RCE Lima-Callao
Overview
Linked to national and international movements for building up a more just and supportive world, RCE Lima-Callao contributes to contextualize education in social practices, which supports SD and thus improves the Metropolitan Lima and Callao region population’s quality of life. Metropolitan Lima and the Callao region, according to 2018 National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) projections, has a population of 9,320,000 inhabitants. Metropolitan Lima and Callao Region represent 41.2% of urban Peru. Due to intense and extensive internal migrations of the last fifty years, its inhabitants represent multicultural and multilingual diversity of the Peruvian population. Consequently, the Metropolitan Lima and Callao region might be a perfect scenario to generate and execute projects that promote intercultural dialogue, reduce extreme poverty, rescue our society morality and preserve the environment.
Vision:
A relevant entity, which promotes ESD best practices, linked to SDGs and UNESCO’s GAP as well as Metropolitan Lima and Callao region requirements. RCE Lima-Callao joins efforts of public and private organizations as well as citizens in general with the goal to fight poverty and social exclusion. It is committed to defend life in any form and environmental preservation, while aiming at culture development of equity and peace.
Goals and objectives:
- Contribute to contextualize education in social practices, which supports SD and thus improves Metropolitan Lima and Callao region population’s quality of life
- Detect, organize and share formal, non-formal and informal education best practices oriented toward SD
- Reorienting teacher’s education towards ESD
- Promote change reductionist and biased thinking to a complex, critical and contextualized thinking that encourages natural, socio-economic and cultural phenomena understanding, as well as their ESD implications
- Promote traditional knowledge recovery, especially Andean Amazonian, through action-research projects that support human reciprocal relationships and balance with nature, typical of indigenous communities’ ‘good living’ (buen vivir)
- Promote a dialogue of Knowledge Systems at environmental, educational, social, economic and institutional levels that contribute to collective construction of public policies, as well as strengthen commitment to local, subnational, national and international sustainability
Instituto Peruano del Pensamiento Complejo Edgar Morin – IPCEM/Universidad Ricardo Palma
Name of organisation: Instituto Peruano del Pensamiento Complejo Edgar Morin-IPCEM/Universidad Ricardo Palma
Role: RCE Lima-Callao Executive Director
Contact name: Teresa SALINAS GAMERO
Contact email: ipcem@urp.edu.pe; teresa.salinas@urp.edu.pe
Name of organisation: Sentipensando el mundo
Role: RCE Lima-Callao secretariat
Contact name: Lavenir SANCHEZ CARRION
Contact email: lavenir_sc@hotmail.com
Activities
Research project: ‘Smart, sustainable and resilient cities. A proposal for Lima. Phase I’
This project was created and developed by Instituto Peruano del Pensamiento Complejo Edgar Morin (IPCEM) and RCE Lima-Callao. In an early stage, it was coordinated with Dr. Carlos Chang (Atlantic University – Florida, USA) within the framework of the organization of the “International Conference on Transportation Infrastructure (ICTI)”, web https://icg.construction/en/home/, which was held in Peru in August 2022.
This project, which is part of IPCEM’s Research Group: ‘Habitat, Sustainability, Resilience and Complexity’ and which is funded by Universidad Ricardo Palma since December 2022, is currently underway. It is estimated it will end in December 2023.
Research project: ‘Adaptation and mitigation strategies for climate change and food security in Peru’.
This project is part of IPCEM’s Research Group: ‘Ecosystems and complexity’. It was developed by Instituto Peruano del Pensamiento Complejo Edgar Morin (IPCEM) and RCE Lima-Callao. Likewise, it was presented by IPCEM to the Peruvian Ministry of Environment (MINAM, Spanish acronym) in the framework of its incorporation into the "Climate Action Driving Group of the Academy" (Grupo Impulsor de Acción Climática de la Academia) in which IPCEM represents Universidad Ricardo Palma. Several Peruvian universities are part of this working group. November 2022 to October 2023 is the updated schedule.
This project, funded by Universidad Ricardo Palma since December 2022, is currently ongoing.
CONCYTEC recognized Teresa Salinas for her ‘Outstanding and Invaluable work in the development of scientific culture at national and international level’
In November 2022, the National Council for Science, Technology and Technological Innovation (CONCYTEC, Spanish Acronym) recognized Teresa Salinas, RCE Lima-Callao Executive Director and Instituto Peruano del Pensamiento Complejo Edgar Morin (IPCEM) Executive Director, for her ‘Outstanding and Invaluable work in the development of scientific culture at national and international level’.
Created in 1981, CONCYTEC is the prime institution related to Peruvian National System of Science and Technology and Technological Innovation which regulates, directs, guides, promotes, coordinates, supervises and evaluates the actions of the Peruvian State in these subjects.
While working at CONCYTEC, Teresa Salinas’ role in the creation of the National Program for Science, Technology and Innovation Popularization as a State Policy within the framework of the National Science and Technology Program was highlighted. This program played an important role at the Organization of American States (OAS) and UNESCO levels; later on, she won a UNESCO prize and OAS project contest due to this program.
In addition, based on the work carried out in this framework, Teresa Salinas was included as a lifetime member of UNESCO’s Chair on Science Education for Latin America and the Caribbean (EDUCALYC, Spanish acronym), which is based on Universidad de Alcalá (Spain).
RCE Recognition Award for Outstanding Flagship Project
Our project, titled ‘Diploma Course on Biodiversity and Dialog of Knowledge Systems’, won the RCE Recognition Award for Outstanding Flagship Project in November 2014 in Okayama. This Diploma Course was a semi-attendance program held in Lamas-San Martín region of Peru in 2012-2013 (planning though started back in 2010). It was funded by GIZ GmbH, UNEP and Universidad Ricardo Palma. Note actual RCE Lima-Callao research project ‘Traditional Knowledge on Biocultural Diversity and Nutrition in Indigenous Communities’ developed from this one.
Projects
Communication Channels
Contact Details
teresa.salinas@urp.edu.pe
jcarbajalm@urp.edu.pe
Centro Cultural Ccori Wasi
Universidad Ricardo Palma
Av. Arequipa N° 5198, Miraflores
