2024

General Objective: Analyze the levels of response to medical emergencies in a zoned territory, by analyzing travel times implicit in the spatial distribution of health services and ambulance stations. Specific Objectives: Participating Institutions: UCUENCA, UDA, ESPOCH Participants: Project Director Elina María Avila Ordóñez. Awarded budget: $28,772.22 Project status: Completed

General Objective: The ADAM project seeks to implement multidisciplinary actions with short and medium-term scope to prevent unions, adapt laboratories and prepare producers against a possible introduction of the quarantine pest FocR4T in the Ecuadorian territory. Specific Objectives: Participating Institutions: ESPOL, ESPE, UTA. Participants: Project Director Freddy Arturo

General Objective: Develop an accessible digital platform that provides therapeutic education to users according to their age, through distance respiratory self-rehabilitation sessions. Specific Objectives Participating Institutions: UDLA, PUCE, EPN, INDOAMERICA Participants: Project Director Nelly Patricia Acosta Vargas. Awarded budget: $50,000.00 Project status: Completed

General Objective: Describe the main objective of your proposal, this must be achieved during the development of the project. Identify the purpose towards which resources and efforts should be directed. It is the set of results that the project aims to achieve through the actions. Study the laboratory performance of filters based on materials

General Objective: Determine the composition of amphibian communities in five previously unexplored locations in the Llanganates National Park. Specific Objectives Participating Institutions: PUCE, EPN, UTPL. Participants: Project Director Santiago Rafael Ron Melo. Awarded Budget: $41,784.45 Project Status: Completed

General Objective: Design and simulate a Wave Energy Converter (WEC) for the specific conditions of the Ecuadorian territorial sea, with emphasis on the Galapagos Islands. Specific Objectives Participating Institutions: EPN, ESPOL, USFQ. Participants: Project Director Segundo Jesús Portilla Yandún. Awarded Budget: $13,572.22 Project Status: Completed

General Objective: Obtain lactic acid from glycerol using catalysts synthesized from residual industrial sludge. Specific Objectives Participating Institutions: UCE, UCUENCA, UDA. Participants: Project director Carolina Del Rocio Montero Calderón. Awarded Budget: $49,500.00 Project Status: Completed

General Objective: The objective of the present study is to test the beneficial effect of supplementation with a snack based on L. mutabilis Sweet on the nutritional status and intestinal microbiota of schoolchildren in areas with a high prevalence of malnutrition: city of Riobamba, province of Chimborazo and Santa Cruz Island, in the