Educación de calidad

An AI assistant that helps prevent food waste at a community soup kitchen.

As part of the academic activities of the Marketing Fundamentals course, students from the Business Administration, Tourism, and Product Design programs developed innovative product and service proposals for the Ecuadorian market, as part of the course's final project.

During the process, the teams analyzed the market environment, defined their target audience, designed their marketing mix, and conducted a focus group to test and improve their proposals before the final presentation.

n just five minutes, a speech, an idea, and a well-argued solution can make the difference between convincing a real client or not. That was exactly the challenge faced by students from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences (FCSH) at ESPOL in the communication challenge known as the 5 Minutes Pitch, one of the most anticipated activities within the Capstone Course (Materia Integradora).

A scientific study published in a journal of the Nature group offers new insights into the organization of domestic spaces and food-preparation practices among the societies that once inhabited the Upano Valley in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

The study, titled "Combustion and cooking areas at El Edén archaeological site, Upano Valley, Ecuador—650 BP," was published in npj Heritage Science, part of the prestigious Nature Portfolio, a publishing group recognized worldwide for hosting some of the most influential and rigorous scientific publications.

The education and training provided by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH) at ESPOL continues to open doors to organizations with a global reach. Marcelo Ortiz Villavicencio, a graduate of the Economics program and the Master’s Degree in Economic Sciences, has been selected to join Amazon as an Economist Ph.D. Intern, a highly competitive position for economists in the final years of their doctoral studies.

Committed to creating opportunities for sustainable development through education and collaborative work, the Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), through its Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH), has launched Cancahuita Emprende, a university volunteer project that will benefit 25 women from the rural community of Cancahuita, in Santa Lucía canton, Guayas Province.

The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH) at ESPOL has been admitted as a Full Member Center of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), one of the world's leading academic networks in the fields of social sciences and humanities.

Twenty professionals successfully completed the Third Diploma Program in Finance with a Specialization in Capital Markets, an academic initiative jointly developed by ESPOL and the Guayaquil Stock Exchange (BVG) to strengthen specialized financial education in Ecuador.

The Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH) at ESPOL, through its Master’s Program in Public Policy and Management, organized the Second National Public Management Case Competition, an academic initiative designed to promote analysis, innovation, and the development of solutions to real challenges facing Ecuador’s public sector.