UNESCO KALINGA PRIZE

ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE

CANDIDATE HONORARY POSITIONS PERFORMED

• National Mejía High School Student Council President, 1974

• Ecuadorian Astronomy Association Founder, Quito 1977
• Middle of the World Astronomical complex Founder, 1983
• Ecuadorian Astronomy Association Honorary President• International Astronomical
Union UIA Member
• International Planetarium Society Member
• Great Britain Alumni Association President
• Great Britain Alumni Association Member
• German Alumni Association SEARDA Member
• "Benjamín Carrión" Ecuadorian Culture House Active Member
• "Benjamín Carrión" Ecuadorian Culture House Literature Academic Section Member
• Ecuadorian Astronomy Association of Cuenca Branch Honorary President
• PROCIENCIA Founder Member
• SENESCYT Science and Technology National Secretariat Member

EXPERIENCE AND CONTRIBUTION TO THE SYSTEM OF SCIENTIFIC

DISSEMINATION IN ECUADOR

• Founder of the Ecuadorian Association of Astronomy Cuenca Branch

• "Middle of the World City" Astronomical Complex Designer
• Planetarium of the City of Cuenca Mentor, Designer and Director s
• Idealizer, designer of the Center for Quito City Space Studies Centre Mentor and
Designer
• Quito "Guambrateca” Children’s Planetarium Producer and Implementer Puyo City
"House of Youth" School Planetarium Producer and Implementer, 1996
• Loja City Didactic Children's Planetarium at the “Parque del Jipiro” Producer and
Implementer, 1994
• Director and technical-scientific supervisor for the construction of the City of Cuenca
"Parque de la Madre" Planetarium, Technical/Scientific Supervisor Constructor and
Director
• International Halley Watch Year, Ecuadorian Representative, 19861986 Comet
Halley Observation Program National Coordinator
• Astronomical Photography Exhibitions in the main cities of Quito, Guayaquil and
Cuenca, Promoter and Director, sponsored by the Ecuadorian Navy, House of Culture
of Guayaquil, Municipality of Quito and Municipality of Cuenca, 1985-86-87
• Director of the planetarium of the Quito "Middle of the World City" Lat. 0°0 0”
Planetarium Director/1998-2001
•World Congress of Planetarium Experts in Jena Germany, 60 years of the Jena
Planetarium, Representative on behalf of Ecuador,1986
• Tierno Galván in Madrid Spain Planetarium, Invited Speaker, 1986
•"House of Youth" in the city of Sull Germany, Invited Speaker, 1986
• Moscow, Russia, World Congress of Planetarium Experts, Representative on behalf
of Ecuador, 1987
• Prospectus of the Planetarium International Symposium, Invited Speaker, 1987
• USSR Academy of Sciences (Russia) Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Caluga, Star City,
Invited Speaker, 1987
• Space camp program of the Fifth CEA, promoted by UNESCO and the Ecuadorian
Foreign Ministry under the auspices of the Ecuadorian Air Force in the cities of Quito,
Ibarra, Riobamba, Invited Speaker.
• Santa Cruz-Galápagos Municipality Invited Speaker directed to the community and
local students and carry out astronomical observation camps, 2012
• Provide Training Talks to Galapagos National Park Guides in cruises to disseminate
science topics to further promote tourism as Invited Speaker, 1986-1998
• Space camps "Heaven is yours...reach for the stars" There is no Heaven like Quito's
as Producer and Promoter under the auspices of the Municipality of Quito, Secretary
of Culture, Catholic University of Ecuador, SENESCYT
• Provide outreach theme talks on Space and Earth Sciences as Invited Speaker under
the auspices of the Municipality of Loja, 2015
• Ad hoc Consultant to Design the management model to administrate Cuenca´s
Planetarium.
• Producer of the Administrative design project Producer of the Planetarium of the City
of the Middle of the World Quito,1998
• FONAPRE Consultant to carry out “Levels of Intervention and mass participation of
the population in areas of Science and Technology" Study
• FONAPRE Consultant to prepare Cuenca´s Planetarium Project, 1985
•¨Science in Ecuador and its importance in the development of the nation"
Programmed. Technical support to the National Pre-investment Fund as Projection
and Implementation of the Study Advisor.
• "Astronomy in the National System of Science and Technology” Study Author
prepared for the Ministry of Education and SENESCYT, 1985
• "Space sciences within everyone's reach... astronomical dissemination in the
classroom¨ Proposal Author, 2006
• International Year of Astronomy declared by UNESCO in 2009 active participation in
several scientific outreach events, 2009.

PARTICIPATION AT INTERNATIONAL EVENTS

• Democratic Republic of Germany, 1983

• France-Spain-England, 1983
• Germany Democratic Republic 60 years of the Jena Planetarium, 1986
• Madrid- Conference "Science in Ecuador" Madrid Planetarium, 1986
• Moscow. World Congress of Directors and Experts in Planetariums, 1987
• Democratic Germany- Symposium 75 years of the Jena Planetarium, 1998
• Saint Petersburg- Soviet Union- Pulkovo Scientific Center, 1987
• Star City “Yuri Gagarin” Moscow, 1987
• Caluga Space Museum Russia, 1987
• Kennedy Space Center- Florida United States, 1997

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS

• Our Solar Homeland…Basic Astronomy, Public Science Book, 1998

• Editor of the Magazine "Observatory", 1985-86
• Celestial Map “The Sky in Ecuador” Fourth Edition, 1998
• Generate Testimony "Stars of Corruption" Book, 2004
• Disclosure Notebooks for Children (Head Puzzles and Astronautics History), 1999
• NASA Adapted and Translated to Schools in Ecuador, 2001
• "Stars, Nebulae and Galaxy" Catalogue, 24 images of the Tautenburg Observatory,
translated and edited by the proponent, 2001
• Cosmic Traveler… Memories of his home planet - Genero Disclosure, Metropolitan
Institute of Heritage, 2014.
• Heaven within Everyone's Reach, Scientific Popularization Award. House of
Ecuadorian Culture, 2022.
• Road to the Stars, Scientific Dissemination. Government of the Province of
Pichincha, (In printing process), 2023

ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINES

• FRIES WORK Newspaper - Germany, November 1986

• Jana Newspaper – Germany, 1986
• PUENTE - Germany Magazine, 1988
• ZEISS Jena Magazine (In five languages) 1983
• Jena Magazine Total solar eclipse visible in Ecuador, 1992
• Stern Magazine - Germany, 1998