A group of 13 students from the UDP School of Psychology, led by Professor Paz Valenzuela, participated in an international internship at the Universidad de la República (Uruguay) during the last week of August.
The UDP students took part in various activities over five days in the Uruguayan capital. They met with university authorities, including the Director of the Institute of Clinical Psychology, Patricia Domínguez, and the Coordinator of the Psychoanalysis Program, Octavio Carrasco.
The itinerary included visits to key institutional sites, such as the Ateneo de la Clínica Psicoanalítica de La Unión (CPU); the Vilardebó Psychiatric Hospital; and La Nave, the cultural space for the Vilardevoz radio station. Additionally, they participated in a meeting with students from the Vilardevoz clinical practice program.
The group also attended specialized clinical workshops led by professors Amparo Bazterrica and Mariana Zapata from the Preventive and Assistive Psychological Care Service, as well as a workshop with Professor Carrasco from the CPU.
Between September and October, the FAAD UDP International Workshop – Archiving Machines took place, an academic experience that brought together students and professors of Architecture, Art, and Design from Diego Portales University for a journey through Madrid, Berlin/Dessau, and Venice—three emblematic European cities for reflecting on the materialities, institutions, and politics of the contemporary archive.
Coordinated by Alejandra Celedón, dean of the faculty, and with an interdisciplinary teaching team composed of Serena Dambrosio (architecture), Bernardita Croxatto (art), and Pedro Silva (design), the workshop aimed to explore how archival practices shape forms of knowledge, representation, and memory in material culture.
The first stage, in Madrid (September 22–26), focused on the modes of production, conservation, and exhibition of artistic and scientific archives in public and private institutions. The program included meetings at the Complutense University of Madrid with Javier Pérez Iglesias and Selina Blasco, and at the Polytechnic University of Madrid with Almudena Ribot and a group of researchers who presented critical perspectives on archives and cultural-territorial extraction.
Participants visited the Geomineral Museum, Espacio SOLO, the Telefónica Foundation, the ARKHÉ Archive (Queer and Ibero-American Art Archive), and the Reina Sofía National Art Centre Museum, where they held conversations with Lola Hinojosa and Alberto Medina about documentation and conservation policies in contemporary museums.
The itinerary also included a visit to the Spanish Cultural Heritage Institute, a guided tour of the Paseo del Prado, and a closing day at the Prado Museum, where participants accessed the archives of the Casón del Buen Retiro. These activities offered a cross-cutting perspective on the links between art, archives, and tangible heritage in the city.
The second stage of the workshop took place in Dessau and Berlin (September 29–October 3), focusing on the Bauhaus as a paradigmatic institution in the modern history of archives, pedagogy, and design. In Dessau, the group was hosted by Regina Bittner and Philipp Oswalt, and participated in guided tours of the Bauhaus buildings, the Masters’ Houses, and the collections of the Bauhaus Archive.
Workshops and working sessions were held in the museum’s educational space, led by Pedro Silva, which explored the relationships between teaching, archives, and design practice. The stay culminated in a collective reflection and closing exercise, followed by a series of visits to cultural institutions in Berlin.
The final stage took place in Venice (October 6–11), where the group focused on the architectural and artistic archives that articulate the city’s memory and its international projection. Visits included the Venice State Archives, the Historical Archives of the Accademia di Belle Arti, the IUAV Projects Archives, and the Historical Archives of the Venice Biennale, both in Porto Marghera and in the Giardini.
In addition, the students explored the Archive of the Patriarchate of Venice, the OMA studio’s Diagrams exhibition at the Fondazione Prada, and the venues for the Biennale Architettura 2025 at the Arsenale and the Giardini. Through these experiences, the students were able to directly observe how archives contribute to shaping institutional relationships, curatorial practices, and the materialities of art and architectural history.
Throughout its three stages, Archiving Machines constituted a learning space that connected contemporary places, practices, and debates about archives. The workshop journey allowed participants to understand the archive not only as a repository of the past, but also as an active device in cultural production and in the ways of imagining shared futures.
Between July 10 and 14, the course concentrated in English was taught How does the European Union work and what is its relevance?, taught by the academic from the University of Leiden, Armin Cuyvers.
The course addressed the functioning of the European Union and its legal system, examining the historical context, reasons for integration, challenges and projections. The sessions were held face-to-face and were taught by the Professor of European Law at the European Institute of the University of Leiden, the Netherlands.
