Santiago Ruilova

General Objective: Develop a systemic model that promotes the generation of EBCT scientific-technological-based ventures within Higher Education Institutions -IES, based on the characterization and definition of the main factors that promote the creation of this type of ventures within from an academic field. Specific Objectives Participating Institutions: UC, YACHAY, UPEC. […]

General Objective: Expand knowledge regarding the urban environmental quality of the cities of Ecuador, considering a framework of complex adaptive systems that integrates different socio-ecological dimensions from a space-time approach and establishes sustainability criteria that include these dimensions, generating a box of tools that can be applied in planning dynamics

General Objective: Establish a validated methodology for the generation of state-transition models of the dry forest at the Ecuadorian level as a tool for planning management, monitoring and restoration actions of this ecosystem. Specific Objectives Participating Institutions: UTPL, ULEAM, UNL, UTMACH. Participants: Project director Andrea Katherine Jara Guerrero. Awarded budget: $37,520 Project status: Signing of agreements.

General Objective: Develop a plan for the transfer of knowledge, technology and management improvement, which reactivates the activities of MSMEs in the Chemical and Services sectors of the provinces: Azuay, Pichincha and Loja. Specific Objectives Participating Institutions: UC, UDA, UTPL, UCE, CAPIA. Participants: Project Director Jorge Arturo Campoverde Campoverde. Awarded budget: $36,114 State of

General Objective: To evaluate the use of extracts of dragon's blood (Croton lechleri), lupine (Lupinus mutabilis) and banana (Musa acuminata) as eco-friendly inhibitors of admiralty copper corrosion in an acid medium. Specific Objectives Participating Institutions: YACHAY, UCE, IKIAM, UTPL. Participants: Project Director Alex Uriel Palma Cando. Awarded budget: $40,700.36 Project status: Signing of agreements.

General Objective: Evaluate the application of mathematics and computing in the process of democratization of the teaching-learning of Artificial Intelligence from an early age in Ecuador. Specific Objectives Participating Institutions: UNL, UEB, UTPL, UIDE, UE SANTA MARIANITA DE JESÚS, ITS DANIEL ALVAREZ BURNEO, MIN EDUCACIÓN ZONA 7. Participants: Project Director Luis Antonio Chamba Eras.

General Objective: To determine the immunological and productive effects of the probiotic treatment L. fermentum with a diet enriched with microalgae biomass in broiler chickens exposed to Salmonella enterica serovar Infantis. Specific Objectives Participating Institutions: YACHAY, UCE,UTA,UTC. Participants: Project manager Marco Andrés Larrea Álvarez. Awarded budget: $44,621.8 Project status: Signing of agreements.

General Objective: Develop eco-packaging from biodegradable waste such as avocado seed and agave waste. Specific Objectives Participating Institutions: YACHAY, ESPOL, EPN, UYAMAFARMS. Participants: Director of the Rose Mary Rita Michell Uribe project. Awarded budget: $43,400 Project status: Signing of agreements.

General Objective: Characterize the cough caused by COVID19 in patients with a positive diagnosis, using Artificial Intelligence and Digital Signal Processing techniques, in order to contribute scientifically to the identification of the disease and timely treatment, as well as to the social economy by the country's time of crisis. Specific Objectives Participating Institutions:

General Objective: To evaluate the antiparasitic activity of at least 5 peptides from the cruzioseptin, dermaseptin and pictuseptin families derived from the skin of Ecuadorian amphibians against Plasmodium, Trypanosoma and Leishmania, causal agents of malaria, Chagas disease and leishmaniasis respectively. Specific Objectives Participating Institutions: PUCE, USFQ, IKIAM. Participants: Project Director Miryan Rosita Rivera Íñiguez. Awarded budget: $405,500