Engineer Eduardo Filippo, as National Coordinator of Paraguay at Recyt, chaired the general meeting with the participation of the delegations’ National Coordinators: Dr. Diego Hurtado, Secretary for Policy and Planning in Science, Technology and Innovation of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Argentina (Mincyt) in Argentina; Mr. Marcos Pinto from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) of Brazil; and Engineer Alberto Mago, Head of the Directorate of Innovation, Science and Technology of the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) of Uruguay.
Among the main outcomes of these meetings, the approval of the proposed topic for the fifth edition of the Mercosur Prize for Scientific Journalism “Renewable energies and the search for new sources of energy” stands out; and sub-topics “Wind Energy, Hydraulic Energy, Solar Energy, Hybrid Energy and Green Hydrogen”.