The activity seeks to support students who have already taken ICT courses before to resolve doubts or advance their learning of these technological resources.

With the aim of uniting and encouraging older adults to acquire new knowledge about technology, such as the use of social and digital networks, academics Eva Toro and Karina Núñez, professionals from the Educational Computing Center of the U. de La Serena, will teach on Tuesdays, July 15, 22 and 29, and on Wednesday, July 30, the workshop “Reinforcing my technological knowledge”, which seeks to remember and reaffirm the contents of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) already known to adults. greater. 

This workshop, organized jointly by the Extension Directorate and the Educational Informatics Center (CIE), seeks for participants to reaffirm the knowledge acquired in previous workshops on knowledge and mastery of digital tools. Professor Eva Toro stated that the idea is to “do a recapitulation of the workshops that we have already worked with adults, that is, introduction to ICT, social networks, connecting to the internet and other smaller workshops, such as my digital album ( …) it was taken as an initiative to make this memory of what we have seen during previous years.”

Likewise, it is intended to cover new knowledge and provide solutions to the doubts and concerns that older adults have about digital concepts. In the first instance, it is vitally important to "remember what has been worked on with them, since the learning rates that each one has are different, and they have not had the option of reinforcing, of having someone to consult this acquired learning", added the academic.

In this way, the Extension Directorate in conjunction with the ULS Educational Computing Center cordially invites all those who wish to participate in this activity and navigate digital knowledge. For more information, go to the Information Office of the Extension Center (Prat 446) or contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and phone number 051-2-204171.

This collection arrives in Chile to travel through the different cities from north to south. 

This Thursday, July 3 at 17:30 p.m. The photographic exhibition “Archaeological Finds in Germany” will be inaugurated, brought to Chile by the photographer Svend Hansen and the German Embassy in our country. The exhibition will be open to the public from July 4 to 15 in the Exhibition Hall of the University of La Serena, located at 950 Benavente Street, La Serena, from Monday to Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 14:00 p.m. and from 16:00 p.m. :18 to 30:XNUMX hours.

The exhibition will show a selection of 45 photographs of some of the most important archaeological finds on German soil from the last 500.000 years. “Each object represents an object from daily life, rituals or celebrations and is from all the long stages in which human beings lived as hunters and gatherers and then the expansion of towns, the economy and the migration of people.” peoples,” commented Eva Birke, head of the Office of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the ULS. 

Birke announced that in the exhibition there will be photographic material as important as “the Celestial Disk of Nebra”, which is the oldest known representation of astronomical phenomena, which generates a link with the astronomy of the region. Furthermore, he added that “the visitor will encounter pieces not only from one culture, but from many influences and from many cultures of Europe. It is an offer from the German Archaeological Institute and the German Embassy (…). It is another point of view to discover more about the history of Germany and Europe.”

This exhibition is the result of the union of more than 10 European museums, which lent their best paintings and their most important collection pieces to show in the most complete way the most significant stages in German and Central European history.  

“Hosting the exhibition in the University Exhibition Hall is hosting the exhibition in the heart of the city of La Serena and also the University and the visitor can discover the historical eras of Germany. I think it can also be an exchange or a very lively conversation about what they can see in the exhibition and also perhaps establish an interest with Germany and with the language and culture, or also find things that they saw on a visit to Germany," he said. Birke.

This activity is part of the exhibition cycle of the Extension Directorate of the University of La Serena and has the collaboration of the German Embassy in Chile, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the German Chilean Institute of La Serena.

For more information and queries, go to the Information Office of the ULS Extension Center (Prat 446) or contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and phone 51-2204171.

The activity had a large turnout and showed in-depth research on the social concepts discussed by the speaker, Dr. María Teresa Juliá. 

At the ULS Extension Center, nearly a hundred people attended the conference on Contemporary Psychology and Society, called “Threading networks between families, schools and the community: A proposal in Action” given by the academic from the Department of Psychology of the U. de la Serena, Dr. María Teresa Juliá, who in clear and simple language explained and exemplified the strengthening of family, school and community networks and the project that works together with schools in the education sector. The Companies and the Carmen Goudie Foundation.

