Santiago Ruilova

General Objective: Design recombinant enzymes based on the three-dimensional structure of the enzyme PET hydrolase from Idionella sakaiensis (IsPETase) for the effective degradation of synthetic organic polymers. Specific Objectives Participating Institutions: UTA, ESPE, UDLA. Participants: Project manager Liliana Cerda Mejía. Awarded budget: $38,196.20 Project status: In progress.

General Objective: Establish the relationships of rhizosphere microbial communities and soil physicochemical factors associated with bud rot based on the analysis of microbiomes in African palm Elaeis guineensis and its O x G hybrids, aimed at future agroecological management plans for the disease. . Specific Objectives Participating Institutions: ESPOL, USFQ, UDLA. Participants:

General Objective: Generate, in the next 12 months, an open access, interactive, georeferenced and chronologically organized cartographic platform using nine historical maps of urban settlements along the Guayaquil-Cuenca-Azogues axis. These maps will be constructed from the analysis of pre-existing cartography and historical documentation, from the period before the Spanish conquest.

General Objective: Implement a computational software platform structured in four modules for the investigation of various social dynamics in the context of Sociophysics. Specific Objectives Participating Institutions: UCACUE, YACHAY TECH, PUCE, Universidad de los Andes, Venezuela. Participants: Project manager Orlando Alvarez Llamoza. Awarded budget: $19,125.00 Project status: In progress.

General Objective: Analyze the implementation of the public policy of interculturality in the Faculties of Education of the University of Cuenca, National University of Chimborazo and State University of Bolívar during the period 2019 – 2021, in order to generate inputs for reflection, awareness and decision making by actors and sectors

General Objective: Analyze the microbiome and its colonization process in the new Quito Metro system and relate it to the detection of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Specific Objectives Participating Institutions: UCE, UTN, UDLA. Participants: Project Director Carlos Alfonso Molina Hidalgo. Awarded budget: $35,000.00 Project status: In progress.

General Objective: Characterize the mathematical modeling processes developed by students of the Sixth Year of Basic General Education of the Inter-American Bilingual Educational Unit and CEBCI Educational Unit through a case study and design-based research, with the purpose of contributing scientifically to the existing literature. on the subject and the improvement of

General Objective: Implement and deploy learning capsules to combat bullying and cyberbullying in children and adolescents. Specific Objectives Participating Institutions: UC, UDA, UTI. Participants: Project manager Lourdes Eugenia Illescas Peña. Awarded budget: $35,000.00 Project status: In progress.

General Objective: Develop and make accessible quantification and management technologies (methodology, tools, indicators and criteria) and the raising of baselines (results of application in specific sectors) to support the advanced and technical management of organizational and industrial development processes from national, regional and international understanding and contextualization. Specific Objectives Participating Institutions: