Director of Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship and Creativity
Universidad Católica Silva Henríquez, United States
Héctor Opazo Carvajal is the Director of Innovation, Social Entrepreneurship and Creativity at the Universidad Católica Silva Henriquez (UCSH), Chile and the Founder and Principal Investigator of the ABC Lab. His work focuses on the intersections of community service-learning, community-based research, youth development, educational transformation, social justice, and social innovation. He has been involved in several multinational studies about service learning and is the principal investigator of the project "Collaboratories of purpose: Building capacities for the transformation of young lives" (2021-2025). He served as a UNESCO consultant for socio-emotional educational transformation and has authored several high-impact publications in leading magazines globally. In addition, he is co-editor of Open Education Studies (De Gruyter, Germany). Currently, he is a research professor at UCSH. He received his PhD in Education and MA in Education from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain).
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Thursday, October 26, 2023
1:30 PM – 2:45 PM CST