The specialist addressed topics focused on the social relationships that are generated between schools and the community, having a common denominator: families, especially the students' mothers, who tend to participate more in these activities and encourage children to participate. meet personal and educational goals to improve their quality of life with efficient teaching in schools. To achieve this, families tend to encourage and invest - increasingly - in a good education for their children with the aim of improving their learning and academic results, without sparing resources according to their economic limitations.

Dr. Juliá maintained that the work that families do in the academic aspects of their children is not minor, because they are very committed to the culture and concerned that the children receive a good education. Furthermore, parents are very clear about their obstacles, since the more commitment they have to the quality of their children's education and the more responsibilities they establish in carrying out their education, the greater their frustration at not being able to access an education. quality for their minors. 

Furthermore, from another perspective, the specialist explained that one of the great parental strengths that exists occurs when families have support resources from family and social networks. In this way, the social relationships that parents establish with the community are significant for the development of their families, as is their ability to request and benefit from help from others, which constitutes one of the competencies that allow characterizing to a father or mother as good, even for those parents who are applying for adoption or seeking custody of their children in the Family Courts. 

All of these criteria are of great importance because the social alignment and integrity of families with schools and the community manage to create a space in which these three social entities become educationally and culturally involved for their own benefit.   

The activity was part of the 2014 Concert Series, organized by the ULS Extension Directorate.

Transversal and attractive, this is how we could define the first Chamber Concert presented by the performers Sergio Carvajal (piano) and Rodrigo Barraza (violin) in the premises of the Extension Center of the University of La Serena, who were eager to make their work known. I work in the Coquimbo Region. 

Students, academics, classical music fans and older adults were captivated by the extensive repertoire presented by these two music teachers from Copiapó, through contrast and interpretative fusion, giving life to masterful musical pieces in which compositions by the Chilean Miguel Letelier, the Frenchman Jules Massenet and the great German pianist and conductor Ludwig van Beethoven, were heard and applauded by the audience present.

The attention, respect and enthusiasm on the part of the attendees were evident the moment Carvajal opened the Chamber Concert with a piano solo in which he performed “Gavilán” by Violeta Parra, under the composition of Letelier, and then gave start the piano and violin duo with Rodrigo Barraza, his colleague and partner in this musical project presented in La Serena. In this way, both gave life to the classic works of Massenet and Beethoven, musical fusions that received very good reviews from viewers.

“As for the concert, it is quite interesting, since the pianist plays a Chilean composer, Latin American music and making the contrast with the music of Beethoven and with Massenet - which is another style of music - is quite interesting as a concert for people. and also for the performer,” said the piano academic of the Music Department of the U. de La Serena, Javier Malebrán.

For his part, Rubén Herrera, a veterinarian by profession and a fan of music, said that he found the Chamber Concert to be an attractive and captivating activity for his mind and spirit. “He was quite good, attractive, with quite a lot of prominence on the part of the performers. The duo was good, especially Beethoven's Primavera sonata and then Massenet's, excellent. Good sound and it attracted the audience, it captivated them (…). A good moment of fun, attraction and spirit, because with this melody we brighten our minds and our spirit because they are very beautiful melodies,” said Herrera, who was very pleased with the presentation of these two northern performers.

The script seeks to deliver a new way of learning and loving mathematics.

In the search to facilitate the learning of mathematics in schoolchildren through a playful and recreational way, the Extension Directorate of the University of La Serena and its theatrical cast -Étéuls- has carried out an attractive way of showing exercises and mathematical problems through three works: “In networks with Polígona”, “Zero stress” and “The death of 8”, which make up the theatrical trilogy called “Mathematical Stories to the Cube”. The activity, which is under the direction of its scriptwriter and actress Catalina Cvitanic, will be presented next Thursday, July 3, at 11:30 a.m., in the Aula Magna Ignacio Domeyko of the ULS. 

These mathematical works are open to all types of audiences, especially students and teachers, and their main objective is to recreate mathematical concepts in a playful and very didactic way. “The theater that we do is mathematical theater, which allows us to bring mathematics closer through entertaining stories, where the spectator has the possibility of getting involved with the games and riddles that these pedagogical comedies pose,” stated the theater director, Dr. Catalina Cvitanic.

