Artesanía Temuco, Región de la Araucanía, Chile.

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International Cooperation

Fields of International Cooperation

These fields are framed in the Cooperation Agreement of 1968, whose Plan of Action (2008-2011) was signed in 2008 by CONYCIT (National Commission for Scientific and Technical Research) and by the Swiss Secretary of Education and Research as a result  to the State visit paid by H.E. President Bachelet to Switzerland in 2007-. Only Chile and Brazil are considered by Switzerland as priority countries for scientific cooperation in Latin America, bonds that will strengthen with the State Visit to Chile of the Swiss President in December 2008.

The central elements of the bilateral Action Plan are:

•    Research projects between universities and researchers in renewable energies (water power, solar energy, geothermal power, nuclear power and biofuels); climate change (biodiversity, water, food safety and agriculture, natural disasters, seismic vulnerability, research on the biosphere reserve), electronics and microtechnology.

•    Exchange of doctorate and post doctorate scholarships, with the possibility of including other topics in 2011-2015.

•    Seminars and meetings between researchers and universities, the first of these will take place in 2009 in Switzerland.

The period comprised between 2012 and 2015 relies on the success of the first stage, including new areas of research as industrial processes in biological systems, mathematical sciences and applied informatics, astronomy, astrophysics applied to new technologies, health and technological transfer.

Within the framework of the Cooperation Agreement on Organic Agriculture, between ODEPA (Chile’s Agriculture Studies and Policies Office) and the Swiss Department of Agriculture, farmers’ cooperative societies of the Maule region in Chile produce organic wine that is already being commercialized in Switzerland. ODEPA has just presented a project to Switzerland to produce organic cheese in Chiloé, Chile.