The new goal at ITP: to become South America's scitech hub

By BKM | Berkemeyer

In 2003 the Itaipu Dam, the world's largest generator of renewable clean energy, was fostered with a teaching and research center dedicated to education, science and technology. The Itaipu Technological Park (ITP), located in the Parana River on the border between Paraguay and Brazil, has since become a scitech hub for both countries, and now looks to make the leap into the region’s hub.

Diosnel Dávalos, recently named as the new director of the ITP, said that he will seek to transform Paraguay into a center of South America’s science and technology activities, always based on the binational's vision shared with Brazil of developing the power plant surrounding areas. “Our objective will always be to encourage what the ITP already has today and further enhance new actions”, Dávalos said to the press.

Currently 2.000 thousand people work at the ITP, including employees, trainees, partners, entrepreneurs, researchers, teachers and students. Dávalos stated that he wants to lean on that workforce to establish strategic alliances with the government, the academy and the private sector that will help Paraguay become recognized worldwide in the scitech field.