Academic Forums

It was born from efforts made by both the Italian Embassy in Chile and the Chilean Embassy in Italy, to generate a binational academic forum that fosters cooperation between Chilean universities and their Italian counterparts, with particular emphasis on priority multidisciplinary issues that present pre-existing collaborations. The organizing universities are Universidad de Chile, Universidad de Concepción and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, which invited the following Italian universities: Università di Bologna, Sapienza Università di Roma, Universita Degli Studi di Messina, and Politecnico di Torino.

In 2015, the first Chile-France academic forum was born, aiming to strengthen cooperation relationships in science and technology, and higher education and international mobility. The forum has the participation of government authorities, representatives of research and innovation institutions, and researchers from both countries. University of Chile, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Embassy of France, ANID and CRUCH (Executive Committee), jointly organize this forum in coordination with a Scientific Committee composed of representatives of the University of Chile, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (coordinators of the tables of work), IRD, CNRS, INRIA, ECOS-ANID Committee, UDEC, and UACH.

The ACCESS platform (Academic Collaboration Between Chile and Sweden) was born in 2016 to promote joint research collaboration between Chile and Sweden. ACCESS annual academic forums are the main activity within the platform. However, ACCESS has also been awarded funds to carry out joint doctoral courses and managed to create a CONICYT-STINT competitive fund (Chile and Sweden) with financing for academic mobility in the framework of joint projects. The founding universities are Uppsala University, Lund University, Universidad de Chile, and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. In 2018, the possibility was opened for more universities to join the platform. The incorporated institutions were: Stockholm University, University of Gothenburg, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Karolinska Institutet, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Södertörn University from Sweden; University of Concepción, University of Magallanes, University of O’Higgins, University of Aysén and University of Santiago de Chile. ACCESS has operated in three thematic groups: New and Future Social Challenges, Sustainable use of Natural Resources, Health Challenges in Modern Society.

Inspired by the UTokyo Forum held in Santiago and Sao Paulo in November 2013, the Chile-Japan Academic Forum is a bi-annual activity that occurs alternately between Japan and Chile. It aims to establish an academic platform to promote scientific and research collaboration between these institutions. The central universities in Japan and Chile, such as the University of Tokyo, the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and the Universidad de Chile, lead the forum’s organization. Its main topics are Astronomy, Natural Disasters, Engineering and Technology, Asian and Latin American Studies, and the Pacific Ocean.