The academic program also included a review of the division and distribution of power in the European Union, its organs and countries, as well as its legal system, legislation and questions regarding phenomena such as climate change, economic and political crises.
55 students from the Law School of the Diego Portales University were part of the concentrated course, attending each of the sessions and actively participating. For the 4th year student and member of the UDP Law Student Center, Aimee Garland, it was a unique opportunity: “I try to take advantage of all the opportunities that the University offers me, especially when they allow me to broaden the horizons of my learning within the race. One of the most highlighted aspects of the course was the possibility of eliminating the language barrier, on many occasions we can learn from the compared systems, but in my opinion part of the real meaning of the institutions is lost when trying to bring concepts and terms into Spanish that can hardly be translated,” he said.
Catalina Momares, a 5th year student, shared her motivations and thoughts about the course: “Mainly, what motivated me to take this course was having the chance to learn about an area of law that we are not used to seeing in the Faculty, such as it is the law in the European Union. And acquire another look around this to be able to apply it to the subjects that we learn daily at the university. What I liked the most is that it was in English, this gives us the opportunity to directly practice our language skills, and also, I really liked having the opportunity to attend a lecture taught by a great professor from Leiden University “, he pointed.
For Felipe Bouey, a 4th year student at our Faculty, it was a challenging and enriching experience. “The dynamic was very good, as well as being a constant invitation to reflection. On the one hand, it was motivating to take a course in English, to test one’s own level, and on the other, having a world-renowned academic and one of the leading experts in the EU was very tempting from an academic point of view”, he assessed.
“It feel very proud to see the performance and growth of our students just a few steps away from graduating and becoming nurses,” highlights professor Óscar Flórez.
On Tuesday, July 18, the IV Florence Nightingale Lecture was held, organized by the National Autonomous University of Bucaramanga (UNAB) of Colombia, in which our intern and fifth-year UDP Nursing student, Arantxa Quezada, presented a work carried out under the tutoring of Óscar Flórez, academic of our Faculty.
During the day, the fifth-year student presented her work entitled “Nursing Care Experience focused on the person and her family in a Secondary Care Service of the Public Network of the Metropolitan Region, Santiago de Chile”.
The work shows the implementation of the Good Practice Guide of the Association of Registered Nurses of Ontario (RNAO), called “Person and family centered care”, in this international event organized by the first Academic BPSO of Colombia. From the Nursing management team, they indicate that this achievement will allow “our students to visualize the magnitude and importance of the certification project that our School is undertaking as RNAO Academic BPSO.”
Similarly, Óscar Flórez, Arantxa’s academic and tutor adds that “it is a source of pride to see the performance and growth of our students just a few steps away from graduating and becoming nurses.”
Victoria Díaz and Josefina Mattoli, students at the UDP Faculty of Psychology, won Globalink Research Intership scholarships, awarded by the research organization Mitacs-Canada, to carry out 12-week research internships at Athabasca University in Edmonton, Canada (MV) and at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières, respectively.
The Mitacs Program allows undergraduate students from Diego Portales University to have the opportunity to participate in research projects abroad at leading international universities. In this way, students receive academic training and skills with an international, intercultural and global focus.
As Anoek van den Berg, General Director of International Relations UDP, has pointed out, Mitacs is a program promoted by the Canadian government, a leader in the area of articulation between universities and companies. “It is an honor to be part of this pilot version in Chile through CRUCH, where we are part of a select group of 6 universities that started this new program between Chile and Canada”, she concludes.
In relation to her expectations of carrying out this internship, Victoria comments, “I am very happy to have the opportunity to learn about how research is carried out in multidisciplinary teams that seek to promote social change, and what are the contributions that research in psychology can give to the discussion of this problem that has been little studied, but that represents a serious humanitarian crisis worldwide that has been increasing both in Latin America and in the rest of the world. I believe that participating as a research assistant in this project will allow me to display the research skills that I have developed during my undergraduate studies and thanks to the support of the team at the University’s Center for Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Studies (CEPPS). In addition, it is a great opportunity to internationalize my career and improve my command of English”.
Regarding the relevance of the research in which she will participate, the student adds, “The “Indigeneity, Displacement and Patriarchy” project seeks to relate forced migration processes to the ethnic dimension of the people affected, and to understand how these processes are mediated by legislation that tends to reproduce a colonial and patriarchal perspective that reinforces systemic violence towards these highly marginalized communities. People who are forced to migrate often live highly traumatic experiences since they are exposed to physical and socioeconomic vulnerability and may have serious difficulties accessing social protection, health, education and integrating into a different culture”.
