IDi Universities Fund

General Objective: Determine the prevalence and effect on the production and quality of fruits of the CVX and SchVX viruses in pitahaya crops in Ecuador. Specific Objectives: Participating Institutions: ESPOL, ESPOCH, ESPAM. Participants: Project Director Lisbeth del Rocío Espinoza Lozano Awarded budget: $46,750.00 Project status: Completed

General Objective: Develop a Digital platform in the Year 2023 that allows you to accurately determine the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) and find the value of a company or venture, considering its own characteristics and those of the macro and micro environment in which it operates. MSMEs develop. Specific Objectives: Participating Institutions: UCUENCA, UDA, UNACH.

General Objective: Develop a platform based on GQDs for the efficient transport of genes and drugs applied in in vitro models of tumors with the highest incidence in Ecuador. Specific Objectives: Participating Institutions: UTE, EPN, UTA. Participants: Project Director Rebeca Eugenia González Pastor Awarded Budget: $38,500.00 Project Status: Completed

General Objective: Develop new bioplastics applicable in the plastic industry of Ecuador through the use of low-cost and natural plasticizers and solvents identified by virtual screening with computational tools. Specific Objectives: Participating Institutions: USFQ, EPN, UTA. Participants: Project Director Frank Alexis Awarded Budget: $46,750.00 Project Status: Completed

General Objective: Design the prototype of a generalized software tool for decision making based on artificial intelligence that allows establishing commercial and/or business strategies. Specific Objectives: Participating Institutions: UCUENCA, UCE, UCACUE, UTPL. Participants: Project director JORGE ARTURO CAMPOVERDE CAMPOVERDE Awarded budget: $40,800.00 Project status: Completed

General Objective: Validate the “Taptana Cañari Pedagogical Proposal and the value of solidarity” as a didactic, pedagogical and innovative resource that favors the development of the interdisciplinary learning process for the formation of critical and reflective citizens. Specific Objectives: Participating Institutions: UNAE, IKIAM, UCE. Participants: Project Director Marco Vinicio Vásquez Bernal Project Status:

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