The Mission of Universidad Popular
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MISSION
The mission of the Consortium is to provide affordable and accessible higher education of quality to marginalized local, national, regional and multi-regional communities through distance education, technology exchange and capacity building, in a network of universities and research centers that function independently and collaboratively, using communications and digital media resources to achieve those ends.
VISION The purpose of this network is to bring sustainable development closer to the peoples of the world by equipping them to be owners of, and partners in, the planning and implementation of their own development process. The underlying principle is to engage communities in direct participation in determining their own destiny, confronting the obstacles and monitoring their progress in achieving the millenium goals and targets of the World Summit for Sustainable Development (WSSD).
MODALITIES OF IMPLEMENTATION The principle of inter university cooperation underpins the work of the Consortium. Autonomous national, regional, private and public institutions of higher education agree to collaborate in programs of research, technology exchange and distance education with a special focus on sustainable development.
Misión La misión de la UNIPOP es proveer educación superior de alta calidad a precios módicos a las comunidades marginadas a nivel nacional, regional y multi-regional, con un enfoque especial en el desarrollo sostenible.
Visión La visión de la UNIPOP es realizar el logro del desarrollo sostenible en las comunidades marginadas del mundo, capacitándolas a ser dueños de su propio destino, y colaboradores en la planificación e implementación de sus propios procesos de desarrollo sostenible. Fundamenta su filosofía en la participación comunitaria en proyectos de desarrollo sostenible, con el motivo de habilitarlas para la autosuperación y liberación, y capacitarlas para generar sus propios recursos intelectuales y económicos para una mejor calidad de vida.
Modalidades Acuerdan distintas instituciones de educación superior e investigación autónomas, privadas, públicas, nacionales e internacionales a colaborar en:
- (a) la elaboración e implementación de programas de educación a distancia, investigación, intercambio tecnológico y capacitación;
- (b) facilitar el intercambio de información científica y tecnológica;
- (c) prestar servicios de asistencia técnica, asesoría, mapeo comunitario, estudios de mercado, elaboración de planes maestros, evaluación de proyectos, formación de recursos humanos, publicación y difusión de información;
- (d) diseñar y promover programas orientados al establecimiento de vínculos entre el sector publico, el sector privado, las ONGs, instituciones financieras multilaterales y comunidades interesadas en crear espacios de colaboración, sinergias y convenios dirigidos al desarrollo sostenible.
Accomplishments
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The Consortium participated fully in the preliminary consultations for, and the eventual establishment and current Board of Directors of the International Center for Sustainable Development in the City of Knowledge, Panama following on the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2002. UNIPOP has signed a joint agreement for collaboration with CIDES for research and community programs in sustainable development.
The Consortium sponsored the publication of “The Quest for Community Participation in Sustainable Development,” New York, 2002, implemented the Community Master Planning Pilot Project in Panama, and plans to replicate it in Honduras and Nicaragua.
Provisions for student and faculty exchanges have been established between Medgar Evers College, NY and the University of Panama, UNAPEC, URACCAN, and UWI Mona and Cave Hill.
Through Centro de Capacitación Respuesta Afro Panameña, the Consortium offered an eight-module Mini-Micro Enterprise Development Program at the George Westerman Center, Ciudad del Saber, Panama.
UNIPOP was a founding member in the launching of the New Paradigm Movement which published the Introduction to a New Paradigm for Eradication of Poverty, CDP, NY, 2008. CORE SERVICES · Developing credit bearing courses in Sustainable Development for mutual acceptability by all partners based on signed agreements for academic cooperation and distance learning. · Facilitating student and faculty exchanges on the principle of reciprocity. · Engaging in joint research projects and publications. · Reducing the digital divide affecting vulnerable groups through community based Multi Use Centers. · Providing capacity building, technology exchange and technical assistance for development purposes. · Providing consultancy services in research, publications, capacity building, community master planning and sustainable development.
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