As part of an alliance established between the Latin American Federation for Culture Collections and the Faculty of Engineering and Science of the Universidad de La Frontera, an international workshop has been organized that already brought together more than 500 people who are working in the field of microbiology and other related fields.

With the support of the UFRO Macro Faculty of Engineering and the IEEE WIE, an international organisation dedicated to promoting women engineers and scientists, 22 UFRO undergraduate students officially established a group to promote the participation of women in the fields of engineering, science and technology.

Last year, on March 15, 2020, the Council of Rectors of Chilean Universities (CRUCH) made the decision to officially close the classrooms of our universities in order to protect our students and staff from the imminent threat of COVID-19.

On April 20, the international scientific community got together in the second module of the workshop “Ex situ Preservation and Data Management in Collections of Microbial Cultures”, which was organized by the Latin American Federation for Culture Collections (FELACC) and the Faculty of Engineering and Science of the university Universidad de La Frontera (UFRO), as well as the UFRO Research Center for Mycorrhizae and Agri-environmental Sustainability (CIMYSA) and the company for scientific dissemination Xplain.

UFRO is the only university in Latin America with which KU Leuven maintains a comprehensive Collaboration Agreement and a Double Degree Agreement, which has been signed in 2017.