"The results of these theatrical shorts have been excellent, we know that their reception and the learning achieved by the students has been verified in the classrooms with their teachers, who have taken these works as didactic support to provide a more comprehensive training to their students. This has meant that these pedagogical comedies have excellent reviews. In that sense we have been improving the way we deliver this tool, we have realized that the public is much better served by this type of theater through rather short plays (...) we can quickly see that children do, indeed, get hooked ' with the problems that arise in them and even if the solution is given, there are still questions to be answered and that is the work that the teacher must continue in the classroom, since the children are left wanting to continue working on the problems and with the concern of finding out why this or that formula works,” said Cvitanic.

For all those interested and those who wish to be part of the magic of theater and mathematics, you only have to go to the offices of the Extension Center, at Prat 446, call 051-2-204171 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The activities included the most representative aspects of Thai culture: the traditional Thai massage, the national sport Muay Thai and its typical food.

More than one hundred people participated in the successful “Roadshow Thailand 2014”, an activity organized by the Royal Thai Embassy in Chile and the Extension Directorate of the University of La Serena, and which allowed the regional community to learn more about Thai culture and Enjoy different representative activities of this country located in Southeast Asia. 

The first part of this Roadshow took place in the Gabriel González Videla room of the Regional Administration, an occasion in which the first secretary of the Embassy, ​​Prapasri Chetsonkcul, gave an informative talk about Thailand in which she addressed economic, social and cultural aspects, in addition to referring to the global recognition of tourism and the bilateral relations between both neighboring nations in the Pacific, united by strong respect and solid attachment to international law and universal values, protagonists of an emerging economy, with great resources and natural reserves, and promoters of free trade and outward-oriented economic development strategies. 

Then it was time to demonstrate traditional Thai massage, led by two great exponents: Aldo Pfeiffer Espinoza, Chilean therapist and Thai massage teacher, and his wife Chalika Noonin, native teacher of traditional Thai massage and graduate in public health in Bangkok. . They both shared their experience in practicing this ancient healing art technique and explained the benefits of this massage technique. 

There was also a demonstration of Muay Thai (Thai boxing) by the world champion of the discipline, Juan Carlos ''Huracán'' Coria, and the two-time Muay Thai world champion, Daniela Callejas, who introduced the practice of this sport of combat and martial art originating from Thailand.

Subsequently, the more than one hundred people present at the activity went to the Extension Center of the University of La Serena to participate in the tasting of Thai food, prepared by the chefs of the Thai Embassy. This is how the public was able to taste and observe how some typical Thai dishes are made such as Plaa Tuna (Thai tuna canapé), Pad Horapaa Gai (chicken stir-fried with basil) and Fak Thong Gaen Buad (squash in coconut milk).

Rapprochement between both cultures

Present at this “Roadshow Thailand 2014” were the Thai ambassador to Chile, Surapon Petch-Vra, and the Rector of the University of La Serena, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés Pizarro, who valued the carrying out of this type of activities that allow the rapprochement between both cultures.

“Their emphasis is on the cultural aspect of our country, as we believe that culture is what brings us together. Although Thailand and Chile are geographically far away, culture brings us closer,” said the diplomat, who also highlighted the great attendance of the public at this Roadshow, an emblematic activity of the Embassy that seeks to make Thailand known in various cities in Chile.

Meanwhile, the Rector of the ULS, Dr. Nibaldo Avilés, said that “the joint work with embassies from various countries has been a hallmark of the work carried out in these years by our Extension Directorate, thus allowing us to offer the community samples intercultural and generate permanent initiatives over time. This is the case of this Roadshow, an initiative that brings both cultures closer together and which we hope will be the first of many joint activities with the Thai Embassy."

In this sense, the Director of Extension, Dr. Catalina Cvitanic, stated that for the institution it is very important to establish alliances with embassies and other countries, “specifically show cultures that may be distant for our community (…). For the Extension Directorate, it is very pleasant to carry out these activities because you know that the community responds to them.”

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