Red de Cooperación InterinstitucionalAlejandro Chao Barona Ph.D.

Christian Domínguez Guzmán MBA

The Inter-Institutional Cooperation Network

(RCI)

Universities and CSOs

With the public and private sectors

Works in the Education for All

Program

From priority regional needs

The Inter-Institutional Cooperation

Network (ICN) conalep

Estado de Morelos

Universitiesand CSOs

With the public and private sectors

Works in the Education for All Program

to liaise and strengthen

the union of

• universities and Civil Society Organizations, with private companies and public sector, to improve the quality of life and the equitable option of opportunities for society

to give formal and informal education

• with attention in health, education, multiculturalism, social responsibility, science and technology to the advantage of original peoples, marginal communities, and vulnerable groups in society

and to systematize and divulge

the community work

• with papers

• radio shows

• internet portal:http://www.rci.org.mx/index.html

teaching

• formal studies in education, nursing, community psychology, social work offered in the communities;

• non-formal education courses: the knowledge dialogue carried out in four universities to train community development promoters in carrying out participatory action projects;

• popular education with courses in traditional medicine, psychotherapy tools for community work and liaison of youth and seniors who work in the SCOs

participatory action in communities

• the Ajusco-Volcán Program of the Mexico City Autonomous University (UACM) and the autonomous universities of Mexico the State and Morelos, developing common Participatory Action Research(PAR) projects

• PAR projects of the ICN universities and CSOs in various urban and rural communities

outreach

• public and private universities work in community schools, for attention to disabled people and youth with no opportunities,

• projects in marginal areas to recuperate the collective memory and dignity,

• health festivities and the identity festivities that follow, the maize cycle,

• two weekly radio shows (in Radio UAEM) devoted to promoting community work and connecting senior groups and, the internet portal.

Strategies based on

the SWOT analysis

1.Developing skills for life

for youth and adults

2. Supporting teacher

training and updating

3. Liaising with the

labor sector

4. Attending to intercultural

and vulnerable groups

1. Promoting the Social Service to a become a real service of HEIs

to the communities

4. Continuing with the

Knowledge Dialogue Courses

and the Health and Identity Festivities

3. Opening the universities’

doors to youth from

surrounding communities

Specific recommendations were made for Higher Education Institutions

2. In students’ training that

foster curriculum

credits that lead to work with a

social vision

6. Strengthening

the timely management

of information about EFA in

the HEIs

5.

Collaborating more closely with Popular Councils that group CSOs

Help

to curb

violence

• Objective 1: Identifying the types of acts of violence, from the individual to the collective, and creating concrete strategies to start transforming these habits and attitudes

Train high school

teachers

• Objective 2: Generating programs for teacher training and formation in agreement to the needs of the institution, which respond to social reality

Liaise HEIs

with labor and social

sectors

• Objective 3: Creating and strengthening the liaison areas between educational institutions and labor and social sectors, integrating marginal groups and fostering congruence of the educational system with everyday life in the local context

Intercultural and non-formal

education

• Objective 4: Getting involved with the local reality, within a multi-cultural and equitable framework through inter-cultural actions

That the IAU-UNESCO recognize and

strengthen groups that work in liaising HEIs and

SCOs with public, business and social sectors in the

realization of regional objectives within the

HEI-EFA project framework.

That liaising between all social sectors is promoted and

strengthened, in order to obtain the economic and political conditions

that allow the realization of regional priority work within the framework of

the HEI-EFA program objectives.

That HEIs and SCOs can be motivated by the educational

public sector with scholarships for the students and teachers to participate in

the EFA program and to connect with marginal

community groups and the most vulnerable groups in

society including the ex convicts families

That Action Plan approved in 2012 will be reviewed

annually until 2020, in order to maintain constant feedback that allows

improving educational conditions in all levels and

modalities.

ICN universities students and peasants sharing traditional maize food in Totolapan 2012

The Action Plan 2012-2020 beneficiaries will be the society at large