“Forced migration is a phenomenon that arises from sociopolitical problems, such as the violation of human rights or wars, ecological disasters, or phenomena produced by humans, such as human trafficking and slavery practices. According to data from the UNHCR (UN Refugee Agency) for the year 2021, the number of people who are victims of forced migration has doubled in the last 10 years and there are currently around 78.5 million people in this situation, 61% being forced to migrate within their own country, and a large part of the remaining percentage refugees and people seeking asylum in other countries”, added the student.
She also referred to the great opportunity to work with the academic in charge of the research, Fynn Bruey, who is a doctor of law and focuses on African studies, critical theory of masculinities, as well as mental health studies in survivors of forced migration. She currently teaches at Athabasca University in Edmonton, Canada.
For her part, Josefina Mattoli, who will do her internship at the Chemosensory Neuroanatomy Research Laboratory (LRNACS) at the University of Quebec in Trois-Rivières, told us about her expectations for these 12 months of learning “I think it will be a great opportunity to learn what the world of research is like outside of Chile, and also to get to know the local culture. As I want to continue my postgraduate studies abroad, I hope it will be a very good first opportunity to insert myself into a university and research context 100% in English, as a practice for what I hope will come my way in the future.
Finally, she highlights the importance of the project in which she will participate as a researcher, “the project is called“ Plasticity in the chemical senses ”, the professor in charge is Johannes Frasnelli, from the Université du Québec à Trois–Rivières in Trois–Rivières. Try to better understand the effects of training on olfactory acuity in sommelier students. We will compare their olfactory abilities before and after 1.5 years.
Four students and one graduate from the Diego Portales University School of Law are in Leiden, the Netherlands, as part of the Summer Leiden Workshop, an internationalization program sponsored by the UDP Law Alumni Foundation. In this context, the program participants have visited different international organizations based in The Hague and have been part of various activities together with members of the Leiden University community.
The week began with a visit to the Supreme Court of the Netherlands, in The Hague, where the members of the UDP community learned about the functioning of the body with a presentation made by the lawyer Janneke van der Ham, advisor to the study area . In addition, they met with the Chilean Ambassador to the Netherlands, Jaime Moscoso, and the Second Secretary and legal adviser, Paula Monsalve, and toured the premises of the diplomatic headquarters and learned about the role of the Embassy before the various international organizations based in the city.
They also participated in a meeting with the Regional Coordinator for Latin America of the University of Leiden, Mara Constantinescu, and the Director of the Office of International Education of the Faculty of Law, Anette van Sandwijk. During that day, they learned about the doctoral work of Nina Eggens, whose research combines criminology and children’s rights, and Esteban Szmulewicz, a professor at the Universidad Católica del Norte, whose doctoral research focuses on decentralization.
The visit to Leiden University featured a guided tour by student Fitz MacLean and a tour of the Law School library, led by library technician Bryan Beemer. The agenda also included a visit to the International Criminal Court, where the group was able to attend a hearing thanks to the permanent operation of the court.
Another body that the students got to know was the Chamber of Representatives of the States General, where they were able to see the plenary session of Parliament and the way in which the legislative power of the Netherlands operates.
The Beauty Labs team, made up of 4th year students, presented their artificial intelligence project together with finalist teams from around the world.
The students of the School of Commercial Engineering of the Diego Portales University, Rocío Ezquerro, Santiago Morales and Juan Pablo Quintana participated in the international final of the L’oréal Brandstrom 2023 contest in the city of Paris, France, after being chosen as one of the 10 finalist teams out of a total of 92,000 participants from more than 150 world universities who applied with their projects in the 31st version of the largest global business school competition.
The Beauty Labs team, made up of 4th year students, presented their artificial intelligence project together with finalist teams from Portugal, China, Malaysia, Brazil, Taiwan, India, Dubai, France and Kenya, with whom they also shared a week of activities organized by the company.
The students and the UDP Faculty of Administration and Economics academic Julie Kim, mentor of the team, were invited to the French capital, where they lived an active schedule together with L’oréal immersing themselves in the European innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem.
The international finalists got to know Station F, the largest start-up campus in the world, which brings together more than 1,000 start-ups, and they were also able to take part in the largest innovation fair in Europe, Vivatech, which included Elon Musk, the chief data scientist of Meta, CEO of Paypal, founder of Minerva University, the Minister of Start Ups of Korea, and other leaders in the world of entrepreneurship and innovation.
