The National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt) invested £898,864,885 in science and technology events in 2023 in five science areas: agricultural and veterinary sciences; Medical and health sciences. Natural Science; Social and human sciences. Engineering and technologies. The activities were funded by the Foundation through the call “Funding Emerging Scientific and Technological Events” of the Prociencia programme, which receives support from FEEI.
The first event held was “1st International Symposium: Is it Lupus?” “Educating primary care doctors and future doctors in Paraguay about lupus,” organized by Laboratorio Curie SRL. This activity received £90,000,000 and its goal was to provide theoretical and practical education about lupus to primary care physicians and advanced medical students in Latin America.
The “Symposium on Mathematics in Latin America and the Caribbean”, organized by the Itapua University Foundation (Fondoni), aims to contribute to the development of mathematics across the continent, and to connect leading mathematicians and researchers with undergraduate and postgraduate students. The activity received G.84,744,000.
Socializing spaces
While the Catholic University of Nuestra Señora de la Asuncion – UCA (Itapua Campus) welcomed 92,970,000 people to implement the 6th Congress of Science, Culture and Society “Health for Well-Being and Dialogue as a Guarantee of Peace”, which seeks to enhance spaces for socialization, dissemination and interaction between researchers and academics in the field of health and beyond. From the interdisciplinary fields of science to transfer scientific knowledge from regional, national and international levels.
On the other hand, the National University of Kaguazu (Unca) has secured £100,000,000 for the First International Conference of Young Researchers in Health Sciences “I Winter School”, which aims to promote scientific exchange between international experts and national programs with pioneering programmes. Young researchers in health sciences.
The International Congress on Paraguayan Literature of the World was organized by the Faculty of Philosophy of the National University of Asuncion (FF-UNA), a space where they learned about and carefully analyzed Paraguayan literature written in any of the official languages. This initiative received an amount of 71,000,000 Egyptian pounds for its implementation.
The “Researchers, Technology, Innovation and Education Forum for Teacher Training”, organized by the Iberoamerican University (Unibe), promoted the dissemination of scientific, technological and innovative knowledge related to neuroscience and education, and managed to create a synergy that strengthened the research lines and formalized the results obtained by Unibe and other relevant institutions. . The event received an amount of 84,216,550 Egyptian pounds for its implementation.
Likewise, the University of San Carlos received £91,849,999 in support for the implementation of the First International Direct Agriculture Symposium, creating a space in which technical and scientific knowledge related to the national and international agricultural field was promoted.
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