My first approach to Polar Educators international was at the very beginning with PRO Polar Portuguese program, by means of an exchange of polar professionals who expose a set of talks on different destination, about their polar experiences, expertise, and educational activities performed by them on their devoted time to polar research. After these exchanges, and knowing more people related to polar interests, I could have a general idea about how PEI could improve my task as teacher in here south. Later on at Hannover, Germany, on 2015, I confirmed my ideas about the potential of this organization on my side as a support to PEI and in the opposite as well, from PEI to me.

The interest I have placed on PEI is focus on the exchange of information, researchers, and experiences. From my side as representative of a South American institution (Chile) on this proposal to an organization as yours, would contribute to promote development of knowledge, boost information outspread, provide worldwide placement, and assign guidelines to activities carried out on the South American countries which also requires of polar information, polar education and polar culture.

One of the mayors intending’s of the considered “Antarctic university” (Universidad de Magallanes) in which I currently work, is to boost our International Antarctic Digital repository as data base, files preservation and promotion of the information related with sub Antarctic, Antarctic and polar areas of the world. As well this University is sponsoring a Chilean government mandate related to the creation of a International Antarctic center (CAI) with the purpose of having a research Centre which allow to receive scientist, researchers, educators with interests on Antarctic studies.