The Vice-Rector’s Office for Student Support recently hosted the Fondo León Usach 2025 Award Ceremony, celebrating the effort, creativity, and commitment of 20 winning student teams. These projects foster autonomy, collaboration, and participation among Usach students.
Rector Dr. Rodrigo Vidal Rojas underscored the importance of comprehensive student education. “The initiatives implemented, and those on the horizon, prove students need spaces for support, creativity, and commitment. These spaces allow them to develop innovative proposals that positively impact and transform the university community,” he stated.
Dr. Mauricio Guerra Velásquez, Vice-Rector for Student Support, highlighted the diverse themes and reach of the awarded projects, which tackle areas like mental health, gender, sustainability, culture, and technology. He noted, “Across the three editions of the León Fund, we’ve seen sustained growth in student participation, and this involvement has become more equitable and diverse. We’re seeing an expansion of thematic areas and, significantly, more leadership with a gender focus. A clear reflection of this progress is that 15 of the 20 projects awarded this year are led by women.”
According to Constanza Ordóñez Olmos, Student Project Coordinator at the Vice-Rector’s Office for Student Support, the León Usach Fund not only provides essential resources but also validates innovative ideas and enhances the comprehensive development of the student body. She further highlighted its role in “reaffirming the pivotal role students hold in fostering a more inclusive, conscious, and participatory university. The recognition of these twenty awarded projects represents a tangible impetus for active, creative, and collaborative student involvement in university life. Each initiative demonstrates the students’ capacity to identify needs, propose solutions, and instigate meaningful transformations within the university community.”
The twenty student projects awarded in this third edition are listed below:
| Funding Area | Project Name |
| Promoting Healthy Living | USACH Gaming: “Esports and Community” |
| Art and Culture | Make Up USACH: Creative Self Makeup |
| Art and Culture | Universus |
| Art and Culture | PRIDE USACH |
| Art and Culture | Korean Film Festival |
| Interculturality | OTAKUSACH |
| Knowledge Communication | Practical Labor Law: Shaping Your Professional Future |
| Interculturality | “Experience Korea at USACH” Festival |
| Promoting Healthy Living | “Sensory Break” |
| Promoting Healthy Living | “U Pill” Educating about the risks of self-medication |
| Sustainabilty and Environment | Bank of Materials (BAMA) |
| Knowledge Communication | Punto de Encuentro Magazine |
| Promoting Healthy Living | Ludotex: Your Remedy for Stress Relief |
| Knowledge Communication | Territorial Brigades |
| Sustainibility and Environment | Biogüenko |
| Art and Culture | Biblio album in action! |
| Knowledge Communication | Plug into USACH |
| Promoting Healthy Living | Mental Health Garden |
| Knowledge Communication | Conference Series: Chile-Korea Trade Relations |
| Interculturality | Sabor Han: Korean Cuisine |