¿What is CIIPRE?

The Research and Innovation Center for Undergraduate Studies (Centro de Investigación e Innovación de Pregrado – CIIIPRE) is part of the Undergraduate Scholarship Office of The National Program of Scholarships and Educational Loan (PRONABEC), and is in charge of promoting and make research and innovations that allow having evidences for contributing to an effective management, efficient and quality of the social investment that the State make in its field of competence.

It is important to know that the absence of generating mechanisms for evidence limits the correct take of decisions in public policies. This difficult the implementation of novelties that improve the quality, effectiveness and efficiency of activities and public management procedures.

CIIPRE is the first unit of research and innovation, in a social program of the Peruvian State that boosts a culture of evidence for the public management. Moreover, strengthens a better quality of the expenditure of the public resources, framed inside the model of the Budget by Results (PpR), impacting in a better service for their benefits.

Focus

Generate researches and innovations that allow having the evidence to contribute to an effective and efficient management and quality of the social investment that the State makes from the Undergraduate Scholarship Office of PRONABEC.

Pioneer organization and leader of the State in research and innovation for the generation of evidence in the higher education subject that guides the generation of effective public policies for PRONABEC.

Background

The Undergraduate Scholarship Office of PRONABEC in 2013 composed a work team call “Monitoring, Evaluation and Evidence (Monitoreo, Evaluación y Evidencia)”, whose goal is to give technical support to strategies implemented by the Program and analyses the achievements of this in terms of coverage and quality of the educational service. In this way was possible the publication of a series of technical documents.

The Undergraduate Scholarship Office, that manages Beca 18, is the single institution managed under the model of Budget by Results (Presupuesto por Resultados PrR), allowing the procedure of the budgetary management be developed according to the principles and methods of the approach by results contributing to build an efficient State, able to generate more well-being levels in the population.

To date, Beca 18 has awarded 23,385 comprehensive scholarships for undergraduate studies, not only for Ordinary modality (Modalidad Ordinaria) but also for the 6 types of scholars in Special Modality (Modalidad Especial). The Undergraduate Scholarship Office is in charge of these modalities.

The PRONABEC in its continuous work for a management of quality in the operating procedures of the Undergraduate Scholarship Office, obtained in 2014 the certification ISO 9001: 2008, constituting this fact a price for the effort and excellence showed, the same that required a constant evaluation and optimization of the mechanisms the program have to support efficiently to target populations, to ensure the good management of the State’s resources.

In that sense, have been shown the importance of the research (evidence generation) for an adequate take of decisions of the public management to achieve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Program, fact that have been manifested in the positive results obtained during 2013 – 2015.

Is in that context where, from the Undergraduate Scholarship Office of PRONABEC, have been proposed the implementation of the Research Center and Innovation of Undergraduate (Centro de Investigación e Innovación de Pregrado - CIIPRE), with the spirit of institutionalize the practice of the research with the aim of building a new evidence of culture that facilitate the take of decisions for the management of social investment in the field of its expertise.

Lines of Research

The research areas in which CIIPRE concentrates its efforts can be defined in 3, as follows:

Social Networks

From this place we intend to analyze, in the frame of the beneficiaries of the program, how social networks are determined before, during and after the presence of higher education. At the same time, it is pretended to analyze how these networks interact over other dimensions of the person development.

Neuroscience & Education

From the perspective of the neuroscience as education philosophy of the future are developed studies that follow by one hand theorize about the progress of neurosciences, and by the other hand, understand how, from Beca Vocación de Maestro, contribute better with the quality in the teacher training.

Public Policy

With the concrete goal of seeking an efficient and effective management of quality it is necessary to develop studies in the frame of the ongoing process within the different areas that involve the action of the Undergraduate Scholarships Office. This seeks to generate concrete evidence to help as a reference model to other subsidy programs for higher education.