A dozen young people, including an Industrial Civil Engineering student who starred in a viral video with his project, have found valuable support in a recently created university division.
«To bring it here, I had to take it from my mom,» said Juan Briones, an Industrial Civil Engineering student of the Universidad Católica del Maule (UCM), as he presented the life diary of his deceased father in a video recorded in a cemetery. This diary is a large book that his father filled with memories.
«You will realize how impractical it is to carry this around, especially if we are four brothers. This diary can only be in one place at a time,» he pointed out in the capsule originally broadcast on TikTok, which later went viral on the Instagram profile of UCM’s Directorate of Innovation, Development and Technology Transfer.
Under the title «Remember Me», Briones concentrated all the remembrances of his father in a digital platform, which «generates a personalized code that can be integrated into the tombstone or shared among the loved ones of the deceased person,» the student indicated to a national media outlet.
«The video garnered over two thousand views and hundreds of comments, some even from other countries. The truth is that we were not that surprised, because the idea is very ingenious,» said the manager of the Innovative Entrepreneurship Unit, Soraya Castro.
The division, created within the Innovation Department, seeks to support students whose research can be applied in the industrial sector or transformed into technology-based companies.
«We help them identify and apply for public and private financing. Fortunately, we have been very successful. Many young people have come asking for guidance with truly spectacular ideas, theses or research,» Castro added.
Valorization of Research
One of these initiatives, called «Valorization of Research at the University» (VIU, in Spanish), received five projects supported by the Innovative Entrepreneurship Unit, including «Remember Me».
«The results will be announced in a few months. They all deserve to win; they are geniuses in training and have worked hard,» said the manager.
The other initiatives correspond to research led by Eric Pérez, a Biotechnology Engineering student, who is working with his classmates José Duarte and Javier Aguilera on the valorization of brewery waste; Ignacio Escobar, from the same program, who is proposing the manufacture of a powdered food supplement based on mushrooms; Marcela Cancino, also from Biotechnology Engineering, proposing a pharmaceutical formulation based on nanoparticles to improve colorectal cancer treatment; and Tomás Meléndez, Cristóbal Cortés, Bastián Bustamante and Eric Rojas from the Faculty of Engineering Sciences, whose project promotes a virtual classroom, with personalized assistance and a user manual.
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