IDi Universities Fund

General Objective: The objective of this project is to evaluate portable sensors applied to crop stems and leaves, thus contributing to food security and climate change. Specific Objectives: Participating Institutions: UTA, UTPL UNL, UNEMI Project Director John Reyes Participants: Awarded Budget: $31,705.60 Project Status: Awarded

General Objective: The objective of this project is to evaluate portable sensors applied to crop stems and leaves, thus contributing to food security and climate change. Specific Objectives: Participating Institutions: USFQ, EPN, ESPAM Project Director Frank Alexis Participants: Awarded Budget: $38,300.80 Project Status: Awarded

General Objective: Formulate social learning models inspired by the behavior of social insects and use them to develop efficient and verifiable control software for robot swarms through controlled and documented tests. Specific Objectives: Participating Institutions: ESPOL, UG, UDA Project Director Carlos Saldarriaga Participants: Awarded Budget: $36,873.60 Project Status: Awarded

General Objective: Develop a technical system for raising house crickets (Gryllus aff. Assimilis) in controlled environments in the Ecuadorian mountains, which increases biomass production and improves its nutritional composition through the implementation of an automated system for monitoring and controlling variables environmental and controlled experiments over a period of 12 months.

General Objective: To evaluate the risk of dietary exposure of the Ecuadorian population to pesticide residues in mass consumption foods with potential contamination. Specific Objectives: Participating Institutions: ESPOL, UCUENCA, UPS, PUCE Project Director Juan Cevallos Participants: Awarded Budget: $40,000.00 Project Status: Awarded

General Objective: Develop a framework based on generative AI to personalize a programming learning plan and teaching materials, considering the student's knowledge, their learning style and their interaction with the system, to improve their programming skills and the level of acceptance of teaching materials. Goals

General Objective: Optimize an electrochemical sensor for the detection of hydrogen peroxide (oxidative burst) resulting from stress by Cd(II) ions, in stem and leaf stem cells of Pennisetum purpureum Schumach and Pennisetum violaceum grown in vitro as a model device for selection. of plants useful in phytoremediation. Specific Objectives: Participating Institutions: PUCE, UTMACH, EPN

General Objective: Analyze the impact of the transformation of the intermediate city on the demand and energy efficiency of residential construction, through a comparative analysis of various expansion sectors of the City of Cuenca Ecuador, to strengthen the theoretical basis of sustainable guidelines that reduce the environmental impact of future planning

General Objective: Develop an interpretation system for Ecuadorian sign language through the use of artificial intelligence tools based on transfer learning and deep learning in order to improve the communication and interaction of deaf people within the Ecuadorian context. Specific Objectives: Participating Institutions: UTI, EPN, PUCE, UPS Director of the

General Objective: The present research project seeks to experimentally study the seismic behavior of exposed plate connections with extended anchor bolts through large-scale laboratory tests that complement the numerical and analytical studies that exist in this regard [21 and 23]. Furthermore, it is proposed to examine the effect of incorporating ductile behavior