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Parangal at pasasalamat [recognition and thanksgiving]” with “Science for the Individuals [SFTP] Awards” was the spotlight of the sixty fourth anniversary celebration of the Division of Science and Expertise (DOST) because it acknowledged its companions in delivering science, know-how and innovation (STI) to the folks.
On the identical time, the occasion served because the appreciation evening of Science Secretary Fortunato T. de la Peña for DOST’s companions throughout his helm as he winds up his time period on the division that ends on June 30.
The DOST gave SFTP Awards to its excellent companions from totally different sectors to specific its gratitude in advancing STI.
The Enterprise Mirror was among the many recipients of two SFTP Awards for the Media. The Establishment class was obtained by its Editor in Chief Lourdes M. Fernandez, whereas the Particular person class was given to Science Editor Lyn B. Resurreccion.
The Vaccine Professional Panel, that was led by Dr. Nina Gloriani, was among the many high SFTP awardees for its invaluable contribution within the evaluate of vaccines for Covid-19 and growth of standards for the procurement of vaccines for emergency use within the nation.
Additionally awarded have been the DOST excellent companions from the upper schooling establishments, business, native authorities items, science and know-how foundations, nationwide authorities businesses, bilateral diplomatic companions, policy-makers, nongovernment organizations.
SFTP Awards have been likewise bestowed to the S&T sector in analysis and growth initiatives, know-how commercialization, start-ups, enterprise productiveness, group growth, DOST governance improvements.
Gender and Improvement Awards have been additionally given.
On the identical time, former DOST assistant secretary Dr. Lydia Tansinsin, launched her guide on the historical past of the DOST titled, “An Institutional Journey: From the NSDB to the DOST, 1958-1998.”
Finest in efficiency; observe meritocracy
In his keynote deal with, Nationwide Scientist Dr. Emil Q. Javier mentioned, being a former secretary of DOST, he takes satisfaction within the division’s having been constantly rated “among the many greatest by way of amount, high quality and timeliness in its efficiency.”
On the identical time, he mentioned DOST has all the time have the impression of “meritocracy bereft of corruption” amongst all businesses in authorities.
Javier highlighted three outstanding achievements of the DOST beneath the helm of de la Peña.
One is the mitigation of the lack of lives and properties from the calamities as a result of initiatives on early warning offered by Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Companies Administration, Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology and Challenge Noah, by means of the set up of doppler radar, radar gear and stations, and earthquake warning programs.
He additionally acknowledged the total regionalization of the R&D and STI actions of DOST, particularly by means of the Science for Change Program.
He mentioned traditionally the DOST’s S&T efforts have been confined in Metro Manila. However the final three administrations of DOST, together with that of de la Peña, went all out to make S&T “felt everywhere in the nation.”
He famous the Area of interest Facilities within the Areas Program (Nicer) has 49 universities in 17 areas which implement R&D.
He added that the success of DOST in commercialization of R&D within the countryside is being carried out by Collaborative Analysis and Improvement to Leverage Philippine Economic system (Cradle) has 39 universities within the areas that collaborate with 87 firms.
“Nicer and Cradle epitomize the [performance of the] administration of de la Pena,” he mentioned.
Javier additionally identified the leap of the nation’s World Innovation Index from 83 in 2015 to 51 in 2021 out of 132 international locations.
“It was a terrific achievement which we are able to attribute to the wonderful work of DOST and its businesses in partnership with different sectors,” he mentioned.
Javier famous that with its achievements, he sees that the efficiency of DOST beneath de la Peña “will probably be handled kindly by historical past.”
“Your [DOST’s and partners’] competence, dedication, arduous work and fervour make what DOST is at present,” he mentioned.
Thanksgiving
De la Peña acknowledged the DOST leaders, scientists, researchers and workers in working arduous that made the DOST R&Ds in STI, in collaboration with their companions, turn out to be productive and serve the wants of the general public.
He congratulated the awardees and thanked them for his or her assist to the DOST in its R&D to deliver science for the folks.
He famous the importance of the Vaccine Professional Panel work in vaccine issues to assist forestall the unfold of Covid-19.
He additionally urged the awardees to proceed their partnership with the DOST to be able to make their researches and initiatives flourish and assist in the their sector’s growth, and of the nation as effectively.
De la Peña additionally reminisced his early days with the DOST beneath the management of Javier and rose from the ranks till he turned its undersecretary, and returned from retirement as its secretary in 2016.
Integrity and fervour
DOST Assistant Secretary Leah Buendia, who headed the organizing committee for the occasion, mentioned the DOST’s service and good relationship with stakeholders and companions is a mirrored image of their professionalism and experience.