In turn, the representatives of Chile and the UDP were able to strengthen ties with the global leading executives of group no. 1 in the world cosmetics industry, more than 110 years of history, presence in 150 countries, 36 globally recognized brands and 88,000 collaborators.
The French team of students from the ESSEC Business SChool was finally awarded as the winner of the L’oréal Brandstorm 2023 version, an award that took place at Vivatech Paris 2023.
According to the student Rocío Chicharro, “the experience of Brandstorm L’oréal in Paris taught us to believe in ourselves and to grow as future professionals. It was a week full of surprises and great experiences that I will cherish forever. This competition showed us the professional world from a more playful and dynamic point of view, changing the construction and vision of our future work”.
For his part, Santiago Morales shared that “the trip to Paris was an unforgettable experience that allowed us to compete with incredible people from different parts of the world, to challenge ourselves like never before and to forever change our way of projecting ourselves for the future.”
Juan Pablo Quintana pointed out that “this trip for me has been an experience that I will always cherish, being able to share with people from different cultures and the great learning that I have adopted in this competition is something invaluable for the objectives that I want to project myself as a future professional.” in the next years”.
Finally, the academic Julie Kim commented that “having witnessed the growth process of Rocío, Santiago and Juan Pablo, both professionally and personally, has been one of the most gratifying instances in my 18 years of teaching. Their testimony as world finalists in this contest demonstrates that the UDP delivers world-class training and that with vision, effort and well-done teamwork, even goals of global scope can become a reality. I hope that his example inspires many more young Portaleans to prepare and dare to make their personal and professional goals and dreams come true. In turn, we are very grateful and enthusiastic about the bond we are building with a company like Lóreal, through which we hope to continue opening opportunities for our Portalean community.”
Four students and a UDP Law graduate will participate in the International Humanitarian Law in Theory and Practice and Frontiers of Children’s Rights programs.
During this week, four students and one graduate from the Law School of the Diego Portales University will participate in the International Humanitarian Law in Theory and Practice and Frontiers of Children’s Rights programs, taught by the University of Leiden in The Hague and Leiden, the Netherlands .
On July 3, Ignacio Arancibia, Pilar Carrasco, Anahí Díaz, Aracelli Nardocci and Sofía Schaad began the summer courses at the University of Leiden, which are part of the Leiden Summer Workshop, an internationalization program sponsored by the Fundación de Egresadas y UDP Law Graduates.
The courses include theoretical and practical updating sessions on armed conflicts, population protection, war crimes and contemporary problems of children’s rights from a legal perspective.
During the second phase of the program, students will attend activities at the Leiden University Faculty of Law and will participate in conferences at the International Criminal Court, the Netherlands Parliament, the Supreme Court and the Chilean Embassy in the Netherlands. .
This edition had the motto “Reshaping the social representation of psychotherapy: An engagement with public mental health”.
Between June 21 and 24, the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Psychotherapy Research was held in Dublin, Ireland, where different researchers and PhD students in Psychology from the Diego Portales University participated.
This edition had the title “Reshaping the social representation of psychotherapy: An engagement with public mental health” and featured presentations by academics, researchers from the Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Research Center (CEPPS-UDP), Alemka Tomicic, Claudio Martinez and Javiera Duarte. Jesús Vidal, a graduate of the School and CEPPS research assistant, also participated. Doctoral students Christian Spuler, Cristian Ortega and Felipe Concha also participated.
“The Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) is one of the most important in its nature, bringing together clinicians and research psychotherapists from different regions worldwide. In fact, it is organized by the North American, European, UK, Asian and Latin American chapters, with Professor Claudio Martínez currently being president of the latter”, explained Tomicic.
For the academic from the UDP Faculty of Psychology, “participating in this type of event is very important, not only because it constitutes a window to expose the advances of our research developments, but also because they are an opportunity to strengthen and establish collaborative ties in common lines of study.
“Also this year, discussions on gender, underrepresented groups and social justice in psychotherapy research were established. Finally, many of the papers presented tend to subsequently become publications, which we know is an important form of scientific productivity,” concluded Tomicic.
During the activity, our first International Ambassador delivered and instructed on how to make reusable sanitary napkins, in addition to giving a talk on sexual health aimed at girls and adolescents.
The first International Ambassador of the Faculty of Health and Dentistry of the Diego Portales University, Laura Corrotea, delivered reusable pads to two schools in Kamonkoli (Uganda), in addition to giving an informative talk about the menstrual cycle, hormonal changes and contraception with two midwife volunteers.
