decisions made by contest organizers and evaluators. There will be no right to appeal any decision issued.
Application
The application will be available online via the following form until April 30, 2021, at 23:59.
Each application must be attached:
The following documents must also be attached to the application:
Contest Discussion
To participate in the contest discussion, register at this link.
Information and Inquiries
Contact edulab@uc.cl
Inquires will be accepted April 23, 2021.
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