Social and technological innovation: AUF Americas supports seven new projects
The AUF Americas is pleased to announce the funding of seven new action-research projects as part of the Social and Technological Innovation in the Americas program.
Totaling nearly $200,000, this grant follows a call for projects issued in the summer of 2024.
The seven projects selected are as follows
| Project title | Key team members |
| Creole narratives on space, language and identity in Colombia, from the Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina |
Scientific leader : Wooldy Edson Louidor, Pontifical Javeriana University Scientific co-director: Handerson Joseph, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul Representative of partner socio-economic organization: Xander Orlando Dena Bent, One Raizal Corporation |
| Media literacy in a transnational context: Co-development of training for South American newcomers to Canada |
Scientific leader : Maryline Vivion, Université Laval Scientific co-director : Liliane Machado, University of Brasilia Representative of the partner socio-economic organization: Aïcha Mansoor, Service d'aide à l'adaptation des immigrants et immigrantes |
| Leveraging the university experience of international students to offer relevant student services: an action research project in the Brazil-Quebec axis |
Scientific coordinator : Émilie Doutreloux, Université Laval Scientific co-supervisor : Gilmar Pereira Da Silva, Federal University of Pará Representative of the partner socio-economic organization : Israël Sèwanou Hounsou, Instituto HAFAMA |
| Intelligent greenhouse mini-laboratory |
Scientific manager: Sergio Salimbeni, University of El Salvador Scientific co-leader : Rafiq Ahmad, University of Alberta Representative of the partner socio-economic organization : Sebastián Martos, Instituto PIO IX |
| S.A.F.E.: "Système Avancé de Filtration Écologique", a green technology employing aquatic macrophytes for the depollution of antibiotics and the reduction of antibiotic resistance |
Scientific manager : Philippe Juneau, Université du Québec à Montréal Scientific co-supervisor : Marcelo Pedrosa Gomes, Federal University of Paraná Representative of the partner socio-economic organization : Gustavo Rafael Collere Possetti, Companhia de Saneamento do Paraná |
| The challenge of diversifying agro-ecological farms in Mendoza (Argentina), links between production and circulation spaces as generators of socio-technological innovations |
Scientific leader: Mariano Javier Salomone, National University of Cuyo Scientific co-director: Humberto Tomassino, University of the Republic Representative of partner socio-economic organization: Cristobal Cardozo, "La nueva colonia" agroecological production cooperative |
| Genome-wide association and genotype-environment interaction on fertility traits in Gir dairy cattle from Brazil and Colombia using a reaction norm model |
Scientific leader: Josineudson Augusto II de Vasconcelos Silva, Julio de Mesquita Filho Paulista State University Scientific co-responsible : Darwin Yovanny Hernández Herrera, National University of Colombia Representative of the partner socio-economic organization: Roberto Eladio Cortés Marmolejo, Asociación Regional de Ganaderos de Puerto Boyacá |
About Social and Technological Innovation in the Americas
This program supports research-action projects associating local or regional socio-economic players with research teams or structures belonging to AUF member universities in the Americas. Inter-university and international in nature, these projects contribute to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Source: www.auf.org/
