Diapositiva 1

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Universidad
RAFAEL LANDÍVAR
Guatemala, Central America
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Locating Guatemala
116 HDI, 36 year civil war, racism and lingering
apartheid, civil insecurity second only to South
Africa, 9 tax take, non viable political
parties, unmanageable diversity.
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History
History

• Private institution of Jesuit inspiration,
  dedicated to higher education
• Created in 1961, as the first private university
  in Guatemala
• Largest Private University in Central America,
  3rd in Latin America, 20, 000 students.
• Member of AUSJAL, 28 university network since 1985

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Regional campuses Faculties Institutes
Alta Verapaz Huehuetenango Quetzaltenango Quiché Coatepeque Retalhuleu Escuintla Antigua Guate. Jutiapa Zacapa Economics Business Adm. Engineering Architecture Design Political Social Sciences Humanities Environment Agriculture Law Theology Medicine and Public Health IDIES INDIS INGEP INTRAPAZ IPSI IARNA IIJ ICE IM IDIMC
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Basic and Applied Research Programmefor
Regional Development with a Micro-Territorial
focusthe What?
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R D Create a Research and Development Platform
Small-Scale Enterprises and Opportunities for
Value Chain Development
Ethnic, Social, and Political Viability
of Development Interventions
Research Programme for Regional Development
with a Micro-Territorial focus the What?
Small Scale Clean Energy Generation linked
with Technology Development For SME
Environment as an Opportunity for Development
Development of Masters Programmes Food
Technology, ESMD, Rural Development
Institution Transformation of Small Regional
Campus with Embedded Human Capital needed for
Development
PP VLIR N-S S-S IU Coop
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Programa de Investigación para el Desarrollo
Regional con Enfoque Territorial(Proindercet-
VLIR)Schematic overview of the
inter-disciplinary logic of the Research Program
for Regional Development with a Micro-Territorial
Focus (next slide)
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Schematic overview
International Knowledge Explosion
MACRO Prices at the Frontier
North-South
South-South
Advanced Technology
VLIR-IUC
Value Chain Product 1
Value Chain Product 2
Value Chain Product 3
Micro Watershed Mangment, Clean Energy
Production, Taking Biodiversity to the Market,
adding Value by Eco ISOs
M E S O
Fields of Viability and Governance
Learning how common sense is Produced and
influences non-demand driven power (micro
enterprise, Enviroment, technology, and legality)
Tailored Adaptation to value chains and SMEs
SME TYPOLOGY enriched with a) style of
management, b) life strategies, gender, c)
economic and technological rationalities
MICRO
POVERTY LEVEL MILLENIUM GOALS
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Matching tying multidisciplinary research and
even disciplinary research within an
Interdisciplinary Prism
Transdisciplinary subject/object of programe
Disciplinary focus
Actors who can only live in an interdisciplinary
fashion 1) Local communities / informal
networks 2) Associations, NGOs, Indirect
bilateral programmes 3) Local and regional
governments 4) the Regional Campuses (students,
teachers without research skills, Junior and
Senior researchers open to linking their
discipline with development).
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Important Steps to Increase Programme Coherence
and Inter-Disciplinarity

1. Project teams research a Common Territory
2. A central focus that can potentially link
   different actors, different problems, and
   different sciences (URL value chain).
3. A Matrix that can relate important disciplinary
   findings to a key variable of great interest to
   the multi-actors and stakeholders in the
   territory
4. Styles of Research and Teaching that release the
   potentials of Development Actors and University
   Communities to share their own processes to
   change their own lives.

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An Operational Context for Research and
Development

• 3 year alliance of the URL with a major Fundation
  which generated a GEF programme with Government,
  Private Enterprise in Energy, and Local
  Communities to invest
• 2.5 mm in clean energy development in high
  poverty territories
• 10 mm in use of clean energy in SME value added
  transformation
• 2.5 mm in embedded community development
• Alliance with the URL for research and embedded,
  university trained human capital