“We do and implement our applications with integrity and fervour to serve the Filipinos. I commend everybody right here for his or her contributions towards sustained dedication within the STI enculturation in each native and worldwide platforms,” Buendia mentioned.
Excellent SFTP awardees
Academe:
1. Central Luzon State College: By way of its collaborations with the DOST-PCAARRD, CLSU was capable of cater to six,828 shoppers, 44 of whom are start-up incubatees, who’ve already generated P24.3-million earnings and 141 jobs from October 2017- April 2022.
2. College of the Philippines: UP’s Philippine Genomics Middle’s enlargement was funded by the DOST in 2018 for the enlargement to Mindanao and Visayas and the upgrading of the middle’s R&D capability by means of the institution of the Protein, Proteomics and Metabolomics Facility.
3. De La Salle College: Its partnership with DOST has contributed to DLSU’s standing as the only non-public larger schooling establishment within the nation to be listed within the Occasions Increased Training World College Rankings, and in addition led to the unprecedented 600-percent development in its analysis output within the earlier decade
Business:
1. Ephrathah Farms Inc.: As an agri-tourism enterprise in Iloilo, it’s engaged within the manufacturing of excessive worth vegetables and fruit, and operates as a vacationer facility showcasing the totally different agricultural issues.
2. Orthopaedic Worldwide Inc.: Since its inception, OII has grown into an ISO 13485-certified facility that designs, develops and manufactures orthopaedic merchandise just like the Axis Knee Substitute System.
3. Herbanext Laboratories Inc.: With funding assist from the DOST’s Enterprise Innovation by means of Science and Expertise Program, the ARIL of Herbanext was based in 2020, and have become the primary ever devoted facility within the nation for scaling up the manufacturing of standardized natural extracts and its growth into natural medication,
Native Authorities Models:
1. Cauayan Metropolis, Isabela: Town has been acknowledged because the First Smarter Metropolis within the Philippines (2015) and later took the lead in localizing the United Nations’ 17-Level Sustainable Improvement Targets. It was additionally acknowledged as the primary metropolis within the Philippines to be ISO Licensed on ISO 37122 Certification for Sustainable Cities and Communities.
2. Davao de Oro provincial authorities: With their framework anchored to the Bayanihan 4Ps+, the DOST and Davao de Oro proceed to advertise and apply Science, Engineering, Expertise and Innovation on the grassroots stage.
3. Malaybalay Metropolis, Bukidnon: Its adoption of DOST-10’s applied sciences and interventions empowered the LGU to strengthen its Catastrophe Threat Discount and Administration response, waste administration, livelihood creation, and manufacturing of excessive worth merchandise.
S&T Basis:
1. Philippine Basis for Science and Expertise: For 38 years, the PFST continues to advertise S&T to the general public by means of its numerous academic applications. Its flagship program, the Philippine Science Centrum, Touring displays, Trainer’s Coaching, interactive exhibit growth and fabrication and science occasions have served over 20 million folks nationwide.
2. Basis for the Development of Scientific Epidemiology Inc.: FACE serves as the first assist arm of the Division of Scientific Epidemiology of the School of Drugs and the Institute of Scientific Epidemiology of the Nationwide Institutes of Well being, each primarily based at UP Manila.
3. DLSU Science Basis Inc.: It assisted DLSU and different De La Salle Philippines’ member district colleges by means of scholarships, professorial chairs, and pure and utilized analysis, and have helped enhance DLSU’s annual analysis publication to about 600 to 700 Scopus listed papers yearly.
1. BusinessMirror: BusinessMirror has been a companion of the DOST in offering the Filipino folks the related STI information and knowledge. True to this dedication, the newspaper has its Science Sunday part that’s devoted to tales about breakthroughs within the native science group. It gained the Institutional Media Award for Print on the 2018 Bantog Awards.
2. Eagle Broadcasting Community: EBC has been a companion of the DOST in delivering STI information and knowledge to the Filipino folks. EBC is the house of NET25 and DZEC Radyo Agila. In 2018, DZEC Radyo Agila gained the Institutional Media Award for Radio on the 2018 Bantog Awards.
3. Cable Information Community Philippines: CNN Philippines has been among the many main media companions of DOST in disseminating up-to-date science data and information broadcasts. It’s the residence of Siyensikat, a 30-minute present by the DOST that connects Filipinos to science specialists who present science-based options and improvements to uplift their lives.
1. Angelina (Lyn) B. Resurreccion: A multi-awarded science journalist since 1995 and as Science Editor of BusinessMirror, she has particular curiosity within the DOST applications and initiatives on MSMEs, reminiscent of SETUP, FilipInnovation and Science for Change Program to be able to inform the general public about the advantages of STI, and on how the DOST has been offering the applied sciences and attainable cures towards Covid-19.
