At UDD there is the conviction that universities are called to play a preponderant role as promoters of informed debate on ideas, and as articulators of basic social consensus that allow development and social peace to be achieved.
This role of the university is already a widespread reality in the international academic world, where the operation of study centers housed within prestigious higher education institutions has been consolidated. In this sense, Faro UDD is proposed as an innovative contribution to local academic practices.
In the same way, the multidisciplinary nature of the center, which combines in its study various disciplines of humanities and social sciences, is inspired by the successful program of Philosophy, Politics and Economics or “PPE”, which has been successfully developed for decades. in foreign universities of the stature of the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics.
Faro UDD intends to carry out a wide range of activities, combining a traditional academic profile, focused on undergraduate and postgraduate teaching; as well as in research of excellence, with other academic activities that bring reflection and academic debate closer to common citizenship and the training of new generations. In this way, Faro UDD seeks to deepen the link between the university and the environment and make its social responsibility effective.
Faro UDD is a interdisciplinary center for humanities and social science created by the University of Desarrollo (UDD). It has been conceived as an academic space of thought that searches to contribute to the wellbeing of Chile and its citizens through the creation of solid content, the enrichment of national public debate and the formation of young academic talent. All of it related to the ethical justification of a representative democracy and free society.
Through Faro UDD, the university looks to be an input regarding the deterioration over the last decades of the assessment of ideas that promote a society of free people and the consensus existing in Chile regarding the need to promote and respect the institutions as the base of national coexistence.