Guatemala

Creative Capacity Building in Guatemala.

Selected Programs

International Development Design Summits

IDDS Hogares Sostenibles/Sustainable Homes (2018)

Staff-initated Programs

Promoting rural community innovations in Guatemala with Soluciones Comunitarias (2014)

D-Lab Student Fieldwork

D-Lab: Development team (2018)

Community Partners

Link4, Omar Crespo and Oscar Quan, Co-Founders
Bici-Tec (sustainable, appropriate economic advancement for rural families in Guatemala though the developement of pedal powered technology) Carlos Marroquin, Founder
Universidad del Valle de Guatemala (UVG)

News, Blog Posts, Video, and Publications

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Guatemala

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“Mens et manus” in Guatemala

Amy Smith (center), professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and founder of the MIT D-Lab, and Michael Tarkanian, professor of materials science and engineering, lead a Machine Elements and Advanced Design training for ASPIRE at UVG's makerspace D-Hive. Credits: Photo courtesy of the ASPIRE Project.

News | Nov 07, 2024 | Leda Zimmerman | D-Lab | Department of Mechanical Engineering

MIT News

“Mens et manus” in Guatemala

Aspiring to sustainable development

Project Manager Lourdes Figueroa teaches a student how to handle a volumetric flask to prepare one of the chemical solutions used in the reactions for the process. The other students are observing closely as they follow the steps of the demonstration, which is part of the initial stages of chemical preparation for the production of chitosan nanoparticles. Credits: Photo courtesy of the ASPIRE Project.

News | Oct 23, 2024 | Leda Zimmerman | D-Lab | Department of Mechanical Engineering

MIT News

Aspiring to sustainable development

ASPIRE Project Learning Exchange: UVG and AGEXPORT Visit to MIT

News | May 30, 2022 | Michael Eschleman

ASPIRE

ASPIRE Project Learning Exchange: UVG and AGEXPORT Visit to MIT

ASPIRE: Lanzamiento de importante programa auspiciado por USAID.

The Universidad del Valle de Guatemala is one of the lead partners for the ASPIRE project. Pictured here on the MIT campus in 2019 is a group of UVG students who took part in a "100,000 Strong in the Americas" program collaboratively run by MIT D-Lab and UVG. Photo courtesy of Universidad del Valle de Guatemala.

News | Oct 08, 2021 | Roberto Moreno Godoy

El Periódico

ASPIRE: Lanzamiento de importante programa auspiciado por USAID.

“El modelo busca el desarrollo local”

Elizabeth Hoffecker, co-investigadora principal para el proyecto Aspire.

News | Oct 08, 2021 | Isela Espinoza

el Periódico

“El modelo busca el desarrollo local”

MIT receives $15M USAID award to promote research and innovation at universities in Latin America

MIT D-Lab and the Department of Mechanical Engineering will implement a new USAID-funded project in partnership with collaborators in Latin America. Pictured here is a participant in the 2017 D-Lab-led International Development Design Summit "Hogares Sostenibles," or "Sustainable Homes" at the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala, Highlands Campus, part of a larger series of D-Lab-led summits.

News | Oct 07, 2021 | Nancy Adams | Mary Beth Gallagher

MIT News

MIT receives $15M USAID award to promote research and innovation at universities in Latin America

Visita importante

Bob Nanes visits the University of the Valley of Guatemala.

News | Mar 31, 2017 | Prensa Libre

Prensa Libre

Visita importante

Video! Pedal-powered innovation from rural Guatemala: A conversation with Bici-Tec founder Carlos Marroquin

News | Nov 15, 2016 | Bikes Not Bombs

Bikes Not Bombs

Video! Pedal-powered innovation from rural Guatemala: A conversation with Bici-Tec founder Carlos Marroquin

MIT D-Lab promotes rural community innovations in Guatemala with Soluciones Comunitarias

Workshop parrcipants with their handmade charcoal preses, Ixil region, Guatemala, 2014.

News | Oct 10, 2014 | Nancy Adams

MIT News

MIT D-Lab promotes rural community innovations in Guatemala with Soluciones Comunitarias

From Access to Usage: Digital Financial Inclusion of Smallholder Farmers in Guatemala’s Western Highlands

Photo Credit: Alex Hernández / Feed the Future Guatemala Innovative Solutions for Agriculture Value Chains Project / Popoyán

Blog | Aug 06, 2020 | Alison Harrell, Gerson Morales

Agrilinks | USAID

From Access to Usage: Digital Financial Inclusion of Smallholder Farmers in Guatemala’s Western Highlands

Report from D-Lab: Development, Team Guatemala : January D-Lab Student Fieldwork

Julia and UVG student Maya work with Maria and Rosa on stage 3 of the workshop. manipulating cardboard cutouts to determine ideal size of cookstove.

Blog | Mar 04, 2018 | Neha Rajbhandary, D-Lab: Development Fall '17, Wellesley College '20

Report from D-Lab: Development, Team Guatemala : January D-Lab Student Fieldwork

Creative Capacity Building from Guatemala to Ghana

Blog | Sep 30, 2015 | Victor Grau Serrat

Creative Capacity Building from Guatemala to Ghana

Clean Cookstove Field Tests in Guatemala

Blog | Oct 30, 2014 | Dan Sweeney D-Lab Biomass Fuel Research Scientist

Clean Cookstove Field Tests in Guatemala

D-Lab's Dan Sweeney attends ISO Clean Cooking Solutions Meeting in Guatemala

Blog | Oct 30, 2014 | Dan Sweeney D-Lab Biomass Fuel Research Scientist

D-Lab's Dan Sweeney attends ISO Clean Cooking Solutions Meeting in Guatemala

Kicking off grassroots innovation in Guatemala

Reunion with Carlos Marroquin, from BiciTec

Blog | Oct 29, 2014 | Victor Grau Serrat, D-Lab Co-Director

Kicking off grassroots innovation in Guatemala

IDIN Innovator Spotlight: Carlos Marroquín

Blog | Feb 27, 2014 | Sara Hess, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

IDIN Innovator Spotlight: Carlos Marroquín

La creación de la red de Centros de Innovación y Tecnología en los campus de la UVG

Video | Oct 11, 2021 | EUTV A Primera Hora

Emisoras Unidas

La creación de la red de Centros de Innovación y Tecnología en los campus de la UVG

Assessment of Potential Opportunities for Use of Digital Payments for Smallholder Farmers in Guatemala’s Western Highlands

Publication | May 02, 2020 | Cauam Cardoso and Jonars Spielberg

Assessment of Potential Opportunities for Use of Digital Payments for Smallholder Farmers in Guatemala’s Western Highlands

Balancing the Link: Link4 and the Community of Santa Catarina Palopó, Guatemala

Publication | Oct 01, 2019 | Cayanne Chachati & Ghada Amer

Balancing the Link: Link4 and the Community of Santa Catarina Palopó, Guatemala