Before embarking on the trip and once her participation in volunteering was confirmed, Laura along with her friend Sofía wondered how they could bring more help to the women of the city in eastern Uganda, so they contacted Ema, who is in charge of the MOGHU organization, to find out what they needed.
“It would be of great help to buy reusable pads for girls and young mothers, since this is a factor that contributes to girls dropping out of school, some of whom are subjected to the sex trade in exchange for money to provide themselves with sanitary napkins during their menstruation periods” , replied the organizer.
At the request, and thanks to donations received by both Laura and Sofía, both bought 150 reusable sanitary towels to deliver to the girls and adolescents in the community, after giving the talk on sexual and reproductive health. “It was a very beautiful and sad moment at the same time, since despite having brought a large number of towels, they were not enough for everyone, and around 10 girls were left without their pads. It broke my heart when I realized that the help had not been enough”, recalls Laura.
After experiencing this complex situation, the fifth-year UDP Nursing student made the decision, together with the other volunteers, to buy all the necessary supplies to teach them how to make reusable towels, since it is a more accessible and sustainable option over time.
“We put a video on YouTube, we sat down on the grass with everything we needed and we started. In the march we were joined by more women from the community and we helped each other in the learning process: it was a beautiful moment. The goal was successfully achieved, and the next mission is to hold workshops in schools so that girls can learn and have the chance to do it on their own”, says the future nurse.
The agreement is the result of the good relations between both institutions, in addition to the outstanding track record of the University in the field of human rights.
At the end of April 2023, during the 157 Period of Sessions in Chile of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Cooperation Agreement between the entity and the Diego Portales University was renewed.
Present at the ceremony were the President of the Inter-American Court, Ricardo C. Pérez Manrique; the Chilean judge, Patricia Pérez Goldberg; the secretary of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Pablo Saavedra (UDP graduate); the rector UDP, Carlos Peña; the dean of the UDP Law School, Jaime Couso; the director of the UDP Human Rights Center, Lidia Casas; United Nations Rapporteur on Migrants and UDP academic, Felipe González; and Daniela Inostroza, a graduate of the Faculty and an intern at the Inter-American Court.
In the instance, the President of the Court, Judge Ricardo C. Pérez Manrique, highlighted the long history of relations between the UDP and the Inter-American Human Rights System. “Former President Judge Cecilia Medina was an outstanding professor at the University, as was our secretary Pablo Saavedra Alessandri. Dozens of interns graduated from this house of studies have passed through our Court”, they spread on the social networks of the Inter-American Court.
Leiden Summer Workshop is the new internationalization program of the Faculty of Law, which will take place next July in the Netherlands, thanks to the collaboration agreement signed by the University of Leiden and the Diego Portales University. Four students and one graduate will participate in the program: Ignacio Arancibia, María Pilar Carrasco, Anahí Díaz, Aracelli Nardocci and Sofía Schaad.
Between July 3 and 13, the Leiden Summer Workshop will take place in Leiden and The Hague, an internationalization program that seeks to provide an approach to critical and current legal issues, as well as knowledge of the main courts of the Netherlands. To do this, students will have the opportunity to participate in two Summer Schools at the University of Leiden: International Humanitarian Law in Theory and Practice and Frontiers of Children’s Rights, they will also visit the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice and the Supreme Court from the Netherlands. These activities are added to a series of meetings with professors from the Law School of the Dutch university and visits to heritage sites in the European country.
Aracelli Nardocci is one of the students selected to participate in the program, she is currently in her fifth year and comments that her main motivation for applying to the program was the possibility of acquiring new knowledge: “It is the perfect opportunity to learn more about international law, precisely in The Hague, the city of justice and peace, which in turn is the seat of institutions such as the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, the Permanent Court of Arbitration”, he comments.
Ignacio Arancibia is also a fifth-year student and will participate in the course on children’s rights, about which he points out: “I would like to know the experience of studying in a foreign university in a language other than Spanish, and obtain tools that allow me in the future to contribute to the legal defense of children and adolescents who see the effective protection of their human rights threatened by the States”.
For María Pilar Carrasco, the attractiveness of this program is given by the possibility of broadening her knowledge in the field of International Humanitarian Law and linking it to areas of interest such as International Human Rights Law and International Criminal Law: “I am motivated by opportunity to collaborate and learn alongside students and faculty from diverse cultural backgrounds. I appreciate the support provided by the UDP and I am confident that these initiatives will last over time ”, she values.
