During the COVID-19 pandemics, Fraunhofer Chile's collaborators are working from home and the laboratory is working short shifts, just to support critical tasks. Our contact channels are open through email and social networks.
Nuestro aniversario número 70 es una ocasión para celebrar a la Fundación Fraunhofer junto a sus socios, colegas y todos quienes quieran dar forma al futuro.
During the COVID-19 pandemics, Fraunhofer Chile's collaborators are working from home and the laboratory is working short shifts, just to support critical tasks. Our contact channels are open through email and social networks.
We add value to agro-industrial waste with a focus on a circular economy, create functional foods, work on sustainable pollination and bee health, and devise Smart Agro solutions.
We formulate products to improve productivity and disease control of aquaculture species, innovate in diagnostic methods and support aquaculture diversification programs.
We design sustainable solutions in bioprocesses, evaluate agricultural and aquaculture residues to generate energy and investigate sustainable uses of water.
We focus our research on the use of engineering for the development of innovative technology in the installation and management of solar thermal pilot plants.
In order to anticipate problems at an early stage, we provide services for the photovoltaic industry with certified state-of-the-art technology and specialized professionals.
Pilar Parada, general manager of Fraunhofer Chile, elected one of 100 Women Leaders
The recognition, granted by newspaper El Mercurio and the organization Mujeres Empresarias, highlighted the contribution of the also director of our Center for Systems Biotechnology for the high presence of female researchers on its staff and the work to detect SARS-CoV-2 in the field.
Solar Energy Technology Center defines its strategic guidelines for 2020
A day of participatory work culminated in the preparation of strategic definitions for 2020, with which this center of excellence of CORFO and Fraunhofer Chile Research Foundation seeks to advance its goal of promoting sustainable development in Chile and Latin America.
Actors in the agro-industry know solar technological solutions to improve the sustainability of the sector
The conference was organized by the Fraunhofer Chile Center for Solar Energy Technologies and DMC Consultants, with the participation and support of the Minister of Agriculture, Antonio Walker, who stressed that "agriculture must be sustainable" and announced a working group to advance in public-private collaboration on this issue.
New area leaders have been appointed at the Fraunhofer Solar Energy Center Chile
As leader of the Solar Thermal Systems Group, the researcher María Teresa Cerda took over, while in the Photovoltaic Systems Group, the engineer and expert in solar resources and renewable energies, Aloïs Salmon, was appointed. Both professionals are part of the Center's research team, and have a vast and successful professional career.
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