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    • Abril 2026 - Mayo 2029
    AdjudicadoGobierno Regional - GORE

    Fortaleciendo la protección del humedal Bucalemu: Transferencia de herramientas para la gestión, monitoreo y desarrollo sostenible

    [vc_section el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center circle--pattern" css=".vc_custom_1648956589196{padding-top: 3rem !important;}"][vc_row el_class="pb-5"][vc_column][vc_wp_custommenu nav_menu="6"][uoh_breadcrumb_component automatic_breadcrumb="true"][uoh_title_component title_dropdown="big" title_decorator="true"]{{title}}[/uoh_title_component][vc_column_text css=""]En el marco del diagnóstico territorial participativo realizado para el humedal Bucalemu, los beneficiarios identificaron necesidades prioritarias para mejorar la gestión integral del humedal, considerando su importancia como área protegida y las actividades antrópicas asociadas. Entre las propuestas más destacadas se encuentran: 1. Fortalecer la gobernanza local: Los actores locales señalaron la necesidad de establecer un plan de gestión municipal que permita una mejor coordinación entre las partes interesadas y que priorice acciones concretas para la conservación y uso sostenible del humedal. 2. Implementar programas educativos y de difusión: Se propuso incluir a la comunidad y a los colegios locales en actividades de educación ambiental, sensibilización sobre la importancia del humedal y difusión de buenas prácticas de manejo sostenible. 3. Capacitación en monitoreo ambiental: Los participantes destacaron la necesidad de contar con herramientas y conocimientos técnicos para monitorear y gestionar el humedal de manera autónoma y sostenible. 4. Zonificación y regulación de actividades: Identificaron la importancia de delimitar áreas para uso turístico, conservación estricta y actividades productivas de bajo impacto, para minimizar los efectos de las actividades humanas sobre el ecosistema. La Universidad de O’Higgins se compromete a incorporar estas propuestas como ejes centrales en el proyecto, apoyando al municipio en el desarrollo de su plan de gestión mediante las siguientes acciones concretas: • Generar información científica confiable a través del Laboratorio de Ecosistemas de Humedales, la cual servirá como base técnica para el diagnóstico sectorial y la planificación. • Facilitar talleres participativos para definir los objetos de conservación y metas del plan, así como estrategias específicas para su implementación. • Transferir herramientas de monitoreo ambiental y capacitar a actores locales, asegurando que puedan realizar un seguimiento continuo de los indicadores del plan. • Diseñar materiales educativos y desarrollar campañas de difusión que fortalezcan la conexión entre la comunidad y el humedal. "Como resultado del proceso de diagnóstico territorial participativo, los beneficiarios identificaron diversas iniciativas clave para fortalecer la gestión del humedal Bucalemu y promover su desarrollo sostenible. Entre las propuestas más destacadas se incluyen: 1. Charlas informativas: Estas actividades sensibilizarán a la comunidad sobre la importancia del humedal, destacando su biodiversidad y los beneficios de su conservación. Las charlas incluirán información técnica y relevante para fomentar un manejo más sostenible del ecosistema. 2. Programas educativos con colegios locales: Se implementarán talleres prácticos y actividades educativas para involucrar a estudiantes en la conservación del humedal, inspirando un sentido de pertenencia y responsabilidad hacia el ecosistema. 3. Capacitaciones especializadas: Funcionarios municipales y algunos actores clases recibirán formación en gestión sostenible, incluyendo monitoreo ambiental y prácticas de bajo impacto, para fortalecer sus capacidades en el manejo del humedal. 4. Actividades de difusión y sensibilización: Campañas de comunicación y material informativo promoverán el turismo responsable y orientarán a los visitantes hacia prácticas respetuosas con el ecosistema. 5. Fortalecimiento de los pequeños productores locales: Se desarrollarán actividades específicas para capacitar a productores en prácticas sostenibles y promocionar sus productos como parte de una estrategia de turismo responsable, fortaleciendo su conexión con el humedal. El Laboratorio de Ecosistemas de Humedales de la Universidad de O’Higgins aportará información científica y herramientas técnicas esenciales para sustentar estas iniciativas, especialmente en lo relacionado con el diagnóstico del ecosistema, el diseño de protocolos de monitoreo y la generación de indicadores clave para evaluar el impacto de las acciones implementadas. De esta forma, la Universidad de O’Higgins se compromete a incorporar estas propuestas en la iniciativa, asegurando su implementación como parte de una estrategia integral de transferencia de conocimiento y gestión sostenible en colaboración con los actores locales y otras instituciones relevantes[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section css=".vc_custom_1649209804184{background-color: #f6faff !important;}" el_class="p-md-0 pt-md-5"][vc_row el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center p-md-0 pt-5"][vc_column el_class="p-0"][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section css=".vc_custom_1649210787516{background-color: #f6faff !important;}" el_class="p-md-0 pt-md-5 pb-md-5"][vc_row el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center"][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section]
    Investigador/a Responsable
    • 1261124
    • Abril 2026 - Marzo 2029
    AdjudicadoAgencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo - ANID