The program is sponsored by the Law School Graduates Foundation, which allowed the five participants to receive scholarships.
Next Tuesday, May 30 at 2:30 p.m., the Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design UDP invites its students to participate in an informative talk about the Europe Workshop second semester 2022.
The Europe International Workshop, which has been held since 2010, is an annual activity run by the three schools that make up FAAD, which offers its students the opportunity to learn about, experiment with, and deepen, in various European cities, about to the disciplines of architecture, art and design. During all these years we have worked collaboratively with academic institutions and relevant agents in the destination cities.
In this version, the students will be able to tour the cities of Venice and Milan, together with Bárbara Pino; Berlin, with the guidance of Carolina del Campo and Matías Klotz and Madrid, together with Bernardita Croxatto.
The program is structured as an interdisciplinary Workshop in which work teams are formed to develop integrated proposals from the three disciplines, based on contemporary problems that arise from the contexts and countries visited.
The Faculty of Education of the Diego Portales University has been working together for around three years with different institutions in Brazil, such as the Secretary of Education of the State of Pernambuco, the Salesian Network, Unibanco and the Bahema Foundation. “This is a Faculty project that aims to develop collaboration opportunities with different international institutions. (…) These projects carried out for Brazil have had the management of the dean’s office and the Faculty’s Teacher Professional Development Center”, commented Ruth Arce, director of Pedagogy in Secondary Education UDP.
“The participants are Brazilian professionals from educational management teams who have participated in the Technical Pedagogical Tools and Mentoring course (Unibanco) or only in the latter (Bahema), the learning from the courses is transmitted to the teams of school management and, therefore, the teaching teams; all the projects are scalable up to the classroom teachers”, explained Arce.
The benefits that these projects bring are mutual, adds the director, “we show the quality of our pedagogical knowledge for the region, our academic teams diversify the training proposals, we know other educational realities; while for the Brazilian counterpart this has great significance as it finds in the region a high level of development in issues of educational management, mentoring, among others. An interesting space has been opened to broaden educational experiences, recognizing common challenges”.
Director Ruth Arce detailed these collaborations in particular:
Pernambuco State
Since 2020, he has worked with the Pernambuco Secretary of Education, training 60 people belonging to the municipal management teams in technical-pedagogical tools for school management, addressing everything from pedagogical reflection to classroom management, and culminated this training with a seminar in the city of Recife in November 2022, attended by 400 people.
How did this collaboration between the Faculty and the State of Pernambuco come about?
The collaboration starts as a necessity of the State of Pernambuco, who summoned the Faculty of Education UDP to create a professional development program in the teaching management teams of the State departments. We started working in 2019 with the formulation of the project to start face-to-face classes the following year in Recife. However, the pandemic delayed the process and the modality, finally developing it in a virtual format through 5 class periods between 2020 and 2021. This implementation then reached the schools through the course attendees and this was closed. experience with a Seminar in the city of Recife in November 2022.
What did the seminar held in Recife consist of? What was talked about?
Three moments were developed in the seminar: our presentation on ‘The role of the pedagogical coordinator in the school context’, a panel about the experiences of schools in their management challenges, and a poster exhibition about innovative experiences in the classroom with a focus on the changes generated by the ‘pedagogical coordinators’ in their schools based on the knowledge provided by the state management teams.
Unibanco
In the case of Unibanco, Educación UDP began working in 2022 to train 90 mentors who will work with more than a thousand school pedagogical coordinators in an educational quality improvement plan.
How did this collaboration between the Faculty and Unibanco come about?
Almost in the same way as before, the needs of the institution to promote improvement processes in the school and the request to deliver pedagogical management tools to their teaching support teams at schools. After this first course, the need arose to train the same teams in ‘pedagogical mentoring’. To date we have trained 90 mentors, each of them has an average of 12 to 14 mentees and each of these has an average of 25 teachers per school, that is, they will work with approximately 1,200 school pedagogical coordinators.
What does this mentor training consist of?
It is a 36-hour course on mentoring as a strategy for improvement in which theoretical and practical knowledge is combined, mainly mentoring simulations.
bahema foundation
Lastly, the Faculty has been working since 2022 with Bahema, a foundation that brings together paid private schools from different states of Brazil. These teams are in a pedagogical mentoring course and will carry out an internship in Chile in June 2023 to see local educational models.