The Climate Change line addresses a systemic crisis whose effects—droughts, fires, glacier loss, and desertification—require new ways of understanding and inhabiting the territory. It articulates science, technology, and environmental justice to generate capacities for transformation and resilience, promoting adaptive and polycentric governance frameworks. Through the co-production of knowledge between academia, public and private actors, and communities, it seeks to develop contextualized responses and strengthen institutional anticipation in the face of climate uncertainty.

Strategic partner:

Centro de Ciencia del Clima y la Resiliencia - CR2

The Territorial Development line focuses on understanding and planning territories affected by ecological, productive, and social pressures. It conceives of territory as a complex socio-ecological system and promotes development models that integrate sustainability, inclusion, and institutional coherence. Through coordination between science, public, private, and community actors, it promotes processes of knowledge co-production and polycentric governance frameworks that strengthen local capacities to face uncertainties and anticipate transformations.

Strategic partner:

Instituto de Tecnologías Limpias

The Gender Equality line addresses persistent gaps that affect participation, recognition, and the distribution of opportunities among women, men, and diverse groups, considering dimensions such as the sexual division of labor, structural violence, representation in decision-making spaces, and the digital and technological divide. Its approach integrates public policy analysis, technological innovation with a gender perspective, and studies on care organization and digital citizenship, bringing together social sciences, engineering, and feminist studies. Through this convergence, it seeks to promote inclusion, strengthen the incorporation of a gender perspective in innovation projects, and produce joint initiatives aimed at transforming formal, symbolic, and cultural structures.

Strategic partner:

Rediger

This line of work addresses the effects of technological transformations and digitization on employment, labor organization, and social welfare, considering challenges such as automation, the platform economy, and gaps in employability and informality. Its transdisciplinary approach integrates economics, sociology, and innovation management to analyze career paths, new employment configurations, and their implications for quality of life, time distribution, and gender and care dynamics. Through coordination between companies, unions, universities, and public agencies, this line of research seeks to develop models that combine flexibility, equity, and social protection, understanding work as a complex socio-technical system that requires methodologies capable of anticipating risks and designing adaptive policies.

Strategic partner:

Labofam

The Security and Social Reintegration line addresses the limitations of policies focused exclusively on punitive or welfare responses, promoting integrated approaches that combine prevention, rehabilitation, and community participation. It considers the tensions within the prison system—overcrowding, intra-prison violence, lack of programs, and institutional lack of coordination—and their effects on recidivism and difficulties in educational, labor, and social reintegration. From an approach oriented toward anticipation and multidimensional effectiveness, the line combines predictive analysis, social innovation, and interinstitutional coordination to strengthen evidence-based policies, design integrated information systems, and articulate educational, labor, and community interventions that promote the autonomy and citizen participation of persons deprived of liberty.

The Public Health line addresses the challenges arising from population aging, the increase in chronic diseases, territorial inequality, and global health crises, understanding health as a public good closely linked to social, economic, and environmental determinants. Faced with gaps in the Chilean health system—segmentation, fragmentation, limited use of evidence, and insufficient technological integration—this line articulates health economics, data management, technological innovation, and public policy design to strengthen health governance, equitable access, and system resilience. Its work integrates participatory methodologies, digital technologies, and predictive analysis, incorporating gender, intercultural, and territorial perspectives, with the aim of promoting adaptive care models, reducing inequalities, and improving organizational and community effectiveness.

The Education line addresses the growing gap between the education system and the social, technological, and environmental needs of the 21st century, understanding education as a central space for equity, innovation, and democratic cohesion. It considers institutional rigidities, inequality of opportunity, and the weak link between training, research, and productivity, integrating policy analysis, emerging pedagogies, and learning technologies to promote educational innovation with a public purpose. Its approach articulates continuing education, meaningful learning, and comprehensive skills assessment, strengthening links between schools, universities, communities, and public agencies. Through the study of educational innovation ecosystems and contextualized experimentation experiences, this line promotes inclusive, adaptive, and collaborative learning models capable of responding to the challenges of digitization, sustainability, and social transformation.

The Children and Youth line addresses the strategic role that children and adolescents play in social and territorial sustainability, highlighting their well-being, participation, and exercise of rights in a scenario marked by global uncertainty and technological acceleration. In contrast to historically fragmented policies focused on assistance rather than recognition of their agency, this line adopts a comprehensive approach to rights, active citizenship, and social co-responsibility. It combines qualitative and quantitative methodologies, territorial analysis, and digital participation platforms to connect young people and institutions around social transformations, digital environments, and emerging risks, promoting intergenerational co-creation and strengthening their role as agents of social and community innovation.

The Transversal Devices line addresses the need for cognitive, technological, and organizational infrastructure to coordinate research, transfer, and evidence-based decision-making in an innovation ecosystem with a public purpose. In the face of disciplinary, institutional, and technological fragmentation in the Chilean system, these devices function as institutional learning platforms that enable the design, validation, and scaling of tools geared toward multidimensional effectiveness. Drawing on Foucault's notion of the device—as a heterogeneous network of knowledge, practices, institutions, and technologies with a strategic function—this line develops instruments capable of integrating data, strengthening interoperability, and enhancing predictive analysis.