Our mission

Who We Are

The University of Concepción conceived from the boldness of its founders, opened much more than a higher education institution; it created a new space directed towards the community. The estate of La Cantera and El Guindo, located in the hilly and ravine areas surrounding its heritage campus, possess environmental significance that the Campus Naturaleza project aims to protect and highlight for the community of Concepción.

Campus Naturaleza proposes a new way of interaction between humans and nature, based on the conservation of areas with high biodiversity value, scientific research, and human well- being, transforming it into a biocultural legacy for the community of Concepción, the country, and the planet.

About Campus Naturaleza UdeC

This is the organizational model of the Campus Naturaleza project at the University of Concepción, which includes the following entities:

  • Director board:: Comisión Mixta, compuesta por miembros del Directorio de la Universidad, y 2 representantes del Consejo Académico. Actualmente, desempeñan este rol: Claudio Rocuant Castro, Pedro Ramírez Glade, Eugenio Sanfuentes Von Stowasser y Roberto Urrutia Pérez.

  • Technical Team: : Integrado por el Patrocinador Institucional, Director Técnico y Equipo Técnico de Proyecto.

  • Advisory Units: : Comité Técnico Asesor UdeC y Consejo Consultivo Mixto.

  • Support board:: Compuesto por distintas reparticiones y unidades de la Casa de Estudios. En este ámbito se ubica la Unidad de Fundraising  Institucional, encabezado por Ximena Clark Núnez, así como la Global Partnership Adviser, Camila Iturra. Adicionalmente, se destaca la Comisión Estratégica Internacional, compuesta por Sara Oldfield, Kathleen Wolf y Mike Mounder

Campus Naturaleza University of Concepción is a conservation and restoration project for areas with a high biodiversity value, located just minutes from its central campus. One of the missions of this unprecedented initiative in our country, is to protect endangered species, aquatic ecosystems, and one of the last remnants of deciduous forests of Concepción that still exist in the area. These are unique and irreplaceable transitional forests between the ecosystems of the central and southern regions of the country.

A través de Campus Naturaleza, la University of Concepcion adopta un nuevo compromiso, no sólo con su quehacer institucional, sino con la comunidad, legando un nuevo espacio de divulgación y recreación, fundado en la ciencia como piedra angular y proponiendo una nueva forma de interacción, que posibilite los beneficios para el ser humano en su contacto con la naturaleza.

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