    Los cuidados en perspectiva territorial: estudio comparativo sobre corresponsabilidad de género, salud mental y uso del tiempo en la agricultura familiar

    [vc_section el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center circle--pattern" css=".vc_custom_1648956589196{padding-top: 3rem !important;}"][vc_row el_class="pb-5"][vc_column][vc_wp_custommenu nav_menu="6"][uoh_breadcrumb_component automatic_breadcrumb="true"][uoh_title_component title_dropdown="big" title_decorator="true"]{{title}}[/uoh_title_component][vc_column_text css=""]El proyecto estudia los cuidados en perspectiva territorial por medio de un estudio comparativo sobre corresponsabilidad de género, salud mental y uso del tiempo en la agricultura familiar, especialmente en el caso de mujeres campesinas en 4 regiones del país: Arica y Tarapacá, Antofagasta, Metropolitana y Araucanía.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section css=".vc_custom_1649209804184{background-color: #f6faff !important;}" el_class="p-md-0 pt-md-5"][vc_row el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center p-md-0 pt-5"][vc_column el_class="p-0"][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section css=".vc_custom_1649210787516{background-color: #f6faff !important;}" el_class="p-md-0 pt-md-5 pb-md-5"][vc_row el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center"][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section]
    Co-Investigador/a
    • Abril 2026
    AdjudicadoAgencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo - ANID

    Charting Colon Cancer’s Molecular Axes via an Integrated Multi-Omic Atlas and AI-Driven Histopathology

