IB’s researchers had the opportunity to visit a salmon farm in Puerto Cisnes, a town in the Chilean Patagonia. During the visit, the researchers contacted with the farm’s operational team and identified a number of opportunities. The group of researchers also visited the town of Coihaique, also in the Chilean Patagonia, where they participated in a meeting with the local director of the Production Development Corporation (CORFO). This was an opportunity for IB to present their intentions to cooperate with local companies in the development of new technologies for salmon farming, as well as possible funding sources.

In the second stage of the visit to Chile, the IB group visited the facilities of UTEM, in Santiago do Chile. The main goals were to get to know the University’s teaching and research infrastructure and discuss some technical aspects related to the implementation of a phase measurement system (medfasee) in Chile’s power grid, as well as IB’s participation in a project to develop unmanned land vehicles led by UTEM.

The meetings took place in several locations of UTEM and were attended by Diego Issicaba (UTFPR/IB), Marcelo Petry (UFSC/IB), Arturo Otto Villa (UTEM), Fernando Cristian Ulloa Vásquez (UTEM), Hugo Durney Wasaff (UTEM), Jorge Charlin (IB/UTEM) and Juan Negroni Vera (UTEM).