SOCIAL INNOVATION, EXPERIENCE OF BONDING WITH SOCIETY IN SANTA ANA. MANAB͍, ECUADOR

INNOVACIÓN SOCIAL, EXPERIENCIA DE VINCULACIÓN CON LA SOCIEDAD

Abstract

The work shows the experience carried out in the Canton Santa Ana. ManabÍ­ where the link with the society of the Coordinating Center of Agricultural Research (CIAM (in two Universities, the Technique of ManabÍ­ (UTM) of the South of ManabÍ­ (UNESUM) with the local development center CECADEL (today Santa Ana Campus), on the importance of a social innovation put into practice in a novel, creative and transformative way applied in vulnerable sectors such as: adolescents and young people, the elderly and the disabled. The methodology used was the method of analysis and synthesis of different legal documents that allowed a coherent work, also qualitative analysis, in the application of the technique, action-participation, with various actions that were developed with the object of study, the activities aimed at training, fostering and preparing community leaders, are exposed in the work. The results show that The scheme adopted and the organizational forms proposed in its application detect a set of problems, for which the proposal of projects that strengthened the University's link with the mayor's office, its parish and community environment, favoring training and education, is elaborated. preparation of sectors under study on issues of general and comprehensive culture. It concludes with the organizational proposals through projects which constitute environments of a social innovation work