    [vc_section el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center circle--pattern" css=".vc_custom_1648956589196{padding-top: 3rem !important;}"][vc_row el_class="pb-5"][vc_column][vc_wp_custommenu nav_menu="6"][uoh_breadcrumb_component automatic_breadcrumb="true"][uoh_title_component title_dropdown="big" title_decorator="true"]{{title}}[/uoh_title_component][vc_column_text css=""]Chile is facing one of the steepest increases in Colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence and mortality in the Southern Cone, with the greatest surge occurring in adults ≤ 50 years. Incidence is lowest in the far north and increases toward the south-central regions, mirroring a gradient in Aymara-Mapuche Native-American ancestry, an axis largely absent from the European reference cohorts that guide modern precision oncology. To fill this gap, we propose a four-year project to create the first Chile-specific, multi-omic and histopathological atlas of CRC and to explore ancestry-aware, AI-assisted diagnostics. Rationale and Hypothesis. We hypothesise that Chilean CRC shows (i) unique, ancestry-driven molecular patterns that differ from European tumors; (ii) AI models can detect these patterns directly on routine whole-slide images, and (iii) they shape distinct evolutionary paths in early- versus late-onset disease. Specific objectives. Molecular landscape & heterogeneity: Produce single-gland long-read WGS, methylome, and transcriptome profiles for 100 tumors (30 early-onset, 70 late-onset; ≥30× coverage, ≥50 % purity). Ancestry impact: Phase somatic alterations by local ancestry and contrast their frequencies with European CRC genomes (TCGA, PCAWG). AI-enhanced histopathology: Train and externally validate multi-instance-learning (MIL) models that predict microsatellite instability, driver mutations, and whole-genome doubling from matched WSIs, targeting AUC ≥ 0.80 (pilot: AUC ≥ 0.85 for whole-genome doubling on TCGA WSIs). Evolutionary trajectories: Multi-region sequence early-onset and late-onset tumors, reconstruct their clonal phylogenies, and contrast the resulting evolutionary patterns between the two age groups. Team capacity & resources. Computational biologist Alex Di Genova (genomics & AI), pathologist Juan Carlos Araya (digital pathology), and gastro-immunologist Tamara Pérez-Jeldres (clinical phenotyping) have prospective access to >220 new CRC resections and >1,800 registry entries each year. A biobank already houses 100 well-annotated tumour specimens from hospitals in Santiago and the O’Higgins Region, ready for immediate sequencing and imaging. As a team we are delivering important results as (i) the generation of the first telomere-to-telomere Chilean genome, establishing a population-specific reference; (ii) sequenced >270 high-coverage whole genomes of chileans individuals (70 healthy donors, 120 hereditary-breast-cancer cases, 80 primary gallbladder tumors); iii) built the first multi-omic atlas of gallbladder cancer by integrating our data with Korean (n = 94) and Indian (n = 64) cohorts, uncovering a Chile-enriched proliferative phenotype; and (iv) developed CRAB-MIL, a weakly supervised deep-learning framework that predicts whole-genome doubling from routine H&E slides with an AUC > 0.85 and provides attention maps for interpretability. These accomplishments demonstrate our ability to generate, integrate, and clinically interpret large-scale genomic and AI datasets—capabilities directly transferable to Chilean CRC. International collaborators Anaïs Baudot (Marseille) and Luis Zapata (Institute of Cancer Research, London) further contribute multi-omic network analysis and evolutionary-genomics expertise, respectively. Interdisciplinary workflow. Clinical phenotyping, computational histopathology, PromethION sequencing, and Nextflow harmonisation feed ancestry-aware genomic analyses; attention-based models are fine-tuned on TCGA and Chilean WSIs; computational, pathology, and gastroenterology teams jointly review outputs to prioritise clinically relevant signals. All variant calls, methylomes, expression matrices, AI prediction, and metadata will be released through an open and intuitive TumorMap portal. Expected Outcomes and Impact. The project will (i) reveal population-specific drivers and mutational processes, (ii) quantify the frequency of clinically actionable biomarkers originally identified in Europeans, (iii) deliver image-based tools that offer low-cost, molecular stratification and heterogeneity scoring, and (iv) provide a high-resolution evolutionary framework for EO versus LO CRC. Collectively, these data will offer the first high-resolution portrait of the Chilean CRC and lay the groundwork for ancestry-aware screening, diagnostic, and treatment strategies.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section css=".vc_custom_1649209804184{background-color: #f6faff !important;}" el_class="p-md-0 pt-md-5"][vc_row el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center p-md-0 pt-5"][vc_column el_class="p-0"][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section css=".vc_custom_1649210787516{background-color: #f6faff !important;}" el_class="p-md-0 pt-md-5 pb-md-5"][vc_row el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center"][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section]
    Investigador/a Responsable
    • 1261473
    • Abril 2026 - Marzo 2029
    AdjudicadoAgencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo - ANID

    Geomorphological and ecological dynamics of a deglaciated landscape in the subtropical Andes: The proglacial zone of Universidad Glacier, central Chile (34ºS)