2. Hermelina C. Tenorio: An unrelenting S&T journalist since 1992, she has gained a number of awards, together with the Gawad Jose L. Guerrero DOST Media Awards, DOST Corridor of Fame Awards and the Ulat Sipag Award.
3. Ma. Cristina C. Arayata: Protecting the DOST since 2015 for the Philippine Information Company, she stays a dependable S&T media companion who continuously writes articles and pursues unique S&T tales which can be of curiosity to the general public, particularly in the course of the pandemic.
Nationwide Authorities Companies:
1. Division of Agriculture, Area 6: To realize its imaginative and prescient of a food-secured and resilient Philippines with empowered and affluent farmers and fishers, it collaborates with businesses just like the DOST to implement S&T applications and initiatives.
2. Division of Commerce and Business, Area 8: A few of its collaborations with the DOST are the Expertise Enterprise Incubator on Shared Service Facility for Meals Processing and actions of the Villaconsuelo Tree Planters Affiliation in Biliran.
3. Workplace of Civil Protection, Calabarzon: The OCD IV-A is an lively companion in selling and disseminating DOST’s applications, reminiscent of on the monitoring of essential government-owned buildings alongside the Valley Fault System; implementing the Protected, Swift, And Sensible Passage Journey Administration System; infrastructure audit; and knowledge dissemination and promotion of interventions introduced by pure hazards.
Bilateral Companion:
1. United Kingdom: Many achievements have been made beneath the DOST partnership with UK, such because the Artificial Aperture Radar and Automated Identification System; the assorted initiatives beneath the Newton Agham Program; the Leaders in Innovation Fellowships; the 12 joint well being analysis initiatives; 4 joint hydrometeorological hazards analysis; Climate and Local weather Science Service Partnership; 4 Researcher/Institutional Hyperlinks; and facet occasions in co-hosting COP26.
2. Taiwan: The DOST-Taiwan partnership constantly promotes mutually helpful collaborative actions in STI beneath the Settlement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation signed final March 13, 1997.
3. Japan: It has been a constant bilateral companion of the DOST leading to significant and fruitful collaborations with numerous Japanese scientific and educational establishments, notably the Japan House Company, Japan Worldwide Cooperation Company, Japan Science and Expertise Company, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and lots of others.
Legislator for S&T:
1. Paolo Benigno “Bam” A. Aquino: The previous senator, who was the chairman of the Senate Committee on S&T, strongly defended the rise of DOST price range and pushed for the passage of all DOST STI precedence payments. This resulted within the enactment of the Republic Act (RA) 11035, Balik Scientist Act; RA 11312, or Strengthening the Magna Carta for Scientists, Engineers, Researchers and Different S&T Personnel; RA 11337, or Progressive Startup Act; RA 11363, or the Philippine House Act.
2. Erico Aristotle C. Aumentado: As chairman of the Home of Representatives’ Committee on Science and Expertise within the seventeenth and 18th Congress, he filed and pushed for the passage of virtually all of the DOST STI precedence payments, together with the Balik Scientist Act and the Philippine House Act.
Nongovernment Group:
1. Philippine Metrology Requirements, Testing and High quality Inc.: It’s affiliation advocating for the institution of a robust nationwide high quality infrastructure within the nation to assist the manufacturing of worldwide aggressive services.
2. Cagayan de Oro Chamber of Commerce and Business Basis Inc.: It’s dedicated to advertise and safeguard the enterprise curiosity of its members and assist increase the extent of competitiveness by means of linkages and capability constructing initiatives.
3. Davao Metropolis Hydrology for Surroundings, Life and Coverage Philippines Community Inc.: As a multi-sectoral community, the function of Davao Metropolis HELP is to supply steering by means of technical voices and science-based information in water use and administration.
R&D Tasks:
1. Agriculture, Aquatic and Pure Assets: Synergize Academe-Business Analysis Enterprise to Enhance Manufacturing by means of Banana Surveillance System—It offers a cellular utility that permits early detection of illnesses. This undertaking develops a system that minimizes value illness management.
2. Well being: Feasibility Evaluation of Syndrome Surveillance Utilizing Spatio-temporal Epidemiological Modeler for LGU Epidemiology Surveillance Unit—FASSSTER is a cloud-based illness surveillance and scenario-based illness modeling instrument that was developed and operationalized to be used by the nationwide and native authorities businesses in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic.
