The “Hilo Verde” team was one of the national winners with a textile recycling project, and this morning some of its members were received by Mayor Francisco Azcué, along with the Secretary of Cabinet Coordination and Treasury Pablo Ferreyra and the Director of Innovation and Knowledge Economy Pedro Kohn.
At the beginning of October, the Faculty of Food Sciences of the National University of Entre Ríos (UNER) hosted the Latin American Innovation Rally, an international competition that promotes creativity, interdisciplinary work, and innovation among university students throughout Latin America.
Lucia Botti, a UNER student and member of the team, pointed out that the topic they worked on and won with focused on textile waste recycling: “They exist in several places on the planet, and one of them is the Atacama Desert (Chile). Basically, what we proposed is to recycle all that plastic and convert it into new plastics,” citing as an example that “ethylene glycol is used for industrial purposes, pharmacology, brake fluids, antifreeze, and also with recycling, all those communities could be cleared of the problem they have due to pollution.”
Regarding the competition itself, she indicated that “several countries participated, and representing Argentina there were 196 teams made up of more or less 10 people each,” which gives greater relevance to what was achieved by the local students.
For his part, Matías Grahl, also a member of “Hilo Verde,” thanked the opportunity to reach the Municipality since “the mayor and his team gave us the space to be able to tell everything we did and left the door open for us to carry out new proposals.”
COMMITTED YOUTH
The Director of Innovation and Knowledge Economy Pedro Kohn maintained that “what is happening in the city is very interesting. There is innovation and young people committed to technology careers,” and what these students achieved “is the result of what is happening in the city's innovation ecosystem.”
In that regard, he stressed that the current administration has been working on different actions related to the knowledge economy “jointly with universities and companies, to be the link between that emerging talent or talent that does not have much visibility and the real possibilities that arise from the market, combining practical training, access to technology, and employability paths.”
The members of the winning team “Hilo Verde” are: Lucia Botti, Valentino Pietravallo, Facundo Andrada, Gonzalo Vallejos, Matías Grahl, Facundo Zilloni, Agustín Del Valle, Magalí Trentin, Manuela Perrón and Franco Nicolás Verbauwede.
At the beginning of October, the Faculty of Food Sciences of the National University of Entre Ríos (UNER) hosted the Latin American Innovation Rally, an international competition that promotes creativity, interdisciplinary work, and innovation among university students throughout Latin America.
Lucia Botti, a UNER student and member of the team, pointed out that the topic they worked on and won with focused on textile waste recycling: “They exist in several places on the planet, and one of them is the Atacama Desert (Chile). Basically, what we proposed is to recycle all that plastic and convert it into new plastics,” citing as an example that “ethylene glycol is used for industrial purposes, pharmacology, brake fluids, antifreeze, and also with recycling, all those communities could be cleared of the problem they have due to pollution.”
Regarding the competition itself, she indicated that “several countries participated, and representing Argentina there were 196 teams made up of more or less 10 people each,” which gives greater relevance to what was achieved by the local students.
For his part, Matías Grahl, also a member of “Hilo Verde,” thanked the opportunity to reach the Municipality since “the mayor and his team gave us the space to be able to tell everything we did and left the door open for us to carry out new proposals.”
COMMITTED YOUTH
The Director of Innovation and Knowledge Economy Pedro Kohn maintained that “what is happening in the city is very interesting. There is innovation and young people committed to technology careers,” and what these students achieved “is the result of what is happening in the city's innovation ecosystem.”
In that regard, he stressed that the current administration has been working on different actions related to the knowledge economy “jointly with universities and companies, to be the link between that emerging talent or talent that does not have much visibility and the real possibilities that arise from the market, combining practical training, access to technology, and employability paths.”
The members of the winning team “Hilo Verde” are: Lucia Botti, Valentino Pietravallo, Facundo Andrada, Gonzalo Vallejos, Matías Grahl, Facundo Zilloni, Agustín Del Valle, Magalí Trentin, Manuela Perrón and Franco Nicolás Verbauwede.