    [vc_section el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center circle--pattern" css=".vc_custom_1648956589196{padding-top: 3rem !important;}"][vc_row el_class="pb-5"][vc_column][vc_wp_custommenu nav_menu="6"][uoh_breadcrumb_component automatic_breadcrumb="true"][uoh_title_component title_dropdown="big" title_decorator="true"]{{title}}[/uoh_title_component][vc_column_text css=""].[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section css=".vc_custom_1649209804184{background-color: #f6faff !important;}" el_class="p-md-0 pt-md-5"][vc_row el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center p-md-0 pt-5"][vc_column el_class="p-0"][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section css=".vc_custom_1649210787516{background-color: #f6faff !important;}" el_class="p-md-0 pt-md-5 pb-md-5"][vc_row el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center"][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section]
    Co-Investigador/a
    • PYT-2026-186
    • Abril 2026 - Marzo 2029
    AdjudicadoFundación para la Innovación Agraria - FIA

    Obtención de ingredientes funcionales desde pulpa de sandía residual post cosecha para su uso en la industria de alimentos funcionales y en la agricultura

    [vc_section el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center circle--pattern" css=".vc_custom_1648956589196{padding-top: 3rem !important;}"][vc_row el_class="pb-5"][vc_column][vc_wp_custommenu nav_menu="6"][uoh_breadcrumb_component automatic_breadcrumb="true"][uoh_title_component title_dropdown="big" title_decorator="true"]{{title}}[/uoh_title_component][vc_column_text css=""]La producción de semillas de sandía en Chile es una de las que genera mayores volúmenes (12,5%) y mejores precios (26 MM U$FOB) de exportación respecto del total de semillas exportadas. En los últimos 5 años su exportación ha aumentado considerablemente ocupando el segundo lugar en este mercado. Derivado del procesamiento de los frutos se genera un alto porcentaje de pulpa y cáscara; residuos no aprovechables como subproducto para otras industrias como cuarta gama y/o farmacéutica. El elevado contenido antioxidantes de la sandía representa una oportunidad para su extracción y uso en otras industrias. La solución innovadora permitirá reutilizar grandes volúmenes de la pulpa y cáscara, mitigando su disposición inadecuada y mejorando prácticas agrícolas y biotecnológicas. El objetivo de la propuesta es desarrollar un paquete tecnológico consistente en tres aplicaciones que permiten valorizar los residuos de cáscara y pulpa de sandía para la producción de nutracéuticos, bioenmienda de suelos provenientes de relaves mineros, y sustrato para el crecimiento de microorganismos. El proyecto busca generar innovaciones que promuevan la transformación de los residuos agrícolas, proyectando así nuevos negocios para los productores hortícolas en la industria de los alimentos dando valor agregado a los residuos derivados del procesamiento de semillas. Los resultados esperados de esta iniciativa son: Portafolio de al menos 2 ingredientes funcionales (Licopeno y Citrulina) desarrollados y caracterizados; validación técnica del ingrediente principal (Licopeno o citrulina) con actividad antioxidante; bioenmienda validada en un entorno operacional (campo), alcanzando el nivel de madurez tecnológica TRL7; análisis de mercado robusto que incluye un plan de escalamiento técnico de la bioenmienda; medio de cultivo validado en un entorno operacional (empresas), alcanzando el nivel de madurez tecnológica TRL7; y análisis de mercado robusto que incluye un plan de escalamiento técnico.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section css=".vc_custom_1649209804184{background-color: #f6faff !important;}" el_class="p-md-0 pt-md-5"][vc_row el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center p-md-0 pt-5"][vc_column el_class="p-0"][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section css=".vc_custom_1649210787516{background-color: #f6faff !important;}" el_class="p-md-0 pt-md-5 pb-md-5"][vc_row el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center"][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section]
    Responsable Alterno
    • Abril 2026
    AdjudicadoAgencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo - ANID

    Pressure and shear shock waves on porous matrices: The erosion mechanism underneath water-dripping-on-stone craters

