The Arturo Prat University is the main University of the Tarapaca Region with a deep compromise with its territory supporting it with Education, Knowledge, Technology, and Innovation. In the mining field, Arturo Prat University has granted diverse kinds of projects producing new material from mining tailing, adapting the rural environment to support agriculture activities, using diverse natural resources of this extreme desert environment to produce technology, and supporting and protecting the regional community in diverse cultural and social aspects.
Regarding the team project expertise, these are related to the environmental chemical analysis, the isolation and characterization of native bacteria highly resistant to heavy metals and with application in bioremediation, and engineering process related to the tailing treatments and recovery of the chemical elements to support the circular economy.
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