Apply to UC EduLab’s Impacta la Educación contest to receive funding which will take your educational research to the next level.
What is Impacta Education?
Impacta la Educación is a UC EduLab program that was set up to provide $4,000,000 pesos in post-pandemic funding for innovative solutions in education which are at least in the prototyping phase.
This program was developed in conjunction with Bioquimica.cl, a leading company in Chile in the development and commercialization of solutions for the field of scientific-technological education, from kindergarten to higher education, in order to assist the learning-teaching process in curricular contexts, either remotely or at home.
What was the goal of the 2020 edition?
Impacta la Educación seeks to fund innovative education solutions focused on STEM education to address the rising needs of education in the post-COVID-19 era.
Our goal is to scale up innovative solutions that are marketable and that are science-technology based with a STEM education approach to address the emerging needs of today’s education. We understand the STEM educational approach to be a cross-disciplinary approach where knowledge and skills are transferred within a real, student-centered context.
In addition, all solutions must be aligned with one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals as defined by UNESCO (2015) and must state how the solution impact the goal(s) from the perspective of the learning-teaching process.
The ultimate goal of developing the innovative education solution will be to secure a license for mass commercialization with Bioquímica.cl.
Who can apply?
The program was aimed at research teams with at least one UC researcher with a contract of 22 hours a week or more.
What were the application requirements?
- The team must have an innovative education solution in the prototype stage or beyond.
- The team must present evidence demonstrating how the solution is able to solve the problem.
- The project should not entail any third-party commitments that would prevent the innovative education solution from being commercialized.
- The team should provide explicit evidence as to how the solution contributes to the Sustainable Development Goals.
- The team should be interdisciplinary and demonstrate that they have the necessary skills to complete the challenge.
Benefits
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What is in it for you?
- $4,000,000 in funding for the team to put towards developing changes and/or packaging the innovative education solution.
- Payment of royalties for the commercialization of the innovative education solution in accordance with UC’s royalty distribution regulations.
- Support from the Bioquimica.cl team to achieve the solution packaging goals.
- Workspace at UC EduLab, which has an observation room for prototype testing and a co-work area.
- Proposed by: Bioquímica.cl launch.
Planteado por: Bioquímica.cl launch.
Rules and Application Process Specifics
Each application must include the following documents as attachments:
- Application form (Annex I): See here.
- Mandatory Internal Declarations of the Academic Schools to which UC researchers are bound. (Annex II): See here.
- Winners of the 2020 edition
- The winning team of Impacta la Educación 2020 was responsible for Polimorfes, a board game that is designed to develop research skills among high school and undergraduate students studying different disciplines and consisting of playful activities that stimulate sensory skills and thought processes while allowing them to outline a research project.
This proposal was designed by an interdisciplinary team from a millennial hub for art, performance and activism (Núcleo Milenio Arte, Performatividad y Activismo), led by UC Professor Milena Grass, and funded by Bioquimica.cl in conjunction with UC EduLab for its commercialization.
Learn more about Polimorfes.