3. Business, Vitality, and Rising Expertise: Geospatial Info Administration and Evaluation Challenge for Hazards and Threat Evaluation within the Philippines (GeoRiskPH)—By way of a Cupboard Directive issued in July 2019, the GeoRiskPH Built-in System and the HazardHunterPH have been authorised to be the nationwide platform for hazards and danger evaluation.
4. Fundamental Analysis: Marine-sediment Derived Actinobacteria: New Vista for Pure Merchandise Discovery within the Philippines
Expertise Commercialization:
1. Juan Algal Paste: Algacon Aquafeeds Manufacturing—AAM is acknowledged as the primary R&D Spin-Off firm in Area 6. It was one of many pioneer incubatees of the DOST-PCAARRD-UP Visayas Fisheries Expertise Enterprise Incubation Challenge.
2. Area Implementation of a Regionally Developed Diagnostic Package for the Detection of Covid-19: Manila Well being Tek Inc.—Dr. Raul Destura and his Manila HealthTek staff that was supported by the DOST, developed the primary Philippines-developed GenAmplify Covid-19 RT-PCR Detection Package.
3. Expertise and Market Validation of Common Structural Well being Analysis and Recording System: Usher—Supported by DOST-PCIEERD, the motion from Mapua College R&D undertaking to commercialization turned very important to the belief of Dr. Francis Aldrin Uy’s function for Usher.
Startup of the Yr:
1. Blitzkrieg Animal Diagnostic Middle: It’s an incubatee of the Agri-Aqua Expertise Enterprise Incubator of CLSU and a startup beneficiary of the PCAARRD Startup Grant Fund program.
2. Pivotal Peak Digital Well being Options Inc.: It is likely one of the pioneer startups that was granted funding assist beneath PCHRD’s Startup Analysis Grant Program. PPDHSI is the unique licensee of the UP-developed Group Well being Info Monitoring System, the longest operating digital medical document within the nation.
3. Futuristic Aviation and Maritime Enterprise: It offers dependable, safe, simply deployable and inexpensive options to attach units for real-time clever monitoring and administration of sources in maritime, aviation, land transportation, enterprise functions.
Enterprise Productiveness:
1. Theo and Philo Chocolate Manufacturing unit Inc.: It launched chocolate merchandise with distinctive conventional Filipino flavors to the world.
2. C and H Cosmetics Industries: Producing all pure and innovation-based cosmetics and home-care merchandise, it constantly paves the best way towards turning into business 4.0-ready and the one of many main Filipino firms with worldwide and native recognitions and accreditations.
3. Trophy Farm Provides: The DOST’s S&T interventions to the poultry farm elevated its capability and productiveness by not less than 100%.
Group Improvement:
1. Nagkakaisang Mamamayan ng Legarda Inc. and Jesse V. Robredo Owners Affiliation, 3Ws of Barangay 412, Zone 42, Manila: The group welcomed numerous S&T associated interventions offered by DOST-NCR by means of the DOST’s CEST Program to enhance the group’s livelihood and strong waste program, leading to improved total dwelling situations locally.
2. Municipality of Jabonga, Agusan del Norte: With the introduction of obtainable applied sciences helpful for the communities from the DOST since 2014, Jabonga actively engages within the totally different know-how and abilities coaching and different associated actions, empowering particular sectors, notably the ladies/housewives and the youth.
3. Municipality of Lantapan, Bukidnon: The Indigenous Peoples from seven tribes of Bukidnon, with agriculture as their main supply of livelihood, DOST 10, by means of PSTC Bukidnon, offered applied sciences so as to add extra worth to their native produce. In addition they actively have interaction with the provincial innovation stakeholders to construct a extra resilient and smarter group whereas preserving their wealthy tradition and tribal practices.
DOST Governance Improvements:
1. DOST Area IV-B: Progressive Applied sciences as Answer to Water Safety in Mimaropa—The STI interventions have benefitted 1,835 households or not less than 9,000 people, particularly from geographically remoted and deprived areas serving numerous sectors, together with ladies and Indigenous folks.
2. DOST Area VI: S-PASS (Protected, Swift and Sensible Passage) Journey Administration System—As of April 6, it has reached over 7,457,664 registered customers nationwide with 121 or 93.4 p.c of LGUs utilizing the system within the issuance of permits of incoming travellers.
3. DOST Area X: Regional Analysis, Improvement and Innovation Committee— This innovation-driven community of businesses and establishments composed of eight NGAs, 12 HEIs, seven LGUs, 4 R&D consortia and 4 non-public sector/business representatives expedited the belief of varied innovation initiatives.
Picture credit: Bernard Testa, Lyn B. Resurreccion, Henry A. de Leon
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