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The University of Azuay has created this space to inform the public about its ongoing role in connecting with and serving society.
The University of Buenos Aires (UDA) develops community outreach and service projects through eight institutional axes of work developed in conjunction with faculties, graduate programs, and research programs focused on different societal needs. To this end, faculty and students diagnose, determine, and propose alternative solutions to problems identified within the community through projects that simultaneously promote students' comprehensive human development.
Engagement with Society seeks to build opportunities for collaboration and bridges with public, private, local, national, and foreign institutions, prioritizing actions established in the legal frameworks that regulate Higher Education in the country and maintaining consistency with the policies of the National Development Plan, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the vision and mission of the University of Azuay.
Strengthen the University of Azuay's ties to society as a substantive, ongoing university function, with a view to strengthening ties between the university community and its surroundings, guiding them together toward improving the quality of life, social and economic inclusion, harmony with nature, the preservation of ancestral customs, and the promotion of interculturality.
Contribute to the creation of opportunities through programs that promote economic and social inclusion.
Generate training and pedagogical support programs for teachers in public schools, with an emphasis on those located in rural areas, which will help close the gap in access to higher education.
Promote programs aimed at improving quality of life through health, care, and non-violence.
Promote cultural activities in public spaces, affirming national identity and promoting plurinationality and interculturality.
Interact with society by disseminating the results achieved in academic, research, networking, and technological innovation processes.
Strengthen opportunities for professional development and development for professionals and the general public, reinforcing a comprehensive approach to educational engagement.
Promote the development of activities aimed at achieving the integral training of students, through the execution of pre-professional practices, degree work, hours of association, volunteering and / or as a project of chair.
Promote the implementation of community engagement programs and services through strategic alliances aimed at local development.
To promote the improvement of the human talent available to the University.
Provide advice on the social, productive, technological, political, and cultural management of knowledge through multidisciplinary programs and projects serving society, in conjunction with research and academic improvement through the active participation of the beneficiary population and the university community.
The University of Azuay's Outreach Department is an institutional example of the dynamic and integrated nature of programs that contribute to the transfer of academic knowledge to social, productive, cultural, and political stakeholders, helping them understand and transform society's problems and needs.
To be a recognized Directorate as a key strategic ally that shares and puts into practice academic and scientific knowledge in companies, associations, and public and private institutions that promote regional development through innovation projects.
Line of action aimed at promoting the execution of programs to link with the community and provision of specialized services, related to institutional academic domains, which are aimed at the use, application and exploitation of knowledge and other existing capacities at the University, outside the academic environment
A line of action that aims to disseminate and distribute knowledge by promoting cultural activity through the production of publications that contribute to valuing and preserving local and regional heritage; contribute to preserving the cultural values of our region and country; reaffirm national identity, plurinationality, and interculturality; identify and preserve both tangible and intangible heritage; and encourage the implementation of cultural dissemination activities in public spaces.
The actions carried out in this field will be framed within programs, and within these, within projects, duly planned, so that they do not constitute isolated actions.
It seeks to link teachers and students with the environment, through the execution of pre-professional practices and internships aimed at strengthening learning, and through this in a fundamental part of the curriculum; these activities will be duly regulated. Its planning will be framed in specific outreach programs and will be developed through projects associated with those programs.
Line of action referring to non-formal training processes that respond to the needs of various sectors of society, includes: training framed in specific support projects; expert training, as an improvement and professionalization alternative; professional updating. It seeks to strengthen the alternatives of overcoming the population in general and update knowledge in professionals, strengthening the integral approach of educational bonding.
Established as community services, it is the set of interactions between the University and the sectors of greatest need, through collaborative links with organized community associations, such as: Decentralized Autonomous Governments, Parish Councils, neighborhood organizations, non-governmental organizations, etc.
This line of action aims to contribute to improving the quality of life of the population by generating on-site training programs, technical assistance, and advice to rural communities and unprotected sectors of society.
The Engagement Directorate is organized into strategic pillars aligned with multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Each pillar of action contributes to a comprehensive and collaborative approach to addressing global challenges and promoting inclusive and equitable sustainable development.
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