The countdown has started for our Symposium number 20. This year, the Melton Foundation will hold its 20th annual Symposium in Temuco, Chile, from September 26th to October 3rd, of 2011, in a city in the south of the country, located in a region rich in natural environment and mountains, but above all, with a [...]
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In today’s world we need to differentiate ourselves from others. Usually, our identity is given or associated to our name, which is printed in some documentation or ID card. We humans have always endeavored to differentiate ourselves from one other. Usually, our identity is associated with our name or country of birth or ethnicity or other such details. But [...]
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Our Day trips leave us many and different learnings. We invite you to explore our three day trips trough analisis, testimonials and pictures, compiled by all of us. You can visit our gallery, created thanks to all the photo stills taken by our members. To know more about our experiential learning process and our results, [...]
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Day trips are guided visits to locations that have a unique cultural value for our country. During the Symposium you will be able to visit one of these three locations: Valdivia, Pucón, or Capitan Pastene. Here are some resources so you can learn something about them before visiting: Valdivia: Welcome Chile: Valdivia 2011 Valdivia: The [...]
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In 2008 UFRO campus initiated a project to enlighten the local community about some of the cultural aspects of the Melton Foundation’s countries, through photo exhibitions. For the past 3 years, UFRO Fellows have been running this project and this has spread to other MF campuses as well. Thanks to the active participation of MF [...]
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As a sneak peek of what your visit to Chile could be, we asked some of our Senior Fellows about their personal experience in our country. This is what they shared with us. Hari Ravikumar Senior Fellow from BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, India. “In many ways, Chile is similar to India. What those similarities [...]
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Located in Chile, in the Araucania region (IX region), Universidad de la Frontera (UFRO), is a public and state-owned institution of higher education, considered as one of the eight best universities of the country based on quality and excellence. UFRO was born as an autonomous institution on 10 March 1981, 1981 after the combining the [...]
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An old poem says that after finished creating the world, God found out that he had a lot of leftovers of different landscapes and weathers. Instead of just throwing them away he decided to put it all together in the last place of the world. That’s the reason why Chile is so diverse! Here are [...]
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