Fundación Chile positions the ChileFinland Platform as a strategic pillar in its 50th Anniversary Roadmap
50 years after its creation, Fundación Chile begins a new phase marked by innovation, sustainability, and public-private collaboration.
January 7, 2026.- As part of its 50th anniversary, Fundación Chile will present a strategic agenda that reinforces its commitment to sustainability, innovation, and technology transfer with national and international impact.
In this context, Fundación Chile, alongside Corfo and the VTT center, will announce the projects that are being worked on within the framework of the Chile-Finland Platform, a binational initiative for development and technology transfer aimed at scaling innovation in strategic sectors such as sustainable mining, forestry bioeconomy, and intelligent regional development.
Likewise, a strategic agreement will be signed between Fundación Chile and SOFOFA, aimed at promoting technological innovation, productive sustainability and industrial decarbonization, strengthening capacities in environmental monitoring, circular economy and bioeconomy.
The event will bring together authorities, business leaders, and actors from the public and private worlds, including Rosario Navarro, president of SOFOFA; José Miguel Benavente, Executive Vice President of Corfo; Pablo Zamora, chairman of the board of Fundación Chile; Hernán Araneda, general manager of Fundación Chile; René Muga, vice chairman of the board of Fundación Chile and vice president of Corporate Affairs of BHP; and Kalle HÄrkki, president and CEO of VTT Technical Research Center of Finland; with an agenda centered on productive innovation, economic growth, scientific-technological entrepreneurship, capacity and job creation, and energy transition.
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Chile-Finland Platform Focus
One of the most relevant announcements in the context of the anniversary is the consolidation of the Chile-Finland Technological Development and Transfer Platform, driven together with the Foreign Office.
This strategic alliance aims to design, adapt, and transfer innovative solutions to face challenges in key sectors such as sustainable mining, forestry bio-economy, the wood-derived industry, and smart regional development.
By 2026, Fundación Chile has defined its primary focus as working with medium-sized mining. The goal is to characterize and diagnose its main gaps, pilot innovations based on Finnish models, and subsequently, scale these solutions toward large-scale mining.
The second focus is the promotion of the forest bio-economy, encouraging the industrialization of wood construction and the development of biomaterials from cellulose and lignin, strengthening value chains with national companies and international alliances.
Energy Transition and Climate Action: NEMa
Fundación Chile reaffirms its role as a strategic ally of the public and private sector to consolidate Chile's global leadership in climate action and energy transition. Its work focuses on decarbonization, promoting new energies, restoring nature, and generating territorial capacities.
An emblematic example is the Technological Hub for the Development of New Energies in Magallanes, NEMa, whose objective is to transform the region into a pole of development for clean, low-cost energy solutions. This project contemplates a strong component of human capital development, working with regional higher education institutions and transferring experiences from international partners.