    [vc_section el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center circle--pattern" css=".vc_custom_1648956589196{padding-top: 3rem !important;}"][vc_row el_class="pb-5"][vc_column][vc_wp_custommenu nav_menu="6"][uoh_breadcrumb_component automatic_breadcrumb="true"][uoh_title_component title_dropdown="big" title_decorator="true"]{{title}}[/uoh_title_component][vc_column_text css=""]The phenomenon of a soft liquid drop eroding a hard stone surface over time, immortalized in the ancient proverb «dripping water wears away the stone,» presents a profound mechanical puzzle. While craters are common imprints of high-energy events, those formed by persistent, low-energy water dripping are exceptional. The impact energy of a single drop is far below the threshold required to plastically deform or fracture the material, yet erosion occurs. This project seeks to answer the fundamental question: How can water erode stone through dripping and create distinctive craters? While recent advancements in drop-impact dynamics have revealed that an impacting drop generates propagating fronts of intense, singular pressure and shear, these theories were developed for ideal, non-porous surfaces and are insufficient to explain the erosion. Our preliminary experimental work—which has successfully reproduced water-dripping craters on gypsum targets while failing to erode non-porous materials—points to a crucial, previously overlooked element: the porous nature of the target material. We discovered that erosion and the formation of a distinct surface microstructure of pores commence only after the substrate becomes fully saturated with water. This key finding suggests that the complex interaction between the impact-induced flow and the internal, liquid-filled pore structure is the primary driver of the erosion mechanism. This project will establish the first comprehensive experimental and theoretical framework for slow erosion in porous ma- terials by water dripping. We will investigate three potential and non-exclusive micro-mechanisms. The first is low-Reynolds accumulative erosion, where the impact pressure pumps liquid into the matrix, generating high shear stress along pore walls that slowly abrades material, a process whose rate is expected to be proportional to the wall shear stress. The second is the inter-pore propagation of pressure shocks; because the surface pressure front arrives at adjacent pore openings at slightly different times, large pressure gradients are generated within the saturated matrix, inducing mechanical fatigue and failure of inter-pore walls. The third is cavitation bursts, where the negative-pressure front trailing the initial impact shock— akin to an explosion’s blast wave—causes the formation and violent collapse of vapor bubbles. These collapses generate localized but highly destructive shock waves, a process potentially detectable via acoustic emissions. Our methodology integrates a novel, multi-scale experimental approach with robust theoretical modeling. An automated, custom-built setup, featuring a syringe pump for precise drop control and a photo-gate for impact counting and synchroniza- tion, tracks crater evolution over tens of thousands of reproducible impacts. An automated translation stage will move the sample between the impact zone and a characterization chamber for on-the-run 3D shape reconstruction via high-resolution laser profilometry and for mass measurement via an integrated load cell. This will be complemented by a suite of characteriza- tion techniques, including high-speed imaging to capture rare ejecta events, microscopic surface imaging, and advanced bulk imaging (X-ray Micro-Tomography, Scanning Electron Microscopy or Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) to visualize the internal 3D pore network and wear propagation. Experiments will mainly utilize natural materials like gypsum and selenite, as well as custom-fabricated synthetic porous samples (e.g., PDMS). These transparent, engineered samples will allow for direct flow visualization via Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) to isolate and study specific mechanisms in a controlled environment. The theoretical work will couple established models for drop-impact pressure distributions with frameworks for flow in porous media, wall-shear erosion, and wave propagation. The goal is to develop predictive formulae for crater growth rates and their scaling with fluid and material properties, which can be validated against our extensive experimental data. By leveraging the research team’s expertise in drop-impact forces and tackling this 2,500-year-old question, this project will provide novel insights into fluid-solid interactions, wear on porous materials, and landscape evolution. It moves beyond prior studies, which used simplified substrates, to address the central role of porosity in this long-unsolved problem in continuum physics.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section css=".vc_custom_1649209804184{background-color: #f6faff !important;}" el_class="p-md-0 pt-md-5"][vc_row el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center p-md-0 pt-5"][vc_column el_class="p-0"][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section css=".vc_custom_1649210787516{background-color: #f6faff !important;}" el_class="p-md-0 pt-md-5 pb-md-5"][vc_row el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center"][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section]
    Co-Investigador/a
    • Abril 2026 - Diciembre 2026
    En EjecuciónUniversidad de O'Higgins

    Paquete tecnológico transferible para el control sustentable de nemátodos gastrointestinales en ovinos Hidango del secano costero de Cardenal Caro

    [vc_section el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center circle--pattern" css=".vc_custom_1648956589196{padding-top: 3rem !important;}"][vc_row el_class="pb-5"][vc_column][vc_wp_custommenu nav_menu="6"][uoh_breadcrumb_component automatic_breadcrumb="true"][uoh_title_component title_dropdown="big" title_decorator="true"]{{title}}[/uoh_title_component][vc_column_text css=""]En la Provincia de Cardenal Caro, el control de nemátodos gastrointestinales (NGI) en ovinos se realiza principalmente mediante antiparasitarios químicos, con resultados heterogéneos entre predios. Esta variabilidad puede responder a una combinación de factores: composición local de especies parasitarias, fallas de dosificación/administración y/o presencia de resistencia antihelmíntica. La ausencia de herramientas diagnósticas operativas y de criterios estandarizados de decisión a nivel predial favorece tratamientos repetidos sin evaluación objetiva de eficacia, elevando costos y aumentando la presión de selección de resistencia, con potenciales externalidades ambientales asociadas a residuos en heces. La propuesta desarrolla y transfiere un paquete tecnológico de bajo costo y alta aplicabilidad para el secano costero de Cardenal Caro, utilizando ovinos Hidango como población objetivo. El paquete se estructura en tres componentes integrados: (1) diagnóstico aplicado y línea base territorial, basado en muestreo seriado, recuento de huevos (HPG/EPG) cuando corresponda y registro estandarizado de tratamientos, manejo y condición corporal; (2) confirmación taxonómica y validación molecular estratégica (submuestra sentinela) para respaldar la pertinencia territorial de las recomendaciones sin aumentar costos; y (3) transferencia tecnológica mediante un protocolo operativo (POE), kit de registros y criterios de decisión que permitan implementar un manejo racional del control parasitario en predios.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section css=".vc_custom_1649209804184{background-color: #f6faff !important;}" el_class="p-md-0 pt-md-5"][vc_row el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center p-md-0 pt-5"][vc_column el_class="p-0"][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section css=".vc_custom_1649210787516{background-color: #f6faff !important;}" el_class="p-md-0 pt-md-5 pb-md-5"][vc_row el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center"][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section]
    Investigador/a Responsable
    • Abril 2026
    AdjudicadoAgencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo - ANID

    1260236_Language and interculturality: An examination of mediated practices in the conceptualization and implementation of interculturality in the Spanish, Ancestral Languages, and English as a foreign language school subjects

    [vc_section el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center circle--pattern" css=".vc_custom_1648956589196{padding-top: 3rem !important;}"][vc_row el_class="pb-5"][vc_column][vc_wp_custommenu nav_menu="6"][uoh_breadcrumb_component automatic_breadcrumb="true"][uoh_title_component title_dropdown="big" title_decorator="true"]{{title}}[/uoh_title_component][vc_column_text css=""]The rapid increase in immigration and the presence of different Indigenous peoples in the country have resulted in culturally diverse classrooms in Chile. Cultural differences are significant for communication (Otten & Geppert, 2009) and teaching processes (Liddicoat & Scarino, 2013). Hence, intercultural interactions correspond to embodied culture discourses (Carbaugh, 2017; Shi-xu, 2023), which entail the communication practices that take place at institutional levels (i.e., top-down) and language classrooms (i.e., bottom-up). However, some tensions have been identified in these processes, particularly because they seem to maintain cultural and linguistic hierarchies that do not necessarily promote the social mobility or acceptance of minoritized groups (Flores & Rosa, 2015; Unamuno, 2016; Zavala, 2017). Against this backdrop, discursive practices are at the core of how these raciolinguistic hierarchies are maintained, negotiated, and/or challenged by educational communities. Consequently, the main objective of this research proposal is to examine how language and interculturality are discursively conceptualized and implemented in culturally diverse Chilean schools, specifically within three language subjects: Spanish, Ancestral Languages, and English as a Foreign Language. This objective is articulated through the following research question: How are language and interculturality discursively conceptualized and implemented in culturally diverse Chilean schools across the subjects of Spanish, Ancestral Languages, and English as a Foreign Language? To address this question, the project outlines four specific objectives (SOs): SO1) To examine how interculturality is discursively constructed in educational policies and the national curriculum on language subjects (i.e., Spanish, Ancestral Languages, and English as a Foreign Language); SO2) To assess how language teachers understand and implement intercultural practices in Chile, highlighting areas of convergence and divergence; SO3) To analyze how school communities discursively construct interculturality on their schoolscapes; and SO4) To analyze how language teachers’ actions and decisions address interculturality in the language classroom. The proposed research is a mixed-methods study (Creswell & Plano, 2018). First, we will analyze a corpus of institutional pedagogical discourses to examine how interculturality is discursively constructed in educational policies and the national curriculum (SO1). To this end, the data will be examined from a Corpus-Assisted Approach to Discourse Studies (CADS) (Partington et al., 2013) following the guidelines proposed by Jaworska and Kinloch (2018, p. 116) for a thorough and systematic examination of multiple datasets in CADS. The first quantitative stage considers the analysis of frequency, concordance lines, collocations, and keywords. The second qualitative stage is informed by Bacchi's (2012) model, What's the Problem Represented to be? (or WPR) and the Discourse-Historical Approach (Reisigl, 2017; Reisigl & Wodak, 2016). Second, we will conduct a questionnaire to identify how language teachers understand interculturality and intercultural practices in their classrooms (SO2). The sampling considers a disproportionate stratification to enable similar sample sizes for Spanish and EFL teachers, and Traditional Educators, ensuring the representation of Traditional Educators, who are the smallest population (CEM Mineduc, 2024). Third, we will analyze how school communities discursively construct interculturality on their school grounds (SO3) through the examination of schoolscapes (Gorter & Cenoz, 2015). To this end, three schools across three regions will be selected (i.e., Tarapacá, Metropolitan, and Araucanía) to ensure geographic representativeness. The data will be analyzed in light of Ledin and Machin’s multimodality framework (2017, 2018, 2019) as it incorporates the materiality of the semiotic signs, the ideologies and beliefs behind the creation of multimodal texts, and the recontextualization of social actors and practices (van Leeuwen, 2008). Finally, we analyze the actions and decisions language teachers take to address interculturality in the language classroom (SO4) through classroom observation (minimum 48 pedagogical hours in total; four hours per language subject) in the same schools. These observations will be analyzed using the synopsis technique (Dolz et al., 2018; Schneuwly & Dolz, 2009), which allows us to both hierarchize central pedagogical sequences and examine teachers' actions and students' reactions in detail. In turn, it enables data reduction and serves as heuristic support for analysis. Expected results seek to enlighten how educators co-create language and interculturality in culturally diverse schools. It examines how these social actors recontextualize and mediate top-down policies to their daily realities, thus illuminating the negotiation and resemiotization of hegemonic understandings of interculturality in line with the needs of their own communities (bottom-up practices).[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section css=".vc_custom_1649209804184{background-color: #f6faff !important;}" el_class="p-md-0 pt-md-5"][vc_row el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center p-md-0 pt-5"][vc_column el_class="p-0"][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section][vc_section css=".vc_custom_1649210787516{background-color: #f6faff !important;}" el_class="p-md-0 pt-md-5 pb-md-5"][vc_row el_class="container mx-auto align-items-center"][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][/vc_section]
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    • 3261097
    • Abril 2026
    AdjudicadoAgencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo - ANID

    Procesos de convivencia intercultural en escuelas secundarias chilenas diversas: un estudio multimodal y decolonial en relación a los discursos y prácticas escolares sobre la producción de diferencias étnicas y migrantes

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    • Abril 2026 - Marzo 2030
    AdjudicadoAgencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo - ANID

    Mixed-integer quadratic bilevel optimization algorithms for security and decision-focused learning

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