UPSCALE Innovation Hub was crowned as the Grand Champion during the PH Startup Incubator Awards Culminating Ceremony held on April 23. UPSCALE Project Leader Dr. Luis Sison received the award in the presence of DOST Sec. Fortunato de la Peña and DOST Undersecretary Rowena Cristina Guevara, among other key officials. Read more…
UPERDFI acquired QuickBooks Online after the live testing of the software in February-March. We expect to completely migrate our 2021 transactions to the cloud after the 2020 Audit and tax-filing routines. Member Rico Ibana proposed the use of a Document Management software for managing relevant donation documents and procedures. The Read more…
Our Management Committee held two meetings on March 17 and April 14 to discuss updates and ways forward on the various projects and committee initiatives of the foundation. We are excited to share with you the key items below: HPC Project Led by President Ferdz de la Cruz, we are Read more…
Implementing a February Board instruction, we are undergoing a Policy Review, led by Trustee Val Reyes as Leader. The Policy Review Ad Hoc Team (PRAT) met on April 9 to discuss progress and to take up first-pass review results. R&D Policy Trustee Glen Tabios as lead reviewer proposed to Read more…
In a run-up to the presentation arranged by the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) to its members in May 2021, the MAP Energy Committee headed by Mr. Ernie Pantangco discussed details with the UP ESM project leads on March 18. These included research Team Leader Dr. Mike Pedrasa, Dean Read more…
Good progress has been made on the programs and projects that the Board approved to pursue in the February meeting. Approval in principle of the Innovation Model proposed by the Innovation Committee. This is being fine-tuned by our Innovation Committee led by Chicho Mantaring and Val Reyes. Approval of the 2021 Read more…
As part of the new 4-year Engineering curriculum that started with the freshmen enrollees in 2017-18, all candidates for graduation in 2022 are required to take part in a Midyear Internship, this July-August 2021. UPERDFI is assisting the College in seeking collaborating companies that will host interns for a 300-hour Read more…
To formalize our collaboration with UP Diliman in helping move UP research results to deliver their promised impacts to society, UPERDFI President Ferdz de la Cruz and UP Diliman Chancellor Dr. Fidel Nemenzo signed two MOUs in a virtual ceremony on March 2, 2021. One involves the UPD Technology Transfer Read more…
In a virtual ceremony on February 24, 2021, China’s Ambassador to the Philippines, Hon. Huang Xilian and DOST Secretary Fortunato de la Peña, signed the MOAs that covered eight projects in the country. Also in attendance was Philippine Ambassador to China, Hon. Oscar Sta. Romana. This was the culmination of Read more…
(top-left to right) Dado Banatao (from US), Sec. Boy de la Peña, Tito Aliga, Ferdz de la Cruz, Chicho Mantaring, Vic Villagracia (US), Joe Cruz US), Babes Singson, Vladimir Co, Alex Ibasco, Val Reyes, Glen Tabios, Alex Sy, Babby Reyes (Japan), Ray Goco, Ricky Peña, Sonny Viray, Chato Calderon (US), Read more…