Science Engagement Experiences
Science between mountains
The project seeks to strengthen skills and capacities in science, technology and innovation in children and mediators of 40 rural educational centers of the Cartama Province, in the Southwest of Antioquia, to contribute to the reduction of the current gaps between rural and urban areas in terms of education in Science, Technology and Innovation, taking advantage of the methodology of the Children's University EAFIT.
Researchers: Jaramillo-Escobar, Ana María; Pineda-Gómez, Selene; Uribe-Rivera, Ana María.
Contact: uninos@eafit.edu.co
Web site: https://www.eafit.edu.co/ninos/servicios/a-la-medida/Paginas/ciencia-entre-montanas.aspx
Partners: Minciencias, Comfama, Fundación Fomento a la Educación JCH.
Strengthening community capacities for public decision-making related to the sustainable use of the Serranía de San Lucas, Antioquia, El Bagre"
The project has made it possible to identify and strengthen the capacities of rural communities for the sustainable use of the Serranía de San Lucas. The community meetings with leaders of eleven villages of Puerto Lopez have been developed through participatory methodologies to find action routes that contribute to solve the problems of the territory, associated with deforestation, based on the construction of knowledge and wisdom between the research team and the communities. The project has made visible the autonomous community processes that are contributing to the recovery of forest cover in San Lucas.
Principal Researcher: Sara Vélez-Zapata
Contact: svelezz@eafit.edu.co
Partner: Corporación Grupo Trópico Diverso, Colectivo Gente y Bosques - El Bagre.
Diversity, memory, and biocultural rights: mechanisms for common-unity protection and ethnodevelopment. Study case of the municipality of Nuquí (Chocó, Colombia)
The objective of this project is to understand the most important forms of appropriation, use and future planning of the territory (particularly in the agricultural and forestry dimensions) of the Afro-descendant and indigenous groups that inhabit Nuquí, differentiated by gender and age, in order to establish community and equitable mechanisms to protect their living places and bioculturality as well as to produce knowledge useful for ethnodevelopment in similar contexts in Colombia.
Researchers: Hillon-Vega, Yulieth Teresa; González-Cotes, Ana María.
Contact: yhillon@eafit.edu.co
Partners: Laser Pulse, Purdue University, Fundación Activos Culturales Afro ACUA
Design of educational didactic material for the conservation of the harlequin frog in Colombia
Development of educational didactic material for the promotion of biodiversity and conservation of harlequin frogs (Atelopus) in Colombia, accompanied by the training of scientific popularizers for the use of the didactic material in environmental education processes with indigenous and peasant children in rural areas of the country.
Researchers: Jaramillo-Escobar, Ana María; Uribe-Rivera, Ana María; Zuluaga-Sánchez, Julieta.
Contact: uninos@eafit.edu.co
Climate governance: social appropriation of knowledge on climate change
Scientific popularization on variability and climate change science for the execution, application and implementation of the climate governance model of the Aburrá Valley. Two strategies were developed to promote the understanding, valuation, generation and use of knowledge: the Climate Action Collaboratory and the Climate Expeditions, where diverse social actors built an action plan to meet the region's climate goals and explored climate change under the principles of social appropriation of scientific knowledge.
Researcher: Cadena-Gaitán, Carlos.
Contact: ccadena3@eafit.edu.co
Partner: Área Metropolitana